Summary

This chapter included complete coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area, Describe Cloud Concepts.

We described the benefits and value of cloud computing, its positioning as a digital transformation enabler, and the audience of cloud computing. We saw that cloud computing is often more of a mindset, and we contrasted it to a traditional computing mindset. We then looked into how computing has a hierarchy of needs, how this evolves with the adoption of cloud computing, and we continued to look at cloud computing as an operations model.

The final exam topics skills covered were the economics of the cloud and the fundamental change of moving from a capital expenditure model to an operational expenditure model, closing with the idea that cloud computing is as much about the people, processes, and business stakeholders as it is about the technology.

Further knowledge beyond exam content was provided to prepare for a real-world, day-to-day, Azure-focused...