Azure Management, Governance and Monitoring

Azure environments grow complex fast. This course builds the skills to keep large Azure deployments efficient, compliant, and healthy—covering cost management, governance, repeatable deployments, and infrastructure monitoring. You'll start with FinOps fundamentals: identifying the factors that drive Azure costs, forecasting spend with the Pricing and TCO calculators, tracking costs through Microsoft Cost Management, and using resource tags for cost allocation and reporting. Next, you'll set governance guardrails with Azure Policy to enforce organizational standards, Resource Locks to protect critical resources, the Service Trust Portal to support compliance needs, and Microsoft Purview for data governance and classification. The course then covers deployment and monitoring. You'll learn the tools for interacting with Azure—portal, CLI, PowerShell, and Cloud Shell—and how Azure Resource Manager and Infrastructure as Code enable consistent, repeatable deployments. You'll see how Azure Arc extends management to on-premises and multi-cloud resources. Finally, you'll use Azure Advisor, Service Health, and Azure Monitor to optimize performance, track health, and catch issues early. Mock exams and Microsoft's official AZ-900 practice test round out the course, giving you targeted preparation for the certification exam. Who this is for: Cloud managers, DevOps practitioners, IT administrators, and solution architects who want stronger cost, governance, and monitoring practices in Azure.