Table of contents:
- Exam Road
- learning path
- review preparation
- Schedule exam
1. Exam Road
The certification exam I participated in is Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, code-named AZ-900, which is the primary certification exam for Azure. Microsoft’s certification system is very clear. After completing the primary certification exam, you can apply for intermediate certification and advanced certification to continue the exam.
After passing the exam, you will get the electronic version of the certificate Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals.
2. Learning Path
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification exam is the certification for the basic use of Azure. Although it is not difficult, it has a lot of content. It mainly includes 4 parts, which are describing the concept of cloud, describing core Azure services, describing security, privacy, compliance, and trust, and describing Azure pricing service level agreement and life cycle.
On Microsoft Docs, a complete learning path is given,https://learn.microsoft.com/zh-cn/certifications/azure-fundamentals/
Syllabus
Part 1: Explore Microsoft Azure cloud concepts
1.1 Get started with Azure Fundamentals
1.2 Discuss why cloud services
1.3 Distinguish types of cloud models
1.4 Explore types of cloud services
Part 2: Microsoft Azure Core Services
2.1 Discuss core Azure architectural components
2.2 Define core Azure services and products
2.3 Identify Azure solutions
2.4 Differentiated Azure management tools
Part 3: Examining Microsoft Azure Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust
3.1 Secure network connectivity
3.2 Examine core identity services
3.3 Review security tools and features
3.4 Describe Azure governance methodologies
Part 4: Review Microsoft Azure Pricing, Service Level Agreements, and Lifecycle
4.1 Examine Azure subscriptions
4.2 Review planning and managing Azure costs
4.3 Explore Azure service level agreements (SLAs)
4.4 Examine the service lifecycle in Azure
3. Review Preparation
Although Microsoft Docs already have a complete study syllabus, it still takes some time to learn it, and the focus is on the explanation of terms. I really didn’t expect that there are so many products and new words in Azure. Although I have used various cloud services and products, I don’t know much about the comprehensive Azure products, so taking this certification exam happens to be a comprehensive study.
3.1 Name Explanation
PowerApp: You can quickly build applications by dragging and dropping.
Resource Manager: Provides a management layer for creating, updating, and deleting resources in an Azure account. Once deployed, administrative features such as access controls, locks, and tags can be used to secure and organize resources.
Azure Data Lake: This can store data of any size, shape, and velocity.
Azure Data Lake Analytics: Data processing and analysis on Data Lake
Data bricks: Analytics platform based on Apache Spark.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Analysis service based on data warehouse
Azure SQL Database: Scalable relational database service.
Service Fabric: microservices, build and run always-on, scalable distributed applications.
Application Insight: A feature of Azure Monitor that monitors real-time applications and will automatically detect performance anomalies.
Azure Monitor: for monitoring infrastructure and network
Cognitive Services: A comprehensive collection of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent applications
Azure Advisor: Analyzes your configuration and usage telemetry and provides personalized, actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost.
CosmosDB: is a fully managed NoSQL database service for modern application development
HDInsight: Easily run popular open-source frameworks (including Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka) for open-source analytics.
Azure portal: The portal is a web-based unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools.
Azure Active Directory: Your common platform for managing and securing identities
Azure Storage Platform: storage platform, including File, Blob, Disk, Archive, HPC Cache, and Data Lake.
PAAS: Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud.
IAAS: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure.
SAAS: Software as a Service (SaaS) allows users to connect and use cloud-based applications over the Internet.
Private Cloud: A private cloud is defined as computing services provided over the Internet or a private internal network for select users only, and not to the general public.
Public Cloud: A public cloud is defined as computing services offered by third-party providers over the public Internet, making them available to anyone who wants to use or buy them.
Hybrid Cloud: A hybrid cloud is a computing environment that combines public and private clouds by allowing data and applications to be shared between
Azure Cloud Shell: An interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources, providing the functionality of Bash or PowerShell.
Local Network Gateway: The local network gateway is used to establish a site-to-site VPN connection.
Virtual Network Gateway: remote network gateway, used to establish a site-to-site VPN connection.
CapEx: Capital expenditures, money spent upfront on physical infrastructure that is then deducted from your tax bill over time.
OpEx: Operating expenses, there is no upfront cost, but there is a recurring cost. You pay when you use the service or product, i.e. pay-as-you-go
Azure Machine Learning Studio: Engineering for machine learning and full-process development.
Azure DevTest Labs: Fast, Easy, Lean Development and Testing Environment
Azure Functions: An event-driven serverless computing platform that can solve complex orchestration problems to improve development efficiency.
