AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification

Preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification AZ-104 exam.

Release v10.0 - October 2025

• An entire course refresh for the AZ-104 course. This is being done to align the course with what are the most recent exam objectives.

• All of the videos will be up-to date with the latest User Interface and feature changes to the Azure services. This will provide a more seamless experience for the student and make it easier to follow along to practice on the Azure platform.

• An entire refresh also carried out for the Practice Tests - All Practice Test questions updated.

• Quizzes also added and updated for each section

• Videos added at the end of each section to summarize all important aspects discussed during the section.

• An entire project - What you’ll build in the Project

  • Networking: Two VNets (dev & test), subnets for web/app/DB, VNet peering

  • Security: NSGs/ASGs, Key Vault for admin secrets

  • Access: Azure Bastion for RDP/SSH—no public IPs on VMs

  • Traffic: Internal Load Balancer (backend pools, health probes, persistence)

  • Storage Connectivity: Service Endpoints vs Private Endpoints, plus Private DNS

  • Automation: Bicep modules for VNets, NSGs, VMs, ILB—deploy with param files

Release v9.0 - September 2024

An entire course refresh for the AZ-104 course. This is being done to align the course with what are the most recent exam objectives.

All of the videos will be up-to date with the latest User Interface and feature changes to the Azure services. This will provide a more seamless experience for the student and make it easier to follow along to practice on the Azure platform.

Azure services go through several updates and we need to ensure we align our learning with the most recent updates.

Release v8.1 - July 2023

To keep in line with the exam objective changes on 28th July , the following topics have been added to the course

1. Azure file shares - Snapshots , soft-delete, identity-based authentication

2. Azure Container Apps

3. An entire section on how to use Bicep to deploy Azure resources

Release v8.0 - April 2023

Carried out a complete revision of the Azure Administrator course. Refreshed all videos and ensured course is aligned with the most recent course objectives.

Release v7.0 - January 2022

• Created new sections with revised videos on

  • Monitor and back up Azure resources

  • Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI

  • Azure Resource Manager Templates

Have introduced a lot of chapters on how you can create ARM templates.

• Created around 180 new practice test questions

  
  

Release v6.0 - March 2021

• Refreshed videos on various chapters which includes the following

1. Point-to-Site VPN connections

2. Site-to-Site VPN connections

3. Network Security Groups

4. Azure Standard Load Balancer

5. Azure Backup and Restore for Azure Virtual Machines

6. Azure Firewall

7. Azure Storage Accounts

• Added new videos which includes the following

1. Azure Kubernetes - Adding disks and file shares

2. Azure Web Apps - Backup, Custom domains, SSL

3. Azure Application Gateway - Working with multiple sites

4. Azure Storage Accounts - Object replication, Private Endpoints

   
   

Release v5.0 - December 2020

• Added new contents including the following

  • Creating VM's with Premium Disks

  • Lab on using an Azure Load Balancer with Virtual Machine Scale sets

  • Deployment slots for Azure Web Apps

  • Integration of Azure Web Apps with Azure Virtual Network

  • Usage of various tools available with Network Watcher

• Refreshed chapters to reflect changes in Azure services

  
  

Release v4.0 - April

• Added contents based on AZ-104 skills outline

• Students can use this course to pass either the AZ-103 or the AZ-104 exam

  
  

Release v3.0 - February

• Released newer version of section "Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs)"

• Released newer version of section "Configure and manage virtual networks"

• Released newer version of section "Implement and manage storage"

• Updated section "Manage Azure subscriptions and resources"

• Updated section "Manage identities"

Release - v2.0 - July 2019

• Fresh new look to chapters that explain key concepts on the Azure platform

• Added more chapters on concepts - Resource tagging , storage accounts , Virtual Machine SLA

• Mention on new az PowerShell

• Added chapter on Availability Zones

• Added chapter on implementation of the Azure Standard Load Balancer

Release - v1.1 - June 2019

• Added optional chapters for students who are new to the Azure platform

• Added chapter on Azure subscriptions based on students request

Release - v1.0 - May 2019

• Course contents updated to align with AZ-103 objectives

This course is designed for students who would like to attain the Microsoft Azure Administration Certification

This course has contents for the Exam AZ-104

The objectives covered in this course are

• Manage Azure identities and governance

• Implement and manage storage

• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

• Configure and manage virtual networking

• Monitor and back up Azure resources