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Explain subscriptions, management groups, policy, RBAC and landing-zone responsibilities
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FinOps Academy · Enterprise Assessment Center
Azure Platform Engineering Assessment
Measure practical capability across Azure governance, identity, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, automation and operations.
Objective: Validate that learners can design, operate and troubleshoot secure Azure platforms using evidence-based decisions.
Practical guidance
Assessment scope and competencies
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Compare compute, storage, networking and integration choices against workload requirements
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03
Describe monitoring, backup, patching, automation and lifecycle controls
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Scenario and practical challenges
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Diagnose an unreachable workload through DNS, routing, security, identity and service-health layers
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02
Design a governed hub-and-spoke workload onboarding pattern
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03
Plan a resilient production service with measurable recovery objectives
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Practical guidance
Scoring and evidence standards
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Award points for accurate diagnosis, architecture quality, risk awareness and validation depth
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02
Require commands, diagrams, logs or configuration evidence for practical answers
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03
Separate conceptual knowledge from demonstrated operational competence
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Improvement and readiness plan
01
Map missed objectives to focused AI Coach lessons and labs
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02
Repeat weak domains through scenario-based reassessment
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03
Record a measurable 30-day improvement target
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