Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) 

About Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) 

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) has been built to tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Administrator. Candidates planning to take AZ-104 exam should also have a strong understanding of core Azure services, workloads, security, and governance.

Who should take AZ-104 exam?

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) exam has been built to facilitate candidates planning a career as Azure Administrator.  Some of the important details listed for candidates planning to take this exam includes - 

• You should have a minimum of six months of hands-on experience administering Azure.
• You should have a strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance.
• You should have experience in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, and ARM templates.

Skills Measured

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)  exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks including -

• Manage Azure identities and governance
• Implement and manage storage
• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
• Configure and manage virtual networking
• Monitor and maintain Azure resources
  

Course Outline

The Microsoft AZ-140 course outline covers the latest and updated topics as per exam updates on October 26, 2023 - 

Domain 1 - Understanding to manage Azure identities and governance (20–25%)

1.1 Explain managing Microsoft Entra users and groups

• Learn to create users and groups
• Learn to manage user and group properties
• Learn to manage licenses in Microsoft Entra ID
• Learn to manage external users
• Learn to configure self-service password reset (SSPR)

1.2 Explain managing access to Azure resources

• Learn to manage built-in Azure roles
• Learn to assign roles at different scopes
• Learn to interpret access assignments

1.3 Explain to manage Azure subscriptions and governance

• Learn to implement and manage Azure Policy
• Learn to configure resource locks
• Learn to apply and manage tags on resources
• Learn to manage resource groups
• Learn to manage subscriptions
• Learn to manage costs by using alerts, budgets, and Azure Advisor recommendations
• Learn to configure management groups

Domain 2 - Understanding to implement and manage storage (15–20%)

2.1 Explain to configure access to storage

• Learn to configure Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks
• Learn to create and use shared access signature (SAS) tokens
• Learn to configure stored access policies
• Learn to manage access keys
• Learn to configure identity-based access for Azure Files

2.2 Explain to Configure and manage storage accounts

• Learn to create and configure storage accounts
• Learn to configure Azure Storage redundancy
• Learn to configure object replication
• Learn to configure storage account encryption
• Learn to manage data by using Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy

2.3 Explain configure Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage

• Learn to create and configure a file share in Azure Storage
• Learn to create and configure a container in Blob Storage
• Learn to configure storage tiers
• Learn to configure snapshots and soft delete for Azure Files
• Learn to configure blob lifecycle management
• Learn to configure blob versioning

Domain 3 - Understanding to Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (20–25%)

3.1 Explain to automate deployment of resources by using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep files

• Learn to interpret an Azure Resource Manager template or a Bicep file
• Learn to modify an existing Azure Resource Manager template
• Learn to modify an existing Bicep file
• Learn to deploy resources by using an Azure Resource Manager template or a Bicep file
• Learn to export a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template or convert an Azure Resource Manager template to a Bicep file

3.2 Explain to create and configure virtual machines

• Learn to create a virtual machine
• Learn to configure Azure Disk Encryption
• Learn to move a virtual machine to another resource group, subscription, or region
• Learn to manage virtual machine sizes
• Learn to manage virtual machine disks
• Learn to deploy virtual machines to availability zones and availability sets
• Learn to deploy and configure an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

3.3 Explain provisioning and managing containers in the Azure portal

• Learn to create and manage an Azure container registry
• Learn to provision a container by using Azure Container Instances
• Learn to provision a container by using Azure Container Apps
• Learn to manage sizing and scaling for containers, including Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps

3.4 Explain creating and configuring Azure App Service

• Learn to provision an App Service plan
• Learn to configure scaling for an App Service plan
• Learn to create an App Service
• Learn to configure certificates and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for an App Service
• Learn to map an existing custom DNS name to an App Service
• Learn to configure backup for an App Service
• Learn to configure networking settings for an App Service
• Learn to configure deployment slots for an App Service

Domain 4 - Understanding to implement and manage virtual networking (15–20%)

4.1 Explain to configure and manage virtual networks in Azure

• Learn to create and configure virtual networks and subnets
• Learn to create and configure virtual network peering
• Learn to configure public IP addresses
• Learn to configure user-defined network routes
• Learn to troubleshoot network connectivity

4.2 Explain to configure secure access to virtual networks

• Learn to create and configure network security groups (NSGs) and application security groups
• Learn to evaluate effective security rules in NSGs
• Learn to implement Azure Bastion
• Learn to configure service endpoints for Azure platform as a service (PaaS)
• Learn to configure private endpoints for Azure PaaS

4.3 Explain to Configure name resolution and load balancing

• Learn to configure Azure DNS
• Learn to configure an internal or public load balancer
• Learn to troubleshoot load balancing
  

Domain 5 - Monitor and maintain Azure resources (10–15%)

5.1 Explain to monitor resources in Azure

• Learn to interpret metrics in Azure Monitor
• Learn to configure log settings in Azure Monitor
• Learn to query and analyze logs in Azure Monitor
• Learn to set up alert rules, action groups, and alert processing rules in Azure Monitor
• Learn to configure and interpret monitoring of virtual machines, storage accounts, and networks by using Azure Monitor Insights
• Learn to use Azure Network Watcher and Connection Monitor
  

5.2 Explain to implement backup and recovery

• Learn to create a Recovery Services vault
• Learn to create an Azure Backup vault
• Learn to create and configure a backup policy 
• Learn to perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup
• Learn to configure Azure Site Recovery for Azure resources
• Learn to perform a failover to a secondary region by using Site Recovery
• Learn to configure and interpret reports and alerts for backups

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