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Went through the entire CloudAcademy course. Most of the info went out the other ear. Got a 67% on their final exam. Took the ExamPro free exam, got 69%.
Was going to take it last Saturday, but I bought TutorialDojo’s exams on Udemy. Did one Friday night, got a 50% and rescheduled it a week later to today Sunday.
Took 4 total TD exams. Got a 50%, 54%, 67%, and 64%. Even up until last night I hated the TD exams with a passion, I thought they were covering way too much stuff that didn’t even pop up in study guides I read. Their wording for some problems were also atrocious. But looking back, the bulk of my “studying” was going through their pretty well written explanations, and their links to the white papers allowed me to know what and where to read.
Not sure what score I got yet on the exam. As someone who always hated testing, I’m pretty proud of myself. I also had to take a dump really bad starting at around question 25. Thanks to TutorialsDojo Jon Bonso for completely destroying my confidence before the exam, forcing me to up my game. It’s better to walk in way over prepared than underprepared.
Just Passed My CCP exam today (within 2 weeks)
I would like to thank this community for recommendations about exam preparation. It was wayyyy easier than I expected (also way easier than TD practice exams scenario-based questions-a lot less wordy on real exam). I felt so unready before the exam that I rescheduled the exam twice. Quick tip: if you have limited time to prepare for this exam, I would recommend scheduling the exam beforehand so that you don’t procrastinate fully.
-Stephane’s course on Udemy (I have seen people saying to skip hands-on videos but I found them extremely helpful to understand most of the concepts-so try to not skip those hands-on)
-Tutorials Dojo practice exams (I did only 3.5 practice tests out of 5 and already got 8-10 EXACTLY worded questions on my real exam)
-Very little to no experience (deployed my group’s app to cloud via Elastic beanstalk in college-had 0 clue at the time about what I was doing-had clear guidelines)
Preparation duration: -2 weeks (honestly watched videos for 12 days and then went over summary and practice tests on the last two days)
I used Stephane Maarek on Udemy. Purchased his course and the 6 Practice Exams. Also got Neal Davis’ 500 practice questions on Udemy. I took Stephane’s class over 2 days, then spent the next 2 weeks going over the tests (3~4 per day) till I was constantly getting over 80% – passed my exam with a 882.
What an adventure, I’ve never really gieven though to getting a cert until one day it just dawned on me that it’s one of the few resources that are globally accepted. So you can approach any company and basically prove you know what’s up on AWS 😀
Passed with two weeks of prep (after work and weekends)
This was just a nice structured presentation that also gives you the powerpoint slides plus cheatsheets and a nice overview of what is said in each video lecture.
Udemy – AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Exams, created by Jon Bonso**, Tutorials Dojo**
These are some good prep exams, they ask the questions in a way that actually make you think about the related AWS Service. With only a few “Bullshit! That was asked in a confusing way” questions that popped up.
Pass AWS CCP. The score is beyond expected
I took CCP 2 days ago and got the pass notification right after submitting the answers. In about the next 3 hours I got an email from Credly for the badge. This morning I got an official email from AWS congratulating me on passing, the score is much higher than I expected. I took Stephane Maarek’s CCP course and his 6 demo exams, then Neal Davis’ 500 questions also. On all the demo exams, I took 1 fail and all passes with about 700-800. But in the real exam, I got 860. The questions in the real exam are kind of less verbose IMO, but I don’t truly agree with some people I see on this sub saying that they are easier. Just a little bit of sharing, now I’ll find something to continue ^^
Passed the exam! Spent 25 minutes answering all the questions. Another 10 to review. I might come back and update this post with my actual score.
Background
– A year of experience working with AWS (e.g., EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, and Amplify).
– Cloud development on AWS is not my strong suit. I just Google everything, so my knowledge is very spotty. Less so now since I studied for this exam.
Study stats
– Spent three weeks studying for the exam.
– Studied an hour to two every day.
– Solved 800-1000 practice questions.
– Took 450 screenshots of practice questions and technology/service descriptions as reference notes to quickly swift through on my phone and computer for review. Screenshots were of questions that I either didn’t know, knew but was iffy on, or those I believed I’d easily forget.
– Made 15-20 pages of notes. Chill. Nothing crazy. This is on A4 paper. Free-form note taking. With big diagrams. Around 60-80 words per page.
– I was getting low-to-mid 70%s on Neal Davis’s and Stephane Maarek’s practice exams. Highest score I got was an 80%.
– I got a 67(?)% on one of Stephane Maarek’s exams. The only sub-70% I ever got on any practice test. I got slightly anxious. But given how much harder Maarek’s exams are compared to the actual exam, the anxiety was undue.
– Finishing the practice exams on time was never a problem for me. I would finish all of them comfortably within 35 minutes.
Resources used
– AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials on the AWS Training and Certification Portal
– AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Practice Tests (Book) by Neal Davis
– 6 Practice Exams | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C01 by Stephane Maarek*
– Certified Cloud Practitioner Course by Exam Pro (Paid Version)**
– One or two free practice exams found by a quick Google search
*Regarding Exam Pro: I went through about 40% of the video lectures. I went through all the videos in the first few sections but felt that watching the lectures was too slow and laborious even at 1.5-2x speed. (The creator, for the most part, reads off of the slides, adding brief comments here and there.) So, I decided to only watch the video lectures for sections I didn’t have a good grasp on. (I believe the video lectures provided in the course are just split versions of the full length course available for free on YouTube under the freeCodeCamp channel, here.) The online course provides five practice exams. I did not take any of them.
**Regarding Stephane Maarek: I only took his practice exams. I did not take his study guide course.
– My study regimen (i.e., an hour to two every day for three weeks) was overkill.
– The questions on the practice exams created by Neal Davis and Stephane Maarek were significantly harder than those on the actual exam. I believe I could’ve passed without touching any of these resources.
– I retook one or two practice exams out of the 10+ I’ve taken. I don’t think there’s a need to retake the exams as long as you are diligent about studying the questions and underlying concepts you got wrong. I reviewed all the questions I missed on every practice exam the day before.
What would I do differently?
– Focus on practice tests only. No video lectures.
– Focus on the technologies domain. You can intuit your way through questions in the other domains.
Lots of the comments here about networking / VPC questions being prevalent are true. Also so many damn Aurora questions, it was like a presales chat.
The questions are actually quite detailed; as some had already mentioned. So pay close attention to the minute details Some questions you definitely have to flag for re-review.
It is by far harder than the Developer Associate exam, despite it having a broader scope. The DVA-C02 exam was like doing a speedrun but this felt like finishing off Sigrun on GoW. Ya gotta take your time.
I took the TJ practice exams. It somewhat helped, but having intimate knowledge of VPC and DB concepts would help more.
Passed SAA-C03 – Feedback
Just passed the SAA-C03 exam (864) and wanted to provide some feedback since that was helpful for me when I was browsing here before the exam.
I come from an IT background and have a strong knowledge in the VPC portion so that section was a breeze for me in the preparation process (I had never used AWS before this so everything else was new, but the concepts were somewhat familiar considering my background). I started my preparation about a month ago, and used the Mareek class on Udemy. Once I finished the class and reviewed my notes I moved to Mareek’s 6 practice exams (on Udemy). I wasn’t doing extremely well on the PEs (I passed on 4/6 of the exams with 70s grades) I reviewed the exam questions after each exam and moved on to the next. I also purchased Tutorial Dojo’s 6 exams set but only ended up taking one out of 6 (which I passed).
Overall the practice exams ended up being a lot harder than the real exam which had mostly the regular/base topics: a LOT of S3 stuff and storage in general, a decent amount of migration questions, only a couple questions on VPCs and no ML/AI stuff.
Sharing the study guide that I followed when I prepared for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 exam. I passed this test and thought of sharing a real exam experience in taking this challenging test.
First off: my background – I have 8 years of development.experience and been doing AWS for several project, both personally and at work. Studied for a total of 2 months. Focused on the official Exam Guide, and carefully studied the Task Statements and related AWS services.
SAA-C03 Exam Prep
For my exam prep, I bought the adrian cantrill video course, tutorialsdojo (TD) video course and practice exams. Adrian’s course is just right and highly educational but like others has said, the content is long and cover more than just the exam. Did all of the hands-on labs too and played around some machine learning services in my AWS account.
TD video course is short and a good overall summary of the topics items you’ve just learned. One TD lesson covers multiple topics so the content is highly concise. After I completed doing Adrian’s video course, I used TD’s video course as a refresher, did a couple of their hands-on labs then head on to their practice exams.
For the TD practice exams, I took the exam in chronologically and didn’t jumped back and forth until I completed all tests. I first tried all of the 7 timed-mode tests, and review every wrong ones I got on every attempt., then the 6 review-mode tests and the section/topic-based tests. I took the final-test mode roughly 3 times and this is by far one of the helpful feature of the website IMO. The final-test mode generates a unique set from all TD question bank, so every attempt is challenging for me. I also noticed that the course progress doesn’t move if I failed a specific test, so I used to retake the test that I failed.
The Actual SAA-C03 Exam
The actual AWS exam is almost the same with the ones in the TD tests where:
All of the questions are scenario-based
There are two (or more) valid solutions in the question, e.g:
Need SSL: options are ACM and self-signed URL
Need to store DB credentials: options are SSM Parameter Store and Secrets Manager
The scenarios are long-winded and asks for:
MOST Operationally efficient solution
MOST cost-effective
LEAST amount overhead
Overall, I enjoyed the exam and felt fully prepared while taking the test, thanks to Adrian and TD, but it doesn’t mean the whole darn thing is easy. You really need to put some elbow grease and keep your head lights on when preparing for this exam. Good luck to all and I hope my study guide helped out anyone who is struggling.
Another Passed SAA-C03?
Just another thread about passing the general exam? I passed SAA-C03 yesterday, would like to share my experience on how I earned the examination.
Background:
– graduate with networking background
– working experience on on-premise infrastructure automation, mainly using ansible, python, zabbix and etc.
