AZ-104: The Whole Exam in One Page

The AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator exam checks whether you can actually run an Azure environment: users, storage, servers, networks and monitoring. It has 5 domains and this series takes each one at a time.

Flow of an Azure Administrator's day

       Users log in via
       Azure AD (Domain 1)
             |
             v
   +---------+---------+
   |  Storage buckets  |  <-- Domain 2
   +---------+---------+
             |
             v
   +---------+---------+
   |  Compute (VMs,    |  <-- Domain 3
   |  App Service, AKS)|
   +---------+---------+
             |
             v
   +---------+---------+
   |    Networking     |  <-- Domain 4
   |  (VNet, NSG, LB)  |
   +---------+---------+
             |
             v
   +---------+---------+
   |  Monitor + Backup |  <-- Domain 5
   +-------------------+

The 5 domains & the exact articles that cover them

#	Domain	Article in this series
1	Identity & Governance (Azure AD, RBAC, Policy, Management Groups)	Part 1
2	Storage (Storage Accounts, Blob tiers, Redundancy, Files, Disks)	Part 2
3	Compute (VMs, Availability, Scale Sets, App Service, AKS)	Part 3
4	Networking (VNet, Subnet, NSG, VPN, Load Balancer, App Gateway, DNS)	Part 4
5	Monitor & Backup (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Backup, Recovery Vault)	Part 5

How to use this series

1. Skim this summary once.
2. Read Part 1 → 5 in order over 5 short sittings.
3. After each part, open the Azure portal and do the one command shown — muscle memory beats reading.
4. Keep the attached PDF handy as a revision doorstop the night before the exam.

Real-world example

A tiny company moves email to Microsoft 365 → you (AZ-104 admin) create Azure AD users (Domain 1), give the finance team a Blob container for scanned invoices (Domain 2), spin up a small App Service for a dashboard (Domain 3), open port 443 in an NSG (Domain 4), and set a Log Analytics alert on "App Down" (Domain 5). That's the whole exam in a workday.