Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator

Prepare for your Microsoft AZ-104 exam.

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.6

- Students will learn all there is to know to be confident when taking the Microsoft Azure Administrator exams
- Students will learn the important aspects for what is required from an exam perspective

What you'll learn

Students will learn all there is to know to be confident when taking the Microsoft Azure Administrator exams

Students will learn the important aspects for what is required from an exam perspective

* Requirements

* Students need to have basic knowledge on cloud concepts
* Students need to have some background IT Knowledge on Virtual Machines
* Networks and other IT infrastructure aspects
* Students should create or have an account in Azure to practice along
* Students need to have basic knowledge on the Azure platform

Description

Release v6.0 - March 2021

Refreshed videos on various chapters which includes the following

Point-to-Site VPN connections
Site-to-Site VPN connections
Network Security Groups
Azure Standard Load Balancer
Azure Backup and Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Azure Firewall
Azure Storage Accounts

Added new videos which includes the following

Azure Kubernetes - Adding disks and file shares
Azure Web Apps - Backup, Custom domains, SSL
Azure Application Gateway - Working with multiple sites
Azure Storage Accounts - Object replication, Private Endpoints

Release v5.0 - December 2020

Added new contents including the following
- Creating VM's with Premium Disks
- Lab on using an Azure Load Balancer with Virtual Machine Scale sets
- Deployment slots for Azure Web Apps
- Integration of Azure Web Apps with Azure Virtual Network
- Usage of various tools available with Network Watcher
Refreshed chapters to reflect changes in Azure services

Release v4.0 - April

Added contents based on AZ-104 skills outline
Students can use this course to pass either the AZ-103 or the AZ-104 exam

Release v3.0 - Februrary

Released newer version of section "Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs)"
Released newer version of section "Configure and manage virtual networks"
Released newer version of section "Implement and manage storage"
Updated section "Manage Azure subscriptions and resources"
Updated section "Manage identities"

Release - v2.0 - July 2019

Fresh new look to chapters that explain key concepts on the Azure platform
Added more chapters on concepts - Resource tagging , storage accounts , Virtual Machine SLA
Mention on new az powershell
Added chapter on Availability Zones
Added chapter on implementation of the Azure Standard Load Balancer

Release - v1.1 - June 2019

Added optional chapters for students who are new to the Azure platform
Added chapter on Azure subscriptions based on students request

Release - v1.0 - May 2019

Course contents updated to align with AZ-103 objectives

This course is designed for students who want to attain the Microsoft Azure Administration Certification

This course has contents for the Exam AZ-104

The objectives covered in this course are

Manage Azure identities and governance
Implement and manage storage
Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Configure and manage virtual networking
Monitor and back up Azure resources

Who this course is for:

Those who want to pursue the Azure Administrator certification
Those who want to pass the Microsoft exam AZ-104

