AZ-104 Study roadmap
AZ-104 Study Roadmap
A strong AZ-104 roadmap follows Microsoft’s skills areas and adapts to your weak topics instead of relying on fixed weeks, local counts, or generic study advice.
A strong AZ-104 roadmap follows Microsoft’s skills areas and adapts to your weak topics instead of relying on fixed weeks, local counts, or generic study advice.
Start by reading the Microsoft certification page and AZ-104 study guide. The study guide is the map: identities and governance, storage, compute, virtual networking, and monitoring and maintenance. Write down which tasks you can perform in Azure today and which ones you only recognize by name.
Begin with Microsoft Entra ID users and groups, SSPR, RBAC scopes, Azure Policy, locks, tags, subscriptions, management groups, budgets, and Azure Advisor recommendations. Then move into storage accounts, SAS, stored access policies, access keys, identity-based Azure Files access, redundancy, object replication, encryption, AzCopy, Storage Explorer, blob tiers, soft delete, snapshots, versioning, and lifecycle management.
For compute, practice ARM or Bicep interpretation, VM sizing, disks, encryption at host, resource moves, availability zones and sets, scale sets, Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Registry, and App Service configuration. For networking, draw VNets, subnets, peering, public IPs, UDRs, NSGs, ASGs, Bastion, service endpoints, private endpoints, DNS, and load balancing paths.
Monitoring is where many administration scenarios come together. Practice interpreting Azure Monitor metrics, configuring diagnostic settings, querying logs in Log Analytics, creating alert rules and action groups, using Network Watcher and Connection Monitor, configuring Recovery Services vaults, creating backup policies, restoring data, and understanding Site Recovery failover.
Use practice review to choose the next topic, not to chase local totals. If you miss RBAC questions, review role scope and inheritance. If storage questions are weak, compare access methods and redundancy. If networking questions are weak, trace NSGs, routes, DNS, and endpoints. If monitoring questions are weak, separate metrics, logs, alerts, backup reports, and recovery actions.
Use these DotCreds paths when you are ready to practice, compare options, or keep studying.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate is the credential this DotCreds guide is organized around. Use this page to understand the topic, then move into practice or the guided course when you are ready.
Start with the beginner guide and study roadmap, then use practice questions to find weak areas before you spend time rereading everything.
It can be worth studying when the skills match your target role, current experience, and next job move. The related certifications page can help compare nearby options.
Study time depends on your background. Use a self-paced plan, review missed questions, and keep the official objectives close while you practice.
Start with a focused practice set, then use your missed questions to decide what to study next.
Official and vendor docs used to ground this page.
Official Microsoft certification page for Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, including the role, exam, candidate profile, exam duration, and assessed skills.
Official AZ-104 study guide with the current skills measured, audience profile, domain ranges, and detailed Azure administration objectives.
Explains Azure role-based access control, role assignments, scopes, and access management concepts used in AZ-104 identity and governance tasks.
Explains Azure Storage authorization options, including identity-based access and access keys, relevant to AZ-104 storage administration.
Covers Azure Container Instances concepts used when AZ-104 candidates compare lightweight container deployment options.
Explains how self-service password reset works in Microsoft Entra ID, a current AZ-104 identity and governance topic.
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