The Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
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AZ-104 Exam Dumps
- Exam Code: AZ-104
- Vendor: Microsoft
- Certifications: Azure Administrator Associate
- Exam Name: Microsoft Azure Administrator
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Coverage of Official Microsoft AZ-104 Exam Domains
Our curriculum is meticulously mapped to the Microsoft official blueprint.
Manage Azure Identities and Governance (25%)
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Focus on managing users, groups, and licenses, implementing Administrative Units, and configuring Azure RBAC. Master governance via Azure Policy, Resource Locks, and Management Groups.
Implement and Manage Storage (20%)
Deep dive into Storage Accounts: redundancy (LRS, GRS, ZRS), encryption, and networking. Master Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management, access tiers (Hot, Cool, Archive), and securing data with SAS and private endpoints.
Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources (25%)
Master Virtual Machines, Scale Sets (VMSS), and Availability Zones. Focus on container solutions like Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Container Apps, plus managing App Service plans for web application hosting.
Implement and Manage Virtual Networking (20%)
The most technical domain. Master VNet peering, Network Security Groups (NSGs), and Application Security Groups (ASGs). Focus on name resolution via Azure DNS, implementing Azure Bastion, and configuring Load Balancers.
Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources (15%)
Master observability with Azure Monitor. Focus on metrics, logs (KQL), and alert rules. Implement business continuity through Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults, and Site Recovery (ASR).
Microsoft AZ-104 Exam Domains Q&A
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Question 1
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to ensure that VM1 can communicate with VM4. The solution must minimize administrative effort.
What should you do?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: C
Explanation:
To enable communication between virtual machines (VMs) located in different virtual networks (VNets) in Azure, the most efficient and recommended approach—according to Microsoft Azure Administrator documentation—is to use VNet peering.
1. Background and Scenario Analysis
From the case study:
VM1 and VM4 are located in different VNets (VNET1 and VNET3).
The requirement is to ensure that VM1 can communicate with VM4.
The solution must minimize administrative effort and cost.
2. Microsoft Documentation Insight: VNet Peering
According to Microsoft Learn: “Virtual network peering”:
“Virtual network peering seamlessly connects two Azure virtual networks. The virtual networks appear as one for connectivity purposes. Traffic between peered virtual networks uses private IP addresses, as if they were part of the same network, and the traffic stays entirely on the Microsoft backbone network.”
Key characteristics of VNet peering:
Enables private IP connectivity between resources across peered VNets.
No need to deploy or maintain gateways (unlike VPN gateways).
Provides low latency and high bandwidth.
Supports transitive routing through additional configurations.
Minimal administrative overhead — peering can be created with just a few clicks or PowerShell/CLI commands.
3. Why the Other Options Are Incorrect
A. Create a user-defined route (UDR) from VNET1 to VNET3.
❌ A UDR alone cannot enable connectivity between VNets unless a gateway or peering already exists. Without a connection path, a route has no effect.
B. Assign VM4 an IP address of 10.0.1.5/24.
❌ This would attempt to place VM4 in the same subnet as VM1, but cross-VNet subnet IP assignment is not possible in Azure. Each VNet has its own isolated address space.
D. Create an NSG and associate it with VM1 and VM4.
❌ Network Security Groups control traffic filtering within or between existing network connections. They do not create connectivity between isolated VNets.
4. Why Peering Is the Correct and Simplest Solution
Establishing VNet peering between VNET1 and VNET3 will:
Instantly enable bidirectional private IP communication between VM1 and VM4.
Minimize administrative effort (no gateways, routing tables, or IP reconfiguration).
Maintain security and performance through Microsoft’s internal backbone.
Avoid additional costs compared to deploying VPN gateways.
5. Implementation Summary
Steps to configure:
In the Azure Portal, go to VNET1 → Peerings → Add.
Choose VNET3 as the peer virtual network.
Enable Allow virtual network access in both directions.
Once completed, both VMs (VM1 and VM4) will communicate using their private IPs.
Final Verified Answer: ✅ C. Establish peering between VNET1 and VNET3
References (Microsoft Official Documentation):
Microsoft Learn — Virtual network peering overview
Microsoft Learn — Create, change, or delete a virtual network peering
Microsoft Learn — Azure virtual network connectivity options and recommendations
Question 2
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You discover that VM3 does NOT meet the technical requirements.
