Microsoft Azure Fundamentals(AZ-900)
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals(AZ-900) Practice Questions are designed for candidates looking to demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. The exam is intended for candidates with non-technical backgrounds, such as those involved in selling or purchasing cloud based solutions and services, or who have some involvement with cloud based solutions and services, as well as those with a technical background who have a need to validate their foundational-level knowledge around cloud services. Technical IT experience is not required, however, some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial.
Set · 2026-10
A legacy application requires a custom guest operating-system configuration and administrative access to that operating system. Which service model is the best fit?
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Original English AZ-900 study questions covering cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and management and governance. Expanded with scenario-based explanations and Microsoft Learn references reviewed against the July 20, 2026 skills outline. Independent practice, not official exam questions, a full exam simulation or a score predictor.
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A legacy application requires a custom guest operating-system configuration and administrative access to that operating system. Which service model is the best fit?
A development team wants to deploy its own web application while the provider maintains the runtime and underlying operating system. Which service model fits?
A business wants a ready-to-use online collaboration application instead of developing and hosting its own. Which service model is the closest match?
A company wants to move an existing server workload to the cloud with minimal application redesign while retaining OS control. Which option best fits?
An administrator must deploy resources from a laptop without using a graphical interface. Which cloud management approach supports this?
A team replaces a self-managed email server with a hosted email application. Which operational task normally shifts to the SaaS provider?
A company chooses an Azure region for a new workload. What is it choosing?
A team deploys an application in an Azure region that has a region pair. What should it confirm before relying on cross-region recovery?
An organization uses management groups, subscriptions and resource groups. Which ordering correctly follows the hierarchy from broader to narrower scope?
A web tier needs a centrally managed group of VM instances whose count can increase or decrease with load. Which Azure capability fits?
A team wants redundant VMs distributed across fault domains and update domains within a datacenter deployment. Which capability addresses that requirement?
A developer packages an application and its dependencies into an image that can run as lightweight isolated instances sharing a host OS kernel. What is being described?
A support team needs centrally hosted Windows desktops that staff can access from different devices. Which service is intended for this?
Two Azure virtual networks need private IP connectivity over Microsoft's backbone without a VPN gateway. Which capability should the team evaluate?
A company requires a provider-based private connection from its datacenter to Microsoft cloud services rather than transport over the public internet. Which service fits?
A team needs a supported Azure service reachable through a private IP address from its virtual network. Which resource provides that interface?
Several application servers need a managed file share that they can mount by using SMB. Which Azure Storage service is the closest fit?
A company keeps rarely accessed backup blobs for long-term retention and accepts hours of retrieval delay. Which access tier best matches that pattern?
A storage account must replicate data synchronously across availability zones in its primary region without a secondary-region copy. Which redundancy option fits?
A storage account uses geo-redundant storage. Why might its secondary region not contain the most recent writes after an unrecoverable primary-region failure?