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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) practice exam and study path

A free, timed 60-question AZ-104 practice exam in 100 minutes, scored by domain, with every option explained after you submit. Also 120 practice questions you can check one at a time, a page for every task in the exam guide, and a study path. No sign-up.

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Azure Administrator Associate exam pack:

$6.99for 12 months

For Azure administrators who run an organization's Azure estate: Microsoft Entra users and groups, access and governance, storage, virtual machines, containers and App Service, virtual networks, and monitoring, backup and recovery.

The exam

Exam code
AZ-104
Questions
Not yet published
Time
100 minutes
Passing score
700 of 1,000 (scaled)
Exam fee
$165 (USD)
Question types
multiple choice, multiple response

Exam AZ-104 is a proctored role-based exam: 100 minutes of exam time, offered in ten languages through Pearson VUE, it may include interactive components, and 700 passes. Microsoft doesn't publish the number of questions (most of its exams have 40 to 60). The fee is set by the country or region (USD 165 in the United States), and the certification renews every year with a free online assessment. Our forms use 60 questions split 15 / 11 / 15 / 11 / 8, close to the midpoints of the guide's ranges.

From Microsoft's certification page and exam guide, checked Oct 24, 2026.

Domains and weights

  • Domain 1: Manage Azure identities and governance

    24%

  • Domain 2: Implement and manage storage

    19%

  • Domain 3: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

    24%

  • Domain 4: Implement and manage virtual networking

    19%

  • Domain 5: Monitor and maintain Azure resources

    14%

On our roadmap this comes after Azure Fundamentals. See every certification.

Practice

120 original practice questions, every option explained with the Microsoft documentation page that proves it. Free, no sign-up; progress stays on this device.

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More practice exams

The lessons, the sample questions on every task page and the first full practice exam are free and stay free. A pack adds the further timed AZ-104 practice exams.

Azure Administrator Associate exam pack

$6.99for 12 months

  • Every paid AZ-104 practice exam, timed, with every option explained
  • The next version of this exam included when it changes within your 12 months
  • 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself.
  • 14-day refund, no conditions
  • 14-day refund, no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back.
  • No pass guarantee. These are practice exams written by us from the exam guide and the Microsoft documentation; a score here does not predict your result on the real exam.

Study path

One module per exam domain. Lessons that already exist on BytePatterns are linked; the rest are being written.

  1. Module 1: Manage Azure identities and governance

    1. 1Microsoft Entra users and groups: creating them, their properties and dynamic membershipTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 2Licenses, external users and self-service password resetTask 1.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 3Azure RBAC: built-in roles, scopes and reading access assignmentsTask 1.2

      Partly covered by: Shared Responsibility & IAM

    4. 4Management groups, subscriptions and Azure PolicyTask 1.3

      Partly covered by: Organizations, SCPs & Control Tower

    5. 5Resource groups, resource locks and tagsTask 1.3

      Lesson coming

    6. 6Cost alerts, budgets and Azure Advisor recommendationsTask 1.3

      Partly covered by: AWS Cost Levers

  2. Module 2: Implement and manage storage

    1. 7Storage firewalls, virtual network rules and private accessTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 8Shared access signatures, stored access policies and access keysTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 9Identity-based access for Azure FilesTask 2.1

      Lesson coming

    4. 10Storage accounts, redundancy and object replicationTask 2.2

      Lesson coming

    5. 11Storage encryption: Microsoft-managed and customer-managed keysTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: KMS, Envelope Encryption & Private CA

    6. 12Moving data with Storage Explorer and AzCopyTask 2.2

      Partly covered by: Moving Data Into AWS

    7. 13File shares and blob containers, snapshots, soft delete and versioningTask 2.3

      Lesson coming

    8. 14Access tiers and blob lifecycle managementTask 2.3

      Partly covered by: S3: Consistency, Classes, Lifecycle

  3. Module 3: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

    1. 15Reading, editing and deploying ARM templates and Bicep filesTask 3.1

      Lesson coming

    2. 16Creating virtual machines: sizes, disks, encryption at host and movesTask 3.2

