Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Practice Test
Build your confidence for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104). Practice the concepts, understand the answers, and strengthen your knowledge one question at a time.
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Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) assesses administration of Azure identities and governance, storage, compute, virtual networking, and monitoring and maintenance. Microsoft's guide specifies percentage ranges rather than one fixed share for each domain. This practice page supports review of administrative decisions and troubleshooting; practical work with Azure tools remains important alongside answering questions.
Sample Questions
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A company has 40 subscriptions for departments and wants one policy assignment to require diagnostic settings across all production subscriptions. What should be used as the assignment scope?
You need an Azure RBAC role that can assign roles but cannot manage all resources. Which built-in role matches?
A contractor needs access to create support tickets but must not manage resources. Which built-in role is most appropriate at the subscription?
A VM emits performance counters to a Log Analytics workspace. You need to query CPU trends with Kusto. Which Azure Monitor data store is used?
A VMSS should add instances when average CPU remains above 75 percent for 10 minutes and remove them when below 30 percent. What should you configure?
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Exam insights and study advice
For each administrative scenario, identify the target resource, required permission, network path and verification step. Explain how you would check the result with the portal, CLI or PowerShell. Keep a short error log linking each missed concept to its Microsoft Learn objective. Treat a repeated correct answer as a prompt to explain the reasoning, not proof of exam readiness.
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What this exam covers
Use the published domain weights to plan your study. Practice results do not predict your certification exam score.
01Configure and manage virtual networking
Set up virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, and connectivity solutions like VPN and ExpressRoute.
Topics
- Virtual networks
- Subnets
- NSGs
- Azure DNS
- VPN Gateway
- ExpressRoute
- Load Balancer
02Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Provision and maintain virtual machines, containers, and other compute options in Azure.
Topics
- VMs
- Availability sets
- Scale sets
- App Service
- Container instances
- AKS
03Implement and manage storage
Deploy and configure Azure Storage accounts, blobs, files, and queues for data storage and retrieval.
Topics
- Storage accounts
- Blob storage
- Azure Files
- Redundancy
- Access tiers
- AzCopy
04Manage Azure identities and governance
Handle Azure Active Directory, role-based access control, and governance features to secure and manage resources.
Topics
- Azure AD
- Users/Groups
- RBAC
- Custom roles
- Administrative units
- Azure AD Connect
05Manage Azure subscriptions and resources
Organize resources using resource groups, tags, and policies for efficient management and cost control.
Topics
- Subscriptions
- Management groups
- Azure Policy
- Resource locks
- Tags
- Cost Management
06Monitor and back up Azure resources
Use Azure Monitor, Azure Advisor, and backup services to track performance and ensure data recovery.
Topics
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Alerts
- Azure Backup
- Site Recovery
- Network Watcher