– cloud experience, short period like 3-6 months with practice
– provisioned cloud application using terraform in azure and aws
cantrill course is depth and lot of practical knowledge, like email alias and etc.. check in to know more
tutorialdojo practice exam help me filter the answer and guide me on correct answer. If I am wrong in specific topic, I rewatch cantrill video. However, there is some topics that not covered by cantrill but the guideline/review in practice exam will provide pretty much detail. I did all the other mode before the timed-based, after that get average 850 in timed-based exam, while scoring the final practice exam with 63/65. However, real examination is harder compared to practice exam in my opinion.
udemy course and practice exam, I go through some of them but I think the practice exam is quite hard compared to tutorialdojo.
lab – just get hand dirty and they will make your knowledge deep dive in your brain, my advice is try not only to do copy and paste lab but really read the description for each parameter in aws portal
Advice:
you need to know some general exam topics like how to:
– s3 private access
– ec2 availability
– kinesis product including firehose, data stream, blabla
– iam
My next target will be AWS SAP and CKA, still searching suitable material for AWS SAP but proposed mainly using acloudguru sandbox and homelab to learn the subject, practice with acantrill lab in github.
Good luck anyone!
Passed SAA
I wanted to give my personal experience. I have a background in IT, but I have never worked in AWS previous to 5 weeks ago. I got my Cloud Practitioner in a week and SAA after another 4 weeks of studying (2-4 hours a day). I used Cantril’s Course and Tutorials Dojo Practice Exams. I highly, highly recommend this combo. I don’t think I would have passed without the practice exams, as they are quite difficult. In my opinion, they are much more difficult than the actual exam. They really hit the mark on what kind of content you will see. I got a 777, and that’s with getting 70-80%’s on the practice exams. I probably could have done better, but I had a really rough night of sleep and I came down with a cold. I was really on the struggle bus halfway through the test.
I only had a couple of questions on ML / AI, so make sure you know the differences between them all. Lot’s of S3 and EC2. You really need to know these in and out.
My company is offering stipend’s for each certification, so I’m going straight to developer next.
Recently passed SAA-C03
Just passed my SAA-C03 yesterday with 961 points. My first time doing AWS certification. I used Cantrill’s course. Went through the course materials twice, and took around 6 months to study, but that’s mostly due to my busy schedule. I found his materials very detailed and probably go beyond what you’d need for the actual exam.
I also used Stephane’s practice exams on Udemy. I’d say it’s instrumental in my passing doing these to get used to the type of questions in the actual exams and review missing knowledge. Would not have passed otherwise.
Just a heads-up, there are a few things popped up that I did not see in the course materials or practice exams:
* Lake Formation: question about pooling data from RDS and S3, as well as controlling access.
* S3 Requester Pays: question about minimizing S3 data cost when sharing with a partner.
* Pinpoint journey: question about customer replying to SMS sent-out and then storing their feedback.
Not sure if they are graded or Amazon testing out new parts.
Cheers.
Another SAP-C01-Pass
Received my notification this morning that I passed 811.
Prep Time: 10 weeks 2hrs a day
Materials: Neil Davis videos/practice exam Jon Bonso practice exams White papers Misc YouTube videos Some hands on
Prof Experience: 4 years AWS using main services as architect
AWS Certs: CCP-SSA-DVA-SAP(now)
Thoughts: Exam was way more familiar to me than the Developer Exam. I use very little AWS developer tools but mainly use core AWS services. Neil’s videos were very straightforward, easy to digest, and on point. I was able to watch most of the videos on a plane flight to Vegas.
After video series I started to hit his section based exams, main exam, notes, and followed up with some hands on. I was getting destroyed on some of the exams early on and had to rewatch and research the topics, writing notes. There is a lot of nuance and fine details on the topics, you’ll see this when you take the practice exam. These little details matter.
Bonso’s exam were nothing less than awesome as per usual. Same difficulty and quality as Neil Davis. Followed the same routine with section based followed by final exam. I believe Neil said to aim for 80’s on his final exams to sit for the exam. I’d agree because that’s where I was hitting a week before the exam (mid 80’s). Both Neil and Jon exams were on par with exam difficulty if not a shade more difficult.
The exam itself was very straightforward. My experience is the questions were not overly verbose and were straight to the point as compared to the practice exams I took. I was able to quickly narrow down the questions and make a selection. Flagged 8 questions along the way and had 30min to review all my answers. Unlike some people, I didn’t feel like it was a brain melter and actually enjoyed the challenge. Maybe I’m a sadist who knows.
Advice: Follow Neil’s plan, bone up on weak areas and be confident. These questions have a pattern based upon the domain. Doing the practice exams enough will allow you to see the pattern and then research will confirm your suspicions. You can pass this exam!
Passed the certified developer associate this week.
Primary study was Stephane Maarek’s course on Udemy.
I also used the Practice Exams by Stephane Maarek and Abhishek Singh.
I used Stephane’s course and practice exams for the Solutions Architect Associate as well, and find his course does a good job preparing you to pass the exams.
The practice exams were more challenging than the actual exam, so they are a good gauge to see if you are ready for the exam.
Haven’t decided if I’ll do another associate level certification next or try for the solutions architect professional.
I cleared Developer associate exam yesterday. I scored 873. Actual Exam Exp: More questions were focused on mainly on Lambda, API, Dynamodb, cloudfront, cognito(must know proper difference between user pool and identity pool) 3 questions I found were just for redis vs memecached (so maybe you can focus more here also to know exact use case& difference.) other topic were cloudformation, beanstalk, sts, ec2. Exam was mix of too easy and too tough for me. some questions were one liner and somewhere too long.
Resources: The main resources I used was udemy. Course of Stéphane Maarek and practice exams of Neal Davis and Stéphane Maarek. These exams proved really good and they even helped me in focusing the area which I lacked. And they are up to the level to actual exam, I found 3-4 exact same questions in actual exam(This might be just luck ! ). so I feel, the course of stephane is more than sufficient and you can trust it. I have achieved solution architect associate previously so I knew basic things, so I took around 2 weeks for preparation and revised the Stephen’s course as much as possible. Parallelly I gave the mentioned exams as well, which guided me where to focus more.
Thanks to all of you and feel free to comment/DM me, if you think I can help you in anyway for achieving the same.
Another Passed Associate Developer Exam (DVA-C01)
Already had passed the Associate Architect Exam (SA-C03) 3 months ago, so I got much more relaxed to the exam, I did the exam with Pearson Vue at home with no problems. Used Adrian Cantrill for the course together with the TD exams.
Studied 2 weeks a 1-2 hours since there is a big overlap with the associate architect couse, even tho the exam has a different approach, more focused on the Serverless side of AWS. Lots of DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, KMS, CloudFormation, SAM, SSO, Cognito (User Pool and Identity Pool), and IAM role/credentials best practices.
I do think in terms of difficulty it was a bit easier than the Associate Architect, maybe it is made up on my mind as it was my second exam so I went in a bit more relaxed.
Next step is going for the Associate Sys-Ops, I will use Adrian Cantrill and Stephane Mareek courses as it is been said that its the most difficult associate exam.
Passed the SCS-C01 Security Specialty
Mixture of Tutorial Dojo practice exams, A Cloud Guru course, Neal Davis course & exams helped a lot. Some unexpected questions caught me off guard but with educated guessing, due to the material I studied I was able to overcome them. It’s important to understand:
KMS Keys
AWS Owned Keys
AWS Managed KMS keys
Customer Managed Keys
asymmetrical
symmetrical
Imported key material
What services can use AWS Managed Keys
KMS Rotation Policies
Depending on the key matters the rotation that can be applied (if possible)
Key Policies
Grants (temporary access)
Cross-account grants
Permanent Policys
How permissions are distributed depending on the assigned principle
IAM Policy format
Principles (supported principles)
Conditions
Actions
Allow to a service (ARN or public AWS URL)
Roles
Secrets Management
Credential Rotation
Secure String types
Parameter Store
AWS Secrets Manager
Route 53
DNSSEC
DNS Logging
Network
AWS Network Firewall
AWS WAF (some questions try to trick you into thinking AWS Shield is needed instead)
AWS Shield
Security Groups (Stateful)
NACL (Stateless)
Ephemeral Ports
VPC FlowLogs
AWS Config
Rules
Remediation (custom or AWS managed)
AWS CloudTrail
AWS Organization Trails
Multi-Region Trails
Centralized S3 Bucket for multi-account log aggregation
AWS GuardDuty vs AWS Macie vs AWS Inspector vs AWS Detective vs AWS Security Hub
It gets more in depth, I’m willing to help anyone out that has questions. If you don’t mind joining my Discord to discuss amongst others to help each other out will be great. A study group community. Thanks. I had to repost because of a typo 🙁
Exam guide book by Kam Agahian and group of authors – this just got released and has all you need in a concise manual, it also included 3 practice exams, this is a must buy for future reference and covers ALL current exam topics including container networking, SD-WAN etc.
Stephane Maarek’s Udemy course – it is mostly up-to-date with the main exam topics including TGW, network firewall etc. To the point lectures with lots of hands-on demos which gives you just what you need, highly recommended as well!
Tutorial Dojos practice tests to drive it home – this helped me get an idea of the question wording, so I could train myself to read fast, pick out key words, compare similar answers and build confidence in my knowledge.
Crammed daily for 4 weeks (after work, I have a full time job + family) and went in and nailed it. I do have networking background (15+ years) and I am currently working as a cloud security engineer and I’m working with AWS daily, especially EKS, TGW, GWLB etc.
For those not from a networking background – it would definitely take longer to prep.
What an exciting journey. I think AZ-900 is the hardest probably because it is my first Microsoft certification. Afterwards, the others are fair enough. AI-900 is the easiest.
I generally used Microsoft Virtual Training Day, Cloud Ready Skills, Measureup and John Savill’s videos. Having built a fundamental knowledge of the Cloud, I am planning to do AWS CCP next. Wish me luck!
Passed Azure Fundamentals
Learning Material
Hi all,
I passed my Azure fundamentals exam a couple of days ago, with a score of 900/1000. Been meaning to take the exam for a few months but I kept putting it off for various reasons. The exam was a lot easier than I thought and easier than the official Microsoft practice exams.
