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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) practice exam and study path

A free, timed 50-question AZ-900 practice exam in 45 minutes, scored by domain, with every option explained after you submit. Also 94 practice questions you can check one at a time, a page for every task in the exam guide, and a study path. No sign-up.

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Azure Fundamentals exam pack:

$4.99for 12 months

The entry-level Azure exam: cloud concepts and service types, how Azure is organized, its core compute, networking, storage and identity services, and the tools that manage cost, governance, deployment and monitoring.

The exam

Exam code
AZ-900
Questions
Not yet published
Time
45 minutes
Passing score
700 of 1,000 (scaled)
Exam fee
$99 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response

Exam AZ-900 is a proctored fundamentals exam: 45 minutes of exam time, offered in 13 languages, it may include interactive components, and 700 passes. Microsoft doesn't publish the number of questions (most of its exams have 40 to 60). The fee is set by the country or region (USD 99 in the United States). Fundamentals certifications don't expire, so there is no renewal. Our forms use 50 questions split 14 / 19 / 17, close to the midpoints of the guide's ranges.

From Microsoft's certification page and exam guide, checked Oct 22, 2026.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Describe cloud concepts

    28%

  • Domain 2: Describe Azure architecture and services

    38%

  • Domain 3: Describe Azure management and governance

    34%

Practice

94 original practice questions, every option explained with the Microsoft documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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The lessons, the sample questions on every task page and the first full practice exam are free and stay free. A pack adds the further timed AZ-900 practice exams.

Azure Fundamentals exam pack

$4.99for 12 months

  • Every paid AZ-900 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes within your 12 months
  • 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself.
  • 14-day refund, no conditions
  • 14-day refund, no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back.
  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the Microsoft documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Describe cloud concepts

    1. 1What cloud computing is, and the shared responsibility modelTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    2. 2Public, private, hybrid and multicloud: which model fits which caseTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 3The consumption-based model and pricing: pay-as-you-go, reservations, savings plans and spotTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

    4. 4Serverless: code that runs on events and bills per executionTask 1.1

      Partly covered by: Lambda & Event-Driven Design

    5. 5High availability and scalability: SLAs, scaling up and scaling outTask 1.2

      Partly covered by: Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling, Load Balancing

    6. 6Reliability and predictability, security and governance, manageabilityTask 1.2

      Lesson coming

    7. 7IaaS, PaaS and SaaS: who manages what, and which workloads fit eachTask 1.3

      Lesson coming

  2. Module 2: Describe Azure architecture and services

    1. 8Regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, availability zones and datacentersTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 9Resources, resource groups, subscriptions and management groupsTask 2.1

      Partly covered by: Organizations, SCPs & Control Tower

    3. 10Virtual machines, scale sets, availability sets and Azure Virtual DesktopTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers

    4. 11Containers, Azure Functions and App Service: choosing where an app runsTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: Containers vs VMs, ECS vs EKS vs Fargate, Lambda & Event-Driven Design

    5. 12Virtual networks, subnets, peering, Azure DNS and public and private endpointsTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls

    6. 13Connecting on-premises networks: VPN Gateway and ExpressRouteTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: Hybrid Networking & DNS

    7. 14Storage services, storage accounts and access tiersTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: S3: Consistency, Classes, Lifecycle

    8. 15Storage redundancy: LRS, ZRS, GRS, GZRS and read accessTask 2.3

      Lesson coming

    9. 16Moving files and migrating: AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync, Azure Migrate and Data BoxTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: Moving Data Into AWS, Migration: The 7 Rs, TCO & Waves

    10. 17Microsoft Entra ID, Domain Services and external identitiesTask 2.4

      Lesson coming

    11. 18Sign-in methods and Conditional Access: SSO, MFA and passwordlessTask 2.4

      Lesson coming

    12. 19Azure RBAC and least privilegeTask 2.4

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    13. 20Zero Trust, defense in depth and Microsoft Defender for CloudTask 2.4

      Lesson coming

  3. Module 3: Describe Azure management and governance

    1. 21What drives Azure costs, and estimating with the pricing calculatorTask 3.1

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

    2. 22Cost Management, budgets and tagsTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 23Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy and resource locksTask 3.2

      Partly covered by: Organizations, SCPs & Control Tower

    4. 24The Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShellTask 3.3

      Lesson coming

    5. 25Azure Arc for resources outside AzureTask 3.3

      Lesson coming

    6. 26Infrastructure as code with Azure Resource Manager, ARM templates and BicepTask 3.3

      Lesson coming

    7. 27Azure Advisor and Azure Service HealthTask 3.4

      Lesson coming

    8. 28Azure Monitor: Log Analytics, alerts and Application InsightsTask 3.4

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray, Observability Basics

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Describe cloud concepts

Domain 2: Describe Azure architecture and services

Domain 3: Describe Azure management and governance

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the Microsoft documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the Microsoft page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of Microsoft's scaled score.

Questions about the AZ-900 practice exam

Is the AZ-900 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (50 questions, 45 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 94 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
50 questions in 45 minutes: the real AZ-900 pace, scaled to this form. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the Microsoft documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the Azure Fundamentals exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 50 questions, 45 minutes; Practice exam 2: 50 questions, 45 minutes; Practice exam 3: 50 questions, 45 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam if it changes within your 12 months. 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, with no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back. The details are in the terms.
Is this an official Microsoft practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Microsoft. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the Microsoft documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. Microsoft lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.