You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Azure Fundamentals
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification validates foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and core Azure services. It is ideal for technology professionals seeking to demonstrate their understanding of Azure management and governance features. This certification is a stepping stone for a career in Azure.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration45 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions394
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AZ-900 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
3domains
11objectives
106concepts
US $99exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification demonstrates your foundational understanding of cloud concepts and core Azure services. It is designed for technology professionals who want to validate their knowledge of Azure management and governance features.
This certification serves as a common starting point for those pursuing a career in Azure. It covers essential topics such as Azure architectural components, core services, and tools for securing and administering Azure environments.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for technology professionals who want to demonstrate foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure. It is suitable for individuals starting their journey towards a career in Azure. Candidates should have experience in IT areas such as infrastructure management, database management, or software development.
Recommended experience
Experience in IT areas such as infrastructure management, database management, or software development is recommended. Working with infrastructure management; Database management; Software development
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Describe cloud concepts
- Describe cloud computing
- Describe the benefits of using cloud services
- Describe cloud service types
Describe Azure architecture and services
- Describe the core architectural components of Azure
- Describe Azure compute and networking services
- Describe Azure storage services
- Describe Azure identity, access, and security
Describe Azure management and governance
- Describe cost management in Azure
- Describe features and tools in Azure for governance and compliance
- Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources
- Describe monitoring tools in Azure
Read the first domain, then find out where you stand
Create an account and the book opens for four hours. Every idea is explained in plain language with a picture drawn for it, and at the end you answer questions with the page closed — so what you score is what you really know, not what you just read.
Create an account and start No card to start. After four hours you decide whether to add AZ-900 — and the free questions on this page stay free either way.On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeAZ-900
CertificationAzure Fundamentals
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration45 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Spanish, German, French, Indonesian (Indonesia), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian
PricingUS $99
Certification levelFundamentals
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Fundamentals level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew eligible Certifications annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
If I fail AZ-900, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the Azure Fundamentals credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as cloud administrator, cloud architect, and cloud engineer.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
Yes. Earning a higher-level Microsoft certification can renew this credential without taking the AZ-900 renewal assessment.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 394 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
3domains
11objectives
106concepts
83free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Describe cloud concepts114 questions
2Describe Azure architecture and services157 questions
3Describe Azure management and governance123 questions
Describe cost management in Azure4 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Describe features and tools in Azure for governance and compliance7 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources9 concepts · 9 pagesOpen →Describe monitoring tools in Azure8 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Describe cloud computing9 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
43 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
394 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
394questions
83pages
11objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Describe cloud concepts114 questions
2Describe Azure architecture and services157 questions
3Describe Azure management and governance123 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
When free questions are not enough
A question bank tells you what you got wrong. It does not teach you the idea, and it does not tell you what to do tonight. That is what the book and the coach are for.
Create an account and start Four hours free, no card. These 394 questions stay free either way.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
106concepts
394free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Create an account and start Four hours free, no card. The 394 questions on this page stay free either way.
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
106concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 11 objectives, 106 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
11objectives on the outline→106concepts written→394free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.
Create an account and start Four hours free, no card. The 394 questions on this page stay free either way.
When free questions are not enough
Three things, and they work together
Every concept in the exam, written in plain language, with a picture drawn for the ideas that need one.
See how the visuals workIntelligent Quiz
Answer with the book open and it helps you learn. Answer with it closed and it counts.
Your coach
TonightNothing due yet.
Your coach Pip reads what you have actually answered and picks one thing — sized to the time you have, not to a syllabus.
Create an account and start Four hours free, no card. The questions on this page stay free either way.