Crash course to pass the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ900

Learn private, community, public, and hybrid cloud models per NIST definitions, including private clouds for one organization and hybrids uniting multiple clouds for portability.

Explore Azure storage within a storage account, covering blob, file, disk, table, and queue services, and compare unstructured versus structured data and storage tiers.

Explore azure DDoS protection with always-on monitoring and automatic network attack mitigation, and azure firewall protecting hub-and-spoke traffic between vnets with adaptive high-availability security.

Master network security groups (NSGs) in Azure: understand inbound and outbound rules, default rules for virtual networks, internet, and load balancer, and how to attach NSGs to NICs or subnets.

Learn how Azure information protection uses labels to classify and protect documents and emails, and how Azure Advanced Threat Protection monitors user behavior to detect attacks and prevent data leakage.

Explore Azure Key Vault for secrets, keys, and certificates; learn how secrets secure passwords, how keys protect data at rest, and how certificates secure data in transit.

Explore Azure monitoring and service health across global, service, and resource levels, focusing on availability, metrics versus logs, and how alerts enable proactive resource troubleshooting.

Explore Azure subscriptions, including free trial and pay as you go, and learn how an Active Directory can be trusted by multiple subscriptions while each subscription trusts a single directory.

This lecture compares the pricing calculator to the TCO and demonstrates pricing for six Azure services, highlighting region, tier, redundancy, data transfer, and reserved pricing.

Discover starting with the Azure free account, 30-day credits, and pay-as-you-go access to 12-month free services; optimize costs using the pricing calculator, reserved instances, and Azure Advisor recommendations.

Explore Azure support plans—basic, developer, standard, and professional—and their severity levels. Learn how to submit requests and use the knowledge center and forums.

Learn how Azure secures access with identity services, authentication (MFA), and authorization (RBAC), uses key vault for secrets and certificates, and supports ISO and GDPR compliance with monitoring.

Compare TCO and pricing calculators to analyze on-prem costs versus Azure, and outline Azure subscriptions, trial limits, pay-as-you-go, support plans, and SLA expectations.

Explore the top seven exam feedback for azure fundamentals, covering resource locking, ad limits, licensing, identity protection with encryption, app service limits, and analytics with sql database and data lake.