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
week 2, 8 hrs, free on microsoft & contains practice questions
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
very good CBT, contains 50 practice questions as well!
week 4, 4hrs, $10 Udemy Sale, $20 non sale
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.
Certs: CISSP, EnCE, OSCP, CRTP, eCTHPv2, eCPPT, eCIR, LFCS, CEH, SPLK-1002, SC-200, SC-300, AZ-900, AZ-500, VHL:Advanced+
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
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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.
In Progress: CCSP, AZ-500
Bare minimum:
Azure fundamentals free online training from Microsoft.
Udemy CBT (reinforce your online training from the Microsoft training above, $20 investment, c'mon
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!
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
In Progress: CCSP, AZ-500
Got this done in about 2-3 weeks, not that difficult.
In Progress: CCSP, AZ-500
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
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In progress: OSCP
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
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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.
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
2023 Cert Goals: SC-100, eCPTX
@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.
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