To comprehend the different scenarios in the exam, you should have a thorough understanding of the following services:
- Azure Virtual Network – you should know how to create a VNet peering, security rules, configuration of private/public IP addresses, network interface, subnets, and virtual networks.
- Azure DNS – the configuration of custom DNS, private, and public DNS zone.
- Azure Application Gateway – you should know when to use a load balancer and a web traffic load balancer, and how to create a web application firewall.
- Azure Load Balancer – the types of load balancing rules, the difference between a public load balancer, and an internal load balancer.
- Azure VPN Gateway – know how to configure VPN and VPN gateway.
- Azure ExpressRoute – understand the concepts of ExpressRoute and how you would implement it in your environment.
- Azure Virtual Machines – learn how to deploy and configure a VM, scale sets, highly available solutions, moving and redeploying of VM, creating a backup, backup policy, and recovery services vaults.
- Azure App Service – learn how to create an app service plan and what run time can be put in the same app service plan.
- Azure Container Instances – understand the concepts of containers and how to use ACI.
- Azure Kubernetes Service – the difference between ACI and AKS, the configuration of AKS.
- Azure Blob – you need to learn how to configure storage accounts, import/export of data, storage tiers, replication, and authentication.
- Azure Files – learn how to create a file share, file sync, copy data using AZCopy.
- Azure Active Directory – you should know how to manage a user, group, guest accounts, joined devices, device settings, and best practices.
- Azure RBAC – learn how to create and assign a role and the types of built-in roles.
- Azure Policy – you need to learn how to read and create a policy.
- Azure Monitor – you should know how to interpret metrics, the configuration of log analytics, query and analyze logs, set up alerts and actions, and other service features.
For the AZ-104 certification exam, you can focus on the following MS Learn modules: