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Azure Fundamentals Practice Test

What each cloud model and Azure service is for, with the Microsoft Learn page behind every answer.

Demand jumps, and three more virtual machines are added beside the two already running. What is this called?

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Describe cloud concepts 17

  • A company runs some workloads with one public cloud provider and the rest with another. What is this arrangement called? Microsoft Learn training: Define cloud models
  • A company underestimates the capacity its own datacenter needs. What follows? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the consumption-based model
  • A company uses a hosted email service, a managed database and its own virtual machines. Across all three, what always stays the company's job? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the shared responsibility model
  • A company wants to move its servers to the cloud as they are and keep control of each operating system. Which service type fits? Microsoft Learn training: Describe Infrastructure as a Service
  • A hospital keeps records in its own private cloud and adds public cloud capacity for a few busy weeks each winter. Which cloud model is this? Microsoft Learn training: Define cloud models
  • A team installs a SQL database on an Azure virtual machine it created. Who applies the database patches? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the shared responsibility model
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Describe cloud concepts, continued

  • An app needs more processing power, so an administrator adds CPUs and RAM to its one virtual machine. What kind of scaling is this? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
  • Demand jumps, and three more virtual machines are added beside the two already running. What is this called? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
  • How is spending on cloud services classified, given that you pay for them as you consume them? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the consumption-based model
  • In which service type does the provider maintain the operating systems and middleware while you bring the application code and data? Microsoft Learn training: Describe Platform as a Service
  • What does "serverless" mean for a team that builds on Azure Functions? Microsoft Learn: Azure Functions Overview
  • Where does Azure state the uptime it guarantees for a service? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
  • Which cloud benefit is a system's ability to recover after a failure and keep functioning? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud
  • Which cloud model is an environment that one entity alone uses? Microsoft Learn training: Define cloud models
  • Which service type is the least flexible but the easiest to get up and running? Microsoft Learn training: Describe Software as a Service
  • Which statement is true of a public cloud but not of a private cloud? Microsoft Learn training: Define cloud models
  • Working with cloud resources through a web portal, a command line, APIs or PowerShell is an example of what? Microsoft Learn training: Describe the benefits of manageability in the cloud

Describe Azure architecture and services 24

  • A branch office needs an encrypted tunnel to an Azure virtual network over the public internet. Which service is built for this? Microsoft Learn: About Azure VPN Gateway
  • A company has 40 subscriptions and wants one policy to reach them all. Which level of the hierarchy sits above subscriptions? Microsoft Learn: Organize your resources with management groups
  • A developer wants to run one container for a short job without setting up any virtual machine. Which service does Microsoft call the fastest and simplest way? Microsoft Learn: Serverless containers in Azure
  • A file server on premises is nearly full. Which service keeps the full share in Azure Files and caches only the most used files on the server? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure File Sync?
  • A rule says: if a user opens the payroll app, then the user must complete multifactor authentication. Which service applies rules of this kind? Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Entra Conditional Access: Zero Trust Policy Engine
  • A studio must move many terabytes of video into Azure and its internet link is slow. Which service ships a storage device to the studio? Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Azure Data Box overview
  • An administrator deletes a resource group that holds a web app and a database. What happens to the two resources? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Resource Manager?
  • An Azure role assignment is made of a security principal, a role definition and what third element? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)?
  • An older application needs domain join, Group Policy and LDAP. Which service supplies them without domain controllers for the company to run? Microsoft Learn: Overview of Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • How does Azure treat planned system updates in a region pair? Microsoft Learn: Azure region pairs and nonpaired regions
  • In how many resource groups can a single Azure resource exist at one time? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Resource Manager?
  • In Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication, which kind of factor is a fingerprint scan? Microsoft Learn: Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication overview
  • In the defense-in-depth model, which layer filters out large-scale attacks with distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection? Microsoft Learn training: Describe defense-in-depth
  • Staff need a full Windows 11 desktop that runs in Azure and opens from any device. Which service provides it? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
  • Two virtual networks are peered. How does traffic travel between them? Microsoft Learn: Azure Virtual Network Peering
  • What does a Virtual Machine Scale Set do as demand for an application rises and falls? Microsoft Learn: Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets overview
  • What does an Azure geography represent? Microsoft Learn: What are Azure regions?
  • What is a private endpoint? Microsoft Learn: What is a private endpoint?
  • What is the largest number of fault domains one availability set can have? Microsoft Learn: Availability sets overview
  • What separates one availability zone from another in the same region? Microsoft Learn: What are Azure Availability Zones?
  • Which Azure Storage service is a messaging store for reliable messages between application components? Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Azure Storage
  • Which blob access tier is an offline tier? Microsoft Learn: Access tiers for blob data
  • Which redundancy option keeps every copy of the data in a single physical datacenter? Microsoft Learn: Data redundancy
  • Which statement describes an ExpressRoute connection? Microsoft Learn: Azure ExpressRoute Overview: Connect over a private connection

