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Management & Governance

Domain 3 · 30–35% of the AZ-900 exam

Keeping Azure under control: cost, compliance, policy, the tools you deploy and manage with, and how you monitor what is running.

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Lessons in this module

  1. 1 Factors That Affect Azure Costs The factors that affect Azure costs explained: resource type, consumption, region, bandwidth, maintenance and more, with tips and AZ-900 practice.
  2. 2 Pricing Calculator The Azure pricing calculator explained: estimating the cost of Azure services before you deploy, with steps, tips, examples and AZ-900 practice.
  3. 3 Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) · beyond the exam Total cost of ownership explained: comparing on-premises and Azure costs with the TCO calculator and Azure Migrate business case. Beyond the exam.
  4. 4 Microsoft Cost Management Microsoft Cost Management explained: cost analysis, budgets, alerts and recommendations to track and control Azure spending, with AZ-900 practice.
  5. 5 Resource Tags Azure resource tags explained: name-value labels for cost reporting, ownership, automation and governance, with examples, a lab and AZ-900 practice.
  6. 6 Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview explained: discovering, classifying and governing data across on-premises, multi-cloud and SaaS, with AZ-900 practice.
  7. 7 Azure Policy Azure Policy explained: definitions, initiatives, effects like deny and audit, remediation and compliance, with an animation, examples and AZ-900 practice.
  8. 8 Resource Locks Azure resource locks explained: Delete and ReadOnly locks, inheritance, how they override permissions, with a hands-on lab and AZ-900 practice.
  9. 9 Azure Portal The Azure portal explained: the web console to build, manage and monitor Azure, with dashboards, Cloud Shell access, a hands-on lab and AZ-900 practice.
  10. 10 Cloud Shell, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell compared: command-line tools for managing Azure, with examples, a simulator lab and AZ-900 practice.
  11. 11 Azure Arc Azure Arc explained: managing servers, Kubernetes and data services outside Azure (on-premises, edge, other clouds) with Azure tools, plus AZ-900 practice.
  12. 12 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Infrastructure as code explained: defining Azure resources in files with Bicep, ARM templates and Terraform, declarative vs imperative, with AZ-900 practice.
  13. 13 Azure Resource Manager and ARM Templates Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates explained: the deployment and management layer for every Azure request, its benefits and declarative JSON templates.
  14. 14 Azure Advisor Azure Advisor explained: personalised recommendations for reliability, security, performance, operations and cost, with examples and AZ-900 practice.
  15. 15 Azure Service Health and Azure Status Azure Service Health explained: Azure status, Service Health and Resource Health, with alerts for outages and maintenance, examples and AZ-900 practice.
  16. 16 Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Alerts and Application Insights Azure Monitor explained: metrics and logs, Log Analytics with KQL, alerts with action groups and Application Insights, with AZ-900 practice.
  17. 17 SLAs and the Service Lifecycle · beyond the exam Azure SLAs and the service lifecycle explained: uptime percentages, service credits, composite SLAs, preview vs general availability. Beyond the exam.