Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) – Complete Course

Discover what the cloud means as a collection of remotely accessible resources, including compute, networking, storage, and analytics. Explore cloud types and service models to understand practical use.

Learn core cloud terms such as high availability, security, scalability, elasticity, latency, and predictive cost considerations. Understand global reach, data centers, CDNs, operational expenditure, capital expenditure, and disaster recovery.

Explore the three clouds—public, private, and hybrid—and how access, ownership, and migration affect on prem and cloud resources.

Learn cloud service models iaas, paas, and saas, and how Azure abstracts infrastructure while you manage data, with examples like virtual machines, Cosmos DB, and OneDrive.

Explore how regions and availability zones shape Azure's architecture, including regional pairs, fault domains, and SLAs, to improve latency and resilience.

Explore how Azure resources like virtual machines, storage, Cosmos DB, and virtual networks are organized into resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups to enforce governance and lifecycle control.

Explore the Azure marketplace, a hub with over 10,000 resources you can browse by category, preview, test with demos, and build materials with a free Azure pass.

Explore the Azure portal demo: log in, navigate resources and marketplace offerings, manage subscriptions and resource groups, build dashboards, use cloud shell, and access Microsoft Learn for AZ-900 prep.

Create and customize Azure virtual machines, choosing operating systems, custom images, disks, and networking. Apply resource groups, tags, and licensing options like the Hybrid Use Benefit to optimize cost.

Explore containers as lightweight, fast-start mini environments that run on a VM or physical host, enabling dynamic content and rapid spin up or down with Azure Container Instances and Kubernetes.

Explore Azure container instances, learn to deploy a public Docker Hub image on Linux, configure a DNS name label, and manage quick spin-up and stop/start of containers.

Explore serverless functions that run without managing infrastructure and respond to http requests instantly. Learn to deploy across multiple languages with pay-per-use pricing on Azure.

Explore how to create and test a serverless Azure function using an HTTP trigger, .NET Core 3.1, and a resource group, with monitoring, tagging, and clean-up in the Azure portal.

Explore Windows Virtual Desktop and App Services on Azure, enabling you to access a virtual Windows desktop from any device and to build, deploy, and scale apps with familiar languages.

Explore virtual networks in Azure, including load balancers, gateways, and content delivery networks, and learn how to extend on-prem networks with consistent IP ranges and DNS integration.

Learn how load balancers distribute traffic across servers, compare basic and standard SKUs (http, tcp, https), and choose private or public setups to ensure even distribution and availability.

Learn about gateways that securely connect on-premises and cloud environments with VPN gateways, site-to-site links, and the application gateway featuring a web application firewall and load balancer.

Learn how content delivery networks use edge servers to reduce latency. Discover TTL caching that keeps popular assets near users and refreshes main servers when TTL expires.

Explore network security in Azure fundamentals, covering DDoS protection, firewalls and a web application firewall, NSGs and ASGs, across virtual networks and load balancers.

Create a virtual network with a subnet and CIDR, deploy two Windows VMs, connect via RTP, and verify bi-directional connectivity using ping while adjusting firewall rules.

Explore Azure storage options, including containers and blob storage for large data, hot/cool/archive access tiers, Azure files for centralized sharing, and disks with HDD, SSD, premium, and ultra IOPS.

Discover how Azure data services empower big data analytics, using Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, and Databricks to store, query, and analyze petabyte-scale relational and non-relational data in real time.

Explore Azure databases, including Cosmos DB, a fully managed NoSQL service with five nines availability and regionally scalable throughput, and Azure SQL Database, a fully managed evergreen SQL solution.

Explore creating a SQL database in the Azure portal, set up a SQL server, configure firewall rules, and run a sample top-20 product query to understand relational data handling.

Migrate on-premises databases to Azure with near zero downtime using online migration or data box options, supporting SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.

Explore IoT hub, IoT central, edge, and Azure Stack to connect devices and monitor performance. See how Azure Sphere embeds secure chips to turn everyday devices into smart, connected systems.

Set up an Azure IoT hub, register a device, and simulate bidirectional communication with a Raspberry Pi simulator using the device connection string to exchange messages.

Explore how machine learning analyzes data to predict behavior, and use cognitive services—image recognition, speech, translation, and bots with Bing search—to enhance your apps.

Explore serverless computing, where you run code triggered by events without managing servers, using functions and HTTP requests, and integrate multi-cloud workflows with logic apps to automate business processes.

Learn how Azure Security Center provides risk scoring and recommendations, while Key Vault protects secrets and keys, and Azure Sentinel guards across on-prem and cloud environments for HIPAA-level isolation.

Explore identity and access management with Azure Active Directory, covering authentication vs authorization, single sign-on, federation, and multi-factor authentication to secure access for B2B and B2C scenarios.

Learn to manage Azure Active Directory by adding and deleting users and guests, creating Microsoft 365 groups, assigning roles, and using group emails to reach members.

Azure governance basics: portal and cloud shell access, RBAC with custom roles for least-privilege, and governance tools like resource locks, tags, policies, and blueprints.

Demonstrate how resource locks prevent accidental deletion in the Azure portal by applying a delete lock to a resource group, then deleting a virtual machine and the group.

Explore privacy and compliance in azure, including the Microsoft privacy statement, GDPR guidance, trust center, compliance manager, and sovereign regions like US government and China.

Understand how resource type, location, and services affect Azure costs. Use the pricing calculator and cost management to estimate and optimize with reserved instances, hybrid use benefit, and spot pricing.

Explore the Azure pricing calculator to estimate costs, compare pay-as-you-go and reserved options, add resources like virtual machines, storage, security, and networking to forecast total spend.

Understand Azure service level agreements and uptime guarantees, and trace the service lifecycle from marketplace approval through previews to general availability, plus cost calculators and region-based pricing.

Master the Azure fundamentals AZ-900 exam layout by learning the five domains, question mix, time, and scheduling options for online or in-person testing.

Prepare for the AZ-900 exam with practice questions, relaxed pacing, and a 70% passing target, using Microsoft Learn, docs.microsoft.com, YouTube, and GitHub AZ-900 labs.

Master cloud fundamentals and Azure architecture, exploring regions, availability zones, resource groups, then learn compute, networking, storage, databases (Cosmos DB, Databricks), data lakes, analytics, machine learning, IoT, and dev ops.