This is the worst online course I have seen on Coursera platform. Boring, tedious, infested by marketing duckspeak. The "instructor" is just a talking head who reads aloud MS sales materials and Microsoft Learn web pages from a teleprompter. The "free sandbox" which is supposed to be used to do the assignments is not working. The subtitles to the videos are auto-generated and have not been edited which makes it difficult to follow the explanations. The graphics in videos is merely decorative and does not help to understand anything. There is a lot of stuff to process and yet you would barely remember anything upon finishing this course. I can clearly envisage how somewhere deep within the rusty cogs of Microsofts bureaucratic machine some unenthusiactic middle manager charged some unqualified and burnt-out grunts with creating this "course" and absolutely no one involved gave a hoot about the result.

Useless, it's an advertising, not an education.

The course requires you to make a "FREE" account to access the Azure services. This "FREE" account does not accept "PREPAID" creditcards for some god forsaken reason, I've paid a month of training on Coursera to access a course that I can't continue or complete if I DONT HAVE A CREDIT CARD. I cannot create the required account without an ACTUAL credit card, cannot complete the tasks and therby finish this course. I think this is actively discriminating and puts me off this course tremendously

The course does a great job of going over Azure capacities with a case study. The course is easy to follow and quizzes useful.

This course is a mess. Clearly a text to speech to text device was used to transcribe the notes of each model. The main instructor speaks very fast and often times there is little or no breath between concepts. The time to digest the material does not seem to be enough. This module needs to be looked over and broken down to allow for a much clearer presentation.

While I’m grateful for the course, it was very hard keeping up with the video commentary from week two onwards, commentary was too fast , difficult to understand concepts as they are not explained , and there is far too much information for beginners . it does indeed sound like a  hard sell to prospective product buyers , rather than a real course to learn the technology. Impossible to learn concepts with this, much much more in-depth reading needed with examples , to actually pass this exam . the text does not actually display what the instructor is saying  for example DNS services is written as DNA , that’s just one example , so a beginner will have an issue here. If I paid for this course I will not be happy  the content is just not enough . you can pass the quiz as multiple tires are given , I passed but I will have to  go through it again and find more material before I start the next course

I would not recommend paying specifically for this course.

It is generally useful but the course needs to be updated to reflect the changes made by Microsoft to the AZ-900 exam in May 2022. The 50% discount for the exam is no longer available  (since over a year according to comments in the discussion forum). The same content is available for free (and up to date) on the Microsoft learn website.

Great introduction to Azure Cloud services. Highly recommend taking this course to get introduction to Azure Cloud services

Better watch some videos on youtube. Do not waste your time and money here. Thank me later.

A very good course to help you understand the basic concepts of Azure. I recommend this course to anyone who want to understand the basic fundamentals of Microsoft Azure. It's a good start to see if this is something you want to pursue.

This course does a great job of going over Azure Cloud Services with case study. I will recommend this course to everyone who is just starting off with Azure & Cloud.

Good preparation. I passed the exam.

I thought the instructor was particularly good. I assume she's an actress just reading a script, but I enjoyed her presentation.

This course is more like a marketing series than cloud computing concepts, I recommend it if and only if you have previous knowledge of the cloud concepts and want to get a job using Azure only

not for the beginners

Concepts are explained very nicely so that the learner evinces keen interest in the subject. The instructors and content creators took lot of efforts so that the learners can learn effortlessly.

Immensely helped to get foundational introduction to Azure fundamentals

At times I felt too much information was presented and could have been presented in separate sections.

Considering how low-quality this course is, it should be offered for free and certainly not through Coursera - which by the way should be doing a better job with its courses quality assurance.

The negatives:

- All labs were impossibile to do, the course is not getting updated and some of the free funcitionality no longer works or works differently making the labs useless.

- I would very much rather see a normal presentation on screen instead of having the instructor on-screen most of the time.

- Despite the course being about Azure Cloud Services - very little of the very interfaces/apps is shown.

- Why there is no notes included from the lessons? Summarized reading sections would be much more helpful than recaps saying what I supposedly learned.

- Why some of the videos are in different format and do not include transcription?

- The transcriptions are automated, seems very low effort on the course custodian's part.

The biggest of them all is difficulty. This course (and the whole specialization) is meant to prepare me for the Azure 900 exam. Why the questions at the end of each lesson are so easy? Why there is so few of them? After all, this is the way to check how much I learned and understood.

Material with videos showing playback errors are a major set back to learning!

Be mindful that the additional readings are much, much longer than 10 minutes. They are probably longer than the course content intself.