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About the Course

Whether you're just beginning to work with the cloud or you already have cloud experience and are new to Microsoft Azure, this course provides you with everything you need to get started. It introduces you to Microsoft Azure core concepts and services. You’ll learn the basics of cloud computing, its advantages, and how to choose the right Microsoft Azure solution for different business scenarios. You’ll use the Microsoft Azure portal and a sandbox to create and test Microsoft Azure resources at no cost to you. You don’t need to write code or have scripting skills to do this. You’ll learn about several of the database and big data services that are available on Microsoft Azure. You'll also learn how to take advantage of several virtualization services in Microsoft Azure compute, which can help your applications scale out quickly and efficiently to meet increasing demands. Finally, you’ll learn about the different storage and virtual network options available in Microsoft Azure. This course can help you prepare for AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. This is the first course in a four-course program that prepares you to take the AZ-900 certification exam. This course teaches you the core concepts and skills that are assessed in the cloud concepts and core Microsoft Azure services exam domains. This beginner course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Microsoft Azure and want to learn about Microsoft Azure offerings and get hands-on experience with the product. To be successful in this course, you need to have basic computer literacy and proficiency in the English language. You should be familiar with basic computing concepts and terminology, general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development. You should also be familiar with the concept of application programming interfaces or APIs. It is beneficial to have a high-level familiarity with relevant Microsoft products such as Dynamics 365 and Office 365....

Top reviews

BS

Jun 4, 2021

Concepts are explained very nicely so that the learner evinces keen interest in the subject. The instructors and content creators took lot of efforts so that the learners can learn effortlessly.

SB

Nov 13, 2022

first of all thank you,"coursera 'developing our skills & knowledge based for better understanding the concept. this is only possible for coursera learning platform.thanks a lots.

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By rajat s

Oct 6, 2024

Good for getting an overview, but the course content is buggy. It might have been a good course in 2021. Sadly, it hasn't been updated since then, and a lot of links are broken, videos don't work, and some info is outdated (ex: the instructions on creating a sandbox and SQL DB). That this course was/is created by Microsoft, makes all this even more surprising. I hope they update the course.

By Dan M

Nov 9, 2021

There were not enough oportunities to practive things in the Azure cloud in order to explore the theoretical concepts introduced in the course. Also, some of the links to the Azure learning environment (i.e concierge subscription) provided in the course instructions did not work, which made it difficult to do the excercises without a lot of searching around for fixes.

By Maja F

Apr 11, 2022

Don't fall for the trap like I did. There is no voucher for 50% off the AZ-900 certificate exam. The links to the Microsoft Sandbox where the exercises are to be done are broken. There is no moderator in the forums and questions are not answered. The content is not too terrible so if you want to learn, just audit the courses.

By Hugh A

Jun 12, 2023

The presenter clearly does not understand the material.

The majority of this course is simply a list of Azure services.

There is very little interaction and very little practical work.

Really ... this course was incredibly boring !

Coursera ... and Microsoft ... I think you can do better !!!

By Taha Y A

May 1, 2023

Not that much interactive. Seems like instructor is the just reading the text from screens. Also English Language used is kinda difficult and not have been designed to use simplest words so quite difficult for non-native English speakers.

By Niko T

Jan 23, 2022

Honestly this course feeled like a glorified add. It told us stuff we can do and what advantages we have, but failed to mention what disadvantages there are against similar solutions, thus giving us very narrow minded approach.

By Ana M G L

Mar 9, 2024

Hay problemas con los cuestionarios, se cierran según los estas completando y es todos los días, tengo que volver a entrar, se me quedan a medias, no se a que se debe este error pero es muy molesto.

By Boruc M

Jan 14, 2023

A little bit outdated with one video that is unavailable. Subtitles auto-generated are not always accurate and sometimes confuses. I expected better quality.

By Leonardo T B

Dec 9, 2023

A bit of a mess. The course feels like a week long MS advertisement. There are graded assessments with questions on subjects that were not delivered yet.

By Sanchita V R

Jan 5, 2025

unable to open sandbox. also unable to go to next module of the course :- https://www.coursera.org/learn/microsoft-azure-management-security

By Ferran G i B

Dec 17, 2021

A bit of a commercial approach. More schemes and representations needed, as well as explaining key concepts more extensively.

By Jorge L

Oct 19, 2023

Hands-on exercises does not include all you need to be completed. I could not use sandboxes so i had to use my Azure account.

By LO L Y

Feb 28, 2023

The materials are useful as an introduction, but the lab exercises are not well prepared, often with broken links.

By Tan C G

Mar 8, 2025

Some of the video link is broken. Subtitles/Closed Caption(CC) is wrong sometimes. Please fix it ASAP.

By Charles C

Jan 29, 2022

There is a lack of summary notes as a take away, only videos and links to microsoft website

By Luigi A D S

Jul 1, 2022

This course seems more like a marketing tool for MS services and products.

By Nancy K

Dec 7, 2021

Labs didn't work as described. No response to requests for help.

By Venkata V A A

Feb 12, 2023

Content is Great, But not really beginner friendly.

By Angela N

Mar 22, 2025

the labs don't work as stated in the instructions

By Ahmed A

Jan 20, 2022

Not Bad

By Lidia B

May 30, 2023

Please read the reviews before enrolling in this course. I gave it a 1 star since I wanted to draw attention more than anything else, otherwise I think most of the course content is relevant and useful up to a certain point. Issues have been reported related to Week 2 website creation longer than a month ago and nothing has been done to correct this issue. It is very difficult to contact either Microsoft and Coursera customer support to help with this ongoing and frustrating issue and the only way to get help is via a redundant Bot that goes in circles, so before enrolling in the course, be warned that there are ongoing issues with some of the content and the support is inexistent.

By VISHAL N

Jan 15, 2022

Appreciate the efforts put in by the instructor but the course is not understandable as it is and I had to refer to several other online resources to get the concepts cleared. It felt as if the instructor was simply reading through the script without trying to explain any particular topic in detail. Again, thanks for taking the effort but the course could have been much better. The courses designed by google/aws are much more in detail and understandable!

By Ryan C

May 14, 2025

Outdated information, and several of the videos and activities in the course are broken and are not functional. This made is difficult to follow the course and I found myself having to use 3rd party resources to make up for what this course did not provide. I wouldn't recommend this course as it was last updated 5 years ago, and although many people have been complaining about items in the course that do not work, nothing has been done about it.

By Marco N

Jan 31, 2023

Very disappointed. There is a problem with the sandbox activation link so I can't do the practical part. I have pointed out the problem but have had no response. I have seen that other users pointed out the same problem more than 6 months ago and have had no response either. I don't understand that a paid course can make this kind of mistakes. Now I will have to look for another Cloud Computing course after losing a day of study.

By Michel d S M

Jul 13, 2022

Some of the extra videos do not play, especially in Week 3. Also, the main videos are presented in a way that you lose motivation to continue studying: same tone of voice, no emotions, just reading from a teleprompter.

There is very little practice. The idea is to keep memorising concepts and hope for the best.

Overall, the course was not useful. It did not help me get the skills I wanted to use Azure in practice.