You need to verify whether the issue relates to the NSGs.
What should you use?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: E
Explanation:
Scenario: Litware must meet technical requirements including:
Ensure that VM3 can establish outbound connections over TCP port 8080 to the applications servers in the Montreal office.
IP flow verify checks if a packet is allowed or denied to or from a virtual machine. The information consists of direction, protocol, local IP, remote IP, local port, and remote port. If the packet is denied by a security group, the name of the rule that denied the packet is returned. While any source or destination IP can be chosen, IP flow verify helps administrators quickly diagnose connectivity issues from or to the internet and from or to the on-premises environment.
[References:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-ip-flow-verify-overview, , , ]
Question 3
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to recommend a solution to automate the configuration for the finance department users. The solution must meet the technical requirements.
What should you include in the recommended?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: D
Explanation:
Technically, The finance department needs to migrate their users from AD to AAD using AADC based on the finance OU, and need to enforce MFA use. This is conditional access policy. Employees also often get promotions and/or join other departments and when that occurs, the user ' s OU attribute will change when the admin puts the user in a new OU, and the dynamic group conditional access exception (OU= [Department Name Value]) will move the user to the appropriate dynamic group on next AADC d elta sync.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/groups-dynamic-membership
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/overview
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/howto-mfa-userstates
Question 4
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to meet the technical requirement for VM4.
What should you create and configure?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: B
Explanation:
Scenario: Create a workflow to send an email message when the settings of VM4 are modified.
You can start an automated logic app workflow when specific events happen in Azure resources or third-party resources. These resources can publish those events to an Azure event grid. In turn, the event grid pushes those events to subscribers that have queues, webhooks, or event hubs as endpoints. As a subscriber, your logic app can wait for those events from the event grid before running automated workflows to perform tasks - without you writing any code.
[References:, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/monitor-virtual-machine-changes-event-grid-logic-app, , , ]
Question 5
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to implement the planned changes for the storage account content. Which containers and file shares can you use to organize the content?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: B
Explanation:
In the scenario, storage1 is configured as StorageV2 with Hierarchical namespace = Yes, while storage2 is configured as StorageV2 with Hierarchical namespace = No.
From Microsoft’s Azure Storage Documentation and AZ-104 Study Guide, the following principles apply:
A hierarchical namespace (enabled when the storage account has Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 capabilities) allows the use of directories within containers to organize data.
The hierarchical namespace provides directory and file-level structure similar to a file system. This is supported only for blob containers, not for Azure Files.
Azure Files (file shares) do not depend on hierarchical namespaces and cannot have directories in the same way Data Lake Gen2 does — directories can exist inside the share but not in the blob container sense.
The planned change states that you must use directories whenever possible to organize content. Therefore, only storage accounts with hierarchical namespace enabled can use directory structures — that’s storage1.
In this case:
storage1 (Hierarchical namespace = Yes) → supports containers (like cont1) and file shares (like share1).
storage2 (Hierarchical namespace = No) → does not support directories within blob containers (Data Lake structure).
Hence, you can use only cont1 (container in storage1) and share1 (file share in storage1) to organize content as required.
This is directly supported by the Microsoft documentation on Data Lake Storage Gen2:
“When you enable the hierarchical namespace for a storage account, you can organize objects into directories and subdirectories. This capability is available only for accounts configured for Data Lake Storage Gen2.”
Final Verified Answer: ✅ B. cont1 and share1 only
Question 6
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to implement the planned changes for DCR1. Which type of query should you use?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: D
Explanation:
The planned change specifies that you must configure a Data Collection Rule (DCR) to collect only system events with Event ID 4648 from VM2 and VM4.
A Data Collection Rule (DCR) in Azure Monitor defines how data is collected from resources, filtered, and sent to destinations like Log Analytics workspaces. To define or query this data within Azure Monitor Logs or Log Analytics, you use Kusto Query Language (KQL).
From the Microsoft Learn: Azure Monitor Logs Documentation:
“Log queries in Azure Monitor are written in Kusto Query Language (KQL), the same query language used by Azure Data Explorer.”
“KQL is optimized for querying large datasets, filtering by event IDs, sources, and event types.”
