AZ -900 Azure Fundamentals - Passed

Passed Azure Fundamentals AZ-900

Passing Score: 837ish (can't really remember), passing is 700

Exam version AZ-900 Proctored

Desire: Was looking to get into cloud security for Azure and then AWS. I wanted a good foundation on Azure before diving into AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate.

Study time: 1 month

Materials:

Azure fundamentals Free Online Training (online training modules)

week 1, 9 hrs, free on microsoft

OpenEdx - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (CBT)

week 2, 8 hrs, free on microsoft & contains practice questions

Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 1st Edition (Kindle)

This book was good. A little overly detailed and the author goes into other topics to show how things interelate. Conatins a lot of extra reading not necessary for the exam. For example we seem to go 20 pages deep into AI and thed different types of AI. I believe I could have passed the test without this book. However, after reading it once. I plan on going over a few chapters or concepts as he had very good thigns to say. If you have the time you can read this before your exam.

week3, 1 week to read, $22 kindle format on amazon

Udemy - AZ-900 Azure Exam Prep: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (CBT)

very good CBT, contains 50 practice questions as well!

week 4, 4hrs, $10 Udemy Sale, $20 non sale

Udemy - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - Practice Tests (Questions)

This was a gold mine. Helped me perfect my theories of the topics. Has good explanations when you miss questions or the concept. It is not perfect by any means, but I feel this helped me pass the exam. **Please verify when the course was last updated, if you are reading this long after I posted this. You do not want to buy this course if it hasn't been updated in over a year or two**

week 4, 8 hrs, 3 practice tests each with 54 questions, $10 Udemy Sale, $89 non sale (just wait for this to get on sale)

Test date: At this point I finished all the materials mentioned above, and was scoring 90%-100% on the practice tests. Not just memorizing the questions but the concepts and why the other answers were incorrect, which the Udemy Practice Tests does a great job at.

Next: AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer Associate. 365 & AWS in 2020

Conclusion: Just last month I was not very familiar with the azure portal, its compute resources, support and pricing structure, & other technological offers. I honestly never really cared, but the reality is that soon, everything will be hybrid, and later everything will be cloud based, including security.

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Comments

advanex1

Congrats. Thanks for the good write up.

JoJoCal19

Congrats on the pass! I may have to look into this so I can become more rounded as I've been more heavily into AWS.

deltzy

Do you think one could pass by just going through the "Azure fundamentals Free Online Training" first link you posted?

I've got this booked in this month and it seems like it's going to be fairly easy, maybe I'm underestimating it. I'm playing around with Azure as it is.

chrisone

deltzy said:

Do you think one could pass by just going through the "Azure fundamentals Free Online Training" first link you posted?

I've got this booked in this month and it seems like it's going to be fairly easy, maybe I'm underestimating it. I'm playing around with Azure as it is.

If you are under pressure and trying to take it within 2-3 weeks, you definitely want some form of practice questions.

Bare minimum:
Azure fundamentals free online training from Microsoft.
Udemy CBT (reinforce your online training from the Microsoft training above, $20 investment, c'mon

) Plus you get 50 practice questions. Those 50 questions I am not entirely sure will suffice.
Practice test questions is a must. Whether you get it from Udemy ($89) or Microsoft's store $99 (which I heard wasn't that good.)However you get your practice questions, its a must.

Honestly, although it is entry level, its not a bogus test anyone without reading or spending a few hours studying can just walk in and pass. Even with my attempt there were a few questions I checked for review and I spent more than 5 minutes on just thinking about the answer. Some questions were worded a certain way that got me second guessing. So if you do zero practice test questions, you may have a hard time.

Goodluck!

deltzy

I'm glad you gave me the heads up! There was me thinking I was going to sail through without much work. Better start studying

averageguy72

Congrats!

De_Rabbit

Great job! Do you recommend this before going for the AZ-103?

deltzy

I also passed this exam last week, just used the material on the Microsoft site and the Udemy practice questions. I have to say the Udemy practice tests was REALLY helpful for the exam so thank you for the recommendation.

Got this done in about 2-3 weeks, not that difficult.

chrisone

Congrats on the pass! Yeah the exam isn’t difficult, 2-4 week journey at best.

yoba222

Thanks for sharing. Have you done any AWS training yet by any chance? I might take a similar path, but I'm doing AWS right now and worry about confusing the two platforms; kind of like what learning Spanish and French at the same time might be.

E Double U

Thanks for sharing! My employer is moving a lot of workloads away from AWS to Azure so I will go for AZ-900 just because they will pay for it. I'm going through the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals online material at the moment. It seems very simple.

chrisone

yoba222 said:

Thanks for sharing. Have you done any AWS training yet by any chance? I might take a similar path, but I'm doing AWS right now and worry about confusing the two platforms; kind of like what learning Spanish and French at the same time might be.

Hey yoba, I haven’t done any AWS training. I have plans to do so for late 2020 or early 2021. I want to clear out any azure training first.

JugglingReferee

I made a playlist of all the videos in the Open edX course found in OP above.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC1bDj5njRdV-wWtcPXOw869aRJleY_1T

bigdogz

@chrisone Congratulations!!!

Thanks for the post. I think I may hit this Microsoft Azure stuff early next year.

jmarkg7

@JugglingReferee Thank you for the video playlist..AZ-900 then AZ-500 are my next certification goals. Any suggestions for AZ-500 training would be greatly appreciated.

soccarplayer29

@chrisone Great post and a ton of helpful information in your detailed write-up

I just passed the AZ-900 exam and would like to +1 the recommendation on the udemy practice tests that I added to my studying based on this thread. The detailed questions and explanations there were very valuable and helped identify a few areas to review prior to the exam.

My main study source was the Edx course (and the linked youtube videos by @JugglingReferee) but I wouldn't recommend that. It was only text based presentation along with essentially detailed PDFs with all the good stuff including the walkthroughs of the Azure portal and services. There are better CBT trainings that combine the text and demos/walkthroughs and I'd recommend using those as the primary study materials.

I'm onto AZ-500 next which builds off the same knowledge base and will create a thread on that if I remember since there isn't a lot of material out there on that one.

srothman

Congrats!

chrisone

@soccarplayer29 great job and congrats! I was studying for the AZ-500 since November. With the holidays and I just started my two week vacation, I won’t be able to take the exam until I come back. Once I get back I’ll take another 4 weeks to practice all the topics again and take the exam mid February.

chrisone

Brain Dp are not condone on this site bud.

E Double U

@chrisone - To his/her credit, at least hanoyef pasted a link to brain d**mps instead of requesting them like I've seen so many times. He/She wants to contribute

@hanoyef - Thanks for the offer, but keep in mind that your suggestion is not the only road to success. The free material from Microsoft has been suitable for most.

nisti2

Congrats!

E Double U

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DatabaseHead

Favorite types of posts. Thanks for sharing!