Introduction
I’m currently working as Azure Administrator and Office 365 Administrator on daily basis therefore recently I decided to pursue the Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification. In this blog post, I will share my insights and experience with studying and taking the exam with the hope that it will assist you with your journey.
Preparation
First, I read through the Microsoft Learn: Azure Associate Administrator course and while going through the course I took notes and deployed the Azure resources in my personal environment to enhance my understanding. Here’s a brief overview of topics covered in the course:
- Virtual Machines
- Virtual Network
- Network Security Group
- Web App Service
- Containers
- Load Balancers
- Application Gateway
- Service Endpoints
- Recovery Site Vault
- Storage Accounts
- Azure Backups
After completing the course materials I decided to expand my understanding by watching videos from Pluralsight and while going through the videos I also did the hands-on-labs challenges. Once the course materials were completed, I choose to memorize the different Azure resources by using spaced repetition.
Exam
I’m usually nervous when I’m going to take a exam since I always feel as I know nothing compared to others. However, once the exam started I became more confident and the exam felt easy including the case study and the multiple of choices. After completing the multiple of choice questions and case study I choose to review the multiple of choice questions again to ensure I was confident with my choices, and after completing the review I delivered in the exam and saw a passing score of 737 of 1000.
I felt extremely happy that I successfully managed to pass the Azure Administrator Associate certification. I still have a long way to go as I’m aiming to obtain AZ-500, AZ-305, MD-102, MS-102 certifications in 2024.