This guide is intended to provide a list of shortlisted materials to help anyone starting a cloud computing career and/or discovering Azure prepare for (and pass) the AZ-900 exam.
Last update on February 15, 2022
📋 Microsoft Learn Learning Roadmap for Az-900 Exam
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Describe key Azure concepts
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Describe core Azure services
- [Microsoft Azure Essentials: Describe key management solutions and tools in Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/az-900-describe-core-solutions-management- tools-azure/)
- [Microsoft Azure Essentials: Describe general network security and security features](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/az-900-describe-general-security-network- security-features/)
- [Microsoft Azure Essentials: Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance capabilities](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/az-900-describe-identity-governance-privacy- compliance-features/)
- [Microsoft Azure Basics: Describe Azure service level agreements and cost management](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/az-900-describe-azure-cost -management-service-level-agreements/)
📝 Knowledge assessed for the Exam - Obtained from the official link
- Identify the benefits of cloud computing such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility and disaster recovery
- Identify the differences between Capital Expenses (CapEx) and Operating Expenses (OpEx)
- Describe the consumption-based model
- Describe the shared responsibility model
- Describe Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Describe serverless computing
- Describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Identify a service type based on a use case
- Define cloud computing
- Describe public cloud
- Describe private cloud
- What is a private cloud?
- Describe hybrid cloud
- Compare and contrast the three types of cloud computing
- Describe the benefits and use of regions and region pairs
- Describe the benefits and use of Availability Zones
- Describe the benefits and use of Resource Groups
- Describe the benefits and use of Subscriptions
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Resource Manager
- Explain Azure features
- Describe the benefits and usage of Virtual Machines, Azure App Services, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Virtual Desktop
- Describe the benefits and use of Virtual Networks, VPN Gateway, Virtual Network Peering and Express Route
- Describe the benefits and use of Container (Blob) Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, and storage tiers
- Describe the benefits and usage of Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Describe the benefits and use of the Azure Marketplace
- Describe the benefits and use of the Internet of Things (IoT) Hub, IoT Central, and Azure Sphere
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight and Azure Databricks
- Introduction to Azure Databricks
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, and Azure Bot Service
- Describe the benefits and usage of serverless computing solutions that include Azure Functions and Logic Apps
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevTest Labs
- Describe the functionality and usage of the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Cloud Shell, and Azure Mobile App
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Advisor
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Monitor
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Service Health
- Describe the core features of Azure Security Center, including policy compliance, security, alerts, secure scoring, and resource hygiene
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Key Vault
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Sentinel
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Dedicated Hosts
- Describe the concept of defense in depth
- Describe the functionality and usage of Network Security Groups (NSG)
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Firewall
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure DDoS protection
🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: Secure Network Connectivity in Azure
- Explain the difference between authentication and authorization
- Set Azure Active Directory
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Active Directory
- Describe the functionality and usage of Conditional Access, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Single Sign-On (SSO)
🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: [Secure access to your apps using Azure Identity Services](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/secure-access- azure-identity-services/)
- Describe the functionality and usage of Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Describe the functionality and use of resource locks
- Describe the functionality and usage of tags
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Policy
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Blueprints
- Describe the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: [Build a cloud governance strategy on Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/build-cloud-governance-strategy- azure /)
- Describe Microsoft's core principles of Security, Privacy, and Compliance
- Describe the purpose of the Microsoft Privacy Statement, Online Services Terms (OST), and Data Protection Amendment (DPA)
- Describe the purpose of the Trust Center
- Describe the purpose of Azure compliance documentation
- Describe the purpose of Azure Sovereign Regions (Azure Government cloud services and Azure China cloud services)
- Azure Regions Decision Guide - National Sovereignty
- Azure China
- Azure para o governo dos EUA 🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: [Learn Azure privacy, compliance and data protection standards](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/examine-privacy- compliance-data-protection-standards/)
- Identify factors that can affect costs (feature types, services, locations, inbound and outbound traffic)
- Identify factors that can reduce costs (Reserved Instances, Reserved Capacity, Hybrid Usage Benefit, Spot Instances)
- Describe the functionality and use of the pricing calculator and the total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator
- Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Cost Management
🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: Plan and manage your Azure costs
- Describe the purpose of an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Identify actions that can affect an SLA (i.e. Availability Zones)
- Describe the service lifecycle on Azure (Public Preview and General Availability)
- What is the service lifecycle?
- [Describing private preview, public preview and general available (ga/general available)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/describe-service- life-cycle-microsoft-365/2-private-public-general-availability)
- Supplemental Terms on Using Services in Preview
- Differences between services in GA, Private and Public Preview
🔖 Microsoft Learn module covering all these topics: [Choose the right Azure services by examining SLAs and Service Lifecycle](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/choose-azure -services-sla-lifecycle/)
- Az-900 Exam Details
- Certifications Poster
- Create a free Azure account
- Access to the certification exam simulation environment
- Azure Infrastructure Map
- Cloud Administration Basics
- [Cloud Computing Fundamentals for Administrators](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/cmu-cloud-admin-overview/?ns-enrollment-type=LearningPath&ns-enrollment-id= learn.cmu-cloud-admin.cloud-admin)
- [Provision and manage cloud services](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/cmu-provision-cloud-services/?ns-enrollment-type=LearningPath&ns-enrollment-id=learn .cmu-cloud-admin.cloud-admin)
- Protect your cloud resources with access control
- Virtualizar recursos na nuvem
- Dimensionse seus recursos de nuvem com elasticidade
- Automatizar o gerenciamento de recursos de nuvem
- Monitorar recursos da nuvem
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