Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

No. Microsoft Learn access during the exam is offered on role-based exams, not on Fundamentals exams, and you may not use notes, phones or other devices. Study the tables in the cheat sheet rather than planning to look things up.

You have 45 minutes of exam time (about 65 minutes of seat time, which includes instructions and comments). Microsoft does not publish the question count or the question types; most Microsoft exams have 40–60 questions, and this course's mock exams use 45. Some items are unscored.

700 on a scale of 1 to 1000. It is a scaled score, not a percentage, so you cannot compute it exactly from the number of correct answers. Aim for 80% on the mock exams to leave a margin.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals is a Fundamentals certification, and the course materials state that Fundamentals certifications do not expire and need no renewal. Confirm on the certification page if this matters to you, as policies can change.

The three domains keep their weights (25–30%, 35–40%, 30–35%). Microsoft's change log marks the compute and networking, managing and deploying, and monitoring areas as minor changes and everything else as no change. This course is aligned to the July 20, 2026 list.

Either is allowed. Online (Pearson VUE OnVUE) is convenient but needs a private walled room, a clear desk, a stable network, an ID that matches your profile name, recording and facial comparison. If you do not want those, or your network is unreliable, schedule a test center.

No, but hands-on practice helps. The labs use an Azure free account ($200 credit for 30 days, selected services free for 12 months, always-free services). Delete resource groups afterwards and set a budget alert; VMs, gateways, public IPs and Defender plans can cost money.

RBAC decides who can perform actions, Policy decides what properties resources may have, and a lock stops delete or change regardless of role. An Owner can be stopped by a Deny policy or by a lock, and a Reader can never be granted extra power by a policy.

The exam uses current names (Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Local), but older documentation, tools and some third-party material use the old ones. The Renamed features page lists the pairs so you recognise either.

In proportion to the weights: about 28% on cloud concepts, 38% on architecture and services and 33% on management and governance. Spend the extra time on section 2 because it is the widest, and drill the look-alike tools in section 3.