JITA Learning · Microsoft · Field Guide
AZ-104 · Microsoft Azure Administrator
Build working judgment for day-to-day Azure administration.
What you should expect
Build working judgment for day-to-day Azure administration.
This Field Guide develops a working mental model of day-to-day Azure administration. You will connect manage identities, roles, subscriptions, governance controls, and resource organization, deploy and operate virtual machines, App Service, containers, and related compute resources, configure storage access, redundancy, lifecycle, and data-protection controls, and design and troubleshoot virtual networking, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity. You are not just memorizing feature names; you are learning what owns the requirement, what can fail, and how to verify the outcome.
What you will learn
- manage identities, roles, subscriptions, governance controls, and resource organization
- deploy and operate virtual machines, App Service, containers, and related compute resources
- configure storage access, redundancy, lifecycle, and data-protection controls
- design and troubleshoot virtual networking, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity
- recognize why one technically plausible alternative loses under the stated requirement
- apply Changed Fact reasoning and verify the design or implementation through operational evidence
Decision skills you will practice
- identify the governing requirement
- compare the nearest plausible alternative
- apply Changed Fact reasoning
- trace prerequisites, dependencies, and failure paths
- verify configured state, effective state, runtime outcome, and negative-path evidence
Who this is for
Azure administrators who need operational judgment across identity, compute, storage, networking, governance, monitoring, backup, and recovery
Use this when you need to learn the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
Decisions you will learn to distinguish
- RBAC or identity issue vs resource configuration issue
- network route/security problem vs application listener problem
- configured backup vs proven restore capability
Why JITA is different
Microsoft explains the platform. JITA teaches the decision.
Microsoft Learn explains the services, features, and documented behavior that support day-to-day Azure administration. JITA connects those capabilities into decisions: what owns the requirement, what the nearest alternative is, what changes when one fact changes, and what evidence proves the implementation worked.
How to choose:
Use the Field Guide to build understanding. Use the Exam Preparation Guide to test whether that understanding survives exam-style decisions.