AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
The day job of an Azure administrator: identity and governance, storage, compute, virtual networking, and monitoring and recovery. Heavily practical — it expects you to know where things are in the portal and what the CLI call looks like.
Exam domains
What the exam covers and how much each part counts — the provider publishes ranges, shown as published. Select a domain to practise just that area.
| Domain | Weight | Practice questions |
|---|---|---|
| Manage Azure identities and governanceMicrosoft Entra users and groups, access to Azure resources through role-based access control, and subscription governance with Azure Policy, locks, tags and management groups. | 20–25% | 2 |
| Implement and manage storageStorage account configuration and redundancy, access control through firewalls, SAS tokens and identity, and Azure Files and Blob Storage features. | 15–20% | 2 |
| Deploy and manage Azure compute resourcesARM templates and Bicep, virtual machines and scale sets, containers in Container Instances and Container Apps, and App Service. | 20–25% | 3 |
| Implement and manage virtual networkingVirtual networks and subnets, peering, routing, network security groups, private and service endpoints, Azure DNS and load balancing. | 15–20% | 3 |
| Monitor and maintain Azure resourcesAzure Monitor metrics, logs and alerts, Network Watcher, and backup and disaster recovery with Azure Backup and Site Recovery. | 10–15% | 2 |
Topics you can drill
Each domain breaks down into topics you can practise on their own.
Manage Azure identities and governance
- Microsoft Entra IDUsers, groups, external identities, licences and self-service password reset.
- Role-based access controlBuilt-in roles, scope and inheritance, and reading an effective assignment.
- Policy and governanceAzure Policy, locks, tags, management groups and cost alerts.
Implement and manage storage
- Storage accountsAccount types, redundancy options, encryption and replication.
- Storage accessFirewalls, SAS tokens, stored access policies, keys and identity-based access.
Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
- Virtual machinesSizing, disks, availability sets and zones, scale sets and moving a VM.
- App Service and containersApp Service plans and slots, Container Instances, Container Apps and the registry.
- ARM templates and BicepReading, modifying, deploying and exporting infrastructure definitions.
Implement and manage virtual networking
- Virtual networksSubnets, peering, public IPs, user-defined routes and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Network securityNSGs and application security groups, effective rules, Bastion, service and private endpoints.
- DNS and load balancingAzure DNS, internal and public load balancers, and diagnosing a balancer that is not balancing.
Monitor and maintain Azure resources
- Azure MonitorMetrics, log settings, queries, alert rules and action groups.
- Backup and recoveryRecovery Services vaults, backup policies, restores and Site Recovery failover.
Who sits this exam
Administrators running an organisation’s Azure environment as part of a wider infrastructure team.
Azure’s own page for this exam (opens in a new tab)How these questions are written
- Original, from Azure’s published guide for AZ-104 — never recalled from a real exam.
- Mapped to a domain and topic, and reviewed before it is published.
- Every option explained, with a link to the documentation behind it.
Preparing for AZ-104 with SupportExams
Practise, see where your evidence is thin, fix it, and reassess — until readiness across the 5 domains above says you are ready to book.
Practice available
- Quick practiceTen mixed questions across the exam. A short daily session, with the explanation after each one.
- Custom practiceChoose a domain, a topic, a difficulty and a length.
- Readiness assessmentBalanced across every domain of the blueprint, favouring questions you have not seen. Builds the evidence readiness needs.
- Weak areasProLeads with the concepts you keep missing, then weights toward the domains you are losing marks in.
- Review mistakesProSpaced review of every question you have missed. Each comes back after 0, 1, 3 and 7 days and clears only after four correct answers in a row.
- Exam simulationProFull length, timed, and proportioned to the published blueprint. Original practice questions, not real exam items.
How readiness works
Every answer is evidence for one of the AZ-104 domains. Readiness weighs that evidence by the domain’s share of the exam, by difficulty and by how recent it is, and refuses to give a figure until there is enough of it. It moves you through five stages — Getting started, Building evidence, Making progress, Nearly ready, Ready — and names what is holding you back at each one.
How readiness is calculated →Free and Pro
Free: 20 practice questions a day; full explanations, including why each wrong option is wrong; quick practice, custom practice and readiness assessments; current readiness stage, blueprint coverage and next step.
Pro: unlimited practice questions; timed exam simulations, proportioned to the blueprint; weak-area practice and mistake review; your readiness journey over time — for every certification, one subscription.
Questions people ask
How many practice questions do you have for AZ-104?
12 published questions, written against the current AZ-104 exam guide and reviewed before publication. The bank grows one reviewed batch at a time.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Every question is original work written from the provider’s published exam guide and public documentation. Reproducing real exam questions would breach the provider’s NDA, is worthless for learning, and can cost a candidate their certification.
Which version of the AZ-104 exam is this for?
Questions are written against Microsoft Azure’s published exam guide for AZ-104 (Skills measured as of 17 April 2026), last checked against the source on 2026-09-11. When a provider revises an exam, the new version is tracked separately so existing practice is never silently relabelled.
Does a good score here mean I will pass?
A SupportExams practice score is not an official exam result and does not use the provider’s scoring model. It measures how you performed on the questions in this product. Readiness is not a probability of passing; it summarises how much of the blueprint you have evidenced and how well.
What can I do for free?
20 questions a day with full explanations, quick and custom practice, readiness assessments, and your current readiness stage with a recommended next step. No card is needed. Pro adds unlimited practice, timed exam simulations, weak-area practice, mistake review and your readiness journey over time, across every certification for one price.
What is the passing score for AZ-104?
Microsoft Azure states the passing standard as 700 or greater. Our practice percentages are not on that scale and are not comparable to it.