Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Exam Prep

It is built for students and freshers who want a first cloud certification, and for people in support, sales, project or operations roles who need a working vocabulary of cloud and Azure terms. No cloud or programming experience is assumed. The early lessons explain ideas such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, CapEx and OpEx, and high availability before the course moves on to individual Azure services, and later lessons cover identity, governance and cost tools that matter to anyone who works with an Azure subscription. Service names are current: you learn Microsoft Entra ID, which replaced the Azure Active Directory name, along with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Azure Arc. Abekus is an independent platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft; Microsoft and Azure are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Every lesson is a few short reading cards built around a small scenario, with a diagram where one helps, such as a region with its availability zones or a management group tree, and audio narration you can listen to instead of reading. A short multiple-choice quiz follows, with an explanation for every answer. The questions ask you to apply an idea rather than repeat a definition: which tasks stay with the customer under IaaS, which redundancy option survives the loss of a zone, which service fits a small web app, or which tool forecasts next month's bill. The final section puts similar services side by side and then works through scenarios, such as migrating a shop website, designing a hybrid connection, securing cloud resources and reducing Azure spending.

Many AZ-900 questions turn on the difference between two similar ideas. The course gives each of these pairs direct attention:

• Regions, region pairs and availability zones
• Azure RBAC, which controls who can act, and Azure Policy, which controls what can be deployed
• Resource locks, which block deletion or changes even for users with owner rights
• Virtual machine scale sets and availability sets
• VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute for hybrid connections
• Private Link and virtual network peering
• Blob storage and Azure Files, and hot and cool access tiers
• The pricing calculator and the total cost of ownership calculator

Udemy and Coursera mostly prepare you for AZ-900 through video lectures, and Whizlabs is known for timed practice tests that you take near the end of your preparation. This course works differently: each part of the skills outline is taught in a short narrated lesson and checked straight away with questions and explanations, so you learn a concept and test it in the same sitting. Gaps show up while the topic is fresh, not weeks later in a mock test. Video suits watching a walkthrough of the Azure portal, and practice tests suit a final check; this format suits steady, topic-by-topic preparation.

Work through the topics in order, because cloud concepts and Azure architecture are the base for every service that follows. Get the shared responsibility model clear in the first week, since questions about IaaS, PaaS and SaaS lean on it throughout the course. Answer each question before reading its explanation, and keep a short list of the ones you get wrong to revisit. If you have access to an Azure subscription, open each service in the portal after its lesson and look at the settings the lesson described. Spend extra time on identity, governance and cost management, because they mix ideas from several areas. Before your exam, go back through the comparison lessons and the scenarios at the end. If you also work with another cloud, AWS Cloud Fundamentals covers the equivalent ideas on AWS.