Hello and welcome to our Microsoft Azure Administrator course. The focus of this course is to prepare you for Microsoft's AZ-104 exam. But even if you're not going to take the exam, this course will help you get started on your way to becoming an Azure Administrator.

My name's Thomas Mitchell, and I'm an Azure Trainer here at QA. This course has been thoughtfully designed in partnership with Microsoft, combining world-class Microsoft Learn content with our own expertly curated training materials to give you the most comprehensive and relevant learning experience possible.

At times during this course, you'll be directed to Microsoft Learn content in a new tab within your browser. This ensures you're getting the most up-to-date and authoritative guidance straight from the source. When you access these resources, you'll briefly leave our platform, but don't worry, we'll guide you right back. Once you've completed the Microsoft Learn content, simply return here and mark the lesson as complete. This small step helps us keep your progress on track and unlocks the next stage of your learning journey.

The AZ-104 exam will test your knowledge in several key subject areas. You'll be expected to know how to manage Azure identities and governance, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage Azure compute resources, and implement and manage virtual networking. You'll also be expected to know how to monitor and maintain Azure resources.

This course has been designed to align closely with the published learning objectives covered by the AZ-104 exam. Therefore, we'll teach you how to manage Microsoft Entry users and groups, manage access to Azure resources, and manage Azure subscriptions and governance. As you move through the course, you'll also learn how to configure and manage storage accounts, Azure Files, and Azure BLOB Storage. We'll also cover how to automate resource deployment via ARM templates and BICEP files.

You'll also be taught how to create and configure virtual machines, how to provision and manage containers, and how to create and configure Azure App Service. As you might expect, we'll also dive into virtual networks, where you'll learn how to configure and manage them, how to secure them, and how to configure name resolution and load balancing. And of course, we can't leave out monitoring and recovery. More specifically, you'll learn how to monitor resources in Azure and how to perform backup and recovery.

As you can see here, there's quite a bit to get through. Let's get started.

AZ-104 Exam Preparation - Introduction

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