AZ-104 exam map
AZ-104
AZ-104 exam map
What the exam states about itself
- 2026-04-17
- 5
- 15
- 82
- 100 minutes
- 700 of 1000
What AZ-104 certifies
AZ-104 certifies an administrator — somebody who operates an Azure estate rather than designing one. That shows up in the wording of the objectives: they are overwhelmingly verbs you perform, not judgements you defend. Configure, manage, create, troubleshoot, interpret. Where a design exam asks which architecture is right, this one asks which setting you would change and where you would change it.
Read that as a study instruction. Being able to describe a service is not the bar; being able to say which blade, scope or command changes its behaviour is.
The blueprint
| Skill area | Published range | Sub-areas | Objectives | Bank questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Manage Azure identities and governance | 20–25% | 3 | 15 | 99 |
| 2. Implement and manage storage | 15–20% | 3 | 17 | 76 |
| 3. Deploy and manage Azure compute resources | 20–25% | 4 | 24 | 99 |
| 4. Implement and manage virtual networking | 15–20% | 3 | 13 | 107 |
| 5. Monitor and maintain Azure resources | 10–15% | 2 | 13 | 67 |
The order worth taking
- Unit 1, identities and governance. Scope is the idea the rest of the exam assumes you already have.
- Unit 4, networking. It is the largest question surface in this bank and the one most often failed on a path question rather than a knowledge question.
- Unit 3, compute. The widest unit by objective count. Long, but each sub-area is self-contained.
- Unit 2, storage. Two clean families of question, quick to consolidate once units 1 and 4 are solid.
- Unit 5, monitoring and recovery. Smallest by weight, and the one candidates most often leave short.
Units 1 and 4 first is a deliberate inversion of the published order. Scope and network paths are the two ideas that other units silently depend on, so learning them late means re-reading everything that assumed them.
What this hive gives you
Study assets in this hive
- 448
- 24, in 6 groups
- 254
- 82 — one per objective
- 6, of 67 questions each
The flashcard deck pins to objective depth rather than topic depth, so coverage is verifiable one objective at a time — every one of the 82 has its own collection. The six mocks share no question with each other and each carries one complete case study, so they can be sat as six independent attempts.
Check yourself
Traps that span the whole exam
Every one of those is a reading failure rather than a knowledge failure, which is why working questions beats re-reading notes once you are past the first pass.