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Just passed AZ-104 with 775/1000

Resources I used:

1. James Lee course (Cantrill site) — around 30 hours with labs and demos.

2. 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.

3. 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)

Hi,

Does anyone use the Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative (ESI) and is it any good? I'm trying to find out if my organization has access to ESI, and I want to find out what are the benefits to using it.

Thanks in advance 😄

Microsoft officially announced the FREE online AI Skills Fest happening from June 8–12, 2026.

The event includes:

• AI learning paths for Developers, IT, Security, Data, Business users, and Students
• Live sessions & expert talks
• AI hands-on activities and hackathons
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• Eligible Certification exam vouchers
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Microsoft also confirmed that eligible certification voucher playlists will become available once the event starts on June 8.

Looks like a great opportunity for anyone planning to start or grow their AI + Microsoft skills journey

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Passed MD-102 this morning with a 740 . Started this thing back in January but life just gets in the way, been on and off ever since. Really only locked in this past month and got it done.

Working full time as a cyber engineer and project manager, full time husband, full time dad — by 7:30-8pm there’s not much left in the tank. Whatever little time I had went toward an exam I didn’t even enjoy. Content genuinely bored me to tears, nothing was sticking, wanted to quit multiple times. My wife kept pushing me to keep going so here we are.

Not hard, just boring as hell. Ended up using MeasureUp for practice questions, was decent. If you’re grinding through content you hate while juggling real life just keep going — worth it

Thanks for all of your guys help you kept me checking my work I appreciate you all !

Took the AZ700 yesterday. I passed, thankfully, but I was a little surprised to see labs return on the exams. I'm thankful that they were there. I'll take labs over case studies any day of the week. The last time i saw a lab on an exam was around 4-5 years ago. I remember when they stopped putting labs in the exams due to capacity issues.

The labs themselves were great. Pretty much portal ops your way through some basic tasks like setting up custom rules on a WAF, VNET peering, route tables, NSGs, and DNS zones. 10 tasks in total, all on the easy to medium side and certainly a lot more straight forward than some of the ambiguously worded questions from the exam.

Getting to use Microsoft Learn during the exam is a new feature that wasn't there before either (or at least I never noticed it before). I did use it for one question about Express Route resiliency that was oddly specific.

All in all, probably the hardest exam I've taken yet. Happy to have it behind me.

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Hey guys.

Last Friday I passed the AZ-104.

I have failed twice before, but after that I followed all the recommendations here. Tutorials Dojo, John Savill, Github for the labs...

I think the biggest difference compared to my first 2 attempts was the hands-on labs. I realized that without the labs, it is really difficult to pass.

So I just want to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to this community. You guys are the best.

Now I need your help one more time.

The only thing is: what should I do now that I passed? I have AZ-900, now the AZ-104 and Sonicwall SNSA (which I don't think it is relevant now). I think I may need some experience in Azure just to get better opportunities out there.

But how can I get experience if most of the jobs are already asking for experience.

I know this is an old paradox in the job searching, but I'm wondering how you guys managed to get your first Cloud job.

A little bit of my background: I'm 36. I've been working in IT since I was 16.
I started as a level 1 support.
I moved to Dublin/Ireland 5 years ago, and basically had to restart my career. (I don't have an EU passport, so the process was quite hard here).
Today, I'm working as a IT System Consultant, which is basically building/migrating physical and virtual servers, firewalls for other companies. We work with VMware and Hyper-V. The only thing that we see here that it can help me a little bit is M365 and Microsoft Entra ID (the most basic stuff, like risky users, Conditional Access, etc).
I know that right here I don't have any chance on moving into Cloud. The company is way behind. So I need to reposition myself.

Should I go to another certification to have more chances in the market? Is it possible to build a Azure profile, even though I'm not working with it?

I just want to get an idea what is the best path from here. If I study for TA-004, AZ-305, or focus on repositioning myself in the job market.

Thanks a lot!

As the title says, I failed az104 miserably with a score of 586. Frankly, I don't know if im good enough to try again, mostly because the labs etc really required hands-on experience. watching videos don't cut it.

Instead of a repeat of shame, should I go for AZ140, is it something I could Crack in 1 month?

