JITA Learning · Microsoft · Field Guide
AZ-900 · Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Build working judgment for Azure cloud fundamentals.
What you should expect
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.
What you will learn
- 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
- understand pricing, cost management, service agreements, and lifecycle concepts
- recognize why one technically plausible alternative loses under the stated requirement
- apply Changed Fact reasoning and verify the design or implementation through operational evidence
Decision skills you will practice
- identify the governing requirement
- compare the nearest plausible alternative
- apply Changed Fact reasoning
- trace prerequisites, dependencies, and failure paths
- verify configured state, effective state, runtime outcome, and negative-path evidence
Who this is for
learners who need a durable mental model of cloud concepts, Azure services, security, governance, management, and cost before specializing
Use this when you need to learn the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
Decisions you will learn to distinguish
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
- availability/resilience feature vs backup or disaster recovery
- security feature vs governance or cost-management control
Why JITA is different
Microsoft explains the platform. JITA teaches the decision.
Microsoft Learn explains the services, features, and documented behavior that support Azure cloud fundamentals. JITA connects those capabilities into decisions: what owns the requirement, what the nearest alternative is, what changes when one fact changes, and what evidence proves the implementation worked.
How to choose:
Use the Field Guide to build understanding. Use the Exam Preparation Guide to test whether that understanding survives exam-style decisions.