AZ900 Study Guides
Skip the 200 page ebook - use these instead
Hello, Hoodies!
Most AZ-900 study materials are bloated, overwhelming, or written like corporate documentation.
You don’t need that — and the exam doesn’t test that.
What works best (and what dozens of students have already used to pass in the last few weeks) is something much simpler:
👉 A tight set of four synthesized lecture notes — one for each AZ-900 module — distilled from the actual Speedrun curriculum.
These aren’t 200-page eBooks.
They’re clean, structured, exam-ready summaries of exactly what you need to know.
Nothing extra. Nothing hidden. Nothing academic.
Just the stuff that makes Azure finally “click.”
This is straight from our AZ900 Speedrun in our Skool Community that has already helped several get certified, including 2 in the past 2 days!
Below is an overview of what each lecture note covers.
1️⃣ Cloud Fundamentals & Core Concepts
This guide breaks down the real foundations of cloud computing in a way Azure’s documentation never does. It’s the fastest way to make sense of the exam’s early conceptual questions.
Inside you’ll find:
Cloud benefits: high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, elasticity, agility
NIST cloud characteristics (on-demand, broad access, pooling, elasticity, measured service)
CapEx vs OpEx — the real mental model the exam tests
Shared responsibility model
Deployment models (Public, Private, Hybrid)
IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS vs Serverless — with the exact comparisons the exam uses
This is the “vocabulary of the cloud” section — once you get this, Azure stops being confusing.
2️⃣ Azure Architecture & Core Services
This is the essential Azure overview — the part that teaches you how Azure actually fits together.
Contents include:
Regions, Region Pairs, Sovereign Clouds
Availability Zones and redundancy SLAs
The Azure hierarchy (Management Groups → Subscriptions → Resource Groups → Resources)
Compute models: VMs, App Service, Functions
Networking essentials: VNets, NSGs (preview), VPN Gateway vs ExpressRoute
Storage fundamentals: LRS vs ZRS vs GRS vs GZRS
Blob/File/Queue/Table storage — with exam-relevant scenarios
Database options: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
This is where people normally get lost with Azure’s terminology — the synthesized notes eliminate all that noise.
3️⃣ Azure Security, Identity, and Access Management
Identity is the #1 most important topic on the exam — and this guide makes it simple.
You’ll learn:
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) fundamentals
Authentication vs Authorization (AuthN vs AuthZ)
RBAC roles, scopes, and role assignments
Zero Trust principles
Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Microsoft Sentinel
Network security (NSGs, Azure Firewall, WAF)
Data encryption (transit, at rest, CMK)
Defense-in-depth layered model
Governance & compliance fundamentals
This guide clarifies nearly every “tricky wording” Microsoft likes to use in security questions.
4️⃣ Governance, Monitoring & Cost Management
This is where AZ-900 ties everything together — governance, policies, monitoring, automation, and cost.
Inside:
Azure Policy (definitions, initiatives, assignments, effects)
Management Groups for large org structures
Resource tags, locks, blueprints
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights
Cost Analysis, Budgets, and Azure Advisor
ARM templates, Bicep, CLI, PowerShell, Cloud Shell
Purview and enterprise data governance
This is the lecture note that turns Azure from a bunch of services into a well-governed system — exactly how Microsoft wants exam-takers to think.
🎯 Final Thought
You don’t need endless videos.
You don’t need massive PDFs.
You definitely don’t need to memorize every Azure service under the sun.
You need clarity.
You need structure.
You need the right information; distilled and organized.
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Sign up in our FREE skool community in the courses tab!
That’s all for now!
Cheers,
Evan Lutz (BowTiedCyber)