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AZ-900 practice test: 4 free Azure Fundamentals questions with explanations

Microsoft’s AZ-900 gives you 45 minutes and you pass at 700 or above on a scale to 1,000. It covers cloud concepts at 25–30%, Azure architecture and services at 35–40%, and Azure management and governance at 30–35%. There are no prerequisites, and Microsoft states its Fundamentals certifications do not expire. It publishes no question count.

Formally the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (Exam AZ-900). Awarding body: Microsoft. Neuron Trainer is an independent study app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the organization that owns this exam.

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AZ-900 at a glance, with the source for every line

Every row below is quoted from a document published by Microsoft and carries the date we checked it. Where Microsoft publishes nothing, the row says so instead of quoting a number from somewhere else.

Time limit
45 minutes.Source: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026
Passing score
700 or greater, on a scale to 1,000.Source: Microsoft Learn, Exam AZ-900 study guide, verified 7 August 2026
How long it lasts
It does not expire. Microsoft Fundamentals certifications have no renewal requirement.Source: Microsoft Learn, certification renewal, verified 7 August 2026
Prerequisites
None. Microsoft describes the audience as technology professionals wanting to demonstrate foundational cloud knowledge, and suggests some experience with infrastructure, database or software work.Source: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026
If you fail
You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. Waiting periods increase for subsequent retakes.Source: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026
Skills measured as of
20 July 2026.Source: Microsoft Learn, Exam AZ-900 study guide, verified 7 August 2026
Cost
Microsoft publishes no single figure. Its AZ-900 page states: “Price based on the country or region in which the exam is proctored.” You see yours at booking.Source: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026
PL-300 renewal frequency, for comparison
Microsoft publishes a renewal frequency of 12 months for PL-300, its Power BI Data Analyst Associate certification.Source: Microsoft Learn, Power BI Data Analyst Associate, verified 7 August 2026
Question count
Not published by Microsoft. Microsoft does not publish a question count for AZ-900. It publishes the 45-minute duration and the skills measured, and the number of items varies between forms.Checked against: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026
Pass rate
Not published by Microsoft. Microsoft does not publish a pass rate for any of its certification exams.Checked against: Microsoft Learn, Azure Fundamentals, verified 7 August 2026

Always verify: Microsoft updates the AZ-900 skills measured periodically and prices the exam by the country it is proctored in. Confirm the current study guide and your price at learn.microsoft.com before you book.

What Microsoft publishes as the official AZ-900 blueprint

These weights are Microsoft's, quoted from the source below. They are the only weights on this page that describe the real exam.

Published by Microsoft and verified on 7 August 2026.
AreaWeight Microsoft publishes
Describe cloud concepts25–30%
Describe Azure architecture and services35–40%
Describe Azure management and governance30–35%

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Source: Microsoft Learn, Exam AZ-900 study guide, verified 7 August 2026.

What our AZ-900 question bank covers

What this app's question bank covers — our own category shares across 1,126 questions, not Microsoft's published blueprint.
CategoryQuestions in our bankShare of our bank
Cloud Concepts
Cloud computing benefits, deployment models (public/private/hybrid), service models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), and CapEx vs OpEx - 25–30% of exam
31327.8%
Azure Architecture & Services
Regions, availability zones, resource groups, subscriptions, compute, networking, storage, identity, and core Azure services - 35–40% of exam
39234.8%
Azure Management & Governance
Cost management, Azure Policy, Blueprints, governance tools, monitoring (Azure Monitor, Service Health, Advisor), and Trust Center - 30–35% of exam
42137.4%

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4 questions from our AZ-900 bank

Questions from our AZ-900 bank, covering all three skills-measured areas, with a full explanation on each.

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  1. Question 1 of 4

    A compliance officer needs to access audit reports, compliance documentation, and penetration testing results specific to Azure services. Which resource should they use?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: Service Trust Portal

    Service Trust Portal (STP) is the Microsoft resource for accessing audit reports (ISO, SOC, FedRAMP), compliance documentation, penetration test results, and security assessments specific to Azure and other Microsoft cloud services. It requires authentication and provides detailed technical documents. Microsoft Trust Center is a public-facing website with high-level information about Microsoft's approach to security and compliance, but does not provide downloadable audit reports (incorrect). Azure Compliance Manager (part of Microsoft Purview) helps organizations track compliance posture and manage assessments, but the actual audit reports and pen test results are in STP (incorrect). Azure Policy compliance dashboard shows policy adherence for deployed resources, not third-party audit reports (incorrect). The exam commonly tests the distinction between Trust Center (marketing/public) and Service Trust Portal (technical/audits).