Study materials;
A Cloud Guru AZ-900 fundamentals course with practice exams
I am pretty proud of this one. Databases are an area of IT where I haven’t spent a lot of time, and what time I have spent has been with SQL or MySQL with old school relational databases. NoSQL was kinda breaking my brain for a while.
Study Materials:
Microsoft Virtual Training Day, got the voucher for the free exam. I know several people on here said that was enough for them to pass the test, but that most certainly was not enough for me.
Exampro.co DP-900 course and practice test. They include virtual flashcards which I really liked.
Whizlabs.com practice tests. I also used the course to fill in gaps in my testing.
Passed AI-900! Tips & Resources Included!!
Achievement Celebration
Huge thanks to this subreddit for helping me kick start my Azure journey. I have over 2 decades of experience in IT and this is my 3rd Azure certification as I already have AZ-900 and DP-900.
Here’s the order in which I passed my AWS and Azure certifications:
SAA>DVA>SOA>DOP>SAP>CLF|AZ-900>DP-900>AI-900
I have no plans to take this certification now but had to as the free voucher is expiring in a couple of days. So I started preparing on Friday and took the exam on Sunday. But give it more time if you can.
Here’s my study plan for AZ-900 and DP-900 exams:
finish a popular video course aimed at the cert
watch John Savill’s study/exam cram
take multiple practice exams scoring in 90s
This is what I used for AI-900:
Alan Rodrigues’ video course (includes 2 practice exams) 👌
John Savill’s study cram 💪
practice exams by Scott Duffy and in 28Minutes Official 👍
knowledge checks in AI modules from MS learn docs 🙌
I also found the below notes to be extremely useful as a refresher. It can be played multiple times throughout your preparation as the exam cram part is just around 20 minutes.
Just be clear on the topics explained by the above video and you’ll pass AI-900. I advise you to watch this video at the start, middle and end of your preparation. All the best in your exam
Just passed AZ-104
Achievement Celebration
I recommend to study networking as almost all of the questions are related to this topic. Also, AAD is a big one. Lots of load balancers, VNET, NSGs.
Received very little of this:
Containers
Storage
Monitoring
I passed with a 710 but a pass is a pass haha.
Used tutorial dojos but the closest questions I found where in the Udemy testing exams.
Regards,
Passed GCP Professional Cloud Architect
First of all, I would like to start with the fact that I already have around 1 year of experience with GCP in depth, where I was working on GKE, IAM, storage and so on. I also obtained GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification back in June as well, which helps with the preparation.
I started with Dan Sullivan’s Udemy course for Professional Cloud Architect and did some refresher on the topics I was not familiar with such as BigTable, BigQuery, DataFlow and all that. His videos on the case studies helps a lot to understand what each case study scenario requires for designing the best cost-effective architecture.
In order to understand the services in depth, I also went through the GCP documentation for each service at least once. It’s quite useful for knowing the syntax of the GCP commands and some miscellaneous information.
As for practice exam, I definitely recommend Whizlabs. It helped me prepare for the areas I was weak at and helped me grasp the topics a lot faster than reading through the documentation. It will also help you understand what kind of questions will appear for the exam.
I used TutorialsDojo (Jon Bonso) for preparation for Associate Cloud Engineer before and I can attest that Whizlabs is not that good. However, Whizlabs still helps a lot in tackling the tough questions that you will come across during the examination.
One thing to note is that, there wasn’t even a single question that was similar to the ones from Whizlabs practice tests. I am saying this from the perspective of the content of the questions. I got totally different scenarios for both case study and non case study questions. Many questions focused on App Engine, Data analytics and networking. There were some Kubernetes questions based on Anthos, and cluster networking. I got a tough question regarding storage as well.
I initially thought I would fail, but I pushed on and started tackling the multiple-choices based on process of elimination using the keywords in the questions. 50 questions in 2 hours is a tough one, especially due to the lengthy questions and multiple choices. I do not know how this compares to AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam in toughness. But some people do say GCP professional is tougher than AWS.
All in all, I still recommend this certification to people who are working with GCP. It’s a tough one to crack and could be useful for future prospects. It’s a bummer that it’s only valid for 2 years.
Passed GCP: Cloud Digital Leader
Hi everyone,
First, thanks for all the posts people share. It helps me prep for my own exam. I passed the GCP: Cloud Digital Leader exam today and wanted to share a few things about my experience.
Preparation
I have access to ACloudGuru (AGU)and Udemy through work. I started one of the Udemy courses first, but it was clear the course was going beyond the scope of the Cloud Digital Leader certification. I switched over AGU and enjoyed the content a lot more. The videos were short and the instructor hit all the topics on the Google exam requirements sheet.
AGU also has three – 50 question practices test. The practice tests are harder than the actual exam (and the practice tests aren’t that hard).
I don’t know if someone could pass the test if they just watched the videos on Google Cloud’s certification site, especially if you had no experience with GCP.
Overall, I would say I spent 20 hrs preparing for the exam. I have my CISSP and I’m working on my CCSP. After taking the test, I realized I way over prepared.
Exam Center
It was my first time at this testing center and I wasn’t happy with the experience. A few of the issues I had are:
– My personal items (phone, keys) were placed in an unlocked filing cabinet
– My desk are was dirty. There were eraser shreds (or something similar) and I had to move the keyboard and mouse and brush all the debris out of my work space
– The laminated sheet they gave me looked like someone had spilled Kool-Aid on it
– They only offered earplugs, instead of noise cancelling headphones
Exam
My recommendation for the exam is to know the Digital Transformation piece as well as you know all the GCP services and what they do.
I wish you all luck on your future exams. Onto GCP: Associate Cloud Engineer.
Passed the Google Cloud: Associate Cloud Engineer
Hey all, I was able to pass the Google Cloud: Associate Cloud Engineer exam in 27 days.
I studied about 3-5 hours every single day.
I created this note to share with the resources I used to pass the exam.
Happy studying!
GCP ACE Exam Aced
Hi folks,
I am glad to share with you that I have cleared by GCP ACE exam today and would like to share my preparation with you:
1)I completed these courses from Coursera:
1.1 Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals – Core Infrastructure
1.2 Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
1.3 Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
1.4 Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Post these courses, I did couple of QwikLab courses as listed in orderly manner:
2 Getting Started: Create and Manage Cloud Resources (Qwiklabs Quest)
2.1 A Tour of Qwiklabs and Google Cloud
2.2 Creating a Virtual Machine
2.2 Compute Engine: Qwik Start – Windows
2.3 Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud
2.4 Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start
2.5 Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers
2.6 Create and Manage Cloud Resources: Challenge Lab
3 Set up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud (Qwiklabs Quest)
3.1 Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
3.2 Introduction to SQL for BigQuery and Cloud SQL
3.3 Multiple VPC Networks
3.4 Cloud Monitoring: Qwik Start
3.5 Deployment Manager – Full Production [ACE]
3.6 Managing Deployments Using Kubernetes Engine
3.7 Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud: Challenge Lab
4 Kubernetes in Google Cloud (Qwiklabs Quest)
4.1 Introduction to Docker
4.2 Kubernetes Engine: Qwik Start
4.3 Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes
4.4 Managing Deployments Using Kubernetes Engine
4.5 Continuous Delivery with Jenkins in Kubernetes Engine
Post these courses I did the following for mock exam preparation:
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way companies develop applications. Most of the modern applications are now cloud native. Undoubtedly, the cloud offers immense benefits like reduced infrastructure maintenance, increased availability, cost reduction, and many others.
However, which cloud vendor to choose, is a challenge in itself. If we look at the horizon of cloud computing, the three main providers that come to mind are AWS, Azure, and Google cloud. Today, we will compare the top three cloud giants and see how they differ. We will compare their services, specialty, and pros and cons. After reading this article, you will be able to decide which cloud vendor is best suited to your needs and why.
History and establishment
AWS
AWS is the oldest player in the market, operating since 2006. Here’s a brief history of AWS and how computing has changed. Being the first in the cloud industry, it has gained a particular advantage over its competitors. It offers more than 200+ services to its users. Some of its notable clients include:
Netflix
Expedia
Airbnb
Coursera
FDA
Coca Cola
Azure
Azure by Microsoft started in 2010. Although it started four years later than AWS, it is catching up quite fast. Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud platform which is why many companies prefer to use Azure for their Microsoft-based applications. It also offers more than 200 services and products. Some of its prominent clients include:
HP
Asus
Mitsubishi
3M
Starbucks
CDC (Center of Disease Control) USA
National health service (NHS) UK
Google
Google Cloud also started in 2010. Its arsenal of cloud services is relatively smaller compared to AWS or Azure. It offers around 100+ services. However, its services are robust, and many companies embrace Google cloud for its specialty services. Some of its noteworthy clients include:
PayPal
UPS
Toyota
Twitter
Spotify
Unilever
Market share & growth rate
If you look at the market share and growth chart below, you will notice that AWS has been leading for more than four years. Azure is also expanding fast, but it is still has a long way to go to catch up with AWS.
However, in terms of revenue, Azure is ahead of AWS. In Q1 2022, AWS revenue was $18.44 billion; Azure earned $23.4 billion, while Google cloud earned $5.8 billion.
Availability Zones (Data Centers)
When comparing cloud vendors, it is essential to see how many regions and availability zones are offered. Here is a quick comparison between all three cloud vendors in terms of regions and data centers:
AWS
AWS operates in 25 regions and 81 availability zones. It offers 218+ edge locations and 12 regional edge caches as well. You can utilize the edge location and edge caches in services like AWS Cloudfront and global accelerator, etc.
Azure
Azure has 66 regions worldwide and a minimum of three availability zones in each region. It also offers more than 116 edge locations.
Google
Google has a presence in 27 regions and 82 availability zones. It also offers 146 edge locations.
Although all three cloud giants are continuously expanding. Both AWS and Azure offer data centers in China to specifically cater for Chinese consumers. At the same time, Azure seems to have broader coverage than its competitors.
Comparison of common cloud services
Let’s look at the standard cloud services offered by these vendors.