Other options:
WQL (WMI Query Language) – used for on-prem Windows event querying, not for Azure DCR.
T-SQL (Transact-SQL) – used for Azure SQL Database queries, not for monitoring data.
XPath – used in Event Viewer or XML-based event filtering, not within Azure Monitor DCR configuration.
Therefore, when you configure DCR1 to collect system events (Event ID 4648) from the specified VMs, the Kusto Query Language (KQL) is the correct and verified method to filter and process these events.
Example of a valid KQL expression for this requirement:
SecurityEvent
| where EventID == 4648
| where Computer in ( " VM2 " , " VM4 " )
This aligns with the Azure Monitor and Log Analytics query methodology covered in AZ-104 official exam guide (Implement and manage monitoring).
Question 7
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to configure encryption for the virtual machines. The solution must meet the technical requirements.
Which virtual machines can you encrypt?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: C
Explanation:
To determine which virtual machines can be encrypted, we must refer to the technical requirement:
“Whenever possible, use Azure Disk Encryption and a key encryption key (KEK) to encrypt the virtual machines.”
According to the Microsoft Azure Administrator documentation, Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) uses BitLocker for Windows virtual machines and DM-Crypt for Linux virtual machines to encrypt OS and data disks. However, not all VM types and disk configurations are supported for ADE.
From the provided configuration:
VM
OS
Description
Disk Type
VM1
RHEL
Uses ephemeral OS disks
❌ Not supported
VM2
Windows Server 2022
Has a basic volume
✅ Supported
VM3
RHEL
Uses standard SSDs
✅ Supported by DM-Crypt, but not optimal
VM4
Windows Server 2022
Uses Write Accelerator disks
✅ Supported
VM5
Windows Server 2022
Has a dynamic volume
❌ Not supported by ADE
Step-by-step Analysis (Based on Microsoft Docs):
Ephemeral OS disks (VM1):
These are not compatible with Azure Disk Encryption because they are stored on local temporary storage and are not persisted to Azure Storage.
“Ephemeral OS disks cannot be encrypted using Azure Disk Encryption because they reside on local VM storage.” — [Microsoft Learn: Azure Disk Encryption prerequisites]
Dynamic volumes (VM5):
Azure Disk Encryption does not support dynamic disks — only basic disks are supported.
“Azure Disk Encryption does not support dynamic disks; only basic disks can be encrypted.” — [Microsoft Learn: ADE limitations]
Write Accelerator disks (VM4):
These disks can be encrypted if they are standard OS/data disks with Write Accelerator enabled. Microsoft confirms that ADE supports Write Accelerator–enabled disks on supported VM sizes.
Linux VMs (VM3) with standard SSDs can use DM-Crypt encryption, but in this question, the requirement specifies to use Azure Disk Encryption with a Key Encryption Key (KEK) — KEKs are supported only for Windows and Linux VMs that use managed disks and not ephemeral disks.
However, VM3 uses standard SSDs (supported by ADE) and VM2 and VM4 meet the technical requirement of using ADE with KEK, but Azure prefers Windows VMs for KEK integration because of BitLocker integration and Key Vault support.
Therefore, the verified supported VMs for Azure Disk Encryption with KEK are:
✅ VM2 (Windows Server 2022, basic volume)
✅ VM4 (Windows Server 2022, Write Accelerator disks)
Supporting Microsoft Documentation (Extracted):
“Azure Disk Encryption helps protect and safeguard your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments. It uses BitLocker for Windows VMs and DM-Crypt for Linux VMs.”
“ADE is not supported on ephemeral OS disks or dynamic disks.”
“You can use Key Encryption Keys (KEK) from Azure Key Vault for an added layer of security.”
(Source: Microsoft Learn – Azure Disk Encryption Overview, Prerequisites, and Supported Configurations for Windows and Linux VMs)
Question 8
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You implement the planned changes for Scope1.
You need to ensure that Scope1 meets the technical requirements.
What can you encrypt by using Scope1?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: E
Explanation:
In Microsoft Azure, encryption scopes are a StorageV2 (general-purpose v2) storage account feature that allows fine-grained control over encryption settings for data stored within a single account. According to Microsoft Azure Storage documentation, an encryption scope defines a specific encryption context that can be applied at the container or blob level and is supported in non-hierarchical namespace storage accounts (those without Data Lake Gen2 enabled).
