AZ-900 Unit 3: Azure Management and Governance Curriculum Overview

This document provides a comprehensive roadmap for mastering the third unit of the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) curriculum. This unit focuses on how organizations maintain control, manage costs, and monitor their cloud environment.

Prerequisites

Before beginning this unit, students should have a solid grasp of the following foundational concepts from Units 1 and 2:

• Cloud Service Types: Understanding the difference between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, as management responsibilities shift depending on the model.
• Azure Hierarchy: Familiarity with Subscriptions, Management Groups, and Resource Groups, as governance is applied across these layers.
• Basic Networking & Compute: General knowledge of Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks to understand what is being monitored and secured.

[!IMPORTANT] Mastery of the Shared Responsibility Model is essential here; management and governance tools are the primary way customers fulfill their side of the security and compliance