Course content

7 sections • 327 lectures

Introduction 1 lectures

Important Course Instructions Preview 00:04

Starting with Azure (Optional) 6 lectures

Overview of Azure Preview 05:41

Azure Free Account Preview 04:43

NEW - Creating an Azure Free Account Preview 03:45

Concepts in Azure Preview 03:57

Tour of the Azure Portal Preview 03:40

NEW - Quick note on Security Defaults Preview 03:05

Deploy and Manage Azure compute resources 121 lectures

UPDATED - The Virtual Machine Service Preview 01:05

UPDATED - Deploying a virtual machine Preview 01:56

UPDATED - Lab - Building a Windows virtual machine Preview 11:50

Common issues when deploying a virtual machine Preview 04:43

UPDATED - Connecting to the Virtual Machine Preview 03:56

UPDATED - Lab - Installing Internet Information Services Preview 07:40

NEW - Costs Associated with the Virtual Machine Preview 06:59

State of the Virtual Machine Preview 03:50

UPDATED - Lab - State of the Virtual Machine Preview 08:00

UPDATED - Lab - Build a Linux Virtual Machine Preview 04:10

NEW - Lab - Deploying a web server on the Linux virtual machine Preview 02:43

Lab - Build a Linux Virtual Machine - Resources Preview 00:13

NEW - Lab - Deploying a Linux machine - SSH keys Preview 06:34

NEW - Note on restrictions for the Azure Free Account Preview 02:16

Lab - Azure Cloud Shell Preview 04:31

Lab - Azure virtual machines - CLI and PowerShell Preview 03:44

Azure virtual machines - CLI and PowerShell - Practice commands Preview 00:08

UPDATED - Azure Virtual Machines - Data Disks Preview 03:52

UPDATED - Lab - Adding data disks Preview 04:57

UPDATED - Server-side encryption - Azure Disk Storage Preview 03:09

NEW - Encryption with customer managed keys Preview 06:51

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Disk Encryption Preview 04:25

Lab - Creating a VM with Premium Disks Preview 06:39

Disks - Understanding IOPS and Throughput Preview 06:32

Lab - Adding Data Disks - PowerShell Preview 03:42

Lab - Adding Data Disks - PowerShell - Practice commands Preview 00:18

Lab - Data Disks Snapshot Preview 06:35

Azure Shared Disks Preview 08:49

Lab - Un-managed disks Preview 07:34

Deleting resources in Azure Preview 05:37

Lab - Custom Script Extensions Preview 09:37

UPDATED - Lab - Custom Script Extensions for Linux Virtual Machines Preview 04:30

UPDATED - Lab - Linux Virtual Machines - Cloud init Preview 02:31

Lab - Linux Virtual Machines - Cloud init - Resources Preview 00:05

Virtual Machine - Boot Diagnostics Preview 01:33

Lab - Virtual Machine - Serial Console Preview 02:24

Lab - Virtual Machine - Run command Preview 03:23

Lab - Virtual Machine - Run command - Resources Preview 00:05

Confidential Computing and Azure Dedicated Host Preview 00:51

Azure Bastion Service Preview 02:53

Lab - Azure Bastion Service Preview 08:38

Azure Backup Service for Azure Virtual Machines Preview 05:48

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Backup Service - Azure Virtual Machines Preview 11:04

NEW - Azure Backup - Snapshot feature Preview 02:08

NEW - Azure VM restore - Different options Preview 01:57

NEW - Lab - Azure Backup - Azure Virtual Machines - Restore files Preview 04:29

NEW - Lab - Azure Backup - Azure Virtual Machines - Restore VM Preview 03:22

Soft Delete for Azure Virtual Machines Preview 04:41

Lab - Azure Backup - MARS agent Preview 07:47

Azure Backup Policy for Azure Virtual Machines Preview 03:56

Azure Site Recovery for Virtual Machines - Overview Preview 07:03

Lab - Azure Site Recovery for Azure virtual machines Preview 12:29

Lab - Azure Site Recovery - Azure VM - Part 2 Preview 02:33

UPDATED - Redeploying a virtual machine Preview 01:44

Availability Sets Preview 09:08

Availability Sets - Review Preview 00:37

Lab - Availability Sets Preview 07:02

Lab - Availability Sets - Extra bits Preview 00:36

Use case scenario - Availability sets Preview 03:00

Availability Zones Preview 04:54

Lab - Availability Zones Preview 04:17

Availability Zones Review Preview 00:22

Azure virtual machine scale sets Preview 05:38

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Preview 03:54

UPDATED - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set - Scaling conditions Preview 08:35

NEW - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets - Flexible Orchestration Mode Preview 05:51

