Chapter 3 of 3 · Microsoft AZ-900
Describe Azure Management and Governance
Cost management, governance and compliance, deployment tools, and monitoring.
- 4topics
- 19 minfast track
- 1diagrams and exhibits
- 30–35%of the exam
Topics in this chapter
Take them in order, or jump to the one you need.
- 1Cost Management in AzureAZ-900 cost management: what affects Azure costs, the pricing calculator, Microsoft Cost Management, cost analysis, budgets and…5 min
- 2Governance and Compliance ToolsAZ-900 governance: the purpose of Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy and initiatives, resource locks, and how policy differs from…5 min
- 3Managing and Deploying Azure ResourcesAZ-900 management tools: Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Arc, infrastructure as code, Azure…Diagram5 min
- 4Monitoring Tools in AzureAZ-900 monitoring tools: Azure Advisor, Azure Service Health, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts and Application…4 min
About this chapter
What this chapter covers
This chapter covers how you keep an Azure environment under control: what it costs, which rules apply to it, how you deploy and manage resources, and how you watch their health.
The questions mostly ask which tool does a given job, so the aim is to learn the one line purpose of each tool and tell similar tools apart.
How the topics fit together
The pages follow the life of an environment, from planning the spend, to enforcing rules, to building, to watching.
- Cost management covers what affects cost, the pricing calculator, cost analysis, budgets and tags.
- Governance and compliance covers Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy and resource locks.
- Managing and deploying resources covers the portal, Cloud Shell, the command line tools, Azure Arc, infrastructure as code and Azure Resource Manager.
- Monitoring tools covers Azure Advisor, Azure Service Health and Azure Monitor.
Several tools sound alike. For each topic, write the one sentence that separates a tool from its neighbours, for example Policy against locks and Advisor against Service Health.
How to use these pages
Each topic page has the same shape, so you can skim for what you need.
- What it is: the idea in plain words.
- How it works: the mechanism, with diagrams and tables.
- What to remember for the exam: the facts to memorise.
- Common mistakes: the classic traps.
- Check yourself: three questions to test your understanding.
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