How to Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Exam..

Kamlesh Prajapati
3 min readApr 27, 2021

About AZ-104 Exam:
The AZ-104 exam is the updated replacement exam for the AZ-103 exam. It was released by Microsoft at the end of March 2020.

Who Should Take The AZ-104:
The AZ-104 exam is intended to validate the skills and expertise of Azure public cloud.
It needed that individuals have the previous knowledge on deploying, configuring and managing cloud or data center components such as storage, compute and networking.
Microsoft recommend those who are taking this exam should have at-least 6-months of working experience in azure cloud and its services. PowerShell and CLI basic knowledge is expected.

Once you have studied and Schedule the exam and get that passing score, you will now be a rightfully proud Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Exam Topics :
1. Manage Azure Identities and Governance (10 questions)
2. Implement and Manage Storage (9 questions)
3. Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources (19 questions)
4. Configure and Manage Virtual Networking (12 questions)
5. Monitor and Back up Azure Resources (2 questions)
Those are planning to sat on the exam need look each topic in detail. All the questions in the exam are MCQ based.
My personal experience on Exam: Microsoft has their on standard for each certificate exam similarly they sat some standard for AZ-104 as well. And i must say this is quit challenging exam. Some questions are completely based on the scenarios with multiple choice. Exam questions are not same for everyone. Not scaring but my suggestion here is to prepare well before you sat on the exam.
Tricks: Since questions are too long to read in the exam , so my suggestion would be to memories the keywords of the questions as well their answer. This is will help to clear the exam.
Lastly Practice the dummy question as much you can…..

Why AZ-104:
Whether it’s an employer requirement or you are looking to validate your skills, these tests certify your Azure knowledge and are a great addition to your CV. DevOps engineers are in high demand for cloud and this certification certainly create better chance for you to start career and journey with Azure.

Sample Question:
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

You have an Azure subscription that contains the following users in an Azure Active Directory tenant named az104exam.onmicrosoft.com:

Andy creates a new Azure Active Directory tenant named external.az104exam.onmicrosoft.com. You need to create new user accounts in external.az104exam.onmicrosoft.com.

Solution: You instruct Beatrice to create the user accounts.

Does that meet the goal?

Ans: True/False

Reference : https://docs.microsoft.com/da-dk/learn/paths/az-104-administrator-prerequisites/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/fundamentals/add-users-azure-active-directory?view=azure-devops

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/licensing-directory-independence

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Kamlesh Prajapati

DevOps Practitioner (CKA certified , RHOCP Certified, Azure Certified on az-104,az-400,az-303.)