Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Pass Rate

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The score you need to pass the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification exam, what the cut score actually means, and how to read your mock results against it.

70% to pass
50 questions
3.1/10 difficulty

The number you need to hit

Published cut score for this certification.

Passing score
70%
700/1000 scaled score
Margin
30%
room for wrong answers, on a flat mock
Wrong answers allowed
15
out of 50 questions

Pass score vs pass rate

Two different numbers that get mixed up constantly.

Pass score (cut score)

The scaled score the vendor publishes. For the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals it is 70%. This is the number you can actually prepare against, and it is the one that decides your result on exam day.

Pass rate (percentage of candidates)

The share of candidates who pass. Microsoft generally does not publish this for individual exams, and the numbers you find online usually come from candidate self-reported surveys. We would rather tell you nothing than tell you a figure we cannot source.

Where you lose points

The exam is not scored flat. Each domain carries its own weight, so a domain where you lose everything can sink a score that looks fine on paper.

Describe cloud concepts28%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 28.000000000000004% of the exam, and it has 13 practice questions here.

Describe Azure architecture and services39%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 39% of the exam, and it has 18 practice questions here.

Describe Azure management and governance33%

Losing this domain entirely costs you 33% of the exam, and it has 19 practice questions here.

The practical version: the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals is not passed by knowing most of the content. It is passed by being strong in the domains that carry weight, and by not leaving one of them empty.

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