Azure 4 Everyone

• Describe Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
• Compare and contrast the three different service types

• Describe the consumption-based model

• Describe the principles of economies of scale

• Describe the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)

• Describe what is Cloud Computing
• Describe terms such as High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery

Azure Fundamentals certification is an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts, core Azure services, Azure pricing, SLA, and lifecycle, and the fundamentals of cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust.

My latest tutorial about basics of Azure Active Directory is here. It is a very powerful identity and access management service that is very well integrated with majority of Microsoft’s cloud services.