Study Azure AZ-900 Management and Governance: key concepts, common traps, and exam decision cues.
This chapter closes AZ-900 by focusing on how Azure gets governed, deployed, monitored, and controlled at a broad platform level. These questions often look similar because they all involve “management,” but the correct answer depends on whether the real task is cost, policy, resource deployment, or operational visibility.
Microsoft currently weights Azure management and governance at 30-35% of the exam.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 3.1 Cost Management & Tags | Learn cost drivers, pricing calculator logic, cost-management capabilities, and the purpose of tags. |
| 3.2 Governance, Compliance & Resource Protection | Learn Azure Policy, Microsoft Purview, and resource locks. |
| 3.3 Managing & Deploying Azure Resources | Learn the portal, Cloud Shell, CLI, PowerShell, ARM, ARM templates, IaC, and Azure Arc. |
| 3.4 Monitoring Tools & Operational Visibility | Learn Azure Advisor, Service Health, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, and Application Insights. |
| Failure pattern | Better instinct |
|---|---|
| mixing RBAC with Policy and locks | remember this chapter is mostly about control and administration, not identity alone |
| using Azure Monitor when the stem is about platform incidents | separate telemetry from service-health awareness |
| answering with Cloud Shell, CLI, or PowerShell when the stem is really about IaC or ARM | classify interactive tooling versus declarative deployment |
| treating tags as enforcement | tags organize and report; Policy enforces |