Free practice sample · Microsoft Azure Administrator
These 15 practice questions are drawn from the Certifym AZ-104 practice bank. Every item is original, written to the current Microsoft AZ-104 exam blueprint (last updated April 17, 2026), and paired with a written explanation of why the best answer beats the near-miss distractors. Use them to gauge your readiness before committing to the full 720-question bank or the AZ-104 training course.
The sample uses the same five-domain coverage, difficulty calibration, and explanation style as the paid bank — none of these items overlap with the paid content, and the answer positions have been balanced so no letter is over-represented.
Sample questions
About the AZ-104 exam
AZ-104 is Microsoft’s associate-level Azure Administrator exam. It validates hands-on skill managing identity, governance, storage, compute, virtual networking, and monitoring across a live Azure environment. Microsoft’s audience profile assumes working experience with the Azure portal, Azure CLI or PowerShell, ARM templates or Bicep, and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). Administrators typically manage virtual networks, storage, compute, identity, security, and governance, often as part of a larger team delivering cloud solutions and coordinating with networking, security, database, and DevOps roles.
The five domains and their weightings:
Manage Azure identities and governance
Domain 1 · 20–25%Microsoft Entra users, groups, and licenses; external users and self-service password reset; Azure RBAC roles and scopes; subscriptions, resource groups, management groups, Azure Policy, tags, resource locks, and cost controls with alerts, budgets, and Azure Advisor.
Implement and manage storage
Domain 2 · 15–20%Storage account creation, redundancy, and encryption; storage firewalls and virtual network rules; SAS tokens and stored access policies; identity-based access for Azure Files; Blob tiers, lifecycle management, soft delete, snapshots, and versioning.
Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Domain 3 · 20–25%ARM and Bicep deployments; VM sizing, disks, encryption at host, availability zones and sets, VM Scale Sets; Azure Container Registry, Container Instances, and Container Apps; App Service plans, scaling, deployment slots, TLS, custom DNS, and backup.
Implement and manage virtual networking
Domain 4 · 15–20%Virtual networks, subnets, peering, public IPs, and user-defined routes; Network Security Groups, application security groups, and effective rules; Azure Bastion; service and private endpoints for PaaS; Azure DNS; internal and public load balancers.
Monitor and maintain Azure resources
Domain 5 · 10–15%Azure Monitor metrics, logs, and alerts; action groups and alert processing rules; Insights, Network Watcher, and Connection Monitor; Recovery Services vaults, Backup vaults, backup policies, and Azure Site Recovery region failover.
Identity/governance and compute together carry roughly 40–50% of the scoring weight, so those two deserve the largest share of study time. Storage and networking are the mid-weight middle tier; monitoring is the lightest. Case-study questions frequently span multiple domains — securing a storage account touches storage and networking; a VM deployment often involves identity, compute, and networking together — so integrated hands-on practice matters more than domain-by-domain memorization.
Frequently asked questions
How many questions are on the real AZ-104 exam?
Microsoft no longer publishes a fixed count. The typical AZ-104 sitting delivers between 40 and 60 items across multiple choice, multiple response, drag-and-drop, and case-study formats, with occasional hands-on style tasks. Confirm current logistics on the official exam page when you book.
What is the passing score for AZ-104?
700 out of 1000 on Microsoft’s scaled scoring model. That is not the same as 70% raw — item difficulty is factored into the scaling, so a well-prepared candidate who handles the harder items well can still pass despite missing several easier ones. Certifym’s paid bank uses that scaled logic as its pass-mark rationale rather than a flat raw percentage.
How much does the AZ-104 exam cost in 2026?
$165 USD in the United States. The price varies by country and local taxes, and Microsoft periodically offers vouchers through partner programs, Microsoft Learn events, and academic channels. Check the official exam page for the price in your region before booking.
Is AZ-104 harder than AZ-900?
Yes — significantly. AZ-900 is a fundamentals credential testing conceptual understanding of Azure services, pricing, and support. AZ-104 is an associate-level exam that assumes you can configure, secure, and troubleshoot Azure resources hands-on using the portal, CLI, PowerShell, and templates. Most candidates budget several weeks to a few months of active practice after AZ-900 before sitting AZ-104.
How often does Microsoft update the AZ-104 exam?
Microsoft refreshes the objective domain regularly to keep pace with Azure service changes. The most recent update, April 17, 2026, was a minor refinement to the audience profile, virtual machine configuration, container provisioning, virtual networking, and resource monitoring topics — no structural changes to the five domains or their weightings. Materials aligned to the current outline remain valid.
Are these sample questions the same as the paid Certifym AZ-104 bank?
No. Every item in this free sample is an original question that does not appear in the paid 720-question bank. Certifym runs SHA-1 fingerprint deduplication against the paid content before publishing any sample set, so you can use the sample as a genuine warm-up without burning items you’d otherwise see in the paid bank.
Related certifications
If you’re building an Azure certification path, these are the exams most candidates pair with or move to after AZ-104: