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This video provides a comprehensive review course for the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam (2024 edition). It aims to help viewers prepare and pass the exam in under a day by covering all exam syllabus topics and highlighting key Azure service characteristics. The course includes supplementary resources like a PDF presentation and a practice quiz.
Exam Structure and Expectations: The AZ-900 exam is a fundamentals-level certification, focusing on conceptual knowledge rather than hands-on skills. It comprises three domains: Cloud Concepts, Azure Architecture and Services, and Azure Management and Governance. The exam is approximately 60 minutes long and consists of 40-60 multiple-choice questions.
Cloud Concepts: The video explains cloud computing definitions, shared responsibility models, cloud service types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), cloud models (public, private, hybrid), and serverless architecture. Key terms like "stateless," "ephemeral," and "triggered" are highlighted in relation to serverless computing.
Azure Architecture and Services: The course details Azure's core architectural components (regions, region pairs, availability zones, data centers, resource groups, subscriptions, management groups), compute services (virtual machines, VM scale sets, availability sets, Azure virtual desktop, Azure container instances, Azure Kubernetes Service), and networking services (virtual networks, subnets, VPN Gateway, VNet peering, ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, private and public endpoints). Security concepts like4. Azure Management and Governance: The video covers cost management (pricing calculator, total cost of ownership calculator, Azure Cost Management, reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing), governance tools (Azure Policy, initiatives, blueprints, resource locks), and monitoring tools (Azure Advisor, Azure Monitor, Azure Monitor alerts, Application Insights, Azure Service Health). The importance of tagging resources for cost tracking and policy enforcement is emphasized.
Azure Identity, Access, and Security: The video explains authentication methods (single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, passwordless authentication), external identities (B2B, B2C), conditional access, role-based access control (RBAC), zero trust security model, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
The shared responsibility model in cloud computing outlines the division of security responsibilities between the cloud service provider (CSP) and the customer. On-premises, the customer is 100% responsible for everything. As the cloud model shifts from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) and then Software as a Service (SaaS), the CSP assumes progressively more responsibility for security.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): The CSP is responsible for the underlying infrastructure (physical hardware, data centers, network security, etc.). The customer is responsible for the operating systems, applications, data, and security configurations within those systems.
PaaS (Platform as a Service): The CSP handles the infrastructure and the platform (operating system, runtime environment, middleware). The customer is responsible for their applications and data, along with certain security configurations related to the applications themselves.
SaaS (Software as a Service): The CSP manages the infrastructure, platform, and application. The customer's responsibility is primarily limited to user and data management, and potentially some access controls. The CSP handles the vast majority of the security concerns.