NEW - Understanding virtual machine images Preview 04:22

NEW - Lab - Creating a specialized image Preview 05:43

NEW - Lab - Creating VM's out of the images Preview 06:48

NEW - Note - Virtual Machine Scale Set - Images Preview 01:42

NEW - Lab - Generalized VM Image Preview 07:44

Lab - Azure virtual machine scale sets - Command Line Preview 05:45

Virtual machine scale sets - Command Line - Practice commands Preview 00:25

Lab - Resizing a virtual machine Preview 01:16

Note on service limits Preview 00:45

UPDATED - Proximity Placement Groups Preview 03:24

Terminating resources Preview 02:12

Quick Note on ARM Templates Preview 00:07

Azure Web App Preview 02:47

Azure App Service Plans Preview 07:19

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Web Apps Preview 05:35

NEW - Lab - Making simple changes to the Web App Preview 03:14

Lab - Azure Web App - CLI Preview 02:04

Lab - Azure Web App - CLI - Resources Preview 00:10

Use case scenario - Azure App Service Plans Preview 04:15

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Web App logging Preview 03:38

Azure Web Apps - Deployment Slots Preview 03:30

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Web Apps - Deployment Slots Preview 05:52

Azure Web Apps - Autoscaling Preview 03:29

Lab - Auto scaling a web app Preview 08:19

NEW - Azure Web App - Virtual Network Integration Preview 03:12

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Web App - Azure Virtual Network Integration - Setup Preview 06:25

NEW - Installing Visual Studio 2022 Preview 00:18

UPDATED -Lab - Azure Web App - Azure Virtual Network Integration - Configuration Preview 07:53

Lab - Azure Web App - Azure Virtual Network Integration - Resources Preview 00:41

Lab - Azure Web App - Custom Domains Preview 07:58

Lab - Azure Web App - SSL Preview 02:35

UPDATED - Lab - Azure App Service Backup Preview 07:49

NEW - The need for containers Preview 04:38

NEW - Introduction to Docker Preview 02:45

Lab - Deploying Docker on a virtual machine Preview 04:30

Lab - Running the nginx container on the Linux VM Preview 09:44

Lab - Deploying Docker on a virtual machine - Practice commands Preview 00:28

NEW - The need for an image registry Preview 01:40

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Container Registry Preview 01:53

NEW - Publishing to the Azure Container Registry Preview 09:23

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Container Instances Preview 04:44

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Container Groups Preview 05:15

Lab - Azure Container Groups - Resources Preview 00:31

UPDATED - Primer on Azure Kubernetes Preview 04:43

UPDATED - Lab - Deploying an Azure Kubernetes cluster Preview 02:01

NEW - Lab - Deploying our application Preview 03:11

NEW - Lab - Deploying our application - Resources Preview 00:25

Lab - Deploying Azure Kubernetes - via Azure Cloud Shell Preview 04:10

Lab - Deploying Azure Kubernetes - via Azure Cloud Shell - Resources Preview 00:25

Azure Kubernetes - Configuring networking Preview 03:29

Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Configuring storage - Disks Preview 06:33

Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Configuring storage - Disks - Resources Preview 00:36

Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Configuring storage - Azure File shares Preview 03:37

Lab-Azure Kubernetes - Configuring storage - Azure File shares - Resources Preview 00:26

