Training course
This is a free, self-paced reading course for AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals — the entry point to the Azure certification portfolio, and the exam that asks whether you can say what the cloud is, what Azure offers, and how an Azure estate is governed and paid for. No prior Azure experience is assumed. What AZ-900 does assume is that you can tell closely related terms apart under time pressure, and that is what reading builds: the vocabulary first, so a practice question becomes a distinction you can reason about rather than a phrase you half-recognize.
The course is organized as one module per official exam domain, in the order Microsoft publishes them, and each module carries the domain’s published weight. Cloud concepts is the smallest block but the load-bearing one — get the shared responsibility model, the deployment models, and the service types right and the other two domains stop feeling like a list of product names. Architecture and services plus management and governance together carry roughly two-thirds of the exam, and they carry roughly two-thirds of this course. Every module ends with its key terms and suggested further reading, so it works as a glossary on the second pass as well as a syllabus on the first.
What the course covers
Describe cloud concepts
Module 1 · 25–30%What cloud computing is and the benefits it is sold on — high availability, scalability, elasticity, reliability, security, manageability, and agility. The shared responsibility model and how the line between you and the provider moves across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Public, private, hybrid, and community deployment models and the situations each fits. Consumption-based OpEx spending against traditional CapEx. And the service types, including serverless, with practice at picking the right one for a described scenario.
Describe Azure architecture and services
Module 2 · 35–40%Azure’s physical and logical shape — regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, availability zones, and datacenters, then 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, and Azure Virtual Desktop. Networking: VNets, subnets, peering, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and DNS. Storage: account types, the hot, cool, cold, and archive tiers, the LRS, ZRS, GRS, and GZRS redundancy options, and the data-movement tools AzCopy, Storage Explorer, and 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
Module 3 · 30–35%Cost management — what actually drives an Azure bill, and which tool answers which question: the Pricing Calculator for future estimates, the TCO Calculator for on-premises versus cloud, Microsoft Cost Management for actual spend and budgets, and tags for reporting. Governance and compliance through Azure Policy, resource locks in their CanNotDelete and ReadOnly forms, and Microsoft Purview for data governance. The management and deployment surface: the Azure portal, Cloud Shell in Bash and PowerShell, Azure Arc for extending management to on-premises and other clouds, and ARM templates and Bicep for infrastructure as code. Monitoring split three ways — Azure Advisor for recommendations, Service Health for Microsoft-side incidents, and Azure Monitor with Log Analytics and Application Insights for your own resources.
How to use it
Read a module, then take the matching portion of the AZ-900 practice exam rather than waiting until you have read everything. AZ-900 rewards discrimination between near-identical options — Pricing Calculator against TCO Calculator, ZRS against GRS, Advisor against Service Health — and that only shows up when you are answering questions, not when you are reading. If you want a shorter first look before committing, the free sample set is a quick calibration.
You do not need hands-on time to pass AZ-900, but an hour in the Azure portal makes the second module much less abstract: open a subscription, look at a resource group, price a virtual machine in the calculator. For exam logistics — question count, timing, the scaled 700 cut score, the $99 fee, and the fact that this credential never expires — see the AZ-900 certification guide.
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Frequently asked questions about the AZ-900 training course
Is the AZ-900 training course free?
Yes. The course is free to read and requires no signup or account. It is funded by the same practice-exam catalog it sits alongside.
How is the course structured?
One module per official AZ-900 exam domain, in Microsoft’s published order, with each module weighted to the domain’s published percentage range. Within each module the material is broken into short lessons, followed by key terms and further reading — which matters more here than on the associate exams, because AZ-900 is largely a vocabulary test.
Does this replace Microsoft’s official training?
No. Microsoft Learn publishes free official learning paths for AZ-900, and they are the authoritative source. This course is an independent study companion — written to be read quickly and to slot alongside practice questions — not a substitute for the official study guide.
Do I need any experience before starting?
No. AZ-900 has no prerequisite certification and does not require prior Azure experience; it is written for people just beginning with cloud-based solutions or arriving at Azure from another platform. General technology familiarity helps you move faster through the vocabulary, but nothing in this course assumes you have administered a cloud environment.
What should I do after finishing the course?
Work the AZ-900 practice exam until you are clearing the cut score consistently across all three domains rather than by leaning on your strong one, then book with Pearson VUE. After AZ-900 the usual next step is an associate exam — the AZ-104 administrator course is where most candidates go.
Is the course current with the latest AZ-900 outline?
The course is built against the exam skills outline as currently published by Microsoft, with the three domains and their weightings as Microsoft lists them. Microsoft can revise the outline at any time; verify the current study guide on Microsoft Learn before you sit the exam.
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