Microsoft's core Azure Administrator credential — the hands-on, operate-the-platform certification that sits between AZ-900's conceptual fundamentals and AZ-305's architect-level design work, and the one nearly every other Azure specialization assumes you already hold.
AZ-104 proves you can run a live Azure tenant, not just describe one — managing identities and governance, deploying and scaling compute resources, implementing storage, administering virtual networking, and monitoring what's actually running in production. It's the credential Microsoft treats as the on-ramp to the rest of the Azure catalog, the one assumed before the Solutions Architect Expert, security, or DevOps tracks. For an IT generalist moving into cloud infrastructure work, it's the certification that turns hands-on Azure experience into something a hiring manager can actually screen for.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook — Network and Computer Systems Administrators (closest BLS-tracked occupation to Azure/cloud administration) · 2024 wage data, 2024–2034 projections
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