Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
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● Resource Tags. Answer: track and report resource costs by
department, team, or project without moving anything, use resource tags.
● Azure Cost Management. Answer: Use it after deployment — to
monitor actual usage & spending, Ideal for monitoring, controlling, and
optimizing costs in real-time.
Think of it like: Your monthly bank statement after you spend.
● Azure Pricing Calculator. Answer: Use it before you deploy — to
estimate future costs. Ideal for planning and forecasting costs
Think of it like: An online shopping cart before you buy
● TCO Calculator (Total Cost of Ownership). Answer: Designed to help
you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure
compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure.
● Cost Management tool. Answer: Cost Management provides the
ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on
resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate
management of resources
, ● ARM Templates. Answer: Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM
templates), you can describe the resources you want to use (like
blueprints) in a declarative JSON format.
Benefits:
- *Verified* before the code is executed.
- The template orchestrates the creation of *many resources in parallel*.
- Creates *all dependencies* in the correct order.
● Azure Advisor. Answer: evaluates Azure resources and makes
recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance,
achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs.
● Azure Monitor. Answer: collects metric and logging data, such as
CPU percentages. The data can be used to trigger autoscaling. Azure
Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of your
applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting,
analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises
environments. It helps you understand how your applications are
performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the
resources they depend on
● Azure Service Health (ASH). Answer: Notify you of issues in Azure
ITSELF that might affect your services_Regional outages, maintenance
CERTIFICATION PAPER 2026 FULL
SOLUTION GRADED A+
● Resource Tags. Answer: track and report resource costs by
department, team, or project without moving anything, use resource tags.
● Azure Cost Management. Answer: Use it after deployment — to
monitor actual usage & spending, Ideal for monitoring, controlling, and
optimizing costs in real-time.
Think of it like: Your monthly bank statement after you spend.
● Azure Pricing Calculator. Answer: Use it before you deploy — to
estimate future costs. Ideal for planning and forecasting costs
Think of it like: An online shopping cart before you buy
● TCO Calculator (Total Cost of Ownership). Answer: Designed to help
you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure
compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure.
● Cost Management tool. Answer: Cost Management provides the
ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on
resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate
management of resources
, ● ARM Templates. Answer: Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM
templates), you can describe the resources you want to use (like
blueprints) in a declarative JSON format.
Benefits:
- *Verified* before the code is executed.
- The template orchestrates the creation of *many resources in parallel*.
- Creates *all dependencies* in the correct order.
● Azure Advisor. Answer: evaluates Azure resources and makes
recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance,
achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs.
● Azure Monitor. Answer: collects metric and logging data, such as
CPU percentages. The data can be used to trigger autoscaling. Azure
Monitor maximizes the availability and performance of your
applications by delivering a comprehensive solution for collecting,
analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises
environments. It helps you understand how your applications are
performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the
resources they depend on
● Azure Service Health (ASH). Answer: Notify you of issues in Azure
ITSELF that might affect your services_Regional outages, maintenance
