Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

Azure administration gaps create operational risk: misconfigured identity, storage, networking, compute, or monitoring can lead to access issues, service interruptions, and slow cloud delivery. IT Directors can assign this AZ-104 course to Azure administrators, cloud operations teams, and IT Practitioners with about a year of Azure services experience who need a structured path through day-to-day Azure administration and Microsoft certification readiness.

The curriculum is a realistic ~17-hour per learner commitment before review and practice time. Team Leads can roll it out by role: start with Azure regions, resources, PowerShell, and Azure CLI; then assign storage, Azure AD roles, VMs, VNets, App Services, containers, ARM/Bicep templates, backup, recovery, and Azure Monitor based on operational responsibilities. For change management, this course is best used to standardize how teams deploy, secure, monitor, and recover Azure resources before expanding cloud workloads.

IT teams complete this AZ-104 training to make Azure administration more consistent across identity, storage, compute, networking, deployment, and monitoring responsibilities.

• Reduce configuration risk: Admins learn to manage Azure AD roles, access to storage accounts, and governance-related resource structures with a shared operating model.
• Improve cloud service reliability: Teams cover VM deployment, virtual networking, backup, recovery, and Azure Monitor so outages and performance issues can be handled with less escalation.
• Accelerate modern workload support: The course includes App Services, Docker Desktop, Azure containers, and Container Apps, helping teams support application teams moving beyond traditional VMs.
• Standardize repeatable deployments: ARM templates and Bicep training help teams move toward consistent infrastructure deployment practices instead of one-off portal changes.

Knowledge

• Azure regions, zones, resources, and how they shape administrative planning.
• Core PowerShell and Azure CLI concepts for managing Azure environments.
• Storage account administration, access configuration, and advanced storage management techniques.
• Azure AD administration and role-based access concepts.
• Azure compute, networking, App Services, containers, templates, backup, recovery, and monitoring concepts aligned to AZ-104 preparation.

Ability

• Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines, virtual networks, and App Services.
• Configure access to Azure storage accounts and apply storage administration practices.
• Use PowerShell and Azure CLI as part of Azure administration workflows.
• Containerize an application with Docker Desktop and run containers in Azure.
• Build repeatable deployments with ARM templates and Bicep.
• Implement backup, recovery, and Azure Monitor practices for Azure resources.