Microsoft

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
exam objectives

Validates skills to implement, manage, and monitor an organization's Microsoft Azure environment -- identity and governance, storage, compute (VMs, containers, App Service), virtual networking, and monitoring/backup -- using the Azure portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and ARM/Bicep templates.

Questions
40
Duration
100 min
Passing score
700
Domains
5

450 practice questions available for AZ-104 on CertPilot AI, mapped to the domains below.

AZ-104 exam domains and weightings

The AZ-104 exam is split into 5 domains. The percentage next to each is the share of the exam it accounts for — study time is best spent proportionally.

1.0Manage Azure identities and governance

24%

107 practice questions in this domain

  • 1.1Manage Microsoft Entra users and groups (create users/groups, manage properties, licenses, external users, self-service password reset)
  • 1.2Manage access to Azure resources (built-in Azure roles, assigning roles at different scopes, interpreting access assignments)
  • 1.3Manage Azure subscriptions and governance (Azure Policy, resource locks, tags, resource groups, subscriptions, cost alerts/budgets/Advisor, management groups)

2.0Implement and manage storage

19%

86 practice questions in this domain

  • 2.1Configure access to storage (storage firewalls/VNets, SAS tokens, stored access policies, access keys, identity-based access for Azure Files)
  • 2.2Configure and manage storage accounts (create/configure accounts, redundancy, object replication, encryption, Storage Explorer/AzCopy)
  • 2.3Configure Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage (file shares, containers, storage tiers, soft delete, snapshots, lifecycle management, versioning)

3.0Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

24%

108 practice questions in this domain

  • 3.1Automate deployment of resources using ARM templates or Bicep files (interpret, modify, deploy, export/convert)
  • 3.2Create and configure virtual machines (create VM, encryption at host, move VM, sizes, disks, availability zones/sets, VM Scale Sets)
  • 3.3Provision and manage containers in the Azure portal (Container Registry, Container Instances, Container Apps, sizing/scaling)
  • 3.4Create and configure Azure App Service (App Service plan, scaling, TLS/certificates, custom DNS, backup, networking, deployment slots)

4.0Implement and manage virtual networking

19%

85 practice questions in this domain

  • 4.1Configure and manage virtual networks in Azure (VNets/subnets, peering, public IPs, user-defined routes, troubleshoot connectivity)
  • 4.2Configure secure access to virtual networks (NSGs/ASGs, effective security rules, Azure Bastion, service endpoints, private endpoints)
  • 4.3Configure name resolution and load balancing (Azure DNS, internal/public load balancer, troubleshoot load balancing)

5.0Monitor and maintain Azure resources

14%

64 practice questions in this domain

  • 5.1Monitor resources in Azure (Azure Monitor metrics/logs/alerts, Monitor Insights for VMs/storage/networks, Network Watcher/Connection Monitor)
  • 5.2Implement backup and recovery (Recovery Services vault, Backup vault, backup policy, backup/restore, Azure Site Recovery, failover, backup reports/alerts)

How to prepare for Microsoft Azure Administrator

Most candidates fail AZ-104 not because they didn't know the material, but because they couldn't tell which material they were weakest on. Reading the objectives end to end treats every domain as equally important — the exam doesn't. On AZ-104, Manage Azure identities and governance alone is 24% of your score.

CertPilot AI works the other way around. It tracks your accuracy per domain, weights each domain by its real exam share, and pulls most of each practice session from wherever you're currently weakest. The result is a single readiness score — at 90% you're in the range where candidates typically pass, so you book the exam on evidence instead of a hunch.

Every question comes with an AI explanation of why the right answer is right and why each distractor is wrong. The Exam Decoder goes further and breaks down how to read a question — the qualifiers, the scenario framing, and the trap options — which is the skill that separates a 740 from a 700.

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) FAQ

How many questions are on the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) exam?

The AZ-104 exam has up to 40 questions and you get 100 minutes to complete it.

What score do you need to pass Microsoft Azure Administrator?

Microsoft Azure Administrator requires a scaled score of 700. Scaled scoring means the raw number of correct answers is adjusted for the difficulty of the specific question set you were served, so there is no fixed percentage that guarantees a pass.

What domains does the AZ-104 exam cover?

Microsoft Azure Administrator is divided into 5 domains: Manage Azure identities and governance (24%), Implement and manage storage (19%), Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (24%), Implement and manage virtual networking (19%), Monitor and maintain Azure resources (14%). The heaviest weighted domain is Manage Azure identities and governance at 24% of the exam.

How do I know when I'm ready to book the AZ-104 exam?

CertPilot AI calculates a readiness score by weighting your accuracy in each domain by that domain's share of the real exam, then scaling it by how many questions you've actually answered — so a domain you've barely touched can't inflate the number. At 90% you're in the range where candidates typically pass.

How much does the AZ-104 exam cost?

The Microsoft Azure Administrator exam voucher typically costs around $165 USD. Pricing varies by region and vendors periodically adjust it, so confirm on the official vendor site before booking.

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