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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

6 Courses
31 Hours
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This certification prep course for the Microsoft Azure Administrator exam is intended to assist in assessing your readiness to take the AZ-104 exam. This exam follows the *Microsoft Job Role* assessment model to ensure that a Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate has the required knowledge and skills to handle the job.

A typical Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. An Azure Administrator can also provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

Skills measured for the exam are: * Manage Azure identities and governance (15-20%) * Implement and manage storage (15-20%) * Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (20-25%) * Configure and manage virtual networking (25-30%) * Monitor and back up Azure resources (10-15%)

**Note:** These percentages are intended to show an estimation of the number of questions to expect for each skill area measured.

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

This certification prep course for the Microsoft Azure Administrator exam is intended to assist in assessing your readiness to take the AZ-104 exam. This exam follows the Microsoft Job Role assessment model to ensure that a Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate has the required knowledge and skills to handle the job.

A typical Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. An Azure Administrator can also provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

Skills measured for the exam are:

Manage Azure identities and governance (20–25%) Implement and manage storage (15–20%) Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (20–25%) Implement and manage virtual networking (15–20%) Monitor and maintain Azure resources (10–15%)

Note: These percentages are intended to show an estimation of the number of questions to expect for each skill area measured.

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  • This certification prep course for the Microsoft Azure Administrator exam is intended to assist in assessing your readiness to take the AZ-104 exam. This exam follows the *Microsoft Job Role* assessment model to ensure that a Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate has the required knowledge and skills to handle the job.
Prerequisites
  • There are no prior certification exams required to achieve the Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 certification. However, candidates should have a minimum of six months of hands-on experience in administering Azure. Candidates should have a strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance.Candidates for this exam should have experience in using PowerShell, the command-line interface, Azure Portal, and ARM templates. Students still needing the required hands-on experience should take the AZ-900 introductory Azure Fundamentals course and then return to take this course.
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