MC Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals - Exam AZ-900, 2nd Edition by Jim Boyce (Sybex Study Guide)

MC Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals - Exam AZ-900, 2nd Edition by Jim Boyce (Sybex Study Guide)

Title: MC Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide: Exam AZ-900, 2nd Edition​

Author: Jim (James) Boyce; Publisher: Sybex (Wiley)​

Publication: November 2025

Length: ~256–288 pages


What it covers

Cloud concepts and models: public/private/hybrid, IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS, shared responsibility, global infrastructure, and regions/zones mapped to typical AZ‑900 scenarios.​


Core Azure services: compute (VMs, App Services, Functions), storage (Blob, Disk, Files), networking (VNets, VPN/ExpressRoute), databases (Azure SQL), and management tools (Portal, CLI, ARM/Bicep basics).​


Security, identity, governance: Azure AD/Microsoft Entra ID concepts, RBAC, network security groups, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Security Center, and governance via Policy, Blueprints, and cost management.​


Pricing and SLAs: subscriptions, resource groups, cost calculators, total cost of ownership (TCO), service-level agreements, and lifecycle basics for services and updates.