Section 2: Understand Core Azure Services

Understand core Azure services (30-35%)

Below you will find helpful links to Microsoft docs and blogs which will enhance your learning and understanding around the AZ-900 topics covered. The topics align with subjects found in each module of the Skylines Academy AZ-900 course as well as the Microsoft Skills Measured Curriculum.

Understand the core Azure architectural components

• AZ-900: Azure Regions

• Azure regions 

• Regions and Availability Zones in Azure

• Azure Availability Zones 

• Azure Resource Manager 

• What is Azure Resource Manager?

• Create resource groups and resources at the subscription level 

Describe some of the core products available in Azure

• Choose an Azure compute service for your application

• Virtual Machines 

• Windows virtual machines in Azure

• What are virtual machine scale sets? 

• App Service 

• App Service Documentation 

• Web Apps 

• An introduction to Azure Functions 

• Functions

• What is Azure Virtual Network?

• Azure Virtual Network frequently asked questions (FAQ) 

• What is Azure Load Balancer? 

• VPN Gateway 

• VPN Gateway FAQ 

• Application Gateway 

• What is Azure Application Gateway? 

• Content Delivery Network 

• What is a content delivery network on Azure? 

• Blob Storage 

• Introduction to Azure Blob storage 

• Introduction to Azure Storage 

• Disk Storage 

• Introduction to Azure Managed Disks 

• What is Azure Files? 

• Azure File Storage, now generally available 

• Azure Archive Storage 

• Azure Blob storage: hot, cool, and archive access tiers 

• Azure Cosmos DB 

• Azure Cosmos DB Documentation 

• The Azure SQL Database service 

• What is the Azure SQL Database service?

• Azure Database Migration Service 

• What is the Azure Database Migration Service? 

• What is Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW)? 

• Microsoft commercial marketplace publisher frequently asked questions

• Azure solutions 

• What is Azure Internet of Things (IoT)? 

• Azure IoT 

• What is Azure IoT Hub? 

• What is Azure IoT Central?

• Big data and analytics 

• Analytics 

• Azure Stream Analytics 

• What is Azure HDInsight and the Apache Hadoop technology stack 

• What is Apache Hadoop in Azure HDInsight?

• What is Azure Data Lake Analytics? 

• What is Artificial Intelligence? 

• What is Azure Machine Learning service? 

• What is Azure Machine Learning Studio? 

• Azure Machine Learning

• Serverless computing 

• What is serverless computing? 

• An introduction to Azure Functions 

• Overview - What is Azure Logic Apps? 

Understand Azure management tools

• Management and governance 

• Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) 

• Get started with Azure CLI

• Azure Portal 

• Overview of Azure PowerShell 

• Azure Advisor 

• Introduction to Azure Advisor 

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