AZ-104 Study Guide
A study path for Microsoft Azure AZ-104 Practice Exam — what to know before you start, and the order worth doing things in.
Prerequisites
No strict prerequisites, but the exam assumes subject matter expertise implementing, managing, and monitoring an Azure environment. You should be familiar with operating systems, networking, servers, and virtualization, plus have experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, the Azure portal, and ARM templates or Bicep.
Recommended background
- Managing Microsoft Entra identities, groups, and RBAC role assignments
- Azure Storage — accounts, redundancy, access keys, and SAS tokens
- Deploying VMs, containers, and App Service using ARM templates or Bicep
- Virtual networking — VNets, NSGs, peering, and load balancing
Step-by-step study plan
Open Microsoft's official skills-measured breakdown and use it as your checklist — it's updated whenever the exam changes.
Official DP study guidePick a date through the official Microsoft certification page and plan your study time backwards from it. Give yourself 2–4 weeks if you already use the tech weekly, 4–8 weeks if you're newer to it.
Exam & scheduling pageComplete Microsoft's free, self-paced modules for this exam. Take notes on anything you can't explain simply — that's what to revisit.
Official documentationAZ-104 rewards recognizing real scenarios and trade-offs, not memorization. Spin up a free-tier environment and actually try the concepts — ingestion, transformations, security settings — rather than just reading about them.
Use FabricPrep's AZ-104 practice questions to find weak spots, and take a timed mock exam to build comfort with exam-day pacing.
Practice AZ-104 now — 52 free questionsThe day before: review only your weak topics, don't cram new material. On exam day: read each question carefully, eliminate wrong answers first, and watch for wording that implies a constraint (least privilege, cost, performance).
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