Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Designed for Azure Administrators who implement, manage, and monitor identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networking in Microsoft Azure.
Ideal for professionals who provision resources, right-size workloads, maintain security posture, and optimise cloud environments to meet business needs. Prior experience with virtualisation, networking, identity, or storage is strongly recommended.
Training Overview
This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment.
This course equips IT professionals with the core skills required to administer Microsoft Azure environments. You will learn to:
Manage Azure subscriptions and resource governance.
Secure and administer identities with Microsoft Entra ID.
Design and secure virtual networks
Implement hybrid connectivity (Azure ↔ on-premises)
Control network traffic, routing, and security
Deploy and optimise storage solutions.
Provision, scale, and manage virtual machines
Implement PaaS web apps and container workloads.
Configure backup, recovery, and data protection
Monitor performance, security, and cost across resources
Course Agenda
Day 1: Manage Identities and Governance
Core identity, users/groups, subscriptions, policy, RBAC, and foundational governance.
Configure Microsoft Entra ID
Configure user and group accounts
Configure subscriptions
Configure Azure Policy
Configure role-based access control (Labs: Entra ID join/SSPR, bulk users/groups, policy initiatives, RBAC assignments)
Day 2: Azure Administration Tools and Resource Management
Tools for managing resources, ARM fundamentals, templates, and organization.
Configure Azure resources with tools (portal, Cloud Shell, PowerShell, CLI)
Use Azure Resource Manager
Configure resources with Azure Resource Manager templates (Labs: Azure CLI/PowerShell exercises, create resource groups/locks, deploy ARM/Bicep templates, Quickstarts)
Day 3: Virtual Networking
Core networking, security, DNS, connectivity, routing, and load balancing.
Configure virtual networks
Configure network security groups
Configure Azure DNS
Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
Configure network routing and endpoints
Configure Azure Load Balancer