The AZ-900 exam is designed for anyone getting started with Azure. It validates your understanding of cloud concepts, Azure architecture and services, and Azure management and governance.
Looking specifically for exam questions? See the dedicated AZ-900 practice test page.
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AZ-900 is for students, sales engineers, business stakeholders, and IT staff who are new to Microsoft Azure. That includes people in professional services, the public sector, and software.
AZ-900 is a fundamentals credential, not a job title, so it has no published salary of its own. People who hold it are often in junior cloud, IT support, or business roles that work with Azure. As of 2026, related US systems and junior cloud administration commonly earn about $75,000 to $105,000. UK Azure-related permanent jobs have advertised medians around £57,500 to £65,000, which includes experienced administrators as well as beginners. Western European junior cloud pay is typically lower than US figures in euro terms.
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real AZ-900 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. Microsoft publishes a free Practice Assessment for AZ-900 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. MeasureUp also sells the official practice test linked in the study resources on this page. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
AZ-900 is a knowledge exam. Microsoft does not provide official exam labs you can use to practise this credential. Some Microsoft Learn modules include short exercises, and official instructor-led AZ-900T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. Hands-on practice, if you want it, is in a free Azure, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, or trial tenant rather than an exam lab. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.