Azure Management and Governance¶
This domain currently represents 30–35% of the AZ-900 exam. It covers the tools used to understand cost, govern configuration, deploy consistently, manage hybrid resources, and observe Azure environments.
Lessons¶
- Cost factors and the Azure Pricing Calculator
- Microsoft Cost Management, budgets, and Cost Analysis
- Tags and cost organization
- Microsoft Purview
- Azure Policy and policy initiatives
- Resource locks
- Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell
- Azure Arc
- Infrastructure as code, ARM templates, and Bicep
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Service Health
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, and Application Insights
- Exam cheat sheet
- Practice quiz
- Answer key
High-value comparisons¶
| Requirement | Likely answer |
|---|---|
| Estimate a design before deployment | Azure Pricing Calculator |
| Analyze actual cloud spending | Microsoft Cost Management / Cost Analysis |
| Notify at a financial target | Budget alert |
| Add business context for cost reporting | Tags |
| Discover, classify, and trace data | Microsoft Purview |
| Who may perform an action | Azure RBAC |
| What configuration is allowed or required | Azure Policy |
| Group several policies | Policy initiative |
| Prevent accidental change or deletion | Resource lock |
| Terminal in a browser | Azure Cloud Shell |
| Extend Azure governance outside Azure | Azure Arc |
| Repeatable declarative deployment | ARM template or Bicep |
| Recommendations for cost, reliability, security, and performance | Azure Advisor |
| Azure platform incidents affecting you | Azure Service Health |
| Metrics, logs, alerts, and app telemetry | Azure Monitor |
Recommended study approach¶
For every lesson, answer four questions:
- What problem does the service solve?
- At what scope does it operate?
- What limitation or exam trap matters most?
- Which neighboring service is the closest distractor?
The lesson list follows the official AZ-900 skills measured.