Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

The Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) is the gateway role-based Azure certification for cloud administrators and operations engineers. It validates your ability to implement, manage, and monitor an Azure environment end-to-end — identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, and operations — with real day-to-day administrative responsibilities.

This practice test gives you 250 scenario-style multiple-choice questions with rich, multi-sentence explanations on every answer. Topic distribution mirrors the latest official AZ-104 exam guide so you study the right balance of material.

What the AZ-104 exam covers

• Manage Azure identities and governance (20–25%) — Microsoft Entra ID (users, groups, devices, administrative units, application registrations), self-service password reset, Conditional Access, Multi-Factor Authentication, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure RBAC (built-in and custom roles), Azure subscriptions and management groups, cost management (alerts, budgets, Azure Advisor cost recommendations), Azure Policy and Resource Locks, tags and resource graph queries.
• Implement and manage storage (15–20%) — storage accounts and access keys, SAS tokens, Stored Access Policies; redundancy options (LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS, GZRS); Blob containers and lifecycle management; Azure Files shares and Azure File Sync; Storage Explorer, AzCopy, and Storage Mover for data movement; soft delete, point-in-time restore, and immutable storage.
• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (20–25%) — VM provisioning, scaling, and high availability (Availability Sets vs Availability Zones); Virtual Machine Scale Sets; ARM and Bicep deployments; Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps; Azure App Service plans, deployment slots, scaling, and custom domains; Azure Kubernetes Service basics; backup and disaster recovery with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
• Implement and manage virtual networking (15–20%) — virtual networks, subnets, IP addressing; Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups; routes and User-Defined Routes; service endpoints and private endpoints; Azure DNS (public and private zones); VNet peering; VPN Gateway (Site-to-Site, Point-to-Site), ExpressRoute; Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, and Traffic Manager; Network Watcher (Connection Monitor, NSG flow logs, IP flow verify).
• Monitor and maintain Azure resources (10–15%) — Azure Monitor metrics and alerts, Log Analytics workspaces and Kusto Query Language (KQL), Azure Monitor Workbooks and Dashboards, Application Insights basics, Service Health, Azure Advisor, Recovery Services Vaults, backup policies, restore operations, soft delete, and cross-Region restore.

Exam format on Microsoft

The live AZ-104 has 40–60 questions and runs about 100 minutes of seat time (120 total including instructions). It uses multiple-choice, case studies, and labs. Passing score is 700/1000 (~70%). Our 250-question bank covers the same syllabus with substantially more depth so you encounter every concept multiple ways before exam day.

Who should take this?

Working Azure administrators, IT pros transitioning into cloud roles, and engineers preparing to advance toward role-based certifications like AZ-204 (Developer), AZ-305 (Solutions Architect Expert), AZ-500 (Security Engineer), or AZ-700 (Network Engineer). Microsoft recommends at least six months of hands-on Azure administration experience before attempting AZ-104.

Free to attempt with a TestsWorld account. No card required.