Azure Kubernetes - Other aspects Preview 02:05

Configure and manage virtual networking 101 lectures

UPDATED - Introduction to Virtual Networks in Azure Preview 01:33

The network interface Preview 03:01

UPDATED - Quick note on address spaces Preview 06:14

NEW - The CIDR Notation Preview 09:11

UPDATED - Lab - Working with Azure virtual networks Preview 03:08

NEW - Concept behind subnets Preview 04:14

NEW - Lab - Deploying a machine to the virtual network Preview 02:44

NEW - Static IP Address Preview 03:00

UPDATED -Attaching a secondary network interface Preview 04:39

UPDATED - Lab - Adding a secondary network interface Preview 04:15

UPDATED - Network Security Groups Preview 03:52

Lab - Network Security Groups Preview 10:27

Lab - Network Security Groups - Working with rules Preview 06:24

Lab - Network Security Groups - Priority setting Preview 04:29

Lab - Network Security Groups - Subnets Preview 05:45

Lab - Network Security Groups - Other Important aspects Preview 09:11

Pre-requisite for PowerShell commands for Virtual Machines Preview 00:39

Lab - Virtual Network and Virtual Machine - PowerShell Preview 08:10

Virtual Network and Virtual Machine - PowerShell - commands Preview 00:39

Azure Resource Manager templates Preview 02:22

Lab - ARM Templates - Creating a virtual network Preview 08:55

Lab - ARM Templates - variables Preview 02:17

Lab - ARM Templates - parameters Preview 02:44

Storage account for ARM Templates - Virtual Machines Preview 00:41

Lab - ARM Templates - Virtual Machines Preview 10:27

ARM Templates - PowerShell deployment Preview 01:57

UPDATED - The Azure Load Balancer Service Preview 02:31

UPDATED - Azure Load Balancer and SKU's Preview 04:58

UPDATED - Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Setup Preview 10:55

UPDATED - Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Implementation - Part 1 Preview 08:19

UPDATED - Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Implementation - Part 2 Preview 06:52

UPDATED - Lab - Basic Load Balancer - NAT rules Preview 08:45

Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Scale Set - Setting up the scale set Preview 06:28

Lab - Basic Load Balancer-Scale Set - Setting up the scale set - Resources Preview 00:20

Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Scale Set - Load Balancer Setup Preview 05:24

Lab - Basic Load Balancer - Scale Set - Scaling Preview 02:44

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Load Balancer - Standard SKU - Setup Preview 08:30

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Load Balancer - Standard SKU - Implementation Preview 04:43

NEW - Lab - Standard Load Balancer - Multiple Backend Pools Preview 06:28

NEW - Lab - NAT Rules - Same port number Preview 02:36

NEW - Lab - Standard Load Balancer - Outbound Connectivity Preview 02:01

NEW - Load Balancer - Session Persistence Preview 02:10

Azure Application Gateway Preview 07:38

NEW - Open Systems Interconnection Model Preview 07:11

NEW - Azure Application Gateway - Components Preview 03:24

NEW - Lab - Azure Application Gateway - URL Routing - Setup Preview 10:23

NEW - Lab - Azure Application Gateway - URL Routing - Implementation Preview 13:06

Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Setup Preview 08:12

Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Gateway setup Preview 06:43

Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Implementation Preview 04:25

Use case scenario - VPN connection and Load Balancer Preview 02:09

UPDATED - Virtual Network Peering Preview 02:02

Virtual Network Peering Notes Preview 00:18

NEW - Lab - Virtual Networking Peering - Setup Preview 06:37

NEW - Lab - Virtual Networking Peering - Implementation Preview 10:42

NEW - What is a Virtual private network Preview 02:11

NEW - Point-to-Site VPN Connections Preview 03:39

NEW - Lab - Point-to-Site VPN - Initial Setup Preview 04:10

NEW - Lab - Point-to-Site VPN - Setting the gateway Preview 09:15

NEW - Lab - Point-to-Site VPN - Certificates for authentication Preview 07:33

Lab - Point-to-Site VPN - Certificates for authentication - Reference Preview 00:21

