PRACTICE

Free AZ-104 Azure Administrator practice test

Measure your ability to choose and operate Azure administration solutions across identity, governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, and resilience. The 20-question baseline requires a registered free account.

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AT A GLANCE

Topics covered

A focused path from practice to useful feedback.

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Manage Azure identities and governance

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Implement and manage storage

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Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

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Implement and manage virtual networking

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Monitor and maintain Azure resources

OVERVIEW

Who AZ-104 is designed for

AZ-104 targets administrators who implement, manage, and monitor an Azure environment. The work spans Microsoft Entra ID, governance, storage, virtual machines and containers, network connectivity, monitoring, and backup.

Microsoft recommends familiarity with operating systems, networking, servers, virtualization, PowerShell, Azure CLI, the Azure portal, ARM templates or Bicep, and Microsoft Entra ID. Practice should therefore include operational scenarios, not only service definitions.

High-value preparation areas

  • Scope and precedence for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, policies, locks, roles, and identity objects.
  • Storage account security, redundancy, lifecycle controls, access methods, Azure Files, and data movement.
  • Virtual machine availability, scaling, disks, App Service, container workloads, and infrastructure-as-code deployment.
  • Virtual networks, subnets, peering, routing, network security groups, private connectivity, name resolution, and load balancing.
  • Azure Monitor data collection, alerts, insights, Network Watcher, backup, restore, and Site Recovery concepts.

Sample AZ-104 questions

SAMPLE QUESTION 1

A virtual machine must access a storage account without storing a password or account key. What should the administrator configure?

  1. A managed identity with an appropriate data role
  2. A resource lock on the virtual machine
  3. A service health alert
  4. A public IP address
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Answer: A. A managed identity lets the workload obtain Microsoft Entra tokens without embedded credentials. It still requires the appropriate role assignment on the target resource.

SAMPLE QUESTION 2

An administrator needs to allow HTTPS inbound to a subnet while keeping an existing deny rule at a lower priority. What should be changed?

  1. Add an NSG allow rule with a higher priority
  2. Create a read-only resource lock
  3. Add an Azure Policy exemption
  4. Increase the virtual network address space
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Answer: A. Network security group rules are evaluated by priority. A matching allow rule with a lower priority number is evaluated before a later deny rule.

Use the baseline effectively

  1. Answer from an administrator’s perspective: required state, scope, dependencies, and least operational effort.
  2. Review why each distractor fails the scenario, especially when multiple Azure services appear plausible.
  3. Build small lab tasks for missed objectives and repeat them with the portal and a command-line tool.
  4. Return to a different mixed set after review and compare objective-level performance.

OVERVIEW

Practice is one part of preparation

Operational familiarity matters for AZ-104. Combine questions with Microsoft Learn exercises and a controlled Azure environment, watch costs, and remove resources after labs.

The free score is available immediately after the test. A registered free account is required so results and later attempts remain connected to the learner.

Frequently asked questions

Is AZ-104 a beginner exam?

Microsoft describes the certification as intermediate. Candidates benefit from administration and infrastructure fundamentals before preparing.

Are labs included in the free practice test?

The current simulator uses exam-style selected-response questions. It does not claim to reproduce Microsoft interactive exam components.

Which version does this page cover?

It covers the AZ-104 record currently published by the platform and was reviewed against Microsoft’s certification page on the listed content review date.

Put the next step into practice

Use the free experience first, review what you learn, and upgrade only if the expanded question banks and tracking fit your study plan.

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