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AZ-900 prep

For anyone starting with Azure, technical or not, who wants to prove they understand cloud concepts, core Azure services, and how Azure is governed, priced and monitored.

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The real exam

QuestionsUsually about 40 to 60 (Microsoft does not publish an exact number)
Time45 minutes of exam time (about 65 minutes seat time)
Pass mark700 on a scaled 1 to 1000 score
Fee$99 (US); regional pricing applies
Item typesMultiple choice, Yes/No statement sets, drag and drop, hot area
Skills outlineSkills measured as of 20 July 2026
Microsoft Learn accessNot available during Fundamentals exams
DeliveryPearson VUE test centre or online proctored
Retakes24 hours after a first fail, then 14 days; up to 5 attempts in 12 months
ValidityDoes not expire

What you get

36
lessons
3
hours of reading
260
original questions
5
full mock exams

Mocks follow the real rules: 45 questions in 45 minutes, flag and review.

Syllabus

Describe cloud concepts28%

Official weight 25 to 30%. Cloud computing, shared responsibility, public, private and hybrid models, consumption-based and pricing models, serverless, cloud benefits, and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Describe Azure architecture and services38%

Official weight 35 to 40%. Regions, zones and the resource hierarchy; compute and networking; storage, redundancy and migration; identity, access and security.

Describe Azure management and governance34%

Official weight 30 to 35%. Cost management and tags; Purview, Azure Policy and locks; portal, CLI, PowerShell, Arc and ARM templates; Advisor, Service Health and Azure Monitor.

Course outline

  1. Cloud concepts · 4 lessons
  2. Cloud benefits and service types · 3 lessons
  3. Azure core architecture · 4 lessons
  4. Compute and networking · 4 lessons
  5. Azure storage · 3 lessons
  6. Identity, access and security · 3 lessons
  7. Azure management and governance · 5 lessons
  8. Weak spots · 6 lessons
  9. Worked scenarios · 3 lessons
  10. Exam day · 1 lessons

Try a question

A finance director wants IT costs to appear as ongoing operating costs instead of large up-front purchases that depreciate over several years. Which approach meets this goal?
A. Build a second on-premises datacenter for disaster recovery
B. Buy new servers and storage arrays for the company datacenter
C. Run workloads on pay-as-you-go Azure services
D. Purchase perpetual software licences for all servers
Show answer
Answer: C. OpEx means you pay for services as you use them, with no up-front investment. Azure services billed on consumption fit this model, while buying hardware or a building is CapEx.
Your company deploys a Windows Server virtual machine in Azure. Who is responsible for installing operating system security updates on that virtual machine?
A. Microsoft and your company split each update equally
B. Microsoft
C. The hardware vendor that built the server
D. Your company
Show answer
Answer: D. Under the shared responsibility model, Infrastructure as a Service gives the customer the most responsibility. Microsoft looks after physical hosts, the physical network and the datacenter. The customer handles the OS, applications, data, identities and network controls inside the VM.

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