core-architectural-components

Core Azure Architectural Components

Prerequisite module · Learning objectives: describe regions, availability zones & region pairs, subscriptions & management groups, resource groups, and Azure Resource Manager.

Overview

This is the mental model of Azure: the global geography (regions/availability zones), the organizational containers (management groups → subscriptions → resource groups), and the control plane (ARM) that manages it all.

Concepts introduced (link to term notes)

• Regions
• availability-zones
• management-groups
• subscription
• resource-group
• scope
• ARM
• arm-template

Key terms

• Scope hierarchy: management group → subscription → resource group → resource

Hands-on

Create a management group for a hypothetical org, add a subscription, and a resource group inside it.

Exam focus

The hierarchy and how granularity/scope flows down — bedrock of AZ-104.

Related

Path MOC · get-started-with-azure