MS Azure Admin AZ-104 exam
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Hey Guys,
Has anyone here done the Azure az-104 exam who could perhaps offer me some advice.
In summary ...
A bunch of us at work have been given the task of study /take the az-104 exam.
Self study, so evenings, no work hours available.
I am technical, but Unix/ Linux with absolutely no prior experience of Azure.
On line AZ-104 course available.
The problem, I am 5 weeks in, and finding his very very difficult, I've put in about 50 hours so far.
The supplied e-learning wasn't the best for me, so I purchased another on-line course (Wizzlabs) which is better, but here is the killer ....
I don't learn in the normal fashion as in making notes, and re-writing something out - I learn by doing, repeatedly (which is how I passed previous certifications, as the exam 'was' my day job, so once I gained enough experience, I could pass pretty much without picking up a book).
Sure, some of the content you can practice - eg, create a network, create resource groups - that's fine.
A lot of the content, as far as I can tell is more theory eg - user A needs to do this - what permissions does he need. - you can't really learn that by doing, it's more by reading and remembering, which doesn't work for me.
Any ideas would be grateful received ....
Thanks in advance
mph
Has anyone here done the Azure az-104 exam who could perhaps offer me some advice.
In summary ...
A bunch of us at work have been given the task of study /take the az-104 exam.
Self study, so evenings, no work hours available.
I am technical, but Unix/ Linux with absolutely no prior experience of Azure.
On line AZ-104 course available.
The problem, I am 5 weeks in, and finding his very very difficult, I've put in about 50 hours so far.
The supplied e-learning wasn't the best for me, so I purchased another on-line course (Wizzlabs) which is better, but here is the killer ....
I don't learn in the normal fashion as in making notes, and re-writing something out - I learn by doing, repeatedly (which is how I passed previous certifications, as the exam 'was' my day job, so once I gained enough experience, I could pass pretty much without picking up a book).
Sure, some of the content you can practice - eg, create a network, create resource groups - that's fine.
A lot of the content, as far as I can tell is more theory eg - user A needs to do this - what permissions does he need. - you can't really learn that by doing, it's more by reading and remembering, which doesn't work for me.
Any ideas would be grateful received ....
Thanks in advance
mph
Have a look at John savill he has some great YouTube videos for the az-104 also check out Microsoft learn.
There is a git repo and some labs that you can do, so sign up for the free azure subscription.
I’m just redoing mine as I had a bit of a wobble on the exam, one thing not to do is to try the exam on a laptop.. screen was too small which made referencing the info in the questions a real pain (you can do the exam at home as long as you have a webcam etc setup)
Good luck, it’s quite a hard exam
There is a git repo and some labs that you can do, so sign up for the free azure subscription.
I’m just redoing mine as I had a bit of a wobble on the exam, one thing not to do is to try the exam on a laptop.. screen was too small which made referencing the info in the questions a real pain (you can do the exam at home as long as you have a webcam etc setup)
Good luck, it’s quite a hard exam
macstorm73 said:
Have a look at John savill he has some great YouTube videos for the az-104 also check out Microsoft learn.
There is a git repo and some labs that you can do, so sign up for the free azure subscription.
I’m just redoing mine as I had a bit of a wobble on the exam, one thing not to do is to try the exam on a laptop.. screen was too small which made referencing the info in the questions a real pain (you can do the exam at home as long as you have a webcam etc setup)
Good luck, it’s quite a hard exam
Many thx, I've got an account and have read the MS Learn modules, I'll look at John Savill though, not seen that before.There is a git repo and some labs that you can do, so sign up for the free azure subscription.
I’m just redoing mine as I had a bit of a wobble on the exam, one thing not to do is to try the exam on a laptop.. screen was too small which made referencing the info in the questions a real pain (you can do the exam at home as long as you have a webcam etc setup)
Good luck, it’s quite a hard exam
mph999 said:
Hey Guys,
Has anyone here done the Azure az-104 exam who could perhaps offer me some advice.
In summary ...
A bunch of us at work have been given the task of study /take the az-104 exam.