  2. Question 2 of 4

    An Azure Policy is assigned at the management group level with the effect 'Deny' for a specific resource type. A second policy is assigned at the subscription level with the effect 'Audit' for the same resource type. A user attempts to deploy the resource. What is the result?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: The deployment is blocked because 'Deny' policies take precedence over 'Audit' policies

    Azure Policy evaluates all applicable policies across scopes (management group, subscription, resource group). When multiple policies target the same resource, the most restrictive effect wins. 'Deny' blocks deployment entirely, while 'Audit' only logs non-compliance. Since the management group 'Deny' policy applies to all child subscriptions, it blocks the deployment regardless of the subscription-level 'Audit' policy. Subscription-level policies do NOT override parent scope policies—policies are additive (incorrect). The deployment cannot succeed if a Deny policy is in effect (incorrect). No interactive prompt exists; policy evaluation is automatic (incorrect). This highlights a key principle: Deny > Audit in precedence, and parent scopes' policies apply to all children.

  3. Question 3 of 4

    A company transitioning from on-premises to Azure expects all cloud costs to be operational expenditure (OpEx). However, they discover that certain cloud expenses are still treated as capital expenditure (CapEx) on their balance sheet. Which scenario would MOST likely result in CapEx treatment?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: Purchasing 3-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances with a large upfront payment

    Reserved Instances with significant upfront payment (especially multi-year commitments) are often capitalized on balance sheets because they represent prepaid capacity with long-term value, similar to purchasing equipment. This is an important nuance in cloud economics—while cloud *typically* shifts spending to OpEx, large prepaid commitments may still receive CapEx accounting treatment depending on the organization's accounting policies and the payment structure. Standard pay-as-you-go services (choices B, C, and D) are straightforward OpEx because they're billed monthly based on consumption with no upfront capital outlay or long-term asset creation. The AZ-900 exam acknowledges that while cloud generally enables OpEx models, large upfront reserved capacity purchases can blur the line and may still involve CapEx accounting depending on company policy and payment terms.

  4. Question 4 of 4

    A global enterprise has a management group hierarchy: Root > Finance Dept > Project-Alpha subscription. An Azure Policy at Root denies creation of resources in Southeast Asia. The Finance Dept management group has a policy allowing all regions. An administrator in Project-Alpha attempts to create a storage account in Southeast Asia. What happens?
    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: The storage account creation fails because policies at higher scopes take precedence

    Azure Policy evaluation combines all policies in the hierarchy, and deny-effect policies from higher scopes (Root) cannot be overridden by lower-scope policies. The Southeast Asia restriction from Root applies to all child scopes, including Finance Dept and Project-Alpha. The Finance Dept policy allowing all regions has no effect—you cannot use a lower-level policy to grant what a higher-level policy denies. Choice A fundamentally misunderstands policy inheritance. Choice C would apply to audit-effect policies, but location restrictions typically use deny effect. Choice D is incorrect because deny policies block at creation time without warnings. This hierarchical enforcement model is critical for enterprise governance—root-level policies establish immutable guardrails.

What actually trips people up on AZ-900

Trust Center and Service Trust Portal are different things

The Microsoft Trust Center is the public marketing site describing Microsoft’s approach to security and compliance. The Service Trust Portal is the authenticated place where you download actual audit reports, ISO and SOC certificates and penetration test results. The exam tests exactly this distinction, and it is the one most people get wrong.

Deny always beats Audit, and parents always beat children

Azure Policy is additive and the most restrictive effect wins. A Deny at the management group level cannot be overridden by an Allow or an Audit at the subscription below it. There is no "the closer scope wins" rule, and no prompt asking which policy to apply.

The management and governance domain is a third of the exam

At 30–35% it rivals architecture and services. Cost management, tags, Azure Policy, resource locks, Azure Arc, ARM templates, Advisor, Service Health and Monitor. It is a list of tools and what each one is for, and it is very learnable.

Cloud does not always mean OpEx

The exam acknowledges that a large upfront reserved-instance purchase can still land as capital expenditure depending on the organization’s accounting policy. If a question mentions a multi-year commitment with a big prepayment, the tidy "cloud is always OpEx" answer is the trap.

Know the hierarchy, in order

Management groups contain subscriptions, subscriptions contain resource groups, resource groups contain resources. Regions, region pairs, availability zones and datacenters are a separate axis. Questions routinely combine both, and getting the containment order wrong makes several answers look plausible.

A 3-week study plan

Three weeks is plenty for a 45-minute fundamentals exam. Our AZ-900 bank holds 1,126 questions, second only to A+ in our Tech family, so there is plenty to drill without repeats.

Week 1: cloud concepts

The 25–30% domain. Service models and when each fits, public, private and hybrid deployment, the shared responsibility model, consumption-based pricing and serverless. Get the vocabulary exact, because later questions assume it.

Week 2: Azure architecture and services

The 35–40% band on Microsoft’s blueprint, the largest of the three. The management group, subscription and resource group hierarchy, regions, region pairs and availability zones, then compute, networking, storage and Microsoft Entra ID. Focus on which service does which job.