Compute
Amazon’s primary compute offering is EC2 instances, which are very easy to operate. Amazon also provides a low-cost option called “Amazon lightsail” which is a perfect fit for those who are new to computing and have a limited budget. AWS charges for EC2 instances only when you are using them. Azure’s compute offering is also based on virtual machines. Google is no different and offers virtual machines in Google’s data centers. Here’s a brief comparison of compute offerings of all three vendors:
Storage
All three vendors offer various forms of storage, including object-based storage, cold storage, file-based storage, and block-based storage. Here’s a brief comparison of all three:
Database
All three vendors support managed services for databases. They also offer NoSQL as well as document-based databases. AWS also provides a proprietary RDBMS named “Aurora”, a highly scalable and fast database offering for both MySQL and PostGreSQL. Here’s a brief comparison of all three vendors:
Comparison of Specialized services
All three major cloud providers are competing with each other in the latest technologies. Some notable areas of competition include ML/AI, robotics, DevOps, IoT, VR/Gaming, etc. Here are some of the key specialties of all three vendors.
AWS
Being the first and only one in the cloud market has many benefits, and Amazon has certainly taken advantage of that. Amazon has advanced specifically in AI and machine learning related tools. AWS DeepLens is an AI-powered camera that you can use to develop and deploy machine learning algorithms. It helps you with OCR and image recognition. Similarly, Amazon has launched an open source library called “Gluon” which helps with deep learning and neural networks. You can use this library to learn how neural networks work, even if you lack any technical background. Another service that Amazon offers is SageMaker. You can use SageMaker to train and deploy your machine learning models. It contains the Lex conversational interface, which is the backbone of Alexa, Lambda, and Greengrass IoT messaging services.
Another unique (and recent) offering from AWS is IoT twinmaker. This service can create digital twins of real-world systems like factories, buildings, production lines, etc.
AWS is even providing a service for Quantum computing called AWS Braket.
Azure
Azure excels where you are already using some Microsoft products, especially on-premises Microsoft products. Organizations already using Microsoft products prefer to use Azure instead of other cloud vendors because Azure offers a better and more robust integration with Microsoft products.
Azure has excellent services related to ML/AI and cognitive services. Some notable services include Bing web search API, Face API, Computer vision API, text analytics API, etc.
Google
Google is the current leader of all cloud providers regarding AI. This is because of their open-source Google library TensorFlow, the most popular library for developing machine learning applications. Vertex AI and BigQueryOmni are also beneficial services offered lately. Similarly, Google offers rich services for NLP, translation, speech, etc.
Pros and Cons
Let’s summarize the pros and cons for all three cloud vendors:
AWS
Pros:
An extensive list of services
Huge market share
Support for large businesses
Global reach
Cons:
Pricing model. Many companies struggle to understand the cost structure. Although AWS has improved the UX of its cost-related reporting in the AWS console, many companies still hesitate to use AWS because of a perceived lack of cost transparency
Azure
Pros:
Excellent integration with Microsoft tools and software
Broader feature set
Support for open source
Cons:
Geared towards enterprise customers
Google
Pros:
Strong integration with open source tools
Flexible contracts
Good DevOps services
The most cost-efficient
The preferred choice for startups
Good ML/AI-based services
Cons:
A limited number of services as compared to AWS and Azure
As mentioned earlier, AWS has the largest market share compared to other cloud vendors. That means more companies are using AWS, and there are more vacancies in the market for AWS-certified professionals. Here are main reasons why you would choose to learn AWS:
Azure is the second largest cloud service provider. It is ideal for companies that are already using Microsoft products. Here are the top reasons why you would choose to learn Azure:
Ideal for experienced user of Microsoft services
Azure certifications rank among the top paying IT certifications
If you’re applying for a company that primarily uses Microsoft Services
Google
Although Google is considered an underdog in the cloud market, it is slowly catching up. Here’s why you may choose to learn GCP.
While there are fewer job postings, there is also less competition in the market
GCP certifications rank among the top paying IT certifications
Most valuable IT Certifications
Keen to learn about the top paying cloud certifications and jobs? If you look at the annual salary figures below, you can see the average salary for different cloud vendors and IT companies, no wonder AWS is on top. A GCP cloud architect is also one of the top five. The Azure architect comes at #9.
Which cloud certification to choose depends mainly on your career goals and what type of organization you want to work for. No cloud certification path is better than the other. What matters most is getting started and making progress towards your career goals. Even if you decide at a later point in time to switch to a different cloud provider, you’ll still benefit from what you previously learned.
Over time, you may decide to get certified in all three – so you can provide solutions that vary from one cloud service provider to the next.
Don’t get stuck in analysis-paralysis! If in doubt, simply get started with AWS certifications that are the most sought-after in the market – especially if you are at the very beginning of your cloud journey. The good news is that you can become an AWS expert when enrolling in our value-packed training.
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AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – Top 100 Questions and Answers Dumps
Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure are the big boys of the cloud computing world, even though AWS is much bigger than Azure.
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Revenue from Microsoft Azure grew 72% from 2018 from $7.56 billion to $13 billion. Azure contributed to almost 10.5% of Microsoft’s total revenue in 2019. It has also been noted that the US defense chose Azure in its tactical operations. The last quarter earnings of 2019 grew by 64%.
The exam is intended for candidates who are just beginning to work with cloud-based solutions and services or are new to Azure. Candidates should be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development. Azure Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based or specialty certifications, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.
Below are the top 100 AZ-900 Microsoft Azure fundamentals Certification exam questions and answers dumps.
I- AZ-900 Cloud Concepts – Azure Services
Question 1:Microsoft Office 365 is an example of which cloud deployment model?
A. PaaS
B. IaaS
C. CASB
D. SaaS
Answer1:
D
Notes:
Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and use cloud-based apps over the internet. Common examples are email, calendar, and office tools, such as Microsoft Office 365.
Question 2:You have an on-premises application that processes incoming Simple Message Submission Service (SMSS) queue messages and records the data to a log file. You migrate this application to an Azure function app. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
Serverless computing is the abstraction of servers, infrastructure, and operating systems. When you build serverless apps, you don’t need to provision and manage any servers, so you don’t have to worry about infrastructure. Serverless computing is driven by the reaction to events and triggers happening in near-real time in the cloud.
A. Spending money on products or services now and being billed for them now. You can deduct this expense from your tax bill in the same year.
B. Spending money on physical infrastructure up front, and then deducting that expense from your tax bill over time.
C. Prices for individual resources and services are provided so you can predict how much you will spend in a given billing period based on your expected usage.
D. The ability to do things more efficiently or at a lower cost per unit when operating at a larger scale.
Answer 3:
D
Notes 3:
Cloud providers such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are large businesses that leverage the benefits of economies of scale and then pass the savings on to their customers.
Question 5: Which of the following Azure solutions allows you to geographically cache and distribute high-bandwidth content, such as streaming videos, to users in different parts of the world?
A. Content Delivery Network (CDN)
B. Load Balancer
C. Application Gateway
D. Virtual Network Gateway
Answer 5:
A
Notes 5:
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers developers a global solution for rapidly delivering high-bandwidth content to users by caching their content at strategically placed physical nodes around the world. Azure CDN can also accelerate dynamic content, which cannot be cached, by leveraging various network optimizations using CDN POPs.
Question 6:You are beginning to extend your on-premises data center into Azure. You have created a new Azure subscription and resource group called RG-One. You deploy two virtual machines into RG-One with the intent of promoting these to Active Directory domain controllers. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is an instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet. Deploying virtual machines into an Azure subscription would be considered an IaaS service.
Question 7:Select the concept that is defined as ensuring that servers are available if a single data center goes offline.
A. Scalability
B. Fault tolerance
C. Elasticity
D. Agility
Answer 7:
B
Notes 7:
Fault tolerance is the property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more of its components. In Azure, it refers to ensuring that a portion of the production systems are available online (via a failover cluster, available set, or available zone) if a subset of the system components (or an entire data center) goes offline.
Question 8:In regards to comparing Public Cloud and Private Cloud, which of these best describe the characteristics of a Public Cloud?
A. No-upfront costs
B. More control over the security
C. Less reliability
D. Less maintenance
Answer 8:
A and D
Notes 8
The public cloud provides a pay-as-you-go pricing model which can lead to lower costs than those in private cloud solutions where capital expenditures are high.
The public cloud provides agility to provision and de-provision resources quickly with far less maintenance than that of private cloud solutions.
Question 9:Which of the following are considered capital expenditures (CapEx)?
A. Storage area network
B. Cloud-based virtual machine
C. Office 365 licenses
D. Hyper-V host server
Answer 9:
A and D
Notes 9:
Storage costs are typically considered CapEx and include storage hardware components and the cost of supporting them. Depending on the application and level of fault tolerance, centralized storage can be expensive.
Server costs are considered CapEx and include all server hardware components and the cost of supporting them. When purchasing servers, make sure to design for fault tolerance and redundancy (e.g., server clustering, redundant power supplies, and uninterruptible power supplies). When a server needs to be replaced or added to a data center, you need to pay for the computer. This can affect your immediate cash flow because you must pay for the server up front.
Question 10:You are in the process of migrating your existing on-premises SQL databases to Azure. You will migrate them to Azure SQL databases, as opposed to deploying SQL database servers in Azure. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
A. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
B. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
C. Serverless
D. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Answer 10:
B
Notes 10:
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud with resources that enable you to deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications. An Azure SQL instance would be considered a PaaS service.
Question 11: Which of the following statements are true for IaaS cloud services?
A. The client is responsible for purchasing all Operating System (OS) host licensing.
B. Services can be scaled automatically to support system load.
C. The client has complete control over the host operating system.
D. The client is responsible for all guest OS and application updates.
Answer 11:
B and D
Notes 11:
IaaS host services are scaled automatically to combat increased system load and scaled back during periods of inactivity.
The cloud service provider performs all underlying hardware, OS, and middleware updates. The client performs all guest OS and application updates.
Question 12: Which of the following tools can be used to manage Azure resources on a Google Chromebook?
A. Azure portal
B. PowerShell
C. Azure Cloud Shell
D. Azure CLI
Answer 12:
A and C
Notes 12:
You can run the Azure portal on all modern desktop, tablet devices, and browsers.
