AZ-900 · Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Each publication has a different job. Start with the guide that matches what you need now, or use them in sequence for the most complete JITA learning experience.
Build working judgment for Azure cloud fundamentals.
This Field Guide develops a working mental model of Azure cloud fundamentals. You will connect understand cloud models, shared responsibility, consumption, elasticity, availability, and service types, recognize core Azure compute, networking, storage, and identity services, connect security, governance, policy, resource organization, and management controls, and understand pricing, cost management, service agreements, and lifecycle concepts. You are not just memorizing feature names; you are learning what owns the requirement, what can fail, and how to verify the outcome.
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
- availability/resilience feature vs backup or disaster recovery
- security feature vs governance or cost-management control
Prove your AZ-900 judgment across Azure cloud fundamentals under exam-style conditions.
This Exam Preparation Guide tests whether your understanding of Azure cloud fundamentals survives realistic decision pressure. You will practice separating IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS, availability/resilience feature vs backup or disaster recovery, and security feature vs governance or cost-management control. Each scenario is designed to make you identify the governing fact, reject the nearest plausible alternative, and explain the evidence that keeps the correct answer correct.
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
- availability/resilience feature vs backup or disaster recovery
- security feature vs governance or cost-management control
Understand it first. Then prove you can apply it.
The Field Guide builds the understanding. Use it when you need the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
The Exam Preparation Guide tests the judgment. Use it when you need to practice under exam-style conditions, distinguish close answers, and understand why the correct answer survives changed facts.
Recommended sequence: Field Guide → Exam Preparation Guide → return to the Field Guide for targeted remediation where needed.