I have az900, ms900. TIA

Hello everyone, today I took the exam for AZ900 and passed with a score of 810. I prepared for one week by doing the practice tests on the Microsoft Learn website.

I'm writing this to say I think it was based on pure luck. 741. I studied a ton with TutorialDojo and the normal Learn concepts in Microsoft Learn. I do have to say, there were maybe 2-3 questions that were 1 to 1 mirrors from TD, as I did most of my studying there.

Word of advice that I think can help people that I think helped me (even though I still think it was luck). Really know why a solution is wrong for a certain question. A lot of the test I felt is very vague on the details of a given scenario so that many answers sound correct, or are extremely stupid easy to the point that the question has the answer in it. Know what to look for in a question, read the answers first, but don't decide on one yet, then go back and read the question so you can try to pick up the keyword you are looking for (Bare in mind don't find the keyword and just stop reading right there, read the whole question!)

Either way, don't fully rely on TutorialDojo, great resource, but like I said, the most important take away is understand why the wrong answers are wrong intimately, then figure our why the right question is the best suited answer. Ask AI, watch videos, the Microsoft Learn is a great platform to start, but really understand what all those modules try to tell you.

I am right now working as a Desktop Support Engineer and it's been 1 year, I am planning to switch to DevOps and right now for which certification i should go for even i have a basic networking knowledge so thinking to go for SC-900 then AZ-104.

Let me know guys what i should do.

At last passed this exam with 816 score. Sigh of relief. Postponed this many time however now attempted and passed.

Major contribution that i used

1. Scott Duffy course udemy

2. Az-104 from Microsoft on YouTube

3. TD exam practise

4. Shireen exam practice from udemy

5.zerotoarchitect practise exams.

Any way sigh of relief now

Now looking for next target .my aim is to get some cloud security related certification like az 500 or sc 200. I am not sure about these . But whatever my target is to attempt in next three months. Kindly advise me appropriate certification on security only.

Passed with a 708. A month ago .

Passed the aws saa as well in a shorter timeframe.

This cert is no joke . Much harder than the saa .

Used tutorial dojo practice tests review mode and timed random

John savill cram

Gemini to answer questions i had about anything.

I have a voucher for SC-200 and need a little help.

I am working in DFIR, and hold several certs (Sec+, eCDFP, eCTHP, SAL2). I am more than comfortable with KQL, but haven't used MDE or Sentinel all that much.

Do you think I can knock out SC-200 in a month of part-time study? I am in a tight timeline because I'll be traveling soon and need to get it done before I go, because after I am back, I'll be busy with GCIH.

Please, do let me know if the schedule seems realistic or do I just skip it. Also, do share any helpful tips/resources/exams/anything really.

Thanks!

I am studying for the AZ-104. as part of my degree in cloud and network engineering. It requires I first pass AZ-900 (fundamentals) to officially start the course and get a exam voucher.

I already have the CompTIA trifecta. I have a few months of hands on Azure experience as well. I created a homelab with a DC and Windows 11 clients synced to Entra ID. Will my current knowledge with that, Net+ etc, and studying for the AZ-104 prepare me for AZ-900?

Genuinely relieved to have passed Az-305 with 733/1000.

The exam was evenly poised on difficulty. I was dreading if it would be DB heavy, as DBs have always been my weak point, but I am surprised that I didn't get many on DB related questions.

For study guide, I used Udemy courses from Alan Rodrigues and John Christopher. Even though Alan's course was dated, it was much more in-depth than John's.

Also, John Savill's cram video has been super helpful.

I also used the Az-305 course from Brett Hargreaves in LinkedIn Learning, though bailed out midway due to time constraints.

Thanks to the community for suggesting the courses, especially Alan's and JohnSavill's.

I was planning to buy TDojo practice exams, as they have really helped during my AWS SA certification, but since the certificate was practically free, I wanted to try out without spending again.

Next is SC-100. Any suggestions where to start?

After a few fails late 2025 and taking certs in my current field, I passed AZ-104 yesterday with a 741. Used MeasureUp, TutorialDojo, MS Learn (YouTube and website) and did some activities in the portal. Background is in marketing. Thinking about also getting some AI certs and continue with Azure. Good luck to all!