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Linux users can opt for a Bash experience, while Windows users can opt for PowerShell.
Question 13:Which Azure service can provide big data analysis for machine learning?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure WebJobs
C. Application Insights
D. Azure Databricks
Answer 13:
D
Notes 13:
Azure Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform. Databricks enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts.
Question 14:You need to create an Azure storage solution that will store messages created by an Azure web role. The messages will then be processed by an Azure worker role. What type of storage solution should you create?
A. A Queue service in a storage account
B. A virtual machine data disk
C. A File service in a storage account
D. A Blob service in a storage account
Answer 14:
A
Notes 14:
Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.
Question 15:You have an on-premises application that sends email notifications automatically based on a rule. You plan to migrate the application to Azure. You need to recommend a computing solution for the application that should minimize costs by incurring charges only when it is executed.
Which Azure solution is best for this type of application?
A. Logic App
B. A web app
C. Service Bus App
D. IaaS web server in Azure
Answer 15:
A
Notes 15:
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. Logic Apps simplifies how you design and build scalable solutions for app integration, data integration, system integration, enterprise application integration (EAI), and business-to-business (B2B) communication, whether in the cloud, on-premises, or both.
For example, here are just a few workloads you can automate with logic apps:Process and route orders across on-premises systems and cloud services.
Send email notifications with Office 365 when events happen in various systems, apps, and services.
Move uploaded files from an SFTP or FTP server to Azure Storage.
Monitor tweets for a specific subject, analyze the sentiment, and create alerts or tasks for items that need review.
For new logic apps that run in the public or “global” Azure Logic Apps service, you pay only for what you use. These logic apps use a consumption-based plan and pricing model.
Question 16: You are the Systems Administrator for a local university. You are deploying several sets of systems that will be used for research and development teams. Each set of systems will be uniform in nature, containing the same number and type of Azure resources.
What should you recommend to automate the creation of these Azure resources?
A. Azure Resource Manager templates
B. Multiple Azure subscriptions
C. Management groups
D. Virtual machine scale sets
Answer 16:
A
Notes 16:
An Azure Resource Manager template is the framework by which resources are created. They can be used to define and automate the creation of similar resources.
Question 17:You are deploying a pair of Azure virtual machines. You want to ensure that the application will remain available in the event of a complete data center failure. What Azure technology will help most in this task?
A. Locally redundant storage
B. Zone Redundant Storage
C. Availability zone
D. Availability set
Answer 17:
C
Notes 17:
An Availability zone consists of two or more virtual machines in different physical locations within an Azure region. This configuration ensures that only a subset of the virtual machines in an availability zone will be affected in the event of hardware failure, OS update, or a complete data center outage. This configuration offers 99.99% SLA.
Question 18: Which of the following database solutions has the ability to add data concurrently from multiple regions simultaneously?
A. SQL managed instances
B. Cosmos DB
C. SQL Data Warehouses
D. Azure SQL Databases
Answer 18:
B
Notes 18:
Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service. Cosmos DB elastically and independently scales throughput and storage across any number of Azure regions worldwide.
Question 19: Which Azure service can host your web apps without you having to manage underlying infrastructure?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure WebJobs
C. Azure Databricks
D. Application Insights
Answer 19:
A
Notes 19:
Azure App Service enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.
Question 20: Which of the following components can be used to load balance traffic to web applications, such as Azure App Service web apps using layer 7 of the OSI model?
A. Virtual Network
B. Virtual Network Gateway
C. Route table
D. Load Balancer
E. Application Gateway
Answer 20:
E
Notes 20:
Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 — TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port to a destination IP address and port.
Question 21: Which Azure service can help you collect, analyze, and act on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments?
A. Azure App Service
B. Azure Monitor
C. Azure Analyzer
D. Azure WebJobs
Answer 21:
B
Notes 21:
Azure Monitor is a service that can help you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.
Question 23: Which Azure service should you use to correlate metrics and logs from multiple resources into a centralized repository? A. Azure Event Grid
B. Azure Event Hubs
C. Azure SQL Data Warehouse
D. Azure Monitor
Answer 23:
D
Notes 23:
Log data collected by Azure Monitor (formerly Azure Log Analytics) is stored in a Log Analytics workspace, which is based on Azure Data Explorer. It collects telemetry from a variety of sources and uses the Kusto query language used by Data Explorer to retrieve and analyze data.
Question 24: You are the Azure Administrator for Radio Gaga, LTD. You have a resource group named RG-RG and need to ensure no other administrators can create virtual networks in this resource group. What can you implement to accomplish this?
A. Access Control (IAM)
B. Azure policy
C. Locks
D. Properties
Answer 24:
B
Notes 24:
Azure Policy is a service in Azure used to create, assign, and manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements.
For example, you can have the policy to allow only a certain SKU size of virtual machines in your environment. Once this policy is implemented, new and existing resources are evaluated for compliance. With the right type of policy, existing resources can be brought into compliance.
Question 25: Which of the following is the organization that defines standards used by the United States government?
A. NIST
B. ITIL
C. GDPR
D. ISO
Answer 25:
A
Notes 25:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes and maintains measurement standards and guidance to help organizations assess risk. It defines the standards that are used by the United States government as well as the US Department of Defense (DoD).
Question 26: You have an Azure virtual network named VNet in a resource group named Bob-RG. You assign an Azure policy specifying virtual networks are not an allowed resource type in Bob-RG. What happens to VNet once this policy is applied?
A. VNet is moved to a new resource group.
B. Bob-RG is deleted automatically
C. VNet continues to function normally, but no new subnets can be added.
D. VNet is deleted automatically.
Answer 26:
C
Notes 26:
Azure policies that determine the allowed types of resources can only prevent non-compliant resources from being created. Existing non-compliant resources are not affected. However, the policy is flagged as non-compliant so that the administrator can determine action (if any).
Question 27: Which Azure tool allows you to view which user turned off a specific virtual machine during the last 14 days?
A. Azure Event Hubs
B. Azure Activity Log
C. Azure Service Health
D. Azure Monitor
Answer 27:
B
Notes 27:
The Azure Activity Log is a subscription log that provides insight into subscription-level events that have occurred in Azure. This includes a range of data, from Azure Resource Manager operational data to updates on Service Health events. Events such as starting and stopping of virtual machines can be found here.
A collaboration between Microsoft and Adobe brings you a more simplified and consistent experience for PDF documents that have been classified and, optionally, protected. This collaboration provides support for Adobe Acrobat native integration with Microsoft Information Protection solutions, such as Azure Information Protection.
Question 29: Which of the following is true regarding HDInsight?
A. It is an on-demand analytics job service that simplifies big data. Instead of deploying, configuring, and tuning hardware, you write queries to transform your data and extract valuable insights.
B. It is a managed relational cloud database service.
C. It is a cloud-based service that is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
D. It is an open-source framework for the distributed processing and analysis of big datasets in clusters.
Answer 29:
D
Notes 29:
Azure HDInsight is a managed, full-spectrum, open-source analytics service for enterprises. HDInsight is a cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. HDInsight also supports a broad range of scenarios, like extract, transform, and load (ETL); data warehousing; machine learning; and IoT.
Learn about important Azure product updates, roadmap, and announcements here
Questions 31: Azure virtual machines can be moved between which of the following Azure resources?
A. Subscriptions
B. Regions
C. Availability Sets
D. Resource Groups
E. Availability Zones
Answer 31:
A, B, D, E
Notes 31:
Azure virtual machines can be moved between subscriptions with either Azure PowerShell or the Azure portal. Using Azure Site Recovery, you can migrate Azure VMs to other regions. Azure virtual machines can be moved between resource groups with either Azure PowerShell or the Azure portal. Using Azure Site Recovery, you can migrate Azure VMs to other Availability Zones.
II- Azure Pricing and Support
Question 32: Which Azure support plans can open support cases?
Question 33: For any Single Instance virtual machine using premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all Operating System Disks and Data Disks, what is the SLA guarantee for virtual machine connectivity?
Question 34: Which of the following Azure services is a cloud-based service that leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a relational database?
A. Azure SQL database
B. Azure HDInsight
C. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse )
D. Azure Data Lake Analytics
Answer 34:
C
Notes 34:
Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure Synapse ) is a cloud-based service that leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a relational database.
Question 35: You have an Azure subscription that contains the following unused resources:
Name
Type
Configuration
nic0
Network Interface
10.0.0.6
pip1
Public IP
Static
lb1
Load Balancer
Standard, 5 rules configured
VNet2
Virtual Network
10.1.0.0/16
VM3
Virtual Machine
Stopped (Deallocated)
Based on this information, which of the following unused resources should you remove to lower cost?
A. lb1
B. VNet2
C. pip1
D. nic0
E. VM3
Answer 35:
A and C
Notes 35:
The pricing for Standard Load Balancer is based on the number of rules configured (load balancer rules and NAT rules) and data processed. However, there is no hourly charge for the Standard Load Balancer itself when no rules are configured. Since this load balancer contains rules, it should be removed to save money.
In ARM deployment model, there is no charge for dynamic public IP addresses when the associated virtual machine is “stopped-deallocated”. However, you’re charged for a static public IP address irrespective of the associated resource (unless it is part of the first five static ones in the region). This resource should be removed.
Users are able to login to the service, log in to the Access Panel, access applications on the Access Panel and reset passwords. IT administrators are able to create, read, write and delete entries in the directory or provision or de-provision users to applications in the directory.
No SLA is provided for the Free tier of Azure Active Directory.
Question 38: Which of the following Azure support plans offer Severity “A” and “B” cases to be opened?
Question 39:This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct. When you are implementing a software as a service (SaaS) solution, you are responsible for configuring high availability. Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
Question 40:You have an on-premises network that contains several servers. You plan to migrate all the servers to Azure. You need to recommend a solution to ensure that some of the servers are available if a single Azure data center goes offline for an extended period. What should you include in the recommendation?
