My Experience in learning for the AZ-900 Exam (Earlier this month).

Turns out, my university (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson) has a program within their business school called “Bootcamps”. As part of that program (targetted for business students), they also offer Microsoft Certifications for about a third of the original price.

So obviously, it was time to schedule an exam ASAP. At this point, I was still in September, and I had to plan around my midterms. I figured that midterms wouldn’t start before our reading week, so I picked the earliest date: October 7th.

This left me with about…. 3 weeks to study for my first certification ever, so I took it seriously. The content was divided into 3 parts:

• Cloud Concepts
• Azure Architecture/Services
• Azure Management / Government

The first part, Cloud Concepts, focused primarily on the key terms and definitions one uses to describe cloud services. It was fairly short, so doable in an hour or so. The second part, Azure Architecture/Services, was much longer, and covered most of what the Azure platform has to offer. The final part, Azure Management/Government felt the longest to me, and covered the more boring parts of the cloud platform like compliance and security.

After making my notes for each part, I decided to export them to html and host them on this blog statically, so that people can use them when they want to try for their certification. Fair warning, though, this isn’t zero-to-hero in one document, as it is mainly bullet-point based. The cool thing about the AZ-900 certification is that it doesn’t have to be renewed, and so I don’t have to worry about it expiring without my knowledge.