Microsoft Azure fundamentals, cloud architecture, and scalable infrastructure for modern businesses.
Key cloud computing concepts and Azure services covered in my AZ-900 preparation.
Public, private, and hybrid cloud. Differences between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Shared responsibility model.
Provisioning VMs, VM scaling sets, availability zones, and cost optimisation through reserved instances.
Blob, Queue, Table, and File storage. Redundancy options (LRS, GRS, ZRS) and storage access tiers.
Virtual Networks (VNet), subnets, NSGs, Azure Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute.
Azure Active Directory, MFA, RBAC, Azure Defender, Key Vault, and the Zero Trust security model.
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Advisor, Cost Management, and Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
App Service, Azure Functions, Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) fundamentals.
Azure Policy, Blueprints, Management Groups, and compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC).
Azure pricing calculator, TCO analysis, consumption vs reserved models, and Azure SLA commitments.
The official Microsoft AZ-900 exam covers five content domains, each with a weighted percentage of the total score.
Benefits of cloud services, cloud service types, and deployment models.
Core components, compute, networking, storage, and identity services.
Cost management, governance, compliance, monitoring, and tooling.
Zero Trust model, AAD, MFA, RBAC, and Azure Defender for Cloud.
My CCNA background gives me a deep understanding of how data physically moves across networks — which makes me uniquely effective in cloud roles where virtual networking mirrors physical concepts.
VNets, subnets, NSGs, and routing in Azure are simply abstractions of the same TCP/IP and VLAN concepts I already know cold. This dual expertise lets me bridge the gap between on-premises infrastructure and cloud migrations with confidence.
Looking for someone who understands the full stack from hardware to cloud? Let's talk.