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About the Microsoft AZ-900 exam
Microsoft AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals) is the entry point to the Azure certification track, covering cloud concepts, core Azure architecture and services, and the management and governance tools that keep an Azure estate under control. This course gives you the practice questions, flashcards and study guide to walk in able to name the right service for any requirement the exam puts in front of you.
10
Sample questions
45 min
Exam time limit
70%
Practice pass mark
$99
Exam voucher
AZ-900 is the exam most candidates sit before they have built anything in Azure, and that shapes what it asks. Almost every objective starts with the word describe. Nobody expects you to deploy a virtual network or write an ARM template. You are being asked to recognise which Azure concept or service answers a stated business requirement, and to keep apart the pairs Microsoft named to sound similar. Three areas make up the exam. Cloud concepts is the vendor-neutral quarter: the shared responsibility model, public, private and hybrid deployment, consumption-based pricing, capital against operational expenditure, serverless, and the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS split with the use cases that go with each. Azure architecture and services is the largest block and the most factual: regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, availability zones, the management group to subscription to resource group hierarchy, virtual machines and scale sets, containers and functions, virtual networks, peering, VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute, storage tiers and redundancy options, and the identity and security set covering Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, Azure RBAC, Zero Trust and Defender for Cloud. Azure management and governance closes it out with cost management and the pricing calculator, tags, Azure Policy, resource locks, Microsoft Purview, the Azure portal, Cloud Shell, CLI and PowerShell, Azure Arc, ARM templates, and the monitoring trio of Advisor, Service Health and Azure Monitor. Candidates lose marks on the near-neighbour pairs rather than on hard technology: region pairs against availability zones, Azure Policy against a resource lock, Advisor against Service Health, geo-redundant storage against zone-redundant storage. Telling those apart quickly is the whole skill.
Exam Domains Covered
Exam Format & Details
45 minutes of exam time inside a 65 minute appointment, roughly 40 to 60 questions, delivered online or at a Pearson VUE test centre. Microsoft does not publish an exact question count for AZ-900. You need a scaled score of 700 out of 1000 to pass, which the app tracks as 70 percent. Most items are multiple choice and multiple response, and Microsoft states the exam may include interactive components such as drag and drop (matching) and build list (ordering) items. There are no labs on a Fundamentals exam, and Microsoft Learn is not available to you during it. The voucher is 99 USD in the United States and is priced regionally elsewhere. Book through Pearson VUE from the Microsoft Learn exam page, or through Certiport if you are a student or educator. The skills measured list was last updated on 20 July 2026. The exam has no prerequisites and the certification does not expire.
Why Practice Questions Matter
AZ-900 gives you 45 minutes for roughly 40 to 60 questions, so there is around a minute per item and no time to reason a definition out from first principles. The content is broad rather than deep, which makes recall the binding constraint. Practice questions build that recall the way the exam tests it: a short business scenario, four plausible Azure services, one that fits. Working through several hundred of them forces the distinctions that cost marks, such as which storage redundancy option survives the loss of a whole region, and the explanation after each answer tells you why the tempting option was wrong.
Sample Practice Questions
The following questions are a preview of the type of syllabus-aligned questions you will practise in CertCrush. They reflect the format and reasoning style of the Microsoft AZ-900 exam — not actual exam content.
Q1.A company runs servers in its own datacenter and in another cloud provider. It wants those servers to appear in the Azure portal so they can be tagged, governed with Azure Policy and monitored, without relocating them. Which service does this?
- A.Azure Arc
- B.Azure Migrate
- C.Azure Site Recovery
- D.Azure Data Box
Domain: Azure Management and Governance
Q2.Which responsibility is listed as shared between the customer and the provider across infrastructure, platform and software as a service alike?
- A.Identity and directory infrastructure
- B.Accounts and identities
- C.Physical hosts
- D.Information and data
Domain: Cloud Concepts
Q3.A candidate preparing for AZ-900 asks whether they will be asked to build a virtual network during the exam. What should they be told?
- A.There are no labs on a Fundamentals exam, and Microsoft Learn is not available during it
- B.Labs appear on the exam only in certain regions
- C.Microsoft Learn can be opened during the exam to look up service names
- D.Every Fundamentals exam ends with a hands-on portal exercise
Domain: Cloud Concepts
Q4.An application team wants to be paged the moment their own web application's response time crosses a threshold they define. Which service meets that need?
- A.Azure Monitor
- B.Azure Advisor
- C.Azure Service Health
- D.Azure Resource Manager
Domain: Azure Management and Governance
Q5.A finance director notes that moving to cloud services replaces a single large hardware purchase with a monthly cost that tracks usage. Which driver for cloud adoption does this describe?
- A.The shape of the spending changes from a large up-front purchase to an ongoing usage-based cost
- B.Capacity can grow and shrink to match demand
- C.Applications can be placed close to customers worldwide
- D.The customer gains physical access to the datacenter
Domain: Cloud Concepts
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included in the free Microsoft AZ-900 sample?
The free sample includes 10 syllabus-aligned practice questions, sample flashcards, and a preview chapter from the study guide. No account or payment is required to try the sample.
How many questions are in the full Microsoft AZ-900 course?
The full course includes a comprehensive question bank covering all exam domains. You can see the total question count on the Microsoft AZ-900 course page.
Are these official Microsoft exam questions?
No. CertCrush questions are independently written and syllabus-aligned — they mirror the format, difficulty, and reasoning style of the official exam. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
Which domains does the Microsoft AZ-900 course cover?
The course covers 3 exam domains: Cloud Concepts, Azure Architecture and Services, Azure Management and Governance.
Can I study on mobile?
Yes. CertCrush is fully responsive and works on phones, tablets, and desktops. The timed exam, flashcards, and study guide all work on mobile without installing an app.
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