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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Online Training

This Microsoft Azure Fundamentals course prepares both technical and non-technical professionals to pass the AZ-900 exam, the single exam required to earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals certification. You'll build a strong foundation in cloud computing by exploring core Azure services like virtual networking, Azure storage services, and serverless computing. The training also introduces key exam concepts from the shared responsibility model, cloud pricing models, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Whether you're new to IT or expanding your cloud knowledge, this AZ-900 training equips you with the skills to confidently manage Azure resources, understand role-based access control (RBAC), and navigate tools like the Azure portal and Azure CLI. After taking this AZ-900 training, you’ll have a solid grasp of Microsoft Azure, the confidence needed to take your first step into cloud computing, and be ready to pass the Azure Fundamentals exam.

Updated March 2023

10Skills
64Videos
1Practice Exam
9h 51mTotal
64 videos1 exam9h 51m

Who This Course Is For

This AZ-900 course is valuable for IT professionals new to cloud computing and Microsoft Azure. It's ideal from beginners to IT professionals with 1-2 years of experience.

Course Curriculum

  • Understand the Point of the CloudFree1h 4m
  • Premium skill.Understand Core Characteristics of Clouds57m
  • Premium skill.Understand the Physical and Logical Layout of Azure52m
  • Premium skill.Understand Azure Compute with VMs56m
  • Premium skill.Understand Azure Networking58m
  • Premium skill.Understand Azure PaaS Compute Options1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Understand Cost Analysis and Prediction Tools53m
  • Premium skill.Explore Azure Identity and Security Options60m
  • Premium skill.Explore Management and Monitoring Tools in Azure58m
  • Premium skill.Explore Azure Storage Operations1h 11m

Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

The Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) validates the candidate's understanding of cloud concepts, Azure services, and basic security and architecture principles. This certification is ideal for non-technical professionals, sales, and ma...

Exam AZ-900Level ProfessionalDifficulty BeginnerCost $99 USD
Cloud computingAzure servicesSecurityArchitectureCloud concepts
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Cloud adoption creates risk when teams lack a shared baseline for Azure terminology, service models, cost controls, identity, networking, and operational monitoring. This AZ-900 course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a structured way to onboard technical and non-technical staff to Microsoft Azure fundamentals before assigning deeper admin, architecture, or security training.

The course is beginner-level and fits IT Practitioners who are new to cloud or have roughly 1–2 years of experience. At about 10 hours total, it is realistic for phased onboarding, certification prep blocks, or cross-functional cloud literacy initiatives. Teams cover the point of cloud, core cloud characteristics, Azure layout, VMs, networking, PaaS options, cost tools, identity and security, management and monitoring, and storage operations.

For change management, Team Leads can assign this as a common prerequisite before Azure project work. CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting help standardize assignments and track completion; Practice Exams can support AZ-900 readiness where included in the learning path.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to build a consistent Azure foundation before making cloud decisions, supporting cloud migrations, or preparing staff for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals exam.

  • Reduce cloud cost surprises: Teams learn where Azure cost analysis and prediction tools fit before resources are deployed at scale.
  • Improve cloud design conversations: IT Practitioners gain a shared vocabulary for cloud models, Azure’s physical and logical layout, compute, networking, storage, and PaaS services.
  • Strengthen operational readiness: Teams review Azure management and monitoring concepts that support visibility into cloud resources.
  • Support safer onboarding to Azure: New cloud staff can understand identity, security options, VMs, networking, and storage basics before moving into role-specific Azure administration or engineering work.

After completion

Knowledge & ability your team will gain

Knowledge

  • Core cloud concepts, including why organizations use cloud services and how cloud characteristics support scalability and flexibility
  • Differences between major cloud service approaches such as infrastructure, platform, and software-based services
  • Azure’s physical and logical structure, including how Azure resources are organized
  • Foundational Azure compute options, including virtual machines and PaaS compute choices
  • Basic Azure networking, storage, identity, security, cost, management, and monitoring concepts

Ability

  • Explain Azure fundamentals to technical and non-technical stakeholders using consistent terminology
  • Identify which Azure service categories apply to common infrastructure, application, and storage needs
  • Recognize cost analysis and prediction tools that help teams plan Azure usage
  • Discuss basic identity and security options in Azure at a foundational level
  • Prepare for the AZ-900 exam with a broad understanding of the concepts covered across the certification path

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