AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals + FULL Practice Exam!

Define cloud concepts and compare on-premises to cloud computing, explain capex vs opex, and outline four cloud services—compute, storage, networking, analytics—and three technologies: virtual machines, containers, and serverless.

Compare CapEx and OpEx to show how cloud computing shifts from fixed on-premises investments to scalable, agile operational spending with pay-as-you-go billing.

Compare the three cloud models: public, private, and hybrid, and weigh their agility, economies of scale, capex versus opex, and suitability for legacy apps.

Explore three cloud service categories—IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—with examples like virtual machines, databases, web apps, and Office 365, highlighting how management overhead decreases from on premises to SaaS.

Explain the shared responsibility model across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and on-premises, clarifying what you control—data, endpoints, and access—and what the provider manages, with Azure and Office 365 examples.

Create an Azure account for free with 12 months of access, $200 of credit for 30 days, and 25 products always free, and learn the sign-up options and subscription concept.

Explore Azure billing and help by reviewing free support options, the Azure Quickstart Center, Azure Service Health, Azure Advisor, Azure Knowledge Center, and Premier plans, and learn to open tickets.

Explore Microsoft Azure, the versatile cloud platform with more than 100 services for deploying virtual machines, databases, web apps, API apps, and intelligence and analytics.

Explore how service level agreements define performance targets, uptime guarantees, and service credits in Azure, and learn to evaluate and combine SLAs to meet business needs.

Explore Azure regions and availability zones, learn how regions group multiple data centers with low latency, region pairs for fault tolerance, and the role of availability zones in high-availability deployments.

Define resource groups as logical containers that hold related Azure resources and use the Azure Resource Manager to create, manage, and move them across groups.

Deploy a WordPress site to Azure with a few clicks from the Azure Marketplace. Configure subscription, resource group, App Service plan, and dev/test pricing to keep costs low.

Verify the WordPress site deployed on Azure by checking deployment status and site URL, then delete the resource group to prevent ongoing charges.

Explore Azure compute basics, including virtual machines, containers, Azure App Service, and serverless computing, with brief definitions to understand scalable resources like Azure Kubernetes Service and container services.

Explore why and how to use Azure virtual machines, from testing and development to disaster recovery, elastic scaling, and cloud extension, including availability sets, scale sets, and Azure Batch.

Explore how containers provide a lightweight runtime on a host OS, compare them with virtual machines, and learn Azure's Docker container options: ACI and AKS for scalable deployment.

Explore Azure App Services, a fully managed PaaS that lets you build and deploy web apps, background jobs, mobile backends, and RESTful APIs with automatic scaling and automated deployments.

Explore serverless computing on azure, where you pay only for code running and azure handles scaling and resources, with azure functions for code and logic apps for entire workflows.

Spin up a web app and placeholder website using the Azure portal, create a resource group, choose a unique app name, and deploy with an app service plan.

Explore Azure storage benefits: automated backup and recovery, global data replication, encryption, access control, and storage tiers, with support for blob storage and virtual disks, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

Explore file, disk, and queue storage in Azure as the lecture compares on-premises file shares with cloud file storage, highlighting resilience, managed services, and global access.

Create a storage account in the Azure portal, organize it in a resource group, and add a blob storage container to upload files, manage access, and clean up.

Explore Azure's managed databases—Azure SQL, MySQL, Cosmos DB, and PostgreSQL—and data migration services, with a focus on how databases organize data for quick access, analytics, and security.

Azure database migration service helps organizations move on-premises databases to the Azure cloud, enabling straightforward one-for-one transfers such as on-premises SQL to Azure SQL, and supporting multiple migration paths.

Explore Azure networking concepts, including virtual networks, load balancers, VPN gateways, application gateways, and CDNs, and understand what they are and why they matter in real-world scenarios.

Explore Azure virtual networks, learn how they organize resources with subnets and unique IP addresses, isolate traffic, scale IP allocation, and provide a secure, highly available boundary.

Describe how the Azure Load Balancer distributes traffic across a backend pool to ensure high availability and resiliency, with health checks and port forwarding rules.

Learn how VPN gateway provides encrypted site-to-site and point-to-site connections to hybrid Azure environments, including multi-site, and how the application gateway enables layer seven Http routing with a web firewall.

Learn how a content delivery network distributes content to edge servers near users to reduce latency. Utilize azurecdn to enhance performance, scale to high loads, and reduce origin traffic.