App Service: A fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications
Azure Availability Zone: Highly available application and data service area
Region: Azure operates in multiple data centers around the world. These data centers are grouped by geographic region, giving you the flexibility to choose where to build your applications
SLA: A Service Level Agreement (SLA) describes Microsoft’s commitment to uptime and connectivity, an interesting SLA board.
Azure Blob Storage: Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning
Azure IoT Hub: Managed services for bi-directional communication between IoT devices and Azure
Azure Subscription: A virtual resource used to bind accounts and use resources
Azure Resource Manager Templates: Solutions are repeatedly deployed to the cloud and know their infrastructure is in a reliable state.
Azure Policies: Evaluate resources in Azure by comparing their attributes with business rules
Azure Security Center: Hybrid Security Management and Threat Protection
Azure Backup: Backup service to back up data and restore data from the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Network Security Group (NSG): Use Azure Network Security Groups to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network.
Publie Preview: Allows any customer with an appropriate Azure AD license to evaluate new features.
Private Preview: Some customers are invited to participate in early access to new concepts and features. This phase does not include formal support.
Azure Information Protection: Take control and help protect the emails, documents, and sensitive data you share outside your company. From simple classifications to embedded tags and permissions, use Azure Information Protection to enhance data protection at any time, no matter where it is stored or with whom it is shared.
Azure Right Management: Azure Rights Management (often abbreviated as Azure RMS) is the protection technology used by Azure Information Protection.
Azure logic App: Quickly build powerful integration solutions
Azure Activity Log: The activity log, including all write operations (PUT, POST, DELETE) of resources, the activity log will be kept for 90 days.
Azure AD Connect Sync: The synchronization service (Azure AD Connect Sync) is the main component of Azure AD Connect. It takes care of all operations related to synchronizing identity data between the on-premises environment and Azure AD.
Archive access tier archive storage access is used to store rarely accessed data.
Microsoft Online Service Privacy Statement: The Privacy Statement describes what personal data is processed by Microsoft and how and for what purpose Microsoft processes personal data.
Azure PowerShell: is a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line
Azure Key Vault: secure key management, storing the secret keys accessed by each system.
Azure Event Hub: Event Hub is a fully managed, simple, secure, and scalable real-time data extraction service.
Azure Firewall: Cloud-native network security to protect your Azure virtual network resources.
Azure Traffic filter: Use network security groups to filter network traffic entering and exiting virtual network subnets.
Azure Support Plan: Support plans for different users, including 4 plans BASIC, DEVELOPER, STANDARD, and PROFESSIONAL DIRECT.
Azure Service Bus: Reliable Cloud Messaging as a Service (MaaS) and Easy Hybrid Integration
Azure Muti-Factor Authentication (MFA): Multi-factor authentication is a process where users are prompted to provide additional forms of authentication during login, such as entering a code on their phone or providing a fingerprint scan
Azure Service Health: Personalized alerts and guidance for Azure service issues, notifying you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance
Azure Compliance Manager: is a free workflow-based risk assessment tool in the Microsoft Service Trust Portal for managing compliance activities related to Microsoft cloud services.
Azure Site Recovery: Azure’s built-in Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
3.2 mock exam
After sorting out the explanations of the above terms, the preparation work is in place, and the last thing is to find a copy of the simulation questions to practice your hands. You can use the Pass4itsure Microsoft AZ-900 practice question bank, a free download from the Pass4itsure website
Of course, this process, which can also be called the “studying questions” process, is very important for the primary certification exam. Judging from the actual test results, about 80% of the questions are genuine. This question bank is really awesome.
4. Schedule exam
Once all preparations are complete, you can register for the exam. Exams are scheduled online through the Pearson VUE test center.
You can choose to take the test at a designated test center or take the test at home or office.
Finally, go to the test center to complete the test according to the agreed time, and you need to bring two kinds of identification documents. After entering the examination room, the bag must be stored, and you can’t bring anything, you can’t eat, you can’t drink water, you can’t talk to other people, etc., you can hand in the paper in advance. After handing in the papers, find the staff, get the test evaluation form, and then go home and celebrate. Hahaha.
Record the experience before and after the exam. For IT friends, it is still very useful to take a certification to learn knowledge systematically. Future achievements are all previous accumulations, and the explosion will be at a certain moment in the future.
For the latest exam question bank, please visit:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cGozjogoH4sFMw6wGtxGEatVspnj864C/view?usp=sharing