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This course learning path on Pluralsight is a structured, comprehensive curriculum engineered to prepare IT professionals for the official Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate exam. Designed around Microsoft’s official job-role assessment model, this path combines expert-led video instruction, hands-on skill assessments, interactive lab exercises, and targeted exam review modules. Learners progress through all core domains of the AZ-104 objective blueprint—including identity governance, cloud storage, compute management, virtual networking, and infrastructure monitoring. By blending deep conceptual breakdowns with real-world administrative scenarios and exam strategy tips, Pluralsight equips candidates with both the technical confidence to manage enterprise cloud operations and the test readiness needed to pass the AZ-104 exam on their first attempt.
Topics This Course Covers
- Managing Azure Identities and Governance: Administering Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) users and groups, configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), managing subscriptions, and enforcing governance policies via Azure Policy and management groups.
- Implementing and Managing Storage: Provisioning storage accounts, configuring Azure Blob and File Storage, setting up data redundancy, configuring lifecycle management, and securing endpoints with SAS tokens and firewalls.
- Deploying and Managing Azure Compute: Creating, sizing, and configuring Virtual Machines (VMs) and scale sets, automating deployments with ARM templates and Azure Bicep, and configuring container solutions using ACI, ACR, and Azure App Services.
- Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking: Designing virtual networks (VNets), subnets, VNet peering, Network Security Groups (NSGs), public/private IPs, Azure DNS, and configuring secure remote access with Azure Bastion.
- Monitoring and Maintaining Azure Resources: Setting up Azure Monitor, writing diagnostic log queries in Log Analytics, configuring metric alerts, and implementing backup and disaster recovery workflows with Recovery Services Vaults.
Who Will Benefit from Taking This Course
- AZ-104 Exam Aspirants: Candidates looking for a structured, expert-led preparation path that covers every domain measured by the official Microsoft certification exam.
- Systems Administrators & IT Support Engineers: On-premises IT specialists transitioning their skills into cloud infrastructure deployment, governance, and troubleshooting.
- Cloud & DevOps Engineers: Professionals seeking to formalize their experience, fill technical knowledge gaps, and master modern infrastructure management tools like Azure Bicep and PowerShell.
- Self-Directed Learners: Technologists who value flexible skill-measurement tools, targeted domain modules, and practical lab walkthroughs to validate their workplace readiness.
Why Take This Course
Enrolling in this course path on Pluralsight provides a clear, highly effective framework to master cloud operations from industry-recognized experts. Pluralsight's unique learning path structure allows you to evaluate your starting knowledge using Skill IQ assessments, ensuring you focus time where you need it most while skipping redundant concepts. Rather than delivering dry documentation reviews, the curriculum utilizes scenario-driven lessons, hands-on exercises, and detailed exam-tip breakdowns that mirror real-world administrative challenges and exam case studies. Whether your goal is to earn a globally recognized Microsoft credential, advance into higher-paying cloud engineering roles, or build the functional confidence to manage enterprise Azure environments, this learning path provides the complete toolkit required to reach your goals.
