AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals + FULL Practice Exam!

Explore what cloud computing means as renting computing resources such as servers, storage, and databases over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing, enabling elastic, scalable infrastructure on Azure.

Explore Azure management interfaces, including the Azure portal, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Cloud Shell, Azure SDKs, and the Azure mobile app, to interact with and manage Azure resources.

Launch a Linux virtual machine in Azure using the portal, create a resource group, select Ubuntu Server, choose B-1s, enable SSH, and assign a public IP for web server setup.

Configure an Ubuntu VM on Azure as a web server by updating packages, installing Apache two, creating a new index.html, and verifying the page loads.

Learn how Azure network security groups function as virtual firewalls with prioritized inbound and outbound rules, and how application security groups simplify traffic rules for linked virtual machines.

Modify the network security group inbound rules to permit http traffic to the web server. Add a port 80 inbound rule with priority 100 from any source.

Explore Azure App Service fundamentals, including app service plans, regions, VM counts and sizes, and pricing tiers from free to isolated, and host web apps, API apps, and containers.

Explore Azure storage options including blob, files, queues, and tables, with hands-on labs on creating storage accounts, containers, file shares, and testing access.

Explore Azure blob storage fundamentals, including unstructured data, access tiers hot, cool, archive, encryption options, and replication with locally redundant storage, zone redundant storage, read access geo-redundant storage.

Learn to connect to a Windows virtual machine from Mac or Linux using Microsoft Remote Desktop or Romina, download the remote desktop file, and access the drives.

Attach a managed data disk to a Windows VM for persistent data, then create a 32 GB standard HDD disk, attach via the Azure portal, and initialize and format it.

Explore Azure file storage fundamentals, including SMB-based file shares and cross-platform mounting on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Learn lift-and-shift to cloud and always-on, highly available file shares.

Explore Azure table storage fundamentals as a scalable, cheap NoSQL service for structured data in the cloud. Learn table entities with partition key and row key and to query fast.

Discover how Azure Cosmos DB stores data as JSON documents in a globally distributed, low-latency database. Explore features like elastic scale, regional presence, request units, logical partitions, and multiple APIs.

Explore Azure networking fundamentals, including virtual networks, VNet peering, and load balancers. Learn connectivity options such as VPN gateway and express route, plus CDN and application gateway for delivery.

Explore big data and real-time analytics in azure cloud basics, using IoT data to drive insights, engagement, revenue, and cost reduction with Azure Databricks and HD Insight.

Explore module seven's high level overview of core services, covering Asia Vinit Virtual Network, vnet peering, load balancer, vpn gateway, express route, CDN, application gateway, and IoT services.

Explore how resource groups act as logical containers for azure resources, enable moving resources between groups, and require a region to store resource metadata, with naming and structure best practices.

Master Azure tags fundamentals by using name-value pairs to label resources and resource groups with environment and cost center. Enforce tagging policies and automate start-stop to manage costs.

Configure azure policies, including Asia policies, to enforce guidelines by defining and assigning policies to scopes such as subscriptions or resource groups, with required tags and remediation.

Learn Azure compliance regulations and standards, plus Azure blueprint and Azure Advisor fundamentals, to master governance in the cloud and monitoring with Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health.

Participate in a hands-on Azure blueprints lab to create, publish, and assign a blueprint, exploring blueprint definitions and artifacts such as policy assignment, role assignment, arm templates, and resource groups.

Master Azure service health with a hands-on lab on Asia service health and personalized views. Configure health alerts and review root causes, planned maintenance, and advisories for your resources.

Define multi-factor authentication fundamentals and explore how Azure MFA strengthens identity security by requiring two or more factors. Learn examples like passwords, OTP in apps, smartphone-based prompts, and biometrics.

Master Azure RBAC by defining security principals, role definitions, and scopes, then assign roles at subscription, resource group, or resource to grant minimal access to VMs, databases, and other resources.

Azure firewall provides inbound and outbound filtering with IP address rules to protect virtual network resources. DDoS protection offers basic and standard tiers, defending against volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks.

Explains the Asia cloud share responsibility model and security concepts, including Asia Security Center capabilities, authentication and authorization, PIM, MFA, RBAC, encryption, ATP, and information protection.