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Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Prep

A practical certification course for administering Azure identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, backup, and recovery

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
7.5
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Prep Course

Prepare for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) exam with a focused Cloud Computing course built around the real responsibilities of an Azure administrator. This course helps you build practical skills for managing identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, backup, and recovery across Microsoft Azure environments.

Build Azure Administration Skills For AZ-104 Certification

  • Develop exam-aligned knowledge for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Prep certification path
  • Learn to administer Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, policies, budgets, and subscriptions
  • Gain practical experience with Azure storage, virtual machines, containers, App Service, and infrastructure as code
  • Strengthen Cloud Computing troubleshooting skills with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Network Watcher, backup, and recovery planning

A practical certification course for administering Azure identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, backup, and recovery.

This Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Prep course guides you through the major domains of the AZ-104 exam while keeping the focus on skills you can apply in real Azure environments. You will begin with the Azure administrator role, exam scope, resource hierarchy, subscriptions, and resource groups, giving you the foundation needed to organize and manage Cloud Computing resources with confidence.

From there, you will learn how to manage Microsoft Entra users, groups, external identities, role-based access control, and access review scenarios. The course also covers governance and cost control with management groups, Azure Policy, tags, locks, budgets, cost alerts, Azure Advisor, and subscription management, helping you understand how administrators keep Azure environments secure, compliant, and cost-aware.

You will build hands-on knowledge across storage, compute, and networking administration, including storage account redundancy, encryption, SAS tokens, access keys, Blob Storage, Azure Files, virtual machines, scale sets, ARM templates, Bicep, container services, App Service plans, virtual networks, network security groups, private endpoints, DNS, and load balancers. These topics prepare you to support the core infrastructure that powers modern Cloud Computing workloads on Microsoft Azure.

The course closes with monitoring, troubleshooting, maintenance, backup, recovery services, site recovery, and final exam strategy. By the end, you will be better prepared for the AZ-104 exam and more capable of administering Azure identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, backup, and recovery as a practical Microsoft Azure administrator.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Course Orientation

1 lesson

This lesson orients you to the AZ-104 exam and the real Azure Administrator role it measures. You will map the certification objective areas to day-to-day administrator responsibilities: identity and …

Azure Foundations

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Azure Resource Hierarchy, Subscriptions, and Resource Groups

20 min
This lesson explains how Azure organizes resources from the tenant level down to individual resources. You will learn how management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources fit together,…

Identity and Access

2 lessons

Lesson 3: Managing Microsoft Entra Users, Groups, and External Identities

22 min
This lesson teaches the Azure administrator tasks behind Microsoft Entra users, groups, and guest collaboration. It focuses on creating and maintaining directory objects, choosing the right group type…

Lesson 4: Role-Based Access Control and Access Review Scenarios

23 min
This lesson teaches how Azure administrators use role-based access control to grant the right level of access to Azure resources without over-permissioning users, groups, service principals, or manage…

Governance and Cost Control

2 lessons

Lesson 5: Governance with Management Groups, Azure Policy, Tags, and Locks

24 min
This lesson explains how Azure governance controls are applied at scale using management groups, Azure Policy, tags, and resource locks. You will learn how these tools work together to organize subscr…

Lesson 6: Budgets, Cost Alerts, Azure Advisor, and Subscription Management

19 min
This lesson covers the AZ-104 governance and cost-control skills related to Azure subscriptions, budgets, cost alerts, and Azure Advisor. You will learn how administrators use Cost Management to track…

Storage Administration

4 lessons

Lesson 7: Storage Account Types, Redundancy, Encryption, and Networking

23 min
This lesson explains the storage account decisions an Azure administrator must make before creating production storage: account kind, performance tier, redundancy, encryption, and network access. Thes…

Lesson 8: Storage Access: SAS, Access Keys, Stored Policies, and Azure Files Identity

24 min
This lesson covers the access mechanisms an Azure administrator must understand for storage accounts: account access keys, shared access signatures, stored access policies, and identity-based access t…

Lesson 9: Managing Blob Storage, Containers, Tiers, Versioning, and Lifecycle Rules

23 min
This lesson teaches how an Azure administrator manages Blob Storage after a storage account exists: creating containers, choosing access levels, organizing blobs, selecting access tiers, enabling vers…

Lesson 10: Managing Azure Files, Snapshots, Soft Delete, AzCopy, and Storage Explorer

21 min
This lesson teaches the operational tools Azure administrators use to manage Azure Files after the share exists: snapshots, soft delete, AzCopy, and Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer. The focus is on p…

Compute Administration

4 lessons

Lesson 11: Virtual Machine Deployment, Sizing, Disks, Images, and Movement

24 min
This lesson teaches how Azure administrators deploy, size, configure, image, and move Azure virtual machines in practical AZ-104 scenarios. It focuses on decisions administrators make before and durin…

Lesson 12: VM Availability, Scale Sets, Encryption at Host, and Operational Management

23 min
This lesson teaches the operational choices an Azure administrator makes after basic VM deployment: how to place workloads for availability, when to use availability sets versus availability zones, ho…

Lesson 14: Container Registry, Container Instances, and Azure Container Apps

21 min
This lesson prepares AZ-104 candidates to administer Azure container services at the platform level: storing images in Azure Container Registry, running simple workloads with Azure Container Instances…

Lesson 15: Azure App Service Plans, Scaling, TLS, Deployment Slots, and Backups

24 min
This lesson prepares learners to administer Azure App Service from an AZ-104 operations perspective: choosing and managing App Service plans, scaling apps, securing inbound traffic with TLS, using dep…

Infrastructure as Code

1 lesson

Lesson 13: ARM Templates and Bicep for Azure Resource Deployment

22 min
This lesson explains how Azure Resource Manager templates and Bicep help administrators deploy Azure resources consistently, repeatably, and with less manual portal work. Learners will see how declara…

Azure Networking

3 lessons

Lesson 16: Virtual Networks, Subnets, Public IPs, Peering, and User-Defined Routes

24 min
This lesson teaches the core Azure networking objects an AZ-104 candidate must be able to configure and reason about: virtual networks, subnets, public IP addresses, VNet peering, and user-defined rou…

Lesson 17: Network Security Groups, Application Security Groups, Bastion, and Secure Access

23 min
This lesson explains how Azure administrators use Network Security Groups, Application Security Groups, Azure Bastion, and secure administrative access patterns to reduce exposure while keeping virtua…

Lesson 18: Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints, Azure DNS, and Load Balancers

24 min
This lesson explains how Azure administrators use private connectivity, DNS, and load balancing to make applications reachable without exposing unnecessary public attack surface. You will compare Priv…

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Alerts, Insights, and Network Watcher

25 min
Azure administrators need more than deployment skills; they need to see what is happening, detect problems early, and troubleshoot with evidence. This lesson covers the monitoring and troubleshooting …

Maintenance and Exam Readiness

1 lesson

Lesson 20: Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults, Site Recovery, and Final Exam Strategy

25 min
This lesson closes the AZ-104 course by focusing on the maintenance skills that Microsoft expects Azure administrators to apply in real environments: configuring backup, choosing the right vault, rest…
About Your Instructor
Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis

Professor Mark Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.