A 15-hour refresher of the Azure Administrator exam, written as a stepping stone to AZ-305. It covers the AZ-104 skills outline and the AZ-305 prerequisites learning path, including the Cloud Adoption Framework and the Well-Architected Framework. Each chapter starts with theory and ends with a hands-on lab in your own subscription.
📖 Theory 9 h 00 m🛠 Labs 6 h 00 mSkills outline: 26 Oct 2023 (still current)
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How this guide works
You build one lab environment in one resource group, and every chapter adds something to it. The VNet from chapter 3 hosts the VMs of chapter 5, which sit behind the load balancer of chapter 6, which reach the storage account of chapter 7 over a private endpoint, and so on. In chapter 10 you back up and replicate what you built, then delete everything. Chapters 11 and 12 then look at the bigger picture, with self-contained labs.
Do the chapters in order. Later labs assume earlier resources exist.
Theory times assume calm reading, including time to look at the diagrams and answer the self-check questions.
Labs are assignments. Each step tells you what to build and how to know you're done, not how. Try it yourself first; the portal solution and the Azure CLI solution are folded away underneath if you get stuck.
Orange boxes are exam traps, purple boxes link the topic to AZ-305 design thinking.
Take notes with the ✎ Note buttons next to each heading and under each lab step. Your notes and progress are stored in this browser only; use ✎ Notes → Export JSON in the top bar to back them up or move them to another device.
What you build in chapters 1–10. Everything lives in rg-az104-lab so cleanup is one delete.