Azure AZ-600 study guide
Azure AZ-600 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Exam AZ-600, Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub, was a Microsoft certification exam for IT professionals who deliver infrastructure as a service and platform as a service from their own datacenter using Azure Stack Hub. The role covered planning, deploying, updating, and maintaining Azure Stack Hub infrastructure, configuring resources, managing capacity, and optimizing the services that run on the platform. Candidates were expected to have significant hands-on experience operating Azure Stack Hub environments, to be proficient at managing them with PowerShell, and to understand Azure, virtualization, networking, and identity management. The exam was part of the requirements for Microsoft Certified: Azure Stack Hub Operator Associate. Topics on this exam: Plan and deploy Azure Stack Hub, Provide services, and Manage infrastructure. The Azure AZ-600 study guide has 3 sections and about 912 words.
01Plan and Deploy Azure Stack Hub
Azure Stack Hub is a connected or disconnected private cloud appliance delivered as an integrated system. Planning starts with the capacity and scale unit model: a scale unit is the unit of expansion, and its node count and hardware SKU are fixed by the OEM partner. Understand the difference between connected (telemetry, marketplace syndication, Azure AD identity, billing) and disconnected (no internet, ADFS identity, offline marketplace, capacity-based billing) deployments. Know the deployment prerequisites and decision points: identity provider (Azure AD vs ADFS), Azure registration and billing model, certificate requirements (the PKI certificate set: deployment, portal, admin portal, ARM, graph, blob, table, queue, Key Vault, and the wildcard/CA chain), DNS zones and delegation, time sync, and network design including the BMC network , public VIP pool , and infrastructure/private networks .
345 words, about 2 min02Provide Services on Azure Stack Hub
Providing services means turning the stamp into a consumable cloud for tenants: plans , offers , subscriptions , quotas , and marketplace items . A plan is a group of service offerings (compute, storage, network, Key Vault, web apps, etc.) with quotas. An offer bundles one or more plans and controls base plans vs add-on plans and subscription visibility . Know the tenant experience: users browse the user portal , subscribe to offers, and deploy via the marketplace or Azure Resource Manager templates .
302 words, about 2 min03Manage Infrastructure on Azure Stack Hub
Infrastructure management covers health monitoring , updates , backup , capacity , and diagnostics . The administrator portal surfaces alerts, region health, and update status. Understand update packages (full vs express), the update runbook, and the requirement to check prerequisites and apply OEM firmware through the OEM tooling. Know infrastructure backup : it backs up the stamp's control-plane data to an SMB share, requires an external certificate, and is separate from tenant data backup.
265 words, about 1 min