This guide is intended to provide a list of pre-selected materials to help anyone starting in the cloud computing career and/or discovering Azure be ready to the AZ-900 exam.
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Last update on February 20, 2026
📋 Learning Path from Microsoft Learn for Exam AZ-900
- Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure: Describe cloud concepts
- Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure: Describe Azure architecture and services
- Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure: Describe Azure management and governance
📝 Skills Measured - Obtained from the official link
- Define cloud computing
- Describe the shared responsibility model
- Define cloud models, including public, private, and hybrid
- Identify appropriate use cases for each cloud model
- Describe the consumption-based model
- Compare cloud pricing models
- Describe serverless
- Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of security and governance in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of manageability in the cloud
- Describe infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
- Describe platform as a service (PaaS)
- Describe software as a service (SaaS)
- Identify appropriate use cases for each cloud service type (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Describe Azure regions, region pairs, and sovereign regions
- Describe availability zones
- Describe Azure datacenters
- Describe Azure resources and resource groups
- Describe availability zone?
- Describe subscriptions
- Describe management groups
- Describe the hierarchy of resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
- Compare compute types, including container instances, virtual machines (VMs), and functions
- Describe VM options, including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability sets, and Azure Virtual Desktop
- Describe resources required for virtual machines
- Describe application hosting options, including the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service, containers, and virtual machines
- Describe virtual networking, including the purpose of Azure Virtual Networks, Azure virtual subnets, peering, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway, and Azure ExpressRoute
- Define public and private endpoints
- Compare Azure storage services
- Describe storage tiers
- Describe redundancy options
- Describe storage account options and storage types
- Identify options for moving files, including AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync
- Describe migration options, including Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box
- Describe directory services in Azure, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra Domain Services
- What is Entra ID
- [Compare Active Directory to Microsoft Entra IDy](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/fundamentals/compare
- Associate or add an Azure subscription to your Microsoft Entra tenant
- Set up a new Microsoft Entra tenant
- Microsoftr Entra
- Meet Microsoft Entra
- What is Entra Domain Services?
- Describe authentication methods in Azure, including single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and passwordless
- Describe external identities and guest access in Azure
- Introduction to Microsoft Entra External ID
- Guest users in Entra
- Describe Microsoft Enrta Conditional Access
- Describe Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
- Describe the concept of Zero Trust
- Describe the purpose of the defense in depth model
- Describe the purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure
- Compare the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
- Describe the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool
- Describe the purpose of tags
- Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview in Azure
- Describe the purpose of Azure Policy
- Describe the purpose of resource locks
- Describe the Azure portal
- Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell
- Describe the purpose of Azure Arc
- Azure ARC Overview
- Describe infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Describe Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates)
- Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor
- Describe Azure Service Health
- Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
- AZ-900 Overview
- Certification poster
- Free Azure account sign-up
- Exam environment simulation
- Azure Infrastructure Map
- Cloud administration basics
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