My Revision Guide for Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

 

I passed the Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals last week.

I have collated some of the resources that I believe will help you in your efforts to gain the AZ-900: Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals certification

The resource I found very useful during the course of my revision is the Azure Fundamentals Learning Path on Microsoft Learn

The Azure Fundamentals exam an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts, core Azure services, Azure pricing, SLA, and lifecycle, and the fundamentals of cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust.

Microsoft have concluded that the Azure Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based or specialty certifications, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.

The AZ-900 exam is intended for people beginning to work with cloud-based solutions and services.

If you do plan on taking this exam, you should be able to demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, as well as Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support. In addition, you should be familiar with concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development with Microsoft Azure.

 

There are a lot of resources available to help you with your learning towards this exam.

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Create an Azure account
• Azure portal overview
• Microsoft AZ-900T0X-MICROSOFTAZUREFUNDAMENTALS GitHub Content Directory
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Learning path
• MVP and MCT Tim Warner Exam Prep Ignite Session
• Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT)
• Microsoft Azure Blog
• Azure documentation

Please note – The content of this exam was updated on May 28, 2020.

 

Skills Measured

 Describe cloud concepts (15-20%)

• Describe the benefits and considerations of using cloud services
• Describe terms such as High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
• Describe the principles of economies of scale
• Describe the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
• Describe the consumption-based model

Describe the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service

(PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

• Describe Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Compare and contrast the three different service types

Describe the differences between Public, Private and Hybrid cloud models

• Describe Public cloud
• Describe Private cloud
• Describe Hybrid cloud
• Compare and contrast the three different cloud models

Describe core Azure services (30-35%)

Describe the core Azure architectural components

• Describe Regions
• Describe Availability Zones
• Describe Resource Groups
• Describe Azure Resource Manager
• Describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components

Describe some of the core products available in Azure

• Describe products available

Compute 

Virtual Machines

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

App Services

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 

• Describe products available for Networking such as:

Virtual Network 

Load Balancer

VPN Gateway

Application Gateway

Content Delivery Network

• Describe products available for Storage such as:

Blob Storage

Disk Storage

File Storage

Archive Storage

• Describe products available for Databases such as:

Cosmos DB

Azure SQL Database

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database Migration service

• Describe the Azure Marketplace and its usage scenarios

Describe some of the solutions available on Azure

• Describe Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT Hub

IoT Central

 

• Describe Big Data and Analytics and products that are available for Big Data and Analytics such as

Synapse Analytics

HDInsight

Azure Databricks

 

• Describe Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Azure Machine Learning Service and Studio

• Describe Serverless computing

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

Event Grid

• Describe DevOps solutions

Azure DevOps

Azure DevTest Labs

• Describe the benefits and outcomes of using Azure solutions

Describe Azure management tools

• Describe Azure tools such as:

Azure Portal

Azure PowerShell

Azure CLI

Cloud Shell

• Describe Azure Advisor

 

Describe Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust (25-30%)

Describe securing network connectivity in Azure

• Describe Network Security Groups (NSG
• Describe Application Security Groups (ASG)
• Describe User Defined Rules (UDR)
• Describe Azure Firewall
• Describe Azure DDoS Protection
• Choose an appropriate Azure security solution

Describe core Azure Identity services

• Describe the difference between authentication and authorization
• Describe Azure Active Directory
• Describe Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Describe security tools and features of Azure

• Describe Azure Security Center
• Describe Azure Security Center usage scenarios
• Describe Key Vault Describe Key Vault
• Describe Azure Information Protection (AIP)
• Describe Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Describe Azure governance methodologies

• Describe policies and initiatives with Azure Policy
• Describe Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Describe Locks
• Describe Azure Advisor security assistance
• Describe Azure Blueprints

Describe monitoring and reporting options in Azure

• Describe Azure Monitor
• Describe Azure Service Health
• Describe the use cases and benefits of Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health

Describe privacy, compliance and data protection standards in Azure

• Describe industry compliance terms such as:

GDPR

ISO

NIST

• Describe the Microsoft Privacy Statement
• Describe the Trust Center
• Describe the Service Trust Portal
• Describe Compliance Manager
• Determine if Azure is compliant for a business need
• Describe Azure Government cloud services
• Describe Azure China cloud services

 

Describe Azure pricing, Service Level Agreements and support (20-25%)

Describe Azure subscriptions

• Describe an Azure Subscription
• Describe the uses and options with Azure subscriptions such access control and offer types
• Describe subscription management using Management groups

Describe planning and management of costs

• Describe options for purchasing Azure products and services
• Describe options around Azure Free account
• Describe the factors affecting costs such as resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic
• Describe Zones for billing purposes
• Describe the Pricing calculator
• Describe the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
• Describe best practices for minimizing Azure costs such as performing cost analysis, creating spending limits and quotas, using tags to identify cost owners, using Azure reservations and using Azure Advisor recommendations
• Describe Azure Cost Management

Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

• Describe a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Describe Composite SLAs
• Describe how to determine an appropriate SLA for an application
• Describe service lifecycle in Azure
• Describe public and private preview features
• Describe the term General Availability (GA)
• Describe how to monitor feature updates and product changes

Thanks for reading my blog post. I wish you the best of luck in your exam. I know you will smash it!!!!!! Break a leg!