Candidates for this exam should have foundational knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. The exam is intended for candidates who are just beginning to work with cloud-based solutions and services or are new to Azure.
Azure Fundamentals exam is an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure services, Azure workloads, security and privacy in Azure, as well as Azure pricing and support. Candidates should be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development.
Azure Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based or specialty certifications, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.
You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification exam. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.
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The English language version of this exam was updated on May 5, 2022. Please download the study guide in the “Tip” box to see the current skills measured.
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Path Overview
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Start here!
- Episode 0: Course Overview
- Episode 1: Cloud Computing, High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
- Episode 2: Principles of economies of scale
- Episode 3: Capital Expenditure (CapEx) vs Operational Expenditure (OpEx) and their differences
- Episode 4: Consumption-based model
- Episode 5: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and their differences
- Episode 6: Public, Private, Hybrid cloud and their differences
- Episode 7: Azure Regions and Availability Zones
- Episode 8: Azure Resource Groups and Resource Manager
- Episode 9: Azure Compute Services | Virtual Machine, VM Scale Set, App Service, Functions, Container Instances, Kubernetes Service
- Episode 10: Azure Networking Services | Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, CDN
- Episode 11: Azure Storage Services | Blob, Disk, File and Archive
- Episode 12: Database Services | Cosmos DB, SQL Database, SQL DB for MySQL and PostgreSQL, SQL Managed Instance
- Episode 13: Azure Marketplace
- Episode 14: Azure IoT Services | IoT Hub, IoT Central, Azure Sphere
- Episode 15: Azure Big Data and Analytics Services | Synapse Analytics (SQL Datawarehouse), HDInsight, Databricks
- Episode 16: Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services | Machine Learning Studio and Service
- Episode 17: Azure Serverless Computing Services | Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid
- Episode 18: Azure DevOps Solutions | Azure DevOps, DevTest Labs
- Episode 19: Azure Tools | Portal, PowerShell, CLI and CloudShell
- Episode 20: Azure Advisor
- Episode 21: Security Groups | NSG and ASG | Network Security Groups and Application Security grouyps
- Episode 22: User-defined Routes (UDR)
- Episode 23: Azure Firewall
- Episode 24: Azure DDoS Protection
- Episode 25: Azure Identity Services | Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Azure AD
- Episode 26: Azure Security Center and usage scenarios
- Episode 27: Key Vault
- Episode 28: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Episode 29: Resource Locks
- Episode 30: Tags
- Episode 31: Azure Policy
- Episode 32: Azure Blueprints
- Episode 33: Cloud Adoption Framework
- Episode 34: Core tenets of Security, Privacy, and Compliance
- Episode 35: Cost Affecting Factors
- Episode 36: Cost Reduction Methods and Pricing, TCO Calculators
- Episode 37: Azure Cost Management
- Episode 38: Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Episode 39: Service lifecycle in Azure
Course Overview
Start here!
Episode 00: Course Overview
Below you can find a full list of study materials, cheat sheets, references and videos to learn more!
Module 1
Describe cloud concepts (15-20%)
Describe the benefits and considerations of using cloud services
- Episode 01: Cloud Computing, High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe what is Cloud Computing
- Describe terms such as High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Explore key cloud concepts
- Azure Homepage: Cloud computing terms
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Cloud Computing Characteristics
- Skills Learned
- Episode 02: Principles of economies of scale 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the principles of economies of scale
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Economies of scale
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Economies of Scale
- Skills Learned
- Episode 03: Capital Expenditure (CapEx) vs Operational Expenditure (OpEx) and their differences 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Capital expenditure (CapEx) versus operational expenditure (OpEx)
- Skills Learned
- Episode 04: Consumption-based model 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the consumption-based model
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Consumption and fixed cost models
- Skills Learned
- Episode 05: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and their differences 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- Describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- Describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Compare and contrast the three different service types
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS
- What is IaaS?
- What is PaaS?
- What is SaaS?
