One session a day
Read a class and do its drills, or sit down for a build. Roughly 90 minutes, ten hours a week. Miss a day? Pick up where you left off — the order matters more than a perfect streak.
Four builds, three capstones
Each phase ends in a milestone build, and the last stretch is three capstones. You finish with real projects and the words to defend them — the thing "no experience" is really asking for.
Post your progress
Tick each day here to save your place, and share your "Day N" in the common room. Doing it in public is what carries most people across the finish line.
What the Azure Zero to Hero roadmap covers
Not a playlist of logos — a sequenced path through everything a junior Azure cloud engineer is expected to have touched, each mapped to a class and a hands-on build:
Prefer to learn by doing? The hands-on CAMPUX labs give you do-it-yourself exercises, and the four milestone builds and three capstones become real projects in your own GitHub — the proof of work that gets a junior hired.
You finish with receipts, not a certificate alone.
Complete the plan and you have three capstones, four milestone builds, and a completion certificate you can verify — plus the interview vocabulary to walk through all of it. Then the real work: the Start-here path for your first two weeks of job-hunting, and the roles this maps to.
Questions people also ask
Is there a free Azure Zero to Hero course?
Yes — this is one. The 100 Days of Azure plan is a free Azure Zero to Hero course: all 42 classes, the hands-on labs, the four milestone builds and the three capstones are free, with no card and no paywall. It sequences them day by day from what the cloud is to a portfolio you can defend. You only ever pay for an exam if and when you choose to sit one.
Can I download the 100 Days of Azure roadmap as a PDF?
Yes. Use the Save as PDF button on the roadmap and your browser prints the whole 100-day plan to a clean PDF you can keep or pin up — no email wall. The living version on the site is better for actually doing it, because it saves your progress as you tick off each day, which a static PDF cannot.
Does the plan cover Terraform, Bicep and Azure DevOps?
Yes. The DevOps stretch takes you from Git through infrastructure as code with both Bicep and Terraform, CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines, and a full GitOps milestone build. Containers and AKS, monitoring with KQL, security and cost management each get their own days, and the last classes reach into AI infrastructure.
Does this prepare me for AZ-104 and AZ-305?
The plan is built on the same ground AZ-900 and AZ-104 test, so it doubles as an Azure Zero to Hero study path for those exams, and the later architecture and AI classes reach into AZ-305 territory. The goal is job-ready skill first; the certificates become far easier once you can actually do the work rather than only recall it.
Can you learn Azure in 100 days?
You can get genuinely job-ready in 100 days if you treat it as one focused session a day rather than a cram. This plan maps every class, milestone build and capstone across 100 days at roughly 90 minutes each, taking you from what the cloud is to three portfolio projects you can defend in an interview. It is a foundation to keep building on, not a finish line.
How many hours a day is the 100 Days of Azure challenge?
About 90 minutes a day, or roughly ten hours a week. Each day is one class read plus its drills, or a hands-on build session. You can go faster if you have more time, or stretch the 100 days over a longer calendar if life is busy — the order matters more than the pace. Missing a day is fine; just pick up where you left off.
Is the 100 Days of Cloud challenge worth it?
Yes, if you actually finish and build the projects. The value is not the streak, it is that you end with real proof — milestone builds and three capstones — plus the vocabulary to explain them. Doing it in public, posting your progress each day, also builds accountability and a small network, which is often what carries people across the finish line.
Do I need coding or a computer science degree to start?
No. The plan starts from what the cloud is and assumes no prior experience or degree. You will pick up the little bit of scripting and Git you need along the way, in the classes that cover them. Curiosity and showing up most days matter far more than a background in computer science — plenty of people make this switch from non-technical jobs.