Certification guide
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals is the entry point to the Microsoft Azure certification portfolio — the credential that says you understand what the cloud is, what Azure offers, and how it is governed and paid for. It is designed for candidates just beginning to work with cloud-based solutions or new to Azure specifically: developers coming from other clouds, business stakeholders and project managers who sit next to Azure teams, students, and IT professionals building toward the associate exams like AZ-104 (Administrator), AZ-204 (Developer), and AZ-305 (Solutions Architect).
Unlike Azure’s associate and expert credentials, AZ-900 does not expire and does not require annual renewal — pass once and the badge stays valid for life. The exam does not require prior Azure experience, though general technology familiarity helps you move faster through the vocabulary-heavy scenarios.
Level · Fundamentals Questions · ~40–60 Time · 45–60 min Pass · 700/1000 Cost · $99 USD Renewal · Never expires
The exam is organized into three domains covering cloud concepts, Azure’s core architecture and services, and Azure management and governance. The two heavier domains — architecture and services, and management and governance — together account for roughly two-thirds of the exam, so they deserve the most preparation time. Cloud concepts is a smaller but foundational block: get the shared responsibility model, the deployment models, and the service types right, and the rest of the exam falls into place.
Describe cloud concepts
Domain 1 · 25–30%Cloud computing definitions and benefits — high availability, scalability, elasticity, reliability, security, manageability, and agility. The shared responsibility model across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Deployment models (public, private, hybrid, community) and their use cases. The consumption-based OpEx model versus traditional CapEx. Service types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless) and how to pick the right one for a scenario.
Describe Azure architecture and services
Domain 2 · 35–40%Azure’s physical and logical architecture — regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, availability zones, and datacenters, plus the management hierarchy of tenants, management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. Core compute (Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, App Service, Functions, Container Instances, AKS, Azure Virtual Desktop) and networking services (VNets, subnets, peering, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, DNS). Storage services and tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), redundancy options (LRS, ZRS, GRS, GZRS), account types, and data-movement tools (AzCopy, Storage Explorer, Data Box). Identity, access, and security — Microsoft Entra ID, MFA, Conditional Access, RBAC, B2B and B2C, Zero Trust, defense-in-depth, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
Describe Azure management and governance
Domain 3 · 30–35%Cost management — the factors that drive Azure spend, the Pricing Calculator (future estimates), the TCO Calculator (on-prem versus cloud), Microsoft Cost Management (actual spend and budgets), and the role of tags in reporting. Governance and compliance — Azure Policy, resource locks (CanNotDelete and ReadOnly), and Microsoft Purview for data governance. Management and deployment tools — the Azure portal, Cloud Shell (Bash and PowerShell), Azure Arc for extending management to on-premises and other clouds, and ARM templates and Bicep for infrastructure as code. Monitoring — Azure Advisor for recommendations, Service Health for Microsoft-side incidents, and Azure Monitor with Log Analytics and Application Insights for your own resources.
Our practice bank mirrors the official blueprint weights across ten sets. Each set is a 60-question full-length exam with a 60-minute timer and a 70% cut score — a slightly generous approximation of Microsoft’s scaled 700/1000. Sets rotate through industry verticals so the same underlying topics show up in different scenario dressings: generic enterprise, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, SaaS, higher education, energy, and a mixed-vertical simulator. Questions are original — no exam-dump content — and every explanation names the near-miss distractor so you build the discrimination that AZ-900’s vocabulary questions actually reward.
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - Practice Exam
Question bank for Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals, spanning all three domains: Cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and governance. Each attempt draws a…
Subscribe to startIf you can hit 42 out of 60 comfortably on a fresh set, you are in the safe zone for exam day. The domains interlock — securing a storage account touches storage, networking, and identity all at once — so use the mixed-vertical Set J late in your prep to test whether the vocabulary really landed.
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