Try it yourself
Azure Practice Labs
A safe, simulated Azure portal and Cloud Shell right in your browser. Click through real-looking screens, type real Azure CLI commands, and learn by doing.
- ✅ No Azure account
- ✅ No credit card
- ✅ Nothing to install
- ✅ Zero cost, zero risk
Azure Cloud Shell (practice)
learner@Azure:~$ az group create -n rg-learn -l westeurope
{ "name": "rg-learn", "location": "westeurope",
"properties": { "provisioningState": "Succeeded" } }
learner@Azure:~$ az vm create -g rg-learn -n web01 --image Ubuntu2204
{ "powerState": "VM running", "publicIpAddress": "20.61.8.42" }
learner@Azure:~$ ▌
Guided labs
Lab 1 · Beginner · ⏱ 5 min · 🖥️ Portal
Your first resource group
Every Azure resource lives in a resource group: a folder for things that belong together. Create one, label it with a tag, and find it again.
Lab 2 · Beginner · ⏱ 10 min · 🖥️ Portal
Launch a VM and save money
Create a virtual machine (IaaS), discover the extra resources Azure creates for it, then stop it and watch the cost meter drop. That is the consumption model in action.
Lab 3 · Beginner · ⏱ 8 min · 🖥️ Portal
Storage accounts and redundancy
Storage account names have strict rules, and redundancy decides how many copies of your data exist and where. Break the rules on purpose, then do it right.
Lab 4 · Beginner · ⏱ 7 min · 🖥️ Portal
Protect resources with locks
Production resources should never be deleted by accident. Add a delete lock, watch it block even an admin, then remove it properly.
Lab 5 · Intermediate · ⏱ 10 min · ⌨️ Cloud Shell
Cloud Shell: deploy a web app
Real cloud engineers script everything. Use the Azure CLI in Cloud Shell to create a PaaS web app, then see it appear in the portal.
Lab 6 · Intermediate · ⏱ 8 min · ⌨️ Cloud Shell
Black Friday: scale out and in
Your shop expects a huge sale. Use a Virtual Machine Scale Set to add servers for the rush, then remove them to stop paying. Watch the cost meter.
Free sandbox
No tasks, no rules. Create anything, break anything, and explore the portal and Cloud Shell freely. Nothing here costs real money.
Ready for the real thing?
The simulator teaches the ideas and the clicks. When you want to try real Azure, Microsoft Learn's free AZ-900 training modules include hands-on exercises. Explore Microsoft Learn.