Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) syllabus

A 45-minute fundamentals exam on cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and governance, scored from 1 to 1000.

Describe cloud concepts

12 questions on this form (25–30% of the exam) · Within the 45 minutes

No penalty for a wrong or blank answer. A select-all item on this form scores only when every correct option and no incorrect option is chosen.

  • Cloud computing, the shared responsibility model, and public, private, and hybrid cloud
  • Consumption-based pricing and serverless computing
  • High availability, scalability, reliability, predictability, security, governance, and manageability
  • Infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service

Describe Azure architecture and services

18 questions on this form (35–40% of the exam) · Within the 45 minutes

No penalty for a wrong or blank answer.

  • Regions, region pairs, availability zones, resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
  • Virtual machines, scale sets, containers, functions, and application hosting
  • Virtual networks, peering, DNS, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and public and private endpoints
  • Storage services, tiers, redundancy, and tools for moving data
  • Microsoft Entra ID, authentication, conditional access, role-based access control, Zero Trust, defense in depth, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Describe Azure management and governance

15 questions on this form (30–35% of the exam) · Within the 45 minutes

No penalty for a wrong or blank answer.

  • Cost factors, the pricing calculator, budgets, and tags
  • Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, and resource locks
  • The Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Arc, and Azure Resource Manager templates
  • Azure Advisor, Azure Service Health, and Azure Monitor