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The Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification enables you to learn how to implement, manage, and monitor your or your organization’s Microsoft Azure environment while leveraging the tools and services available on Azure. This is an intermediate level certification, so I would recommend you to set aside some time to study for the exam and practice using some of the services related to this exam - ‘Practice makes perfect In this study guide, I will share with you some of the useful resources you can use to guide you during your learning path to get this certification. NOTE This study guide is aligned with the content changes implemented on September 24, 2021. To understand the content changes done, please visit this link and download the exam skills outline. |
Certification Path
| Exam Name | Link |
| Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator | Exam Details |
Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
The AZ-104 has a length of two hours. There are 50+ questions and you need a minimum of 700 of 1000 points to pass the exam.
The first place to go is the Microsoft Learn platform where a dedicated learning path is available, for free. Also, you should have a look at the Resources section in this study guide where you have useful resources to help you consolidate the knowledge that will help you get the exam and certification. If you prefer to watch videos, instead of reading, explaining these core concepts, and showing how to get prepared for the exam, then I invite you to have a look at the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104), available on Pluralsight.
Skills measured
Manage Azure identities and governance (15–20%)
Manage Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) objects
- Create users and groups
- Creating a new user in Azure AD
- Bulk create users in Azure Active Directory
- Add or update a user’s profile information using Azure Active Directory
- Add or remove group owners in Azure Active Directory
- Bulk delete users in Azure Active Directory
- Add or delete users using Azure Active Directory
- Create a basic group and add members using Azure Active Directory
- New-AzureADUser
- New-AzureADGroup
- New-AzureADMSGroup
- Create administrative units
- Manage user and group properties
- Manage device settings
- Perform bulk user updates
- Manage guest accounts
- What is guest user access in Azure Active Directory B2B?
- Quickstart: Add guest users to your directory in the Azure portal
- Restrict guest access permissions in Azure Active Directory
- Add Azure Active Directory B2B collaboration users in the Azure portal
- Manage guest access with Azure AD access reviews
- Configure Azure AD join
- Configure self-service password reset
- Plan an Azure Active Directory self-service password reset deployment
- Tutorial: Enable users to unlock their account or reset passwords using Azure Active Directory self-service password reset
- Customize the user experience for Azure Active Directory self-service password reset
- How it works: Azure AD self-service password reset
Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Create a custom role
- Provide access to Azure resources by assigning roles at different scopes
- What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)?
- Azure built-in roles
- Tutorial: Grant a user access to Azure resources using the Azure portal
- Tutorial: Grant a group access to Azure resources using Azure PowerShell
- Assign a user as an administrator of an Azure subscription
- Add or change Azure subscription administrators
- Classic subscription administrator roles, Azure roles, and Azure AD roles
- List Azure role assignments using the Azure portal
- Elevate access to manage all Azure subscriptions and management groups
- Interpret access assignments
- Configure Azure policies
- What is Azure Policy?
- Quickstart: Create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources
- Tutorial: Create and manage policies to enforce compliance
- Quickstart: Create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources using Azure PowerShell
- Quickstart: Create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources with Azure CLI
- Quickstart: Create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources using Python
- Configure resource locks
- Apply and manage tags on resources
- Manage resource groups
- What is Azure Resource Manager?
- Manage Azure Resource Manager resource groups by using the Azure portal
- Manage Azure resources by using Azure CLI
- Move resources to a new resource group or subscription
- Move a VM to another subscription or resource group
- Azure Resource Manager resource group and resource deletion
- Manage subscriptions
- Pay for your Azure subscription by invoice
- Create an additional Azure subscription
- Export and view your top-level Subscription information
- Add or change Azure subscription administrators
- Cancel your Azure subscription
- Transfer billing ownership of an Azure subscription to another account
- Pluralsight - Managing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions
- Manage costs
- Configure management groups
Implement and manage storage (15–20%)
Secure storage
- Configure network access to storage accounts
- Create and configure storage accounts
- Generate shared access signature (SAS) tokens
- Manage access keys
- Configure Azure AD authentication for a storage account
- Configure access to Azure Files
Manage storage
- Export from Azure job
- Import into Azure job
- Install and use Azure Storage Explorer
- Copy data by using AZCopy
- Implement Azure Storage replication
- Configure blob object replication
Configure Azure files and Azure Blob Storage
- Create an Azure file share
- Create and configure Azure File Sync service
- Configure Azure Blob Storage
- Configure storage tiers
- Configure blob lifecycle management
Sagar LadPosted Sep 24, 2021, 8:13 PM
Informative article