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AZ-900
Azure Fundamentals
Complete Offline Study Guide
Aligned to exam objectives updated 14 January 2026




Three domains • Pass mark 700/1000 • ~40-60 questions • 45 minutes seat time

, AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Offline Study Guide



Contents

About This Guide & the Exam 4

Exam at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The three domains and their weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Domain 1 — Cloud Concepts (25-30%) 5

What is cloud computing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The shared responsibility model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Cloud deployment models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Consumption-based & pricing models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Serverless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Benefits of cloud services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Cloud service types: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Domain 2 — Azure Architecture & Services (35-40%) 7

Core architectural components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Management hierarchy (top to bottom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Compute & networking services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Compute types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Virtual machine options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Application hosting options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Virtual networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Storage services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Blob access tiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Redundancy options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Moving & migrating data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Identity, access & security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Domain 3 — Azure Management & Governance (30-35%) 10

Cost management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Governance & compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Tools for managing & deploying resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Monitoring tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Quick-Reference Cheat Sheet 12

Concepts that get confused . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12



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