Self study, so evenings, no work hours available.
I am technical, but Unix/ Linux with absolutely no prior experience of Azure.
On line AZ-104 course available.
The problem, I am 5 weeks in, and finding his very very difficult, I've put in about 50 hours so far.
The supplied e-learning wasn't the best for me, so I purchased another on-line course (Wizzlabs) which is better, but here is the killer ....
I don't learn in the normal fashion as in making notes, and re-writing something out - I learn by doing, repeatedly (which is how I passed previous certifications, as the exam 'was' my day job, so once I gained enough experience, I could pass pretty much without picking up a book).
Sure, some of the content you can practice - eg, create a network, create resource groups - that's fine.
A lot of the content, as far as I can tell is more theory eg - user A needs to do this - what permissions does he need. - you can't really learn that by doing, it's more by reading and remembering, which doesn't work for me.
Any ideas would be grateful received ....
Thanks in advance
mph
I do AWS rather than Azure but the course you refer to can be had at £16 and they quote 16 hours of study material. Has anyone here done the Azure az-104 exam who could perhaps offer me some advice.
In summary ...
A bunch of us at work have been given the task of study /take the az-104 exam.
Self study, so evenings, no work hours available.
I am technical, but Unix/ Linux with absolutely no prior experience of Azure.
On line AZ-104 course available.
The problem, I am 5 weeks in, and finding his very very difficult, I've put in about 50 hours so far.
The supplied e-learning wasn't the best for me, so I purchased another on-line course (Wizzlabs) which is better, but here is the killer ....
I don't learn in the normal fashion as in making notes, and re-writing something out - I learn by doing, repeatedly (which is how I passed previous certifications, as the exam 'was' my day job, so once I gained enough experience, I could pass pretty much without picking up a book).
Sure, some of the content you can practice - eg, create a network, create resource groups - that's fine.
A lot of the content, as far as I can tell is more theory eg - user A needs to do this - what permissions does he need. - you can't really learn that by doing, it's more by reading and remembering, which doesn't work for me.
Any ideas would be grateful received ....
Thanks in advance
mph
https://www.udemy.com/course/exam-az-104-microsoft...
Can you get an Azure free tier account to help you study? You can with AWS and Google Cloud
ETA work this help? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-ser...
Edited by babelfish on Thursday 9th March 00:57
Hi OP
Understand where you are coming from. Learning by doing is the best way.
Unfortunately Azure is a Beast and so there are components outside of AZ-104 that you need to understand before getting into the nitty gritty of 104.
(1) Access Management. You really need to get to grips with both PIM & AAD (Privileged Access Management & Azure Active Directory) otherwise the default will be Subscription Owner for Tom, Dick and Harry and that's bad.
(2) Networking, Firewalls, Routes, Network Security Groups etc. The analogy I would give to the Admin role is as part of a team of town planners. Without understanding the grassroots infrastructure then you cannot go and create compute and storage resources. In addition the networking component must also cover how you bridge between Azure and On-premises. Lots of time has been wasted since people simply don't know why traffic is being blocked between the two.
Good Luck, Azure is certainly the way to go if you want to get your teeth into something technical and it certainly is the cry out expertise wanted by clients.
Understand where you are coming from. Learning by doing is the best way.
Unfortunately Azure is a Beast and so there are components outside of AZ-104 that you need to understand before getting into the nitty gritty of 104.
(1) Access Management. You really need to get to grips with both PIM & AAD (Privileged Access Management & Azure Active Directory) otherwise the default will be Subscription Owner for Tom, Dick and Harry and that's bad.
(2) Networking, Firewalls, Routes, Network Security Groups etc. The analogy I would give to the Admin role is as part of a team of town planners. Without understanding the grassroots infrastructure then you cannot go and create compute and storage resources. In addition the networking component must also cover how you bridge between Azure and On-premises. Lots of time has been wasted since people simply don't know why traffic is being blocked between the two.
Good Luck, Azure is certainly the way to go if you want to get your teeth into something technical and it certainly is the cry out expertise wanted by clients.
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