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Cloud Computing - Service Models
- Skills Learned
- Episode 06: Public, Private, Hybrid cloud and their differences 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Public cloud
- Describe Private cloud
- Describe Hybrid cloud
- Compare and contrast the three different cloud models
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Cloud Deployment Models
- Cloud Deployment Models
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Cloud Computing - Deployment Models
- Skills Learned
Module 2
🔷 Describe core Azure services (30-35%)
Describe the core Azure architectural components
- Episode
07: Azure Regions and Availability Zones 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Data Cenetrs
- Describe Regions and Region Pairs
- Describe Geographies
- Describe Availability Zones
- Describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components (Regions & Availability Zones)
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Datacenters and Regions
- Microsoft Learn: Geographies
- Microsoft Learn: Availability Zones
- Microsoft Learn: Region Pairs
- Regions & Availability Zones
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Build: Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich
A very cool video on Azure datacenter architecture by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich - Products available by region
- 🌐 Azure Speed Test 2.0
- Microsoft Build: Inside Azure datacenter architecture with Mark Russinovich
- Skills Learned
- Episode 08: Azure Resource Groups and Resource Manager 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Resources
- Describe Resource Groups
- Describe Azure Resource Manager
- Describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components (Azure Resource Manager & Resource Groups)
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Azure Resource Groups
- Microsoft Learn: Tagging Resources
- Azure Resource Manager
- Resource Groups
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Azure Resources Portal - Review Azure Resource JSON definition
- Azure CLI Tutorial - Learn more about managing Azure resources with Azure CLI
- Azure Resource Manager Templates Tutorial - Learn more about managing Azure resources with JSON templates
- Skills Learned
Describe some of the core products available in Azure
- Episode 09: Azure Compute Services | Virtual Machine, VM Scale Set, App Service, Functions, Container Instances, Kubernetes Service 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe products available for Compute such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Services, Functions, Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Azure Compute
- Virtual Machines Overview
- Virtual Machines Scale Sets Overview
- Web Apps on App Service Overview
- Serverless Functions Overview
- Container Instances Overview
- Kubernetes Service Overview
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Kubernetes
- 🌐 Kubernetes Official Website
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- 🧪 Lab - Azure Portal Navigation
- Azure Virtual Machine (VM) Tutorial | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) intro
- Azure App Service (Web Apps) Tutorial
- Azure Function Apps Tutorial | Introduction for serverless programming
- Azure Container Instances Tutorial | Serverless containers in cloud
- Skills Learned
- Episode 10: Azure Networking Services | Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway, CDN
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- Skills Learned
- Describe products available for Networking such as Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway and Content Delivery Network
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Azure Networking
- Virtual Network Overview
- Load Balancer Overview
- VPN gateway Overview
- Application Gateway Overview
- Content Delivery Network Overview
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Azure Load Balancer Tutorial
- Azure Traffic Manager Tutorial | DNS load balancer
- Skills Learned
- Episode 11: Azure Storage Services | Blob, Disk, File and Archive 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe products available for Storage such as Blob Storage, File Storage, Queue Storage, Table Storage, Disk Storage, and Storage Tiers
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Benefits of using Azure to store data
- Microsoft Learn: Storage Services
- Microsoft Azure: Storage Services Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Storage Services Documentation
- Microsoft Azure: Blob Storage Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Files Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Disk Storage Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Table Storage Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Queue Storage Overview
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Azure Storage Tutorial | Introduction to Blob, Queue, Table & File Share
- Azure Queue Storage Tutorial
- Azure Table Storage Tutorial | Easy and scalable NoSQL database
- Azure Files Tutorial | Easy file shares in the cloud
- Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen 2) Tutorial | Best storage solution for big data analytics in Azure
- Skills Learned
- Episode 12: Database Services | Cosmos DB, SQL Database, SQL DB for MySQL and PostreSQL, Database
Migration Service 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the benefits and usage of Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and SQL Managed Instance
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Learn: Databases
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Cosmos DB Overview
- Microsoft Azure: Azure SQL Overview
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Azure SQL Database Tutorial | Relational databases in Azure
- Azure Cosmos DB Tutorial | Globally distributed NoSQL database
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Cosmos DB Documentation
- Microsoft Azure: Azure SQL Documentation
- Skills Learned
- Episode 13:
Azure Marketplace 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the Azure Marketplace
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Marketplace
- Microsoft Learn: Azure Marketplace
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure Marketplace
- Skills Learned
Describe some of the solutions available on Azure
- Episode 14: Azure IoT Services | IoT Hub, IoT Central, Azure Sphere 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the benefits and usage of Internet of Things (IoT) Hub, IoT Central, and Azure Sphere
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Manage IoT devices as an IT admin
- Microsoft Azure: Azure IoT Hub
- Microsoft Azure: Azure IoT Central
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Marketplace
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure IoT Hub
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure IoT Central
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure Sphere
- Skills Learned
- Episode 15: Azure Big Data and Analytics Services | Synapse Analytics (SQL Datawarehouse), HDInsight & Databricks
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- Skills Learned
- Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, and Azure Databricks
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Synapse Analytics
- Microsoft Azure: Azure HDInsight
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Databricks
- 🌐 Wikipedia: Big Data
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure Synapse Analytics
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure HDInsight
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure Databricks
- 🌐 Apache Spark Homepage: Overview
- Azure Databricks Tutorial | Data transformations at scale
- Skills Learned
- Episode 16: Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services | Machine Learning Studio and Service 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Artificial Intelligence (AI) and products that are available for AI such as Azure Machine Learning Service and Studio
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: Machine Learning
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: What is Azure Machine Learning?