NEW - Lab - Point-to-Site VPN - Establishing the connection Preview 07:29

Point-to-Site VPN connection notes Preview 00:42

UPDATED - Site to Site VPN Connection Preview 02:25

NEW - Lab - Site-to-Site VPN - Setup Preview 07:45

NEW - Lab - Site-to-Site VPN - Connection Preview 07:08

NEW - Lab - Site-to-Site VPN - Peering Preview 06:33

Site to Site VPN - Forced Tunneling Preview 03:29

Site-to-Site VPN connection notes Preview 00:42

Azure VPN Gateway - High Availability Preview 02:48

UPDATED - Azure Virtual WAN Preview 04:32

NEW - Lab - Creating the Azure virtual WAN resource Preview 04:12

NEW - Lab - Virtual WAN - Virtual Hub Preview 04:52

NEW - Lab - Azure Virtual WAN Hub - Azure virtual networks Preview 04:13

NEW - Lab - Azure Virtual WAN Hub - Point-to-Site connections Preview 03:52

NEW - Azure Virtual WAN - VPN Sites Preview 05:35

UPDATED - Azure ExpressRoute Preview 04:20

UPDATED - Creating an Azure ExpressRoute circuit Preview 03:32

UPDATED - Azure ExpressRoute peering Preview 01:19

UPDATED - Network Watcher Preview 01:42

NEW - Network Watcher - Connection Troubleshoot Preview 03:50

NEW - Network Watcher - Connection Monitor Preview 07:28

NEW - Network Watcher - IP Flow Verify Preview 01:49

NEW - Network Watcher - Next hop Preview 02:18

NEW - Network Watcher - NSG Diagnostic Preview 04:18

NEW - Lab - Network Watcher - NSG Flow logs Preview 09:46

User Defined Routes Preview 03:48

Lab - User Defined Routes Preview 08:56

UDPATED - Azure Firewall Preview 04:31

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Firewall - Deployment Preview 06:40

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Firewall - NAT Rule collection Preview 06:47

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Firewall - Adding the route Preview 05:15

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Firewall - Application Rules Preview 02:34

UPDATED - What is the domain name system Preview 05:43

UPDATED - Routing a domain to a virtual machine Preview 09:38

NEW - Lab - Local DNS - Setting up the domain Preview 09:29

NEW - Lab - Local DNS - Setting up the web server Preview 09:30

NEW - Lab - Local DNS - Using the DNS Server Preview 06:55

NEW - Azure Private DNS Preview 02:48

NEW - Lab - Azure Private DNS Preview 09:34

NEW - Azure Public DNS Preview 12:12

Implement and manage storage 34 lectures

UPDATED - What are storage accounts Preview 01:47

NEW - Different types of storage accounts Preview 01:32

UPDATED - Lab - Creating an Azure storage account Preview 03:42

NEW - Azure Blob service Preview 02:00

UPDATED - Lab - Blob service - Uploading a blob Preview 02:56

UPDATED - Lab - Blob service - Accessing the blob Preview 04:29

Azure Storage Accounts - Different authorization techniques Preview 01:13

UPDATED - Lab - Using Azure Storage Explorer Preview 02:38

UPDATED - Lab - Using Access keys Preview 03:10

UPDATED - Lab - Shared Access Signatures - Blob Level Preview 03:17

NEW - Lab - Shared Access Signatures - At the Storage Account Level Preview 04:37

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - Stored Access Policy Preview 04:37

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - Active Directory Authentication Preview 05:30

Azure Storage Accounts - Different authorization techniques Preview 02:11

UPDATED - Azure Storage Accounts - Data Redundancy Preview 06:31

UPDATED - Configuring Storage Redundancy Preview 02:37

Storage Accounts - Access Tiers Preview 03:16

UPDATED - Lab - Storage Accounts - Hot and Cool Access Tier Preview 03:41

UPDATED - Lab - Storage Accounts - Archive Access Tier Preview 02:40

UPDATED - Azure Storage Accounts - Lifecycle policies Preview 04:35

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - Object Replication Preview 03:52

UPDATED - Azure File shares Preview 02:07

UPDATED - Lab - Working with File shares Preview 05:49

Lab - File share backup Preview 06:01

Deleting your Recovery Services vault Preview 00:28

UPDATED - Firewall and Network settings Preview 07:43

UPDATED - Azure File Sync Preview 01:29

Lab - Azure File Sync Service - Setup Preview 07:29

Lab - Azure File Sync Service - Configuration Preview 05:58

UPDATED - Other ways of copying data Preview 02:40

NEW - Lab - AzCopy Tool - Part 1 Preview 06:27

NEW - Lab - AzCopy Tool - Part 2 Preview 05:38

Lab - AzCopy Tool - Resources Preview 00:35

NEW - Note on other storage account types Preview 04:13

Manage Azure identities and governance 61 lectures

UPDATED - Azure Subscriptions Preview 02:11

NEW - Creating an Azure subscription Preview 02:05

What is Azure Active Directory Preview 04:35

NEW - Trust between Azure Subscription and Azure AD Preview 08:42

NEW - Lab - Creating a user in Azure AD Preview 05:55

Introduction to Role Based Access Control Preview 04:15

NEW - Lab - Role-based assignments - Reader Role Preview 05:11

NEW - Lab - Role-based assignments - Resource group level Preview 02:26

NEW - Lab - Role-based assignments - Subscription level Preview 02:39

NEW - Lab - Role-based assignments - Contributor Role Preview 02:39

NEW - Lab - Role-based assignments - User Access Administrator Role Preview 02:00