Create a virtual network in the Azure portal, place it in Lab Vnet RG, prod, Us-west, and define its IP space in CIDR with subnets.

Explore Azure solutions, such as Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence groundwork, plus Azure Functions, Event Grid, and Azure DevTest Labs, and review benefits and outcomes.

Explain what big data means and how Azure data solutions—Data Lake Analytics, HD Insight, and Databricks—handle storage and analytics using open-source tools.

Understand the basics of artificial intelligence and compare two Azure AI solutions: Azure ML Studio Classic and Azure Machine Learning, from drag-and-drop experiments to notebooks, SDKs, and open-source frameworks.

Explore how Azure serverless technology uses Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid. Learn how these tools enable on-demand code execution, automated workflows, and event-based integration.

Explore DevOps concepts and Azure DevOps components—boards, pipelines, repos, test plans, artifacts, extensions—and how DevOps Labs use ARM templates to spin up reusable development environments.

Explore the difference between Git and GitHub, and learn how code repositories, forks, and pull requests power collaborative DevOps workflows and pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Explore defense in depth as a security strategy in Azure, using firewalls, network and application security groups, and tools like Azure Security Center and Azure Information Protection.

Learn how network security groups filter traffic at the network layer with five-tuple rules, how application security groups scale this, and how the Azure firewall adds defense in depth.

Azure offers automatic basic DDoS protection and optional standard protection with real-time monitoring for virtual networks; enable user defined routes to route traffic through a firewall and secure subnets.

Learn the core concepts of authentication and authorization in Azure Active Directory, including how MFA strengthens defense in depth for accessing external and internal resources.

Protect and control Office 365 documents with Azure Information Protection, a cloud-based rights management solution that classifies, labels, and enforces custom permissions to track and revoke access.

Explore the Azure Security Center, a unified dashboard monitoring cloud and on-prem resources. Automatically apply recommendations, perform continuous assessments, use machine-learning threat detection, and enable just-in-time port access control.

Azure Sentinel combines siem and soar to collect data from multiple sources, connect data sources, detect threats with artificial intelligence analysis, and automatically respond.

Explore Azure Advanced Threat Protection and Azure Key Vault as defense in depth tools that monitor user behavior against baselines and securely store and manage secrets, keys, and certificates.

Explore governance methodologies, monitoring and reporting options, and privacy, compliance, and data protection in Azure, with practical use cases and service health insights.

Explore Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health, learn to collect telemetry from cloud and on premises, view dashboards, and set smart alerts for service issues and planned or upcoming maintenance.

Discover azure governance through policies and initiatives, learn how role-based access control and blueprints control access and deployment, and see how the policy engine enforces compliance.

Learn how blueprints act as deployment templates enforcing security standards for repeatable environments, how locks prevent deletions or changes, and how Azure advisor advises on reliability, security, performance, and cost.

Explore Azure compliance concepts, including GDPR, ISO, NIST, and HIPAA, and learn how the Azure Compliance Manager and Service Trust Portal help track, score, evidence, and report regulatory controls.

Explore the cloud adoption framework for Azure, a Microsoft collection of documentation, guidance, best practices, and tools to accelerate cloud adoption with landing zones, business outcomes, and migration planning.

Explore Azure Government and Azure China, highlighting dedicated, physically isolated clouds in the US and China that ensure government and Chinese compliance through separate accounts.

Explore Azure management tools, including the Azure portal, azure cli, PowerShell, and cloud shell, and see how to deploy, configure, and monitor resources with dashboards, access control, and automation.

Explore the cloud shell, a browser-based, authenticated tool to manage Azure resources via portal, CLI, or PowerShell, with Bash and persistent storage.

Launch the Azure cloud shell from portal.azure.com, mount storage, set the Azure production subscription, create a VM in a resource group, and delete it to avoid charges.

Understand how Azure pricing uses meters and usage records to bill for resources, including when deallocated, with factors like hours, tier, and region driving costs.

Explore how subscriptions fit within an Azure tenant, including free subscription basics, resource groups, billing, and how multiple subscriptions and management groups organize production and development costs.

Learn cost management tools in Azure fundamentals to monitor current and forecasted costs with dashboards by service, location, and owner, and use pricing and TCO calculators for what-if scenarios.

Explore cost management in the Azure portal, and use the pricing calculator and TCO calculator to estimate VM and App Service costs.