Microsoft AZ-104: Azure Site Recovery and Backup Reporting
Distinguish Recovery Services vaults, Backup vaults, protected restore points, Site Recovery failover, test failover, failback and backup reporting for AZ-104.
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Microsoft AZ-104: Azure VNets, Subnet Sizing, Public IPs, and Outbound Access
Azure Administrator guide to VNet/subnet CIDR capacity, Standard public IPs, the 2026 private-subnet default, NAT/outbound design, peering and real connectivity checks.
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Entra Users, Groups, Licensing, and SSPR
Separate directory permissions from subscription access An Azure administrator can manage an entire subscription yet be unable to create a Microsoft Entra user.…
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Azure Policy, Budgets, and Advisor
Administer Azure Policy assignments, remediation, resource hierarchy, budgets, alerts, and Advisor without confusing financial observation with RBAC enforcement.
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Azure Storage Firewalls, Account Keys, and SAS Policy
Troubleshoot Azure Storage network/firewall access separately from keys, Entra data roles, SAS expiration, and stored access-policy revocation.
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Azure Blob and Azure Files Data Protection
An administrator's practical recovery guide for Azure Blob tiers, versioning, soft delete, container protection, Azure Files snapshots, and lifecycle policies.
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Storage Object Replication and AzCopy
How AZ-104 administrators use Blob object replication, encryption, AzCopy and Storage Explorer without confusing replicas, redundancy and backups.
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Bicep and ARM Template Deployment
A Bicep deployment can finish successfully and still leave an Azure resource in a configuration the team did not intend. Imagine a request…
Read articleMicrosoft AZ-104: Azure VM Provisioning, Disks, Encryption, and Availability
AZ-104 administration of VMs, disk lifecycle, encryption at host, resizing, moves, availability sets, zones and scale sets.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: Evaluating Foundry Agents: Tracing, Safety, and Reliability
AI-103 evaluation and operations: groundedness, tool safety, OpenTelemetry traces, prompt-injection tests, cost, drift, incident analysis, and safe releases.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: Multimodal AI in Foundry: Images, Video, and Visual Evidence
AI-103 image and video generation, editing, accessible captions, visual grounding, Content Understanding, and multimodal safety evaluation.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: Text Analysis, Translation, and Speech
Build validated language, translation, sentiment, entity, speech, and voice-agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry with meaningful safety and quality tests.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: Content Understanding: Documents, OCR, and AI Extraction
AI-103 document and multimodal extraction with Content Understanding, OCR, layouts, field schemas, source provenance, access control, and safe agent integration.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: A Practical Azure AI Study Plan
A practical AI-103 preparation plan for Microsoft Foundry projects, grounded search, agent tools, multimodal workflows, and real-world engineering evaluation.
Read articleMicrosoft AI-103: Foundry Projects, Security, and Deployment
Design and operate Microsoft Foundry projects with appropriate identity, deployment capacity, monitoring, retrieval boundaries, and controlled releases for AI-103.
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