Week 3: management and governance, then simulate

Cover the 30–35% governance domain in full: cost management and tags, Azure Policy and its effect precedence, resource locks, Arc, ARM templates, Advisor, Service Health and Monitor. Then sit timed 45-minute simulations until pace is comfortable and your per-domain breakdown is even.

Is AZ-900 hard?

AZ-900 is a foundational exam and it is the shortest here at 45 minutes. It is not designed to fail people who have studied. The bar is 700 on a scale to 1,000, and there are no prerequisites at all.

Where it catches people is service naming. Trust Center or Service Trust Portal, Azure Policy or Azure Blueprints, Advisor or Service Health: the answers hinge on knowing which specific Azure product does the described job, and the distractors are all real Azure products. General cloud knowledge does not carry you through that.

One more wrinkle: Microsoft publishes the weightings as ranges, 25–30%, 35–40% and 30–35%, rather than fixed numbers, so the mix genuinely shifts between exam forms. It does not publish a question count either, only the 45-minute duration, so the number of items moves between forms too. You cannot pace yourself against a known total the way you can on a CompTIA paper, and you cannot bank on architecture carrying a fixed share of any given form. Microsoft publishes no pass rate for any of its exams.

Our bank of 1,126 questions is the second largest in our tech slice, behind A+, and 622 of those are rated difficulty 3 or 4, with Azure management and governance carrying the most at 421 questions.

How the AZ-900 differs from the exams beside it

AZ-900 is the shortest exam in our Tech family at 45 minutes, and one of only two here that never expire, alongside Tech+ in its FC0-U71 form: Microsoft Fundamentals certifications carry no renewal requirement, while Microsoft publishes a 12-month renewal frequency for Associate certifications like PL-300. Microsoft publishes its blueprint as ranges rather than fixed percentages, which means the exact mix shifts between forms. Compared with AWS Cloud Practitioner it leans harder on governance tooling, and the questions are noticeably more about which Azure service you would pick than about cloud theory.

Questions people actually ask about the AZ-900

How long is the AZ-900 exam?

45 minutes. Microsoft publishes the duration but not a question count, so the number of items varies between exam forms.

What score do you need to pass AZ-900?

700 or greater, on a scale to 1,000. Microsoft uses that same threshold across its certification exams, and it is a scaled score rather than a raw percentage.

Does AZ-900 expire?

No. Microsoft states that Fundamentals certifications do not expire. Its Associate, Expert and Specialty certifications expire annually and renew through a free online assessment.

Is AZ-900 worth taking if you already use Azure?

It is a foundational credential aimed at demonstrating breadth, not depth. If you already build on Azure daily, the governance and cost-management tooling is usually the part worth revising; the compute and storage material will be familiar.

Do you need experience before AZ-900?

No prerequisites. Microsoft suggests some background in infrastructure, database or software work, which is guidance rather than a requirement.

What happens if you fail AZ-900?

You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. Waiting periods lengthen for later retakes, and each attempt needs a new booking.

How long should you study for AZ-900?

Three weeks is plenty: one week on cloud concepts and vocabulary, one on architecture and which service does which job, one on management and governance plus timed runs. If you already build on Azure daily, a single focused week on the governance tooling usually closes the gap.

Are these real AZ-900 exam questions?

No. The 1,126 AZ-900 questions are ours, written from Microsoft’s published skills-measured list. We do not reproduce live items: Microsoft’s exam agreement prohibits it and breaking it can cost you the certification. Each explanation names the Azure service and says what it is actually for.

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The app

The AZ-900 app is still in development

The AZ-900 app carries 1,126 questions, our second largest tech bank, across the three skills-measured areas, each with a full written explanation. It includes Smart Quiz, Topic Drill, a fixed-length 50-question Exam Simulator on a 45-minute clock matching Microsoft’s exam length, and an AI tutor configured for Azure material. It is not on the App Store yet.

  • Smart Quiz — keeps returning to the categories you keep missing
  • Topic Drill — one category at a time, on its own
  • Exam Simulator — a fixed-length timed paper (50 questions in 45 minutes, as this app sets it). It does not get harder as you go; the length and the mix are fixed.
  • AI tutor — re-explains any question in plain English
  • Progress tracking, reported per category
  • Study reminders
  • Light and dark themes

The app calls you ready at 70% on its own simulator. That is an in-app practice target we chose, not Microsoft's passing standard.

Not on the App Store yet. This one is still in development, so there is nothing to download today. The practice questions above are the whole of what we can give you right now, and they are free and complete. See where it sits in the queue, or browse the apps that are live.

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Sources, and when we last checked them

This page was last reviewed on . The 8 facts quoted above were last checked against their sources on . Where Microsoft publishes nothing, the table above says so rather than guessing.

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