AZ-104 passing score explained
Learn what a score of 700 means, how scaled scoring works, and what practice results can tell you about your next steps.
AZ-104 guides and study resources
Understand the exam, practise Azure administration, and decide what to study next. Explore guides, questions and study planning advice for the Azure Administrator Associate certification.
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Guides
Get clear on how the exam works before you use practice scores to judge your preparation.
Azure RBAC vs Policy vs resource locks
Compare permissions, compliance and resource protection for AZ-104, with practical scenarios and free questions.
Azure Storage redundancy: LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS
Understand local, zone and geographic replication, secondary reads and the difference between redundancy and backup.
Service endpoints vs private endpoints in Azure
Compare Azure service and private endpoints, destination addresses, storage firewall rules and private DNS requirements.
Azure NSG rules: priorities, direction and evaluation
Learn how Azure evaluates subnet and NIC network security groups, rule priorities and stateful traffic filtering.
Practice questions by domain
Start with the full set of 10 free AZ-104 questions, or jump to a skill area. The networking set has five questions, storage has three, and the other domain samples have two each. All include answers, explanations and Microsoft Learn references.
Identity and governance
Work through Azure RBAC permissions and Azure Policy initiatives.
Storage
Review Azure Files, shared access signatures and storage redundancy.
Compute
Review virtual machine auto-shutdown and Azure App Service deployment slots.
Networking
Try five networking questions on VNets, subnets, peering, NSGs, routing, DNS, endpoints and load balancing.
Monitoring and backup
Check your understanding of Azure Backup and monitoring data.
Study plans
Build your study plan around the topics you need to revisit, rather than a single practice score.
Plan your next study session
Follow the preparation steps in our passing score guide: review mistakes, revisit weak topics, try unfamiliar questions, and practise the Azure tasks themselves.