Describe Azure management and governance 19

  • A company knows it will run the same database for years. Which Azure offer lowers the cost in return for a one-year or three-year commitment? Microsoft Learn training: Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure
  • A company runs servers in its own datacenter and in another provider's cloud. Which service lets it manage them through Azure Resource Manager? Microsoft Learn: Azure Arc overview
  • A company wants every new resource checked against its own rules, with a dashboard of what does not comply. Which service does this? Microsoft Learn: Overview of Azure Policy
  • A finance lead wants a warning when a subscription's spending passes a set amount. Which tool sends alerts for budgets? Microsoft Learn: Overview of Cost Management
  • A ReadOnly lock is placed on a resource group. A storage account is added to the group a week later. Is the new account locked? Microsoft Learn: Lock your Azure resources to protect your infrastructure
  • A resource group carries the tag Department: Finance. A virtual machine is then created inside it. Which tags does the virtual machine have? Microsoft Learn: Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy
  • In Azure Monitor, what does an alert start when the conditions of its alert rule are met? Microsoft Learn: Overview of Azure Monitor alerts
  • In Azure Policy, what is a policy initiative? Microsoft Learn: Overview of Azure Policy
  • One virtual machine stops responding and its owner wants to know whether Azure is the cause. Which part of Azure Service Health reports on an individual resource? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Service Health?
  • The same ARM template is deployed five times to one resource group. What does "idempotent" say about the result? Microsoft Learn: Templates overview
  • What does the Azure pricing calculator produce? Microsoft Learn training: Explore the pricing calculator
  • What is Azure Cloud Shell? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Cloud Shell?
  • What is Bicep? Microsoft Learn: What is Bicep?
  • Which feature of Azure Monitor offers application performance monitoring for live web applications? Microsoft Learn: Azure Monitor overview
  • Which file format is an ARM template written in? Microsoft Learn: Templates overview
  • Which lock lets authorized users read and modify a resource but not delete it? Microsoft Learn: Lock your Azure resources to protect your infrastructure
  • Which Microsoft product is a set of solutions for governing, protecting and managing an organization's data wherever it lives? Microsoft Learn: Learn about Microsoft Purview
  • Which part of Azure Service Health is a global view of all Azure services across all regions? Microsoft Learn: What is Azure Service Health?
  • Which service analyzes your resource configuration and usage, then recommends ways to improve cost, performance, reliability and security? Microsoft Learn: Introduction to Azure Advisor

How this list was compiled: Own questions, written to the three skill areas and weightings of the study guide Microsoft publishes for Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/resources/study-guides/az-900 (read 2026-10-10; skills measured as of July 20, 2026), with the exam time from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/azure-fundamentals/ (read 2026-10-10). Facts were read on 2026-10-10 in Microsoft's public pages at learn.microsoft.com. Each question names the page it was written from and links to it. Licence: Own work. Every question, wrong choice and explanation was written for this site from the skills listed in the study guide and the public Microsoft Learn pages named in each question. Nothing is copied or reworded from a Microsoft exam, Microsoft's Practice Assessment, a practice product or a question dump.

How it works

This unofficial Azure Fundamentals practice test asks 60 of our own questions across the three skill areas of exam AZ-900. It is not affiliated with Microsoft Corporation, and no question comes from the real exam.

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What exam AZ-900 measures

Microsoft's study guide, read on October 10, 2026, lists the skills measured as of July 20, 2026: cloud concepts 25 to 30 percent, Azure architecture and services 35 to 40, and management and governance 30 to 35. The certification page allows 45 minutes. This bank holds 17, 24 and 19 questions on the three areas.

What is not asked here

Prices, limits that change often and preview features are left out. Each question has one right answer of four. The real exam may use other question types, and Microsoft does not name them in advance.

  • IaaS leaves the most work to you and SaaS the least. Your data, devices and identities stay yours in every model.
  • A resource does not inherit the tags of its resource group. It does inherit the locks.
  • The archive tier is offline: reading a blob back takes hours.

Questions and answers

How many questions are on the AZ-900 exam?

Microsoft publishes no fixed number. Its exam duration page says most certification exams contain 40 to 60 questions and that the count can change. Exam mode here draws 40 questions on a 45-minute clock.

What is the passing score for AZ-900?

700 on a scale of 1 to 1,000. Microsoft's scoring page calls it a scaled score that may not equal 70 percent of the points, so this page shows percent right and no pass or fail.

Which Azure practice test should a beginner start with?

This one. The AZ-900 study guide calls the exam a common starting point on the way to an Azure career. The administrator exam, AZ-104, expects experience with the portal, PowerShell and the Azure CLI, and has its own test on this site.

Is there an AZ-900 practice test PDF?

Yes. Print lays out a question sheet, with an answer key if you ask for one, and Save as PDF in the print window keeps it as a file. All of it is free, with no account.

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