AZ-104 Labs

Applied Skills

Applied skills are a new type of credential that tests your hands on experience with the products. It will only practical tasks you complete with Microsoft products. They are free at the moment so a great way to practice for free but that can change soon.

Applied Skills - Deploy and configure Azure Monitor

Applied Skills - Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage

Applied Skills - Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure networking

Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn sandboxes are mini-labs that are part of Microsoft Learn modules. Easy and simple way to practice using the products you will get tested on.

Prerequisites

Install Azure PowerShell

Create an Azure Resource using scripts in Azure PowerShell

Create and save scripts in Azure PowerShell

Install and run the Azure CLI

Create an Azure website using the CLI

Create and deploy an Azure Resource Manager template

Manage Azure identities and governance

Add and delete users in Microsoft Entra ID

Assign users to Microsoft Entra groups

Give guest users access in Microsoft Entra B2B

Grant access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal

List access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal

View activity logs for Azure RBAC changes

Set up self-service password reset

Customize directory branding

Implement and manage storage

Create a storage account using the Azure portal

Use stored access policies to delegate access to Azure Storage

Use shared access signatures to delegate access to Azure Storage

Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Data Lake Storage

Connect Azure Storage Explorer to a storage account

Deploy and manage Azure compute resources

Create a virtual machine

Test your new virtual machine

Explore other VM images

Sizing VMs properly

Query system and runtime information about the VM

Start and stop your VM with the Azure CLI

Install software on your VM

Create a Windows virtual machine

Connect to a Windows virtual machine using RDP

Create a web app in the Azure portal

Write code to implement a web application

Deploy your code to App Service

Implement and manage virtual networking

Design and implement IP addressing for Azure virtual networks

Prepare virtual networks for peering by using Azure CLI commands

Configure virtual network peering connections by using Azure CLI commands

Verify virtual network peering by using SSH between Azure virtual machines

Create a DNS zone and an A record by using Azure DNS

Create alias records for Azure DNS

Create custom routes

Create an NVA and virtual machines

Route traffic through the NVA

Configure a public load balancer

Monitor and maintain Azure resources

Use metric alerts to alert on performance issues in your Azure environment

Use an activity log alert and an action group to notify users about events in your Azure infrastructure

Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data

Microsoft GitHub

While doing GitHub labs is not free, like those on Microsoft Learn, they are complete lab exercises that guide you through projects and help you get familiar with the products you will be tested on. For Azure, at the end of all labs there is self destruct PowerShell script, always run it when you finish to avoid additional costs.

Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities

Manage Subscriptions and RBAC

Manage Governance via Azure Policy

Manage Azure resources by Using the Azure Portal

Manage Azure resources by Using ARM Templates

Manage Azure resources by Using Azure PowerShell

Manage Azure resources by Using Azure CLI

Implement Virtual Networking

Implement Intersite Connectivity

Implement Traffic Management

Manage Azure storage

Manage Virtual Machines

Implement Web Apps

Implement Azure Container Instances

Implement Azure Container Apps

Implement Data Protection

Implement Monitoring

Guided Labs

These are basically interactive videos, they are free and easy to navigate but the issue is that it is not a live environment, always good to supplement with real labbing with Microsoft Products.

Manage Azure resources by using Azure Portal

Manage Azure resources by using Azure Powershell

Manage Azure resources by using Azure CLI

Manage Azure resources by using Azure Resource Manager templates

Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities

Manage governance via Azure Policy

Manage Subscriptions and RBAC

Create blob storage

Manage Azure Storage

Create a Virtual Machine

Manage Virtual Machines

Implement Azure Web Apps

Implement Azure Container Instances

Create a Virtual Network

Secure Network Traffic

Configure DNS Settings in Azure

Implement inter-site connectivity

Implement virtual networking

Implement traffic management

Backup Virtual Machines

Implement Monitoring

Implement traffic management

Implement traffic management