- Microsoft Documentation: What is Azure Machine Learning studio?
- Microsoft Learn: Introduction to AI
- Skills Learned
- Episode 17: Azure Serverless Computing Services | Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe Serverless computing and Azure products that are available for serverless computing such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: Functions
- Microsoft Azure: Logic Apps
- Microsoft Azure: Event Grid
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: Functions
- Microsoft Documentation: Logic Apps
- Microsoft Documentation: Event Grid
- Azure Logic Apps Tutorial
- Azure Function Apps Tutorial | Introduction for serverless programming
- Azure Event Grid Tutorial
- Skills Learned
- Episode 18: Azure DevOps Solutions | Azure DevOps, DevTest Labs 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe DevOps solutions available on Azure such as Azure DevOps and Azure DevTest Labs
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Azure: DevOps Overview
- Microsoft Azure: DevTest Labs Overview
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure DevOps
- Microsoft Documentation: DevTest Labs
- Skills Learned
Describe Azure management tools
Module 3
🔷 Describe Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust (25-30%)
Describe securing network connectivity in Azure
Describe core Azure Identity services
- Episode 25: Azure Identity Services | Identity, Authentication, Authorization & Azure AD
🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the difference between authentication and authorization
- Describe Azure Active Directory
- Describe Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Identity and access
- Microsoft Azure: Azure AD Overview
- 🌐 Wikipedia Authentication
- 🌐 Wikipedia Authorization
- 🌐 Wikipedia Identity
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Azure Active Directory (AD, AAD) Tutorial | Identity and Access Management Service
- Microsoft Learn: Getting Started with Microsoft Identity
- Microsoft Documentation: Azure AD
- Skills Learned
Describe security tools and features of Azure
Describe Azure governance features
Describe privacy and compliance resources
- Episode 34: Core tenets of Security, Privacy, and
Compliance 🔗
- Skills Learned
- Describe the purpose of the Microsoft Privacy Statement, Online Services Terms (OST) and Data Protection Amendment (DPA)
- Describe the purpose of the Trust Center
- Describe the purpose of the Azure compliance documentation
- Describe the purpose of Azure Sovereign Regions (Azure Government cloud services and Azure China cloud services)
- Episode Resources
- 📚 Study cheat sheet
- 🧠 Practice Test
- Study Guide
- Microsoft Learn: Examine privacy, compliance, and data protection standards on Azure
- Microsoft Learn: Explore compliance terms and requirements
- Microsoft Learn: Access the Microsoft Privacy Statement, the Online Services Terms, and the Data Protection Addendum
- Microsoft Learn: Access Azure compliance documentation
- Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Government?
- Microsoft Learn: What is Azure China 21Vianet?
- Expand your knowledge - extra resources
- Microsoft Privacy Statement
- Online Services Terms (OST)
- Data Protection Amendment (DPA)
- Trust Center
- Azure Government
- Skills Learned
Module 4
Describe Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (10-15%)
Describe methods for planning and managing costs
Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and service lifecycles
Adam Marczak
Programmer, architect, trainer, blogger, evangelist are just a few of my titles. What I really am, is a passionate technology enthusiast. I take great pleasure in learning new technologies and finding ways in which this can aid people every day. My latest passion is running an Azure 4 Everyone YouTube channel, where I show that Azure really is for everyone!