A NEW VERSION OF THIS EXAM, AZ-104, BECAME AVAILABLE ON APRIL 2, 2020. You will be able to take this exam until it retires on or around August 31, 2020. Note: Exams retire at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time.
Starting on May 1, 2019, you only need to pass Exam AZ-103 to earn this certification. This new exam combines the skills covered in AZ-100 and AZ-101 (which retired on May 1, 2019), with the majority of the new exam coming from AZ-100.
Candidates for this exam are Azure Administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Candidates have a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle, and take requests for infrastructure services, applications, and environments. They make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.
Candidates for this exam should have proficiency in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, ARM templates, operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.
Skills Measured
NOTE: The bullets that appear below each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. This list is not definitive or exhaustive.NOTE: In most cases, exams do NOT cover preview features, and some features will only be added to an exam when they are GA (General Availability)
Manage Azure subscriptions and resources (15-20%)
- Manage Azure subscriptions
- Analyze resource utilization and consumption
- configure diagnostic settings on resources
- create baseline for resources
- create and test alerts
- analyze alerts across subscription
- analyze metrics across subscription
- create action groups and action rules
- monitor for unused resources
- monitor spend
- report on spend
- utilize log queries in Azure Monitor
- view alerts in Azure Monitor
- Manage resource groups
- Managed role based access control (RBAC)
Implement and manage storage (15-20%)
- Create and configure storage accounts
- Import and export data to Azure
- Configure Azure files
- Implement Azure backup
Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) (15-20%)
- Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux
- Automate deployment of VMs
- Manage Azure VM
- Manage VM backups
Configure and manage virtual networks (30-35%)
- Create connectivity between virtual networks
- Implement and manage virtual networking
- configure private and public IP addresses, network routes, network interface, subnets, and virtual network
- Configure name resolution
- configure Azure DNS
- configure custom DNS settings
- configure private and public DNS zones
- Create and configure a Network Security Group (NSG)
- Implement Azure load balancer
- configure internal load balancer
- configure load balancing rules
- configure public load balancer
- troubleshoot load balancing
- Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
- monitor on-premises connectivity
- use Network resource monitoring
- use Network Watcher
- troubleshoot external networking
- troubleshoot virtual network connectivity
- Integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network
Manage identities (15-20%)
- Manage Azure Active Directory (AD)
- Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices)
- Implement and manage hybrid identities
- install Azure AD Connect, including password hash and pass-through synchronization
- use Azure AD Connect to configure federation with on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- manage Azure AD Connect
- manage password sync and password writeback
- Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- configure user accounts for MFA
- enable MFA by using bulk update
- configure fraud alerts
- configure bypass options
- configure Trusted IPs
- configure verification methods
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Overall this is the longest exam I have written. I hope this post was useful and happy studying!
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