Just Passed AZ-104, here's everything i used
Just passed AZ-104 with 775/1000
Resources I used:
James Lee course (Cantrill site) — around 30 hours with labs and demos.
Took notes on everything. Then I used Claude to review them, comment on them, compare them against the Microsoft Learn AZ-104 objectives, and explain concepts I didn’t fully understand.
Tutorial Dojo exams: completed all of them.
First attempts averaged around 80%, second attempts around 87%.
I also used Claude with the Tutorial Dojo questions to identify gaps in my notes and complete missing topics.
That’s it. Nothing else.
The actual exam was harder than I expected. At some point I genuinely thought I had failed.
For me, Tutorial Dojo felt easier than the real exam.
Got quite a few questions about encryption keys, KEK, key sizes/bit lengths, and some questions were very tricky or designed to make you second-guess yourself.
For those interested in my notes, each .md files is a course section of James Lee videos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JywprnpLi-FpzXsTUM1yhhBS9HJWxgfg
I plan on finishing james lee AZ305 course (50% overlap with his 104 course) so 20h, then the same system again (claude for notes + TD)