Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Describe cloud computing including defining cloud computing, describing the shared responsibility model, defining cloud models (public, private, hybrid), identifying appropriate use cases for each cloud model, describing the consumption-based model, comparing cloud pricing models, and describing serverless. Describe the benefits of using cloud services including describing the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud, describing the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud, describing the benefits of security and governance in the cloud, and describing the benefits of manageability in the cloud. Describe cloud service types including describing infrastructure as a service (IaaS), describing platform as a service (PaaS), describing software as a service (SaaS), and identifying appropriate use cases for each cloud service type (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).

Describe the core architectural components of Azure including describing Azure regions, region pairs, and sovereign regions, describing availability zones, describing Azure datacenters, describing Azure resources and resource groups, describing subscriptions, describing management groups, and describing the hierarchy of resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups. Describe Azure compute and networking services including comparing compute types (containers, virtual machines, functions), describing virtual machine options (Azure virtual machines, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability sets, Azure Virtual Desktop), describing the resources required for virtual machines, describing application hosting options (web apps, containers, virtual machines), describing virtual networking (purpose of Azure virtual networks, Azure virtual subnets, peering, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute), and defining public and private endpoints. Describe Azure storage services including comparing Azure Storage services, describing storage tiers, describing redundancy options, describing storage account options and storage types, identifying options for moving files (AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, Azure File Sync), and describing migration options (Azure Migrate, Azure Data Box). Describe Azure identity, access, and security including describing directory services in Azure (Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra Domain Services), describing authentication methods in Azure (single sign-on/SSO, multifactor authentication/MFA, passwordless), describing external identities in Azure, describing Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, describing Azure role-based access control (RBAC), describing the concept of Zero Trust, describing the purpose of the defense-in-depth model, and describing the purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Describe cost management in Azure including describing factors that can affect costs in Azure, exploring the pricing calculator, describing cost management capabilities in Azure, and describing the purpose of tags. Describe features and tools in Azure for governance and compliance including describing the purpose of Microsoft Purview in Azure, describing the purpose of Azure Policy, and describing the purpose of resource locks. Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources including describing the Azure portal, describing Azure Cloud Shell (Azure Command-Line Interface/CLI and Azure PowerShell), describing the purpose of Azure Arc, describing infrastructure as code (IaC), and describing Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates. Describe monitoring tools in Azure including describing the purpose of Azure Advisor, describing Azure Service Health, and describing Azure Monitor (Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, Application Insights).