Question 41: This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct. When planning to migrate a public website to Azure, you must plan to pay monthly usage costs. Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
A. No change is needed
B. Deploy a VPN
C. pay to transfer all the website data to Azure
D. reduce the number of connections to the website
Question 42: You have an on-premises network that contains 100 servers. You need to recommend a solution that provides additional resources to your users. The solution must minimize capital and operational expenditure costs. What should you include in the recommendation?
Question 43: Which Azure offering refers to a set of development, testing, and automation tools?
A. Azure Cognitive Services
B. Azure Boards
C. Azure DevOps
D. GitHub
Answer 43:
C
Notes: Azure DevOps Services provides development collaboration tools, including high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, configurable Kanban boards, and extensive automated and continuous testing capabilities.
Question 44: Which of the following are available in the Azure Marketplace?
A. Virtual machine images
B. SaaS applications
C. Solution templates
D. Sample application code
Answer 44:
A B C
Notes: Virtual machine images are available in the Azure Marketplace. Images are available for Windows and Linux. Stock operating system images, as well as custom images with pre-installed applications, are also available.
SaaS applications make up the majority of the Azure Marketplace. One click allows you to install and use many popular applications — such as Office365, Salesforce, Zoom, and others — seamlessly with your Azure subscription.
Solution templates allow you to deploy entire IaaS solutions with a simple click. Examples include complete SharePoint farms as well as SQL Always Available clusters.
Question 45: Which of the following regulates data privacy in the European Union (EU)?
A. ITIL
B. GDPR
C. ISO
D. NIST
Answer 45:
B
Notes: The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas. The GDPR aims primarily to give control to individuals over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business by unifying the regulation within the EU.
Question 46: You currently have two Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions. You would like to transfer billing ownership of the subscriptions to another account while moving the subscriptions into the other accounts Azure AD tenant. How can you accomplish this?
A. Open a support ticket by contacting Microsoft Azure Support
B. In the Azure Portal, under Azure Subscriptions click Change Directory
C. Using Azure CLI, run the az account merge command
D. In the Azure Portal, under Cost Management + Billing under Azure Subscriptions
Answer 46:
Notes: It is here that we can transfer billing ownership by clicking on the context menu for the subscription. We then select “Transfer billing ownership” and as part of the process, we can provide the email associated with the other account, and can also choose to move the subscription into the Azure AD tenant of the other account. This will move the subscription into the default Azure AD tenant of the destination account.
Notes: A support request can only be opened via the Azure Portal.
Question 48: You attempt to create several managed disks in your Azure environment. In the Portal, you receive a message that you must increase your Azure subscription limits. What should you do to increase the limits?
A. Modify an Azure policy.
B. Use Azure PowerShell to create the new managed disks.
Question 49: A company wants to build a new voting kiosk for sales to governments around the world. Which IoT technologies should the company choose to ensure the highest degree of security?
A. IoT Hub
B. IoT Central
C. Azure Sphere
D. Azure IoT
Answer 49:
C
Notes: Azure Sphere provides the highest degree of security to ensure the device has not been tampered with.
Question 50: This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct. When you are implementing a software as a service (SaaS) solution, you are responsible for configuring high availability. Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.
A. No change is needed.
B. defining scalability rules
C. installing the SaaS solution
D. configuring the SaaS solution
Answer 50:
D
Notes: configuring the SaaS solution
Question 51: A company wants to quickly manage its individual IoT devices by using a web-based user interface. Which IoT technology should it choose?
A. IoT Hub
B. IoT Central
C. Azure Sphere
D. Azure IoT
Answer: B – IoT Central quickly creates a web-based management portal to enable reporting and communication with IoT devices.
Question 52: You want to send messages from the IoT device to the cloud and vice versa. Which IoT technology can send and receive messages?
A. IoT Hub
B. IoT Central
C. Azure Sphere
D. Azure IoT
Answer: A – An IoT hub communicates to IoT devices by sending and receiving messages.
In Azure, every VM – regardless if Linux or Windows – gets a temporary disk assigned automatically. This temporary disk is located on the physical server (the hypervisor) where the Azure VM is hosted and is non-persistent. Disks used by the operating system or additionally added data disks are persistent disks and stored in Azure Storage.
Azure VM’s can be moved from its current host to new host at any time due to maintenance, hardware failures or other reasons. In such an event, the data from the temporary storage will not preserve or moved to the new host. Apart from the hardware failures, there are many other reasons data from the temporary disk will be lost:
Resizing of the VM
Restarting of the VM
Moving from one host to another
Updating/upgrading of host
Really, the temporary disk should never be used for data that has to be persistent. To avoid misconfiguration, the disk also has the drive label “Temporary Storage” and includes a text file “DATALOSS_WARNING_README.txt”. Read more here…
It depends on the virtual machine type we talk about. Some Azure virtual machines include a Windows operating system license in their price (some even include a SQL Server). Some do not, however, there is an “Azure Hybrid Use Benefit” in certain Microsoft licensing programs, where basically the customer can use its previously acquired software licenses on Azure virtual machines (“bring you own license”). Also, there are Azure virtual machines available with different Linux distributions (both commercial and community), Windows Server license is obviously not included in these. Continue reading here
Hello. Yes They charge you for the disk usage too. So its Disk, Network, License (if Windows Server Instance) and Processor/RAM that are taken into consideration
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Why don’t I see the N-Series (vga enabled) VMs in my Azure vm sizes list (I have Bizspark subscription)?
It has nothing to do with BizSpark. N series VMs are generally available since 1 December, 2016 (Azure N-Series: General availability on December 1 ), but only in select Azure datacenter regions. Please consult the Azure Products by Region | Microsoft Azure website for regional availability.
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What is a data disk in Azure VM?
What are things to look out for when choosing a location for your Microsoft Azure VM?
The argument in placing a cloud vm would be performance. Performance in the cloud world means cost. The better performance you need the more its going to cost you. But the other side of that is the faster you can solve the problem you are trying to solve. The business problem to evaluate in placement of a VM is loosley these two things: Does increasing the performance of the application provide the overall answers required faster? Are there things you can do to your application that will allow it to better take advantage of cloud capabilities…
Please review Azure Monitor, the built-in monitoring service in Azure. Azure Monitor provides metrics and logs for many services in Azure including VMs. A quick overview : Product documentation: Get started with Azure Monitor Note: As of today (Apr ‘17) Cloud Services metrics are served using an older telemetry pipeline but that is the process of being migrated to Azure Monitor pipeline. You will soon be able to consume Cloud Service metrics via Azure Monitor, the same way you can for Azure VMs, Web Apps or Azure SQL DBs.
Azure Backup introduces a reinforcement expansion to the Azure VM specialist that is running on the VM. This expansion backs up the whole VM. You can back up explicit records and organizers on the Azure VM by running the MARS operator.
Make sure you have VMs in Availability set. Before selecting a VM collect below inputs either from Application or from Performance monitoring team 1. Maximum IOPS required. 2. Maximum size of DB in next 2 years at least. Based on these inputs select the VM size and required storage tier – Standard or Premium. For high performance, you can perform disk stripping if you require more than 5000 IOPS. Also you can configure Backup to URL.
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Could I connect to a Linux Azure VM using SSH and private IP through Putty?
Absolutely. You can check your VM’s public IP address on the Azure Portal and SSH into it with the SSH client of your choice. A private IP allows Azure VMs to communicate with other resources in a virtual network or an on-premises network through a VPN or ExpressRoute. So you can SSH into an Azure VM using the private IP from the same virtual network or via VPN / ExpressRoute.
Azure portal ( Microsoft Azure ) now has a feature called Cloud Shell. This basically gets you a command line interface, in the browser, where you can make an authenticated access to Azure resources, including your virtual machines. Both Bash and PowerShell are available, and you can also save your frequently used scripts, etc for later re-use. More details here: Azure Cloud Shell – Browser-Based Command Line | Microsoft Azure
How to resize a Linux VM with the Azure CLI – Azure Linux Virtual Machines az vm resize –resource-group mygroup –name mytestvm –size Standard_D4s_v3 This call would trigger instance restart in the background if needed.
This document indicates how a Linux VM password can be reset Reset Linux VM password and SSH key from the CLI. There is also an option in the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com). Go to the details of the virtual machine you wish to reset the password for and look for “reset password” at the bottom left:
Depending on what OS you are using lets say Linux. You could use properJavaRDP you will need a Java VM installed. I’ve used this with success the screen refresh was not great tho.
Select Diagnostics settings from the Azure UI blade.
Under the Overview tab: Pick a Storage account: Select your storage account so that the metrics stats can be stored. Click on ‘Enable guest level monitoring‘ and wait for the process to complete.
If I change the size of my Azure VM while running a script, will that stop the execution of the script? (Currently using a Linux VM).
Changing the size of an Azure VM (scaling up or down) is only possible with a reboot. That will most definitely stop the execution of your script.
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How do I make an Azure VM snapshot?
1. On the Azure portal, select Create a resource. 2. Search for and select Snapshot. 3. In the Snapshot window, select Create. 4. Enter a Name for the snapshot. 5. Select an existing Resource group or enter the name of a new one. 6. Select an Azure datacenter Location.
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On the Azure portal, select Create a resource.
Search for and select Snapshot.
In the Snapshot window, select Create. …
Enter a Name for the snapshot.
Select an existing Resource group or enter the name of a new one.
Select an Azure datacenter Location.
Can we restrict a developer (on Microsoft Azure VM) to not upload a source code on any website or email?
You can restrict a developer from uploading a source code on any website by following the below steps: 1. Go to the desired VM instance in the Azure portal 2. Select “Access control (IAM)” option from the left pane 3. Select Role Assignment option under +Add option 4. Now, you will be able to assign any one of the available pre-defined roles to a user 5. Give contributor level access to the respective developer, now he will not be able to access/upload a file to the website
The region prices are related to pricing conditions in particular region. In details it is about tenancy of physical area, prices of the hardware from vendors, the cost of man-hours in a particular region for IT specialists and other Azure datacenter workers, and so on. Unfortunately, I can’t find any reference for that information, I’m talking here personally as the person who works with Azure every day and have a contact with Microsoft teams.
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Can we spin up a Windows Azure VM programmatically from a php page? We can assume that we have valid Microsoft Credentials.