UPDATED - Lab - Custom Roles Preview 02:56

UPDATED - Azure AD Premium licensing Preview 04:41

This chapter looks into Azure AD pricing

NEW - Lab - Azure AD - Creating a group Preview 01:27

UPDATED - Lab - Azure AD - Dynamic Groups Preview 04:49

UPDATED - Azure AD Roles Preview 02:00

This chapter looks into Azure AD Roles

NEW - Lab - Azure AD - Assigning an Azure AD role Preview 08:04

UPDATED - Azure AD Custom Domains Preview 05:42

This chapter looks into Azure AD Custom domains

UPDATED - Lab - Joining a VM to Azure AD Preview 02:49

This chapter looks into Azure AD Join

UPDATED - Dynamic Device Groups Preview 01:42

Device Settings - Notes Preview 00:55

NEW - What is self-service password reset Preview 01:59

UPDATED - Lab - Enabling self-service password reset Preview 03:47

UPDATED - Lab - Performing a self-service password reset Preview 02:39

UPDATED - Lab - Inviting guest users Preview 02:49

NEW - Lab - Users - Bulk create and delete Preview 02:17

NEW - What is Multi-Factor Authentication Preview 01:11

NEW - Lab - MFA on a per user basis Preview 05:16

NEW - Conditional Access Policies Preview 01:00

NEW - Lab - Conditional Access Policies Preview 05:31

NEW - Administrative Units Preview 01:50

NEW - Lab - Administrative Units Preview 10:46

What is the Azure Monitor service Preview 02:46

Working with Azure Monitor Preview 07:20

This chapter looks into Monitoring Azure resources

What is Azure Log Analytics Preview 01:34

Lab - Creating a workspace Preview 02:21

Lab - Connecting machines to a Log Analytics Workspace Preview 03:39

This chapter looks into Log Analytics

Lab - Connecting machines manually to the workspace Preview 05:42

Lab - Choosing data to be sent to the workspace Preview 05:55

Log Analytics - Queries Preview 03:49

Lab - Log Analytics - Queries - Resources Preview 00:14

Log Analytics - Alerts Preview 01:08

Log Analytics - Sending custom logs Preview 07:29

Lab - Azure Activity Logs - Diagnostics Preview 08:32

Lab - Working with Dashboards Preview 08:48

Azure Monitor pricing Preview 03:03

Azure Backup Reports Preview 04:00

Application Insights Preview 04:47

Introduction to Resource tags Preview 03:00

Lab - Working with Tags Preview 04:46

This chapter looks into working with Tags

Lab - Costing in Azure Preview 03:35

This chapter looks into costing in Azure

Moving Azure resources Preview 02:52

This chapter looks into moving azure resources

Lab - Moving Azure resources Preview 03:02

Moving resources across subscriptions Preview 02:38

NEW - What is the Azure Policy service Preview 01:28

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Policies Preview 05:37

This chapter looks into Azure policies

NEW - Lab Azure Policies - Remediation Preview 04:59

Management Groups Preview 03:20

Lab - Azure policies - Use case scenario Preview 05:31

Lab - Locking Resources Preview 04:46

This chapter looks into Locking resources

Use case scenario - Locking resources Preview 05:27

Practice Section 3 lectures

Practice Test 1

This Practice Test is a means to assess your knowledge based on the concepts discussed in this course

Practice Test 2

This Practice Test is a means to assess your knowledge based on the concepts discussed in this course