AZ-900 covers Azure concepts, core services, and the solutions and tools used to manage Azure. It also includes security and network security basics, governance and compliance features, and cost management and SLAs.
AZ-900 is a foundational course that introduces the concepts and service areas you need to understand Microsoft Azure at a baseline level. The page frames the scope across six themes: Azure concepts, core services, solutions and management tools, security and network security, governance and compliance, and cost management with service-level agreements.The course starts with core Azure concepts. You review the benefits of cloud computing and learn common cloud characteristics such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility, and disaster recovery. You also cover key architectural components, including subscriptions, management groups, and resources, plus how Azure is organized geographically through regions, region pairs, and availability zones.It then surveys core Azure service categories. Topics include compute, networking, storage, and databases. The module examples referenced on the page include virtualization and container options, database services, and network resources such as virtual networks, VPN gateways, and ExpressRoute, along with common storage services.A separate module covers core solutions and management tools. This includes selecting appropriate services for scenarios across AI, development processes, monitoring, management and configuration, serverless computing, and IoT. The intent is to help you recognize which Azure service families and tools are used for different business or technical needs.Security coverage is split across general security and network security features. The page references services used for strengthening posture and acting on security data, plus core network controls such as firewalls, network security groups, and DDoS protection. Governance and compliance topics include identity services, authentication and authorization concepts, and governance mechanisms such as RBAC, locks, tags, policy, and blueprints, alongside compliance offerings.Finally, the course addresses cost management and service selection through pricing tools, purchasing options, factors that affect total cost, and how SLAs and service lifecycle influence decisions. Together, these modules align to the AZ-900 exam scope and provide a structured baseline for understanding Azure.
AZ-900 is most effective when you treat it as a mental model course rather than a service checklist. The value is learning the vocabulary and the category boundaries: what counts as architecture, what is a core service, what is a management tool, and where security and governance controls live.Because the course is broad, focus on being able to explain trade-offs at a high level. For example, explain how regions and availability zones relate to resilience, or how pricing tools support budgeting conversations. For security and governance, aim to explain what problems controls like RBAC, policy, and network security groups are meant to solve.Use the exam scope as a structure, but evaluate your readiness by whether you can describe the purpose of each topic area and how it affects real decisions about adopting Azure.
“This one-day course will provide foundational level knowledge on Azure concepts; core Azure services; security; governance; and Azure cost management and SLAs.”
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