The REST Management API is the one you want to go for. Authentication is certificate based. You’ll have to upload a management certificate using the Windows Azure portal in able for your PHP application to authenticate. A good starting point on how to use the Windows Azure REST APIs for management can be found here How to use Windows Azure service management APIs (PHP). Like Rahul suggested, once you have that up-and-running use the Operations on Virtual Machines API set to manipulate your Virtual Machine deployments.
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How do you reduce the size of my Azure VM disk?
Hi, Below are some points that would be beneficial for you. 1. Pick the best possible disk size. 2. Compress the panel size in the VM. 3. Export the managed disk to a VHD. 4. Compress the exported VHD. 5. Make another new managed disk from the VHD. 6. Make another VM from the new recently created disk. 7. Alternatively, clean up all the old resources. Hope it helps.
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Your company wants to use Azure to manage all of their IoT devices. They are going to create the infrastructure themselves, but need a backend in Azure to manage the flow of data, and to ensure security as well as ease of deployment of new devices. Which Azure product or solution would be suitable?
Azure IoT Hub is a solution for providing managed services for large IoT projects. It provides secure and reliable communication from devices to the Azure backend. Azure IoT Central is a SaaS solution that provides both managed connections and security as well as the dashboards and applications to use the data. Event Grid is used to connect many Azure services. IoT Hub
Your company has a new Azure virtual network that needs to be secured. What is the best way to only allow specific kinds of outside traffic into this network?
Use an Azure Firewall attached to the virtual network.
Azure Firewall blocks any incoming or outgoing traffic that isn’t specifically allowed on a network. A Network Security Group manages the traffic to specific services, Azure DDoS Protection Service protects against attacks and a load balancer distributes traffic to specific VMs. Azure Firewall FAQ
How is authorization different from authentication?
Authentication is the process of proving that you are who you say you are. Authorization is the act of granting an authenticated party permission to do something.
Authentication is the process of proving that you are who you say you are. It’s sometimes shortened to AuthN. The Microsoft identity platform uses the OpenID Connect protocol for handling authentication. Authorization is the act of granting an authenticated party permission to do something. It specifies what data you’re allowed to access and what you can do with that data. Authorization is sometimes shortened to AuthZ. The Microsoft identity platform uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol for handling authorization. Reference: Authentication vs. authorization
Which minimum costing support plan provides access to general guidance with architecture support?
The Developer support plan provides access to technical support via email in business hours and is the most-effective. The Standard and
You are looking to build and host your website on Azure without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. Which type of Cloud service should you choose?
Platform as a service (PaaS) is a complete development and deployment environment in the cloud, with resources that enable you to deliver everything from simple cloud-based apps to sophisticated, cloud-enabled enterprise applications, all without you having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure or services. Reference: What is PaaS? Platform as a Service
You are beginning to extend your on-premises data center into Azure. You have created a new Azure subscription and resource group called RG-One. You deploy two virtual machines into RG-One with the intent of promoting these to Active Directory domain controllers. What kind of cloud service would this be considered?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is the use of on-demand computing infrastructure which is provisioned and managed over the internet. Deploying virtual machines into an Azure subscription would be considered an IaaS service. Reference: What is IaaS? Infrastructure as a Service
Define the concept of “dynamic elasticity.”
Dynamic elasticity is defined as a cloud service that both quickly scales up and also back down in order to serve your changing workload patterns for the lowest cost.
Which Azure service can host your web apps without you having to manage underlying infrastructure?
Azure App Service enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. Azure App Service documentation – Azure App Service
Which Azure service can you use to make sure your virtual machines are running smoothly and without problems?
Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry data from your virtual machines to provide your with alerts and recommendations for how they are running. Azure Monitor overview – Azure Monitor
Which Azure DevOps tool would you use to share applications and code libraries?
Azure Artifacts is a service in Azure DevOps, which can host code libraries and applications for you to share internally or externally. Azure Boards is for project managers. Azure Repos holds your source code. Azure Test Plans is used to create manual and automatic test scenarios for your application. Azure Pipelines is the process that builds and deploys your application. Azure DevOps Services
What are the main components of an Azure VPN Gateway setup?
The VPN Gateway must be attached to an Azure Virtual Network.
An on-premises network with a complimentary gateway that can accept the encrypted data.
A secure connection, called a tunnel, which encrypts the traffic sent through it.
An Azure VPN Gateway consists of a Virtual Network, a secure connection called a tunnel, and an on-premises network and gateway. A storage account, a backend pool of VMs and a Load Balancer are not needed. About Azure VPN Gateway
Your company has a large amount of documents that are both sensitive and important to a large number of people. How would you secure these documents so you can still share them, but track where they are?
Use Azure Information Protection – Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that helps your organization to classify and protect its documents and emails by applying labels. What is Azure Information Protection?
Which Azure solution would you implement to embed a watermark into Office documents that contain social security numbers?
Azure Information Protection (sometimes referred to as AIP) is a cloud-based solution that helps an organization classify and, optionally, protect its documents and emails by applying labels. Labels can be applied automatically by administrators who define rules and conditions, manually by users, or a combination where users are given recommendations. Azure Active Directory. This includes access to resources in Azure AD, Azure resources, and other Microsoft Online Services, like Office 365 or Microsoft Intune. What is Azure Information Protection? – AIP
What are region pairs?
A region that is linked with another region in the same geography) – Azure has the concept of region pairs, these are two or more regions that are at least 300 miles apart within a single Geography. This enables the ability to replicate certain resources such as virtual machine storage across the geography providing protection against such events as natural disasters or civil unrest. Ensure business continuity & disaster recovery using Azure Paired Regions
Which Azure tool allows you to view which user turned off a specific virtual machine during the last 14 days?
The correct answer is the Azure Activity Log – it is a logging service that provides insight into subscription-level events that have occurred in Azure. This includes a range of data, from Azure Resource Manager operational data to updates on Service Health events. Events such as starting and stopping of virtual machines can be found here. Overview of Azure platform logs – Azure Monitor
What does Azure Information Protection do?
Provides the ability to securely share sensitive data – Azure Information Protection helps control and secure information (including emails and documents) that is shared outside of your organization. Azure information protection
Which of the following can be used to manage governance across multiple Azure subscriptions?
A. Azure initiatives
B. Management groups
C. Resource groups
B
Which of the following is a logical unit of Azure services that links to an Azure account?
A. Azure subscription
B. Management group
C. Resource group
D. Public cloud
A
Which of the following features does not apply to resource groups?
A. Resources can be in only one resource group.
B. Role-based access control can be applied to the resource group.
C. Resource groups can be nested.
C
Which of the following statements is a valid statement about an Azure subscription?
A. Using Azure doesn’t require a subscription.
B. An Azure subscription is a logical unit of Azure services.
B
You need to process messages from a queue, parse them by using some existing imperative logic written in Java, and then send them to a third-party API. Which serverless option should you choose?
Azure Functions: Azure Functions is the correct choice because you can use existing Java code with minimal modification.
You want to orchestrate a workflow by using APIs from several well-known services. Which is the best option for this scenario?
Azure Logic Apps: Azure Logic Apps makes it easy to create a workflow across well-known services with less effort than writing code and manually orchestrating all the steps yourself.
Your team has limited experience with writing custom code, but it sees tremendous value in automating several important business processes. Which of the following options is your team’s best option?
Azure Logic Apps is best suited for users who are more comfortable in a visual environment that allows them to automate their business processes. Logic Apps is the best option in this scenario.
You need to predict future behavior based on previous actions. Which product option should you select as a candidate?
A. Azure Machine Learning
B. Azure Bot Service
C. Azure Cognitive Services
Answer: A. Azure Machine Learning enables you to build models to predict the likelihood of a future result. It should not be eliminated as a candidate.
You need to create a human-computer interface that uses natural language to answer customer questions. Which product option should you select as a candidate?
A. Azure Machine Learning
B. Azure Cognitive Services
C. Azure Bot Service
Answer: Azure Bot Service creates virtual agent solutions that utilize natural language. It should not be eliminated as a candidate.
You need to identify the content of product images to automatically create alt tags for images formatted properly. Which product option is the best candidate?
A. Azure Machine Learning
B. Azure Cognitive Services
C. Azure Bot Service
Answer: Azure Cognitive Services includes Vision services that can identify the content of an image. Azure Cognitive Services is the best candidate.
Your development team is interested in writing Graph-based applications that take advantage of the Gremlin API. Which option would be ideal for that scenario?
A. Azure Cosmos DB
B. Azure SQL Database
C. Azure Databricks
D. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Answer: Azure Cosmos DB supports SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Tables, and Gremlin APIs.
CompanyA uses the LAMP stack for several of its websites. Which option would be ideal for migration?
A. Azure Cosmos DB
B. Azure Database for MySQL C. Azure Database for PostgreSQL
B:Answer: Azure Database for MySQL is the logical choice for existing LAMP stack applications.
CompanyA has millions of log entries that it wants to analyze. Which option would be ideal for analysis?
A. Azure Cosmos DB B. Azure SQL Database C. Azure Database for PostgreSQL D. Azure Synapse Analytics
D: Azure Synapse Analytics is the logical choice for analyzing large volumes of data.
Which of the following options can you use to link virtual networks?
A. Network address translation B. Multi-chassis link aggregation C. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol D. Virtual network peering
D: Answer: Virtual network peering can be used to link virtual networks.
Which of the following options isn’t a benefit of ExpressRoute?
A. Redundant connectivity B. Consistent network throughput C. Encrypted network communication
D. Access to Microsoft cloud services
C: Answer: ExpressRoute does provide private connectivity, but it isn’t encrypted.
Wow, what a difference a couple of days and a different set of questions makes. I took the exam Monday and fell just short of passing (659), and I retook it today and scored 850! The questions on the first attempt were definitely harder, and I could tell from the first few questions I was going to have a rough time.
Today was totally different and I felt like I was getting all the “gimme” questions first and was able to coast through most questions confidently. I flagged exactly half the questions for review and at the end I had 20 minutes leftover after I was done reviewing. Total day and night difference between the two attempts.
