I just sat and passed AZ-900

I just sat and passed AZ-900 with 858/1000.

I used my company's Udemy Academy subscription. This gave me access to:

1. Scott Duffy's online course AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Exam Prep - 2020 Edition
2. Scott Duffy's online course Azure Serverless Functions and Logic Apps
3. Thomas Mitchell's online course AZ-900 Azure Exam Prep: Security Privacy Compliance & Trust

I studied 3.5 days then sat and passed the exam.

I've discovered I can sit the exam from my home office. Most convenient. Although I had to rearrange my entire office to make it "sparse". And I wasn't allowed to cover my mouth. And I wasn't allowed to mumble the questions and/or answers. But it was jolly convenient none-the-less.

It helps that I was previously a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (.NET).

I really liked Scott's approach. Broke up "Death by PowerPoint" with useful demos and hands on labs.

Next steps:

1. AZ-103 Admin
2. AZ-203 Developer
3. AZ-300 Architect
4. AZ-301 Architect

I'm thinking that even though I'm a developer, I want to do 103 before 203, because it will give me a broader understanding leading up to 300 and 301. Is this sound thinking?

My new training plan

I just created a new training plan for myself.  What do you think?

Level	Title	Role	Exam
Novice	Azure Fundamentals	Fundamentals	AZ-900
Intermediate	Azure Developer	Associate	AZ-203
Intermediate	Azure Administrator	Associate	AZ-103
Expert	Azure Architect Technologies	Expert	AZ-300
Expert	Azure Architect Design	Expert	AZ-301

 AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

• Understand cloud concepts (15-20%)
• Understand core Azure services (30-35%)
• Understand security, privacy, compliance, and trust (25-30%)
• Understand Azure pricing and support (20-25%)

AZ-103 Azure Administrator

• Manage Azure subscriptions and resources (15-20%)
• Implement and manage storage (15-20%)
• Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) (15-20%)
• Configure and manage virtual networks (30-35%)
• Manage identities (15-20%)

AZ-203 Azure Developer Associate

• Develop Azure Infrastructure as a Service compute solution (10-15%)
• Develop Azure Platform as a Service compute solution (20-25%)
• Develop for Azure storage (15-20%)
• Implement Azure security (10-15%)
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions (10-15%)
• Connect to and consume Azure and third-party services (20-25%)

AZ-300 Azure Architecture Technologies 

• Deploy and configure infrastructure (25-30%)
• Implement workloads and security (20-25%)
• Create and deploy apps (5-10%)
• Implement authentication and secure data (5-10%)
• Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage (20-25%)

AZ-301 Azure Architect Design

• Determine workload requirements (10-15%)
• Design for identity and security (20-25%)
• Design a data platform solution (15-20%)
• Design a business continuity strategy (15-20%)
• Design for deployment, migration, and integration (10-15%)
• Design an infrastructure strategy (15-20%)