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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep

A practical, exam-aligned introduction to cloud concepts, Azure services, security, governance, and management tools

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18
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18
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6.7
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About the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep Course

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep is a practical, exam-aligned introduction to cloud concepts, Azure services, security, governance, and management tools. This course helps students build a clear foundation in Cloud Computing while preparing for the AZ-900 exam and gaining confidence with core Microsoft Azure terminology, services, and best practices.

Build Cloud Computing Confidence With Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

  • Prepare for the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep exam with structured, topic-by-topic guidance.
  • Learn essential Cloud Computing concepts, service models, deployment models, and shared responsibility principles.
  • Understand Azure architecture, compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and governance tools.
  • Gain practical knowledge of cost management, monitoring, access control, and cloud management workflows.

A practical, exam-aligned introduction to cloud concepts, Azure services, security, governance, and management tools.

This course introduces the foundations of Cloud Computing through the lens of Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep. Students begin with exam orientation and a clear Azure roadmap before moving into core cloud models, including public, private, hybrid, consumption-based, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and serverless services.

Lessons explain how Azure is organized across regions, region pairs, availability zones, resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups. Students also explore key Azure services for compute, application hosting, virtual machines, containers, functions, virtual networking, private endpoints, storage, redundancy, migration, and file movement.

The course also covers identity, access, and security topics such as Microsoft Entra ID, authentication, single sign-on, MFA, passwordless access, Conditional Access, RBAC, Zero Trust, Defense in Depth, and Defender for Cloud. Management and governance lessons help students understand pricing, cost factors, tags, Azure Policy, resource locks, Cloud Shell, ARM templates, Azure Arc, Advisor, Service Health, and Azure Monitor.

By the end of this Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Prep course, students will be able to describe Cloud Computing concepts, identify common Azure services, understand security and governance responsibilities, and approach the AZ-900 exam with a stronger, more practical command of Microsoft Azure fundamentals.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Course Foundations

1 lesson

Lesson 1: AZ-900 Exam Orientation and Azure Fundamentals Roadmap

18 min Preview
This opening lesson orients learners to the AZ-900 exam and explains how the course will move from broad cloud concepts into Azure architecture, services, security, governance, cost management, and mo…

Cloud Concepts

4 lessons

Lesson 2: Cloud Computing Concepts and the Shared Responsibility Model

22 min
This lesson introduces the core cloud computing concepts tested in AZ-900: what cloud computing is, why organizations use it, and how cloud responsibility changes depending on the service model. Learn…

Lesson 3: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Consumption-Based Cloud Models

20 min
This lesson explains the main cloud deployment models tested in AZ-900: public cloud , private cloud , and hybrid cloud . Learners will compare who owns the infrastructure, who can use it, how control…

Lesson 4: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Serverless Service Types

23 min
This lesson explains the main cloud service types tested in AZ-900: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, software as a service, and serverless computing. Learners will connect each mode…

Lesson 5: Cloud Benefits: Availability, Scalability, Reliability, and Manageability

21 min
This lesson explains the core cloud benefits AZ-900 expects you to recognize: high availability, scalability, reliability, predictability, and manageability. You will learn what each term means, how t…

Azure Architecture

2 lessons

Lesson 6: Azure Regions, Region Pairs, Sovereign Regions, and Availability Zones

22 min
This lesson explains how Azure organizes its global infrastructure into geographies, regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, and availability zones. Learners will connect these terms to practical de…

Lesson 7: Azure Resources, Resource Groups, Subscriptions, and Management Groups

23 min
In this lesson, Professor John Ingram explains how Azure organizes cloud assets using resources, resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups. These concepts are foundational for understandin…

Azure Architecture and Services

7 lessons

Lesson 8: Azure Compute Overview: Virtual Machines, Containers, and Functions

24 min
This lesson introduces the main Azure compute choices that AZ-900 candidates need to recognize: virtual machines, container services, and Azure Functions. It focuses on what each option runs, how much…

Lesson 9: Virtual Machine Options, Scale Sets, Availability Sets, and Azure Virtual Desktop

23 min
This lesson explains the main Azure compute options built around virtual machines: individual Azure VMs, VM Scale Sets, Availability Sets, and Azure Virtual Desktop. It focuses on what each option is …

Lesson 10: Application Hosting with App Service, Containers, and Virtual Machines

20 min
This lesson compares three common Azure application hosting choices that appear in AZ-900: Azure App Service, container-based hosting, and Azure Virtual Machines. The focus is not on deep deployment s…

Lesson 11: Azure Virtual Networking, Subnets, Peering, DNS, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute

25 min
This lesson explains the core Azure networking services candidates are expected to recognize for AZ-900: Virtual Network, subnets, virtual network peering, Azure DNS, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute. Le…

Lesson 12: Public Endpoints, Private Endpoints, and Basic Network Access Patterns

18 min
This lesson explains the basic Azure network access patterns that AZ-900 candidates should recognize: public endpoints, private endpoints, and controlled access through virtual networks. You will lear…

Lesson 13: Azure Storage Services, Account Options, Redundancy, and Access Tiers

25 min
This lesson explains the Azure storage services that AZ-900 candidates are expected to recognize: Blob Storage, Azure Files, Queue Storage, Table Storage, managed disks, and the storage account that o…

Lesson 14: File Movement and Migration with AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync, Azure Migrate, and Data Box

22 min
This lesson explains the main Azure tools used to move files and migrate workloads into Azure: AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, Azure File Sync, Azure Migrate, and Azure Data Box. The focus is exam-ali…

Identity, Access, and Security

2 lessons

Lesson 15: Microsoft Entra ID, Domain Services, Authentication, SSO, MFA, and Passwordless Access

24 min
This lesson introduces the identity services and authentication methods that AZ-900 candidates are expected to recognize in Azure. It focuses on Microsoft Entra ID as Azure's cloud-based identity and …

Lesson 16: External Identities, Conditional Access, RBAC, Zero Trust, Defense in Depth, and Defender for Cloud

25 min
This lesson connects core AZ-900 security concepts into a practical model: who can access Azure, under what conditions, what they can do, and how Azure helps protect workloads. You will learn how Micr…

Management and Governance

2 lessons

Lesson 17: Azure Cost Factors, Pricing Calculator, Cost Management, and Tags

22 min
This lesson explains the Azure cost concepts tested in AZ-900: what drives Azure spending, how to estimate costs before deployment, how to monitor spending after deployment, and how tags support cost …

Lesson 18: Governance, Deployment, and Monitoring with Purview, Policy, Locks, Cloud Shell, ARM, Arc, Advisor, Service Health, and Azure Monitor

25 min
This lesson brings together the AZ-900 management and governance tools that help organizations control, deploy, extend, and monitor Azure environments. You will distinguish Microsoft Purview, Azure Po…
About Your Instructor
Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram

Professor John Ingram guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.