AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.

Category: Azure Cloud Computing
Level: Intermediate
Time Estimate: 17h 30m
Price: $399.99 for 3 months of access
Subscription: $149.99 per month after 7-day free trial
Lab Environment: Included
Free Trial: 7 Days

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Lessons in this Course

Lesson 1: Manage Azure identities and governance

Manage Microsoft Entra users and groups

Due to the permissions required, parts of this lesson are taught with an interactive simulator.

Duration: 1 h 30 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities In this exercise, you will learn about users and groups. Users and groups are the basic building blocks for an identity solution. Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Exercise 2: Role-based Access Control In this exercise, you will learn about role-based access control. You will learn how to use permissions and scopes to control what actions identities can and cannot perform. You will also learn how to make subscription management easier using management groups. Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Exercise 3: Azure Governance In this exercise, you will learn how to implement your organization's governance plans. You will learn how Azure policies can ensure operational decisions are enforced across the organization. You will learn how to use resource tagging to improve reporting. Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Lesson 2: Implement and manage virtual networking

Configure and manage virtual networks in Azure, Peering, Subnetting, Bastion, Routing, Public/Private IP, Network Security Groups

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Virtual Networking In this exercise, you will learn the basics of virtual networking and subnetting. You will learn how to protect your network with network security groups and application security groups. You will also learn about DNS zones and records. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 3: Implement Intersite Connectivity

Implement Intersite Connectivity with virtual network peering.

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Implement Intersite Connectivity In this exercise, you will explore communication between virtual networks. You will implement virtual network peering and test connections. You will also create a custom route. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 4: Implement Network Traffic Management

Configure Load Balancing, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Firewall

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Implement Network Traffic Management In this lab, you learn how to configure and test a public Load Balancer and an Application Gateway. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 5: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (Virtual Machines)

Automate deployment of resources by using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep files

Managing Virtual Machines

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources (Virtual Machines) In this lab, you create and compare virtual machines to virtual machine scale sets. You learn how to create, configure and resize a single virtual machine. You learn how to create a virtual machine scale set and configure autoscaling. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 6: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (Containers)

Provision and manage containers in the Azure portal, Create and manage an Azure container registry, Provision a container by using Azure Container Instances, Provision a container by using Azure Container Apps

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources (Containers) In this lab, you learn how to implement and deploy Azure Container Instances. Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Exercise 2: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources (Container Apps) In this lab, you learn how to implement and deploy Azure Container Apps. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 7: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (Azure App Service)

Create and configure Azure App Service, Create an App Service, Configure backup for an App Service, DNS, Configure networking settings for an App Service, Configure deployment slots for an App Service

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Servies (Azure App Services) In this lab, you learn about Azure web apps. You learn to configure a web app to display a Hello World application in an external GitHub repository. You learn to create a staging slot and swap with the production slot. You also learn about autoscaling to accommodate demand changes. Estimated Time: 20 minutes

Lesson 8: Implement and manage storage

Configure access, and manage and implement Azure storage

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Implement and Manage Azure Storage In this lab you learn to create storage accounts for Azure blobs and Azure files. You learn to configure and secure blob containers. You also learn to use Storage Browser to configure and secure Azure file shares. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Lesson 9: Monitor and maintain Azure resources

Monitor resources in Azure, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Log Analytics

Duration: 2 h 0 m

Exercises

Exercise 1: Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources (Backup and Recovery) In this lab, you learn about backup and recovery of Azure virtual machines. You learn to create a Recovery Service vault and a backup policy for Azure virtual machines. You learn about disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Estimated Time: 50 minutes

Exercise 2: Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources (Azure Monitor) In this lab, you learn about Azure Monitor. You learn to create an alert and send it to an action group. You trigger and test the alert and check the activity log. Estimated Time: 40 minutes