Course Azure Fundamentals | AZ-900 summary

## Course Azure Fundamentals | AZ-900 from

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AZ-900 Skills Summary: Cloud, Azure, and Management

Cloud Concepts (25-30%)

• Understand cloud computing fundamentals, benefits, and shared responsibility model.
• Identify cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (public, private, hybrid).

• Choose the right model for different scenarios.
• Grasp the consumption-based model and compare cloud pricing.
• Understand serverless computing and cloud service benefits (availability, scalability, security, manageability).

Azure Architecture and Services (35-40%)

• Describe core Azure components like regions, zones, datacenters, resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups.
• Understand the hierarchy of these elements.
• Compare compute options (containers, VMs, functions).
• Explore VM options (Azure VMs, Scale Sets, Availability Sets, Virtual Desktop).
• Identify resources needed for VMs.
• Choose application hosting options (web apps, containers, VMs).
• Understand virtual networking concepts (Azure virtual networks, subnets, peering, DNS, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute).
• Define public and private endpoints.
• Compare Azure Storage services, understand storage tiers, redundancy, account options, storage types.
• Identify file transfer options (AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync).
• Explore migration options (Azure Migrate, Data Box).
• Understand Azure identity, access, and security: directory services, authentication methods (SSO, MFA, passwordless), external identities (B2B, B2C), Conditional Access, RBAC, Zero Trust, defense-in-depth model, Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Azure Management and Governance (30-35%)

• Understand cost management in Azure, factors affecting cost, pricing calculator vs. TCO calculator, and cost management capabilities.
• Grasp the purpose of tags.
• Explore governance and compliance features and tools: Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, and resource locks.
• Understand Azure resource management tools: Azure portal, Cloud Shell (CLI/PowerShell), Azure Arc, infrastructure as code (IaC), Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
• Describe monitoring tools: Azure Advisor and Azure Service Health.

• Describe Azure Monitor, Including Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor alerts , Application InsightsI hope this consolidated summary is helpful!