r/AzureCertification

I failed AZ-104 back in January 2025 with a score around 660-670 (can't remember now!). But today, I slayed that dragon finally! I had planned to study and review a lot over the weekend, but I was exhausted of test questions and also busy doing an Azure security assessment for work. My Azure background is mostly with Azure security (networks and Entra/RBAC) and Azure web apps.

Preparations? Honestly, nothing really helped in the end, this test is just a beast and is one big trivia game. It felt just as hard as it did the first time, and even after using Azure full-time for more than two years, nearly nothing I use day to day in Azure is tested on the exam. In fact, I did evern *worse* in the Backup/Monitoring category this time. But I did improve on Storage, which is what got me over the line I suppose. Frankