Harshul Patel - Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

The AZ-104 exam focuses on common tasks and concepts that an administrator needs to understand to deploy and manage infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. Manage Azure identities and Azure subscriptions is a key topic on the exam, which includes managing Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices), use of Azure AD join and self-service password resets; it also covers role based access control, tagging, subscription level policies and resource organization using resource groups, subscription and management groups. Another topic covered is implement and manage storage, which includes creating and configuring storage accounts as well as configuring Azure files and understanding the services for importing and exporting data to Azure. A significant portion of the exam is focused on deploying and managing Azure compute resources, which includes configuring high availability of Azure VMs, creating and configuring virtual machine and their automated deployments as well as creating and configuring container solutions such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Instances (ACI); it also covers configuring web apps using app service and app service plans. This book also covers the creation and management of virtual networks, DNS, connectivity between virtual networks, configuring network security groups, Azure firewall and Azure bastion service; it also explains the load balancing solutions including configuration of application gateway. The final topic is monitor and backup Azure resources, which includes topics on how to monitor resources using Azure Monitor as well as how to implement back and recovery of Azure VMs including site to site recovery using Azure site recovery.

This book is geared toward Azure administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking and compute. It explains how to configure and deploy services across a broad range of related Azure services to help you prepare for the exam.

This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the reference links provided throughout this book and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on Microsoft Docs.

This book is organized by the Skills measured list published for the exam. The Skills measured list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learning website: https://aka.ms/examlist. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapters organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book will contain six chapters.