AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals + Free Lab & Practice Exams 2026

Explore how cloud computing delivers computing services over the internet—servers, storage, software, analytics—using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS with pay-for-use pricing, scalability, and cost savings.

Explore cloud scalability, including vertical scaling (scaling up) and horizontal scaling (scaling out), with examples from peak traffic and cost efficiency by adding or removing resources as needed.

Learn how to design reliable cloud systems by implementing redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery with Azure services such as VMs, availability zones, Site Recovery, Azure Backup, and Azure Service Health.

Secure the cloud by applying identity and access management, data encryption in transit and at rest, and network security, while upholding governance, compliance, and monitoring to align with business goals.

Understand the two types of cloud manageability—management of the cloud and management in the cloud—and how auto scaling, templated deployments, health monitoring, and automatic failover boost performance.

Explore cloud benefits, including high availability and reliability that keep your application running. Learn how the cloud offers a secure and highly manageable environment for your resources.

Explore platform as a service (PaaS), a model that lets developers build, deploy, and manage applications while the provider handles infrastructure, operating system, and databases, speeding development and reducing costs.

Discover Azure's breadth of services from compute to artificial intelligence and Internet of things, and learn how an Azure subscription with free and paid options enables deployment and management.

Explore Azure physical infrastructure, including data centers, regions, and availability zones, and learn how regional choices and redundancy ensure secure, reliable access to services worldwide.

Explore the Azure global infrastructure map to view regions and availability zones across the world. Learn how cross-region disaster recovery and data residency influence virtual machine deployment choices.

Explore Azure management infrastructure, focusing on resources and resource groups within a subscription, including deployment, lifecycle, access control, and cost management.

Compare azure compute types—container instance, virtual machines, and functions—while outlining vm options, hosting choices, and networking elements including azure virtual networks, subnet, peering, dns, vpn gateway, and express route.

Access a remote Windows desktop via Azure Virtual Desktop on the Azure cloud from any device. Explore containers that package apps and dependencies into lightweight images for runtimes with Kubernetes.

Discover Azure functions, a serverless, event-driven compute that runs code only when triggered by events like storage changes, with pay as you go pricing and automatic scaling.

Learn how Azure Virtual Network isolates and secures resources, controls communications, and routes traffic with route tables and BGP, while filtering via NSG, Azure Firewall, service endpoints, and private link.

Learn how subscription choices such as concierge, free, and pay-as-you-go determine available resources, licensing, and virtual machine options, and how to organize deployments using resource groups.

Create an administrator account for Windows server VMs, set a strong username and password, enable remote access via RDP, and manage licensing options.

Learn to configure monitoring and tags for a virtual machine, including alert rules, boot diagnostics, and custom data scripts; review, create, and deploy a Windows VM with a template.

Watch a live demo of creating an Azure function app, selecting subscription, resource group, code or container, Python on Linux, choosing serverless or premium plans, and deploying with monitoring.

Explore how to view and edit network security groups (NSGs), manage inbound and outbound rules, and add ip-based rules in the West US region, including creating new NSGs.

Explore how azure virtual private networks securely connect on-premises networks to azure vnet using ipsec, enabling site-to-site, point-to-site, and vnet-to-vnet links with gateway options, expressroute, and high availability.

Explore Azure ExpressRoute, a private direct connection between on-premises networks and Azure data centers, delivering lower latency, higher security than the public internet, with circuit and virtual hop options.

Explore Azure compute and networking services, comparing containers, virtual machines, functions, and virtual machine scale sets; describe virtual networks, ExpressRoute, VPN, DNS, peering, and public and private endpoints.

Explore Azure storage accounts for storing unstructured data as blobs, files, queues, and tables, with configurable replication options across data centers and endpoints for secure access.

Azure storage offers lrs, zrs, grs, and gzrs redundancy to balance cost and availability, with data replicated in the primary region and optionally in a secondary region.

Explore Azure storage's fully managed queue service for global access via http or https, enabling asynchronous processing and backlogs, plus managed disks for durable, high availability storage for virtual machines.

Explore Azure file movement options, from large-scale migrations with Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box to tools like Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage Explorer, Azure File Sync, PowerShell, and CLI.