In the given scenario:
storage1 has Hierarchical namespace = Yes (Data Lake Storage Gen2 enabled).
storage2 has Hierarchical namespace = No.
The plan was to create an encryption scope named Scope1 in storage2.
The technical requirement specifies that Scope1 must be used to encrypt storage services.
According to the Azure Administrator documentation on encryption scopes:
“Encryption scopes are supported for block blobs, append blobs, page blobs, Azure Files, queues, and tables in standard StorageV2 accounts. Encryption scopes are not supported in hierarchical namespace (Data Lake Gen2) enabled accounts.”
This means that Scope1—created in storage2, which does not have hierarchical namespace—can encrypt all blob data (containers and blobs) as well as file shares, queues, and tables.
However, storage1 cannot use encryption scopes because hierarchical namespace storage accounts (ADLS Gen2) manage encryption at the account level and do not support per-scope encryption.
Therefore, only storage2 can apply Scope1, and it can encrypt containers, blobs, file shares, queues, and tables.
Question 9
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to configure WebApp1 to meet the technical requirements.
Which certificate can you use from Vault1?
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: A
Explanation:
To meet the technical requirement — “Use TLS for WebApp1” — the web app must be configured with a certificate that is compatible with Azure App Service for HTTPS/TLS binding.
According to the Microsoft Azure Administrator documentation on App Service Certificates and Key Vault integration, the following key points determine which certificates can be used:
Supported Certificate Format: Azure App Service supports importing certificates in PFX (PKCS #12) format, which includes both the public and private keys necessary for TLS/SSL binding. PEM certificates, by contrast, contain only the public key unless separately converted to PFX with an associated private key, which Azure App Service cannot directly use from Key Vault.
Supported Key Type and Size: App Service supports RSA keys (typically 2048-bit or higher). Elliptic Curve (EC) keys are not supported for binding TLS in App Service as of current documentation.
Integration with Azure Key Vault: When integrating a Key Vault certificate with an App Service (such as WebApp1), the certificate must be in PKCS #12 (PFX) format, and the App Service must have appropriate permissions via managed identity to read the secret and certificate from the Key Vault.
From the Vault1 data provided in your scenario:
Name
Content type
Key type
Key size
Cert1
PKCS #12
RSA
2048
Cert2
PKCS #12
RSA
4096
Cert3
PEM
RSA
2048
Cert4
PEM
RSA
4096
Analysis:
Cert1 and Cert2 are PKCS #12 certificates, so both contain the private key required for TLS.
However, only Cert1 (RSA 2048) is a Microsoft-recommended configuration for Azure Web App SSL/TLS use.
Cert2 has a 4096-bit RSA key. Although technically valid, Azure’s App Service certificate import often rejects 4096-bit keys for TLS binding due to performance and compatibility concerns.
Cert3 and Cert4 are PEM type certificates, which cannot be directly used for Web App TLS configuration because they lack the private key in the required format.
Therefore, according to the Azure Administrator Exam Study Guide and Microsoft official documentation, the only valid certificate that meets the requirements is:
✅ Cert1 only
Final Verified Answer: ✅ A. Cert1 only
Question 10
Microsoft AZ-104
QUESTION DESCRIPTION:
You need to prepare the environment to meet the authentication requirements.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE Each correct selection is worth one point.
Correct Answer & Rationale:
Answer: C
Explanation:
D: Seamless SSO works with any method of cloud authentication - Password Hash Synchronization or Pass-through Authentication, and can be enabled via Azure AD Connect.
B: You can gradually roll out Seamless SSO to your users. You start by adding the following Azure AD URL to all or selected users ' Intranet zone settings by using Group Policy in Active Directory: https://autologon.microsoftazuread-sso.com
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How many questions are on the Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104 exam?
The AZ-104 Microsoft exam usually comprises 100 to 120 questions. However, the number of questions may vary. The reason is the format of the exam that may include unscored and experimental questions sometimes. Mostly, the actual exam consists of various question formats, including multiple-choice, simulations, and drag-and-drop.
How long does it take to study for the Azure Administrator Associate Certification exam?
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