Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

1. Managers
2. Non Technical Professionals with sales, procurement backgrounds interested in Microsoft Azure sales.
3. Existing Cloud Professionals willing to grab the quick introduction to Microsoft Azure.
4.  IT Professionals.

Microsoft Azure fundamentals AZ 900 is a launchpad and not a prerequisite for any Azure role based or specialty certifications.

The Microsoft Azure fundamentals AZ 900 exam validates the candidates understanding of Cloud Concepts, Core Azure Services, security, privacy, compliance, trust, Azure pricing and support.

No. As AZ 900 is the beginner level course in Azure, it is not hard. Anyone with basic knowledge of cloud services, cloud concepts can easily pass the az 900 exam.

Candidates need to score 700 (on a scale of 1-1000) to pass the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 exam.

AZ 900 is the foundational certification. For anyone new to IT or cloud computing, or IT professionals whose org is migrating to  Azure, or if you are a system admin transitioning into cloud based role, this az900 certification is worth gaining the foundational knowledge of Azure Cloud.

$99.00 is the exam cost for az900 in the US. Pricing differs based on the country and region in which the exam is taken.

1. If you fail in the first attempt, you can wait for 24 hours to retake it. You can go to your dashboard and can reschedule it.
2.  If you fail the second attempt, you need to wait for 14 days to retake the exam third time. Same applies for fourth and fifth times.
3.  In an year, the candidate is allowed to take the AZ 900 exam  a maximum of 5 retakes.  (One year is calculated from the day of the fifth unsuccessful exam attempt.)

No for now. Per the latest Microsoft renewal certification trends, fundamental certifications do not expire.

Microsoft Azure keeps upgrading the curriculum and certification policies substantially. Our experts keep an eye and will update it here periodically.

After completing Cloud Chalktalk’s highly interactive AZ-900 exam training in Houston TX or other 25 cities in the US, you will be able to:

• Describe cloud concepts.
• Describe core Azure services.
• Describe core solutions and management tools on Azure.
• Describe general security and network security features.
• Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.
• Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements.

Microsoft keeps on revising and updating the Azure certification exam syllabus as per technology trends and industry standards. At Cloud Chalktalk, we have a dedicated team of highly experienced and Microsoft certified Azure subject matter experts who keep a close eye on the exam syllabus and updated the training course curriculum accordingly to keep it updated and relevant.

Cloud Chalktalk has trained over 41K+ IT professionals from fortune 500 companies in Cloud since 2018. From personalized mentoring on learning modules, we work towards providing a growth-oriented learning experience to nurture the candidates’ future.

• Cloud Chalktalk training modules are equipped with 70%-80% hands-on lab sessions.
• Highly interactive virtual and classroom teaching.
• Qualified instructor-led training sessions.
• Practice lab and projects aligned to Azure learning modules.
• Integrated teaching assistance and support.

The exam questions that may be appear in real exam may include:

1. Multiple Choice
2. Yes-No Questions
3. Fill in the blanks
4. Short Answers Questions

The Microsoft Azure Certifications are valid for two years once you get Microsoft Azure Certified for any stream.

Conditional Access.

Conditional Access is the tool used by Azure Active Directory to allow (or deny) access to resources based on identity signals. Conditional access is a more refined MFA (multifactor authentication) method.

an authentication.

Single sign-on is an authentication method that allows users to sign in using one set of credentials to login across applications. Single sign-on makes it easier to manage passwords and increases security capabilities.

Azure Blueprints

Sometimes Cloud environment grow beyond just one subscription, in that case Azure Blueprints help to scale the configuration. Azure Blueprints help with repeatable tasks so that development teams rapidly build and deploy new environments and speed the overall development and deployment phases.

Blueprints are a declarative way to orchestrate the deployment of various resource templates.

hybrid cloud

Public clouds (For example Microsoft Azure) owned and operated by third-party cloud service providers, to deliver their computing resources such as servers and storage over the Internet. Cloud Provider manage all hardware, software, and other supporting infrastructure.

A private cloud refers to cloud computing resources used exclusively by a individual business. A private cloud can be physically located on the company’s on-site data
Centre.

A Hybrid cloud is a type of cloud computing that combines on-premises infrastructure or a private cloud with a public cloud. Hybrid clouds allow data and apps to move between the two environments.

Geo-redundant storage (GRS)

Geo-redundant storage (GRS) -Replicates your data to a secondary region that is in different geographic locations from the primary region.

Site-to-Site VPN

Site-to-site VPN: Established between on-premises VPN device and an Azure VPN Gateway that is deployed in a virtual network. This connection type allow communication between any on-premises authorize resource to access a virtual network through an encrypted tunnel.

Resource groups

Azure resources are combined into resource groups, which act as logical containers into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed.

Perimeter layer

The perimeter layer uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection to filter large-scale attacks before they can cause a denial of service for users.

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps are designed in a web-based designer and can execute logic triggered by Azure services without writing any code.

Azure portal

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

Azure You can access the Cloud Shell in three ways:

• Direct link: Open a browser to https://shell.azure.com.
• Azure portal: Select the Cloud Shell icon on the Azure portal
• Code snippets: On docs.microsoft.com and Microsoft Learn, select the Try It button.

Azure Batch

Azure Batch allows you to scale to thousands of virtual machines for high performance computing (HPC) and large-scale parallel jobs. Other Azure functionalities allow you to scale multiple VMs, but only Azure Batch will allow for
thousands of VMs for HPC.

An Azure virtual machine scale set

Virtual machine scale enables you to provision a group of matching and loadbalanced virtual machines in Azure.
Imagine you are running a website that enables scientists to upload astronomy images that need to be processed. If you duplicated the VM, you would normally need to configure an additional service to route requests between multiple instances of the website. Virtual machine scale sets could do that work for you.

Geo-distribution

Because of geo-distribution you can deploy apps and data to regional datacenters around the globe, thereby ensuring that your customers always have the best performance in their region.

A point-to-point Ethernet connection

A Point-to-point Ethernet connection is supported by ExpressRoute for connecting your on-premises network to Azure.

The three models that ExpressRoute supports are:
• CloudExchange colocation
• Point-to-point Ethernet connection
• Any-to-any-connection

Management groups

Management groups help you manage access, policy, and compliance for multiple subscriptions. All subscriptions in a management group automatically inherit the conditions applied to the management group.

Azure Service Health

Azure Service Health alerts you about service issues that happen in Azure itself, such as a regional Azure outage.