Microsoft Azure Administrator Exam Prep (AZ-104) (Lalit Rawat)（Z-Library）

【One-Line Pitch】 A hands-on study companion for IT professionals preparing for Microsoft's AZ-104 Azure Administrator exam, walking through the day-to-day administrative tasks—identity, storage, compute, networking, and monitoring—that the certification tests. Best for readers who already know basic cloud concepts and want a structured, lab-oriented path to exam readiness. 【Book Arc】 - **Opening (~0%–15%)**: Front matter, author/reviewer backgrounds, and the preface framing the book as a practical guide to real Azure administration tasks rather than pure theory. - **Early (~16%–35%)**: The chapter map and table of contents lay out the full syllabus—Azure AD objects, hybrid identity, RBAC, subscriptions, storage, VMs, containers, web apps, networking, load balancing, security, monitoring, and backup. - **Middle (~38%–55%)**: Deep dive into identity fundamentals—bulk user creation, group types (Security vs. O365), membership modes, guest/B2B/B2C access, self-service password reset, and Azure AD Connect with password writeback. - **Late (~55%–85%)**: The operational core—storage accounts and data movement, Azure File Share, VM creation and ARM automation, containers, App Services, virtual networking and peering, load balancing, NSGs/firewall/Bastion, and Network Watcher troubleshooting. - **Ending (~85%–100%)**: Resource utilization analysis via Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, backup and disaster recovery, plus a dedicated exam-preparation chapter with tips, registration guidance, and dummy objective and scenario-based questions. 【Key Takeaways】 - **Identity is the book's foundation** (Early): Azure AD user/group management, guest access, and self-service password reset are treated as prerequisite skills before any workload administration. - **Hybrid identity bridges on-premises and cloud** (Early): Azure AD Connect, its prerequisites, and password writeback are covered step-by-step with lab screenshots, reflecting a real migration scenario. - **Access control is layered through RBAC** (Early): Subscription-, resource-group-, and resource-level role assignments plus custom roles show how to scope permissions precisely. - **Cost and governance are administrative duties** (Early): Subscription types, support plans, budgets, policies, quotas, tags, and resource locks are framed as ongoing management, not one-time setup. - **Storage spans data movement at scale** (Middle): Storage accounts, Azure Import/Export, Data Box, and AzCopy are presented as tools for migrating petabytes between on-premises and Azure. - **Compute is taught through automation** (Middle): VM creation for Windows/Linux is followed by ARM-template deployment, containers, and App Services, emphasizing repeatable provisioning. - **Networking and security are inseparable** (Late): VNets, peering, VPN/ExpressRoute, load balancers, NSGs, Azure Firewall, and Bastion are grouped to show connectivity and protection together. - **Monitoring and recovery close the loop** (Late): Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, backup vaults, and Site Recovery round out the operational lifecycle the exam expects. 【Reading Tips】 - Skim the front matter and reviewer bios quickly; the real value starts at the chapter map (~16%), which doubles as a study checklist. - Deep-read the identity and RBAC chapters (~38%–55%)—they underpin nearly every later scenario and are heavily weighted on the exam. - Treat the step-by-step lab sections as exercises: reproduce them in a free Azure subscription rather than reading passively. - Use the final exam-preparation chapter (~85%+) as a self-test; the dummy objective and scenario questions reveal weak areas to revisit. - Keep the reference links at each chapter's end handy for features that change after the 2021 edition. 【Coverage Limits】 This guide is based on stratified excerpts covering front matter, the table of contents, and portions of the identity chapters; detailed content from the storage, compute, networking, monitoring, and backup chapters is only visible through their headings, so specific procedures and figures in those sections are not summarized here.