Microsoft · AZ-104 · Associate · Intermediate
Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) exam objectives
Microsoft publishes 5 exam domains with official weightings. The weight tells you where your marks come from, so your study time should roughly follow it.
1. Manage Azure identities and governance
24%- Microsoft Entra ID: users, groups, administrative units and licence assignment
- RBAC: built-in versus custom roles, and scope inheritance across the management hierarchy
- Subscriptions and governance: management groups, Azure Policy, resource locks, tags
- Cost management: budgets, alerts and cost analysis
2. Implement and manage storage
19%- Storage accounts: redundancy options (LRS/ZRS/GRS/GZRS) and access tiers
- Securing storage with SAS tokens, access keys, firewalls and private endpoints
- Azure Files, File Sync, and blob lifecycle management
- Moving data with AzCopy, Storage Explorer and Import/Export
3. Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
24%- Virtual machines: sizing, availability sets and zones, and scale sets
- ARM templates and Bicep: deploying, and reading a template to predict its result
- Containers: Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service basics
- App Service plans, scaling and deployment slots
4. Implement and manage virtual networking
19%- Virtual networks, subnets, peering and address planning
- Network security groups and application security groups, plus evaluation order
- Load Balancer versus Application Gateway, and when each applies
- Azure DNS, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivity with VPN Gateway
5. Monitor and maintain Azure resources
14%- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics workspaces and basic KQL queries
- Alerts, action groups and Application Insights
- Network Watcher for connectivity troubleshooting
- Backup and recovery: Azure Backup, Recovery Services vaults, Site Recovery
Our practice exam spreads its questions across these exact domains at these weightings, so your score in each one tells you precisely where you stand.
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