For preparation I used:
– Microsoft Learn
– A Cloud Guru AZ-900 course + practice exam
– Tutorials Dojo practice exam
– and of course, John Savill’s YT channel
I bought the TD practice exams because of all the suggestions here, and I can attest they were well worth the price. This morning before the exam I went through all the TD section-based exams and took each one until I scored 90% on every section. I don’t always condone preparing for the exam on the day of but it was certainly a nice confidence booster to help me get mentally prepared.
Pleased to have passed this first time with a score of 775!
For any looking to sit this, I’ve had around 3 years of experience proving 2nd line technical support for an Azure environment. I used the following to prep for this exam:
Scotty Duffy’s Udemy Course – this was a bit of a waste of time and money in my eyes, nowhere near detailed enough. There are some reviews from people saying they passed the exam using this course alone with no experience using Azure but I really do not believe that.
Tim Warner’s YouTube series – this was great bearing in mind it was free. Way more worth the time than Scott’s, I wish I’d have started here.
Tutorials Dojo Practise Exams – I’d only recommend using these exams to test your knowledge and build some confidence, the questions in the exam were more difficult but the format and nature of these give you a good idea of what to expect.
Hope this advice helps some of you – onto the AZ-104!
Step 3) Watch this cram video which will cement in the concepts
Study Material
Use tutorials dojo practice tests and do them until you reach 90+% Passing on average, Every question you get wrong make sure to read the explanation as to why you are wrong.
“Lift and shift” is a strategy for migrating a workload to the cloud without redesigning the application or making code changes. Also called rehosting. For more information, see Azure migration center.
Cloud optimized is a strategy for migrating to the cloud by refactoring an application to take advantage of cloud-native features and capabilities.
App Service. A managed service for hosting web apps, mobile app back ends, RESTful APIs, or automated business processes.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). A managed Kubernetes service for running containerized applications.
Batch. A managed service for running large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) applications
Container Instances. The fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to provision any virtual machines and without having to adopt a higher-level service.
Service Fabric. A distributed systems platform that can run in many environments, including Azure or on premises.
Virtual machines. Deploy and manage VMs inside an Azure virtual network.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) lets you provision individual VMs along with the associated networking and storage components. Then you deploy whatever software and applications you want onto those VMs. This model is the closest to a traditional on-premises environment, except that Microsoft manages the infrastructure. You still manage the individual VMs.
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides a managed hosting environment, where you can deploy your application without needing to manage VMs or networking resources. Azure App Service is a PaaS service.
Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) goes even further in removing the need to worry about the hosting environment. In a FaaS model, you simply deploy your code and the service automatically runs it. Azure Functions are a FaaS service.
There is a spectrum from IaaS to pure PaaS. For example, Azure VMs can autoscale by using virtual machine scale sets. This automatic scaling capability isn’t strictly PaaS, but it’s the type of management feature found in PaaS services.
Azure Data Store:
Use the following flowchart to select a candidate data store.
Which of the following choices isn’t a cloud computing category: NAAS, PAAS, SAAS, IAAS, DAAS? – Networking-as-a-Service (NaaS)
To be honest seems like decent set of changes. In addition to reshuffling existing titles and task #s of several items, there is a redistribution of weight across objectives and removing of following sections:
3.1 Describe core solutions available in Azure
5.3 Describe privacy and compliance resources
6.2 Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
I passed Azure Fundamentals AZ900 Certification Testimonials
AZ-900 Passed today. Score of 835.
Achievement Celebration
Path I took:
Microsoft Learn course
John Savill Study Cram
SkillCertPro Practice Tests (were decent for what they were).
I found this somewhat simple and completed within 15 minutes. I do have some experience with Azure but don’t work in it every day. As always, John Savill’s knowledge was a great watch and the MS Learn course was quite good content wise. Exam was not hard but there were some gotcha questions around resource locks, SLAs, ExpressRoute and storage accounts.
Happy to answer any questions.
Passed AZ-900, SC-900, AI-900, and DP-900 within 6 weeks!
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What an exciting journey. I think AZ-900 is the hardest probably because it is my first Microsoft certification. Afterwards, the others are fair enough. AI-900 is the easiest.
I generally used Microsoft Virtual Training Day, Cloud Ready Skills, Measureup and John Savill’s videos. Having built a fundamental knowledge of the Cloud, I am planning to do AWS CCP next. Wish me luck!
Passed Azure Fundamentals
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Hi all,
I passed my Azure fundamentals exam a couple of days ago, with a score of 900/1000. Been meaning to take the exam for a few months but I kept putting it off for various reasons. The exam was a lot easier than I thought and easier than the official Microsoft practice exams.
Study materials;
A Cloud Guru AZ-900 fundamentals course with practice exams
Literally just passed the exam an hour or so ago 🙂 Not full points but whatever, ~900 is enough.
Have 0 experience with any of it, actually just did it for fun because of the discounts on virtual training days and I thought why not, certification looks good.
Spent half of the virtual day course not listening but you have to log in for the exam discount. Around 4h or so in total watching John Savills content and some of the MS resource sites.
Exam questions were often not directly related to all the stuff talked in the courses so some kinda surprised me. Also I only spent like 25min in total going through them twice, much faster than I thought it was gonna be.
Savills content is gold though, a neat summary of the MS product system. MS resource sites are beneficial to go through as well.
Really doubt any of my future employers will actually take notice or care that much given I won’t go into the sysadmin industry but certification is certification right? And it was free 🙂
Now I just need to figure out how to actually get a pdf of the certificate/badge lol
I’m interested if Microsoft actually gives away discounts for the actual admin courses or if they just restrict it to fundamentals to promote their products? Did anyone do the admin exams with discounts?
Azure Certification Path 2022-2023
Popular: Az900 –> AZ104 –> AZ305 or AZ400 or AZ500 or AI900
Here’s a Microsoft certification for you, whether or not you’re thinking about what Microsoft Azure is and where to start, or where you should go next in your cloud job. There are around 16 Azure cloud assertions open. Here is an overview of current Microsoft Azure assertions.
Nuts and bolts Level Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Accomplished Level Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Stack Hub Operator Associate
Expert Level Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Specialty Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty
Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
There are also two other Microsoft assertions that are Azure-related. While we won’t cautiously depict them in this post, dependent upon your master way and limit, they might justify researching.
For security engineers responsible for peril the leaders, checking, and response, the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate confirmation is required. It requires completing the SC-200 appraisal.
Test SC-300 is required for the Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, which is for heads who use Azure AD to manage IAM.
What mightbe prudent for you to do first?
In particular, you should make certain with regards to what a Microsoft Azure confirmation is and isn’t. Is simply clear? Phenomenal! Then, at that point, we ought to explore three circumstances that can assist you with picking where to start.
“I’m new to development. I’m essentially uninformed in regards to this ‘cloud’ that is quite serious.”
You can sort out some way to cloud in the event that you’re the kind of person who counts “Microsoft Word” as a specific capacity on your resume. On the off chance that you’re just beginning started, a section level certification will outfit you with the language and understanding you’ll need to all the more promptly analyze your ensuing stages. The AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals accreditation is your first stop on the Azure road.
The cloud might be alarming, yet the capacities you’ll get as you seek after this accreditation will help you with understanding it in a way that even an all out beginner can understand — especially if you have the right getting ready. (Look at me as a hotshot, yet I think our Azure Fundamentals getting ready is astonishing.)
“I have a fundamental cognizance of the cloud.”
Perhaps you’ve worked in the IT field beforehand. Perhaps you’ve attempted various things with AWS, GCP, or Azure. Do you accept you’re ready to make a dive? Press the brakes. Start with the Azure Fundamentals affirmation, if you haven’t at this point. In the best circumstance, you’ll see it to be a breeze. Regardless, paying little heed to how far you advance in Azure, this accreditation will give the establishment to future accomplishment. The accompanying crosspiece on the ladder (Azure Administrator Associate) can be an inconvenient one to ascend. Before dealing with it, you’ll need all of the Fundamentals data notwithstanding a huge load of Azure included knowledge.
Here are different Azure Certifications (Microsoft Certified)
AZ-900
For beginners, this is the best Microsoft Azure accreditation. It’s an unprecedented spot to start on the off chance that you’re new to appropriated processing or Microsoft Azure. This one would be Azure 101 if test names appeared to be okay and acceptable.
Test AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals ($99 USD) is required.
There are no fundamentals.
For whom this is for?
In a general sense, everyone. Non-particular individuals with a cloud-related calling, similarly as new or cheerful designers or IT experts, could benefit from acknowledging what the cloud is and isn’t. Any person who needs to comprehend the Microsoft Azure environment should have the data expected to complete this evaluation.
Fundamentals DP-900 Microsoft Certified
For inescapable data focused cloud subject matter experts, this is a significant beginning advance assertion.
Test DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals ($99 USD) is required.
There are no fundamentals.
For whom this is for?
This helper is for informational collection draftsmen and data base administrators who are essentially starting with cloud data.
AI Fundamentals AI-900 Microsoft Certified
This Microsoft Azure affirmation exhibits that you appreciate the fundamentals of man-made mental ability (AI) and AI (ML) in Azure for amateurs with both particular and non-specific establishments.
Test AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals ($99 USD) is required.
There are no basics.
For whom this is for?
Reproduced insight Engineers, Data Scientists, Developers, and Solutions Architects with a working data on AL and ML, similarly as Azure organizations related with them. This affirmation, like the others in the Azure Fundamentals series, is normal for those with both specific and non-particular establishments. That proposes data science and PC programming experience aren’t required, but Microsoft recommends making them program data or experience.
Administrator Associate AZ-104 is a Microsoft attestation.
For the IT swarm, this is the rudiments of Azure organization. This takes you from a fundamental perception of the cloud to having the alternative to perform cloud tasks (and get repaid to do them).
Test AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator ($165 USD) is required.
For whom this is for?
This affirmation is for IT specialists and administrators who screen cloud assets and resources and direct cloud system. This test is (mistakenly) seen as an entry level test, yet you’ll need to know an immense heap of anticipated that information should pass and do whatever it takes not to have your AZ denied.
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