      Lesson coming

    3. 17Availability zones, availability sets and Virtual Machine Scale SetsTask 3.2

      Partly covered by: EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers, Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling

    4. 18Azure Container Registry, Container Instances and Container AppsTask 3.3

      Partly covered by: Containers vs VMs, ECS vs EKS vs Fargate

    5. 19App Service plans, scaling and deployment slotsTask 3.4

      Lesson coming

    6. 20Custom domains, TLS certificates, backups and networking for App ServiceTask 3.4

      Lesson coming

  4. Module 4: Implement and manage virtual networking

    1. 21Virtual networks, subnets and public IP addressesTask 4.1

      Partly covered by: VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls

    2. 22Virtual network peering and user-defined routesTask 4.1

      Lesson coming

    3. 23Network security groups, application security groups and effective rulesTask 4.2

      Partly covered by: VPC: Subnets, NAT & Firewalls

    4. 24Azure Bastion, service endpoints and private endpointsTask 4.2

      Lesson coming

    5. 25Azure DNS: public zones, private zones and recordsTask 4.3

      Partly covered by: Hybrid Networking & DNS

    6. 26Internal and public load balancers, and troubleshooting themTask 4.3

      Partly covered by: Load Balancing, EC2, Auto Scaling & Load Balancers

  5. Module 5: Monitor and maintain Azure resources

    1. 27Azure Monitor metrics, diagnostic settings and log queriesTask 5.1

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray, Observability Basics

    2. 28Alert rules, action groups and alert processing rulesTask 5.1

      Partly covered by: CloudWatch, Alarms & X-Ray

    3. 29Insights and Network Watcher for VMs, storage and networksTask 5.1

      Lesson coming

    4. 30Recovery Services vaults, Backup vaults and backup policiesTask 5.2

      Partly covered by: Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

    5. 31Azure Site Recovery: replication, failover and backup reportsTask 5.2

      Partly covered by: Disaster Recovery: RPO & RTO

Every task in the exam guide

The exam guide splits each domain into task statements. Each one has a page with a short summary, the lessons that teach it and open sample questions.

Domain 1: Manage Azure identities and governance

Domain 2: Implement and manage storage

Domain 3: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

Domain 4: Implement and manage virtual networking

Domain 5: Monitor and maintain Azure resources

How these questions are made

  • Written by us from the exam guide's task statements and the Microsoft documentation — never from real exam content.
  • Every option carries its own explanation and a link to the Microsoft page that proves it.
  • A question enters a timed exam only after an independent check; until then it is a practice question.
  • Results are a plain percentage, per domain too — not an imitation of Microsoft's scaled score.

Questions about the AZ-104 practice exam

Is the AZ-104 practice exam free?
Yes. The full practice exam (60 questions, 100 minutes) is free with no sign-up, and so are the 120 practice questions, the task pages and the study path. Your attempts are saved in this browser, on this device.
How many questions does it have, and is it timed?
60 questions in 100 minutes: the real AZ-104 pace, scaled to this form. When the time runs out, the exam is submitted as it stands.
Are the answers explained?
After you submit, not during: like the real exam, the timed exam gives no feedback until the end. Then you get your score overall and per exam domain, and every question with each option explained and a link to the Microsoft documentation page behind it. In practice mode an answer is explained as soon as you check it.
What does the Azure Administrator Associate exam pack add?
3 more timed practice exams (Practice exam 1: 60 questions, 100 minutes; Practice exam 2: 60 questions, 100 minutes; Practice exam 3: 60 questions, 100 minutes), each scored and explained the same way, and the next version of this exam if it changes within your 12 months. 12 months of access. One payment, nothing renews by itself. Everything above stays free. See the pack.
Can I get a refund?
Yes, with no conditions: ask within 14 days of buying and you get the whole payment back. The details are in the terms.
Is this an official Microsoft practice exam?
No. BytePatterns is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Microsoft. Every question is written by us from the public exam guide and the Microsoft documentation, never from real exam content, and a score here does not predict your result on the real exam. Microsoft lists its own preparation resources on its certification page.