The Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) is one of the most recognised cloud credentials in the industry. This Specialization gives you a structured, hands-on path to earn it — covering every exam domain through practical Azure administration work, not just theory.
Across four courses, you'll build real Azure skills in sequence. You'll start with identity and governance: Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, and infrastructure automation with ARM Templates and Bicep. You'll then build Azure networking — VNETs, NSGs, VPN Gateways, Load Balancer, and Application Gateway. The third course covers storage redundancy and access controls, VM deployment and scale sets, and PaaS hosting with App Service and container options. The final course covers Day 2 operations — Azure Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics with KQL, and Alerts — and closes with mock exams that test readiness across all AZ-104 exam domains.
Every module includes role play scenarios that place you in real Azure administration situations, building the independent problem-solving ability the exam tests.
Who this is for:
IT professionals transitioning to cloud, junior systems administrators, and cloud engineers preparing for the AZ-104 exam.
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Every course in this Specialization includes hands-on role play scenarios that place you directly in real Azure administration situations. Rather than following guided walkthroughs, you'll work through challenges independently — designing governance structures for new business units, connecting branch offices to Azure securely, planning and scaling virtual machines for production workloads, optimising storage for multiple workload types, and building monitoring and alerting plans from scratch.
Courses 2 and 3 also include hands-on labs that give you direct configuration experience in Azure networking and compute environments, reinforcing the practical skills the AZ-104 exam assesses.
The program concludes with two case studies and a full mock exam in the final course — structured to surface gaps across all exam domains and help you prioritise your remaining preparation. A dedicated exam prep assessment provides a final readiness check before you sit the official certification.
