Microsoft Azure Administrator – AZ 104

Gain expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring Microsoft Azure environments
Manage Azure identities and governance
Implement and manage storage
Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Configure and manage virtual networking
Monitor and backup Azure resources
Acquire knowledge for Azure Administrator Certification

Manage Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) objects
- Create users and groups
- Create administrative units
- Manage user and group properties
- Manage device settings
- Perform bulk user updates
- Manage guest accounts
- Configure Azure AD join
- Configure self-service password reset
Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Create a custom role
- Assign roles at different scopes
- Interpret access assignments
Manage subscriptions and governance
- Configure Azure policies
- Configure resource locks
- Apply and manage tags on resources
- Manage resource groups
- Manage subscriptions and costs
- Configure management groups

Secure storage
- Configure network access to storage accounts
- Create and configure storage accounts
- Generate shared access signature (SAS) tokens
- Manage access keys
- Configure Azure AD authentication for a storage account
- Configure access to Azure Files
Manage storage
- Export from Azure job and import into Azure job
- Install and use Azure Storage Explorer
- Copy data using AZCopy
- Implement Azure Storage replication
- Configure blob object replication
Configure Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage
- Create an Azure file share
- Create and configure Azure File Sync service
- Configure Azure Blob Storage
- Configure storage tiers and blob lifecycle management

Automate deployment of virtual machines (VMs) using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- Modify an ARM template
- Configure a virtual hard disk (VHD) template
- Deploy from a template
- Save deployment as ARM template
- Deploy VM extensions
Configure VMs
- Configure Azure Disk Encryption
- Move VMs between resource groups
- Manage VM sizes and add data disks
- Configure networking
- Redeploy VMs
- Configure high availability and scale sets
Create and configure containers
- Configure sizing and scaling for Azure Container Instances (ACI)
- Configure container groups for ACI
- Configure storage and scaling for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Configure network connections and upgrade AKS cluster
Create and configure Azure App Service
- Create an App Service plan and configure scaling
- Create and secure an App Service
- Configure custom domain names and backup
- Configure networking and deployment settings

Implement and manage virtual networks
- Create and configure virtual networks, including peering
- Configure private and public IP addresses
- Configure user-defined network routes and subnets
- Configure endpoints on subnets and private endpoints
- Configure Azure DNS (custom, private, public)
Secure access to virtual networks
- Create security rules
- Associate NSG to subnet or network interface
- Evaluate effective security rules
- Implement Azure Firewall and Azure Bastion
Configure load balancing
- Configure Azure Application Gateway
- Configure internal or public load balancer
- Troubleshoot load balancing
Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
- Monitor on-premises connectivity
- Use Azure Monitor for Networks and Network Watcher
- Troubleshoot external networking and virtual network connectivity
Integrate on-premises network with Azure virtual network
- Create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
- Create and configure Azure ExpressRoute
- Configure Azure Virtual WAN

Monitor resources using Azure Monitor
- Configure and interpret metrics
- Configure Azure Monitor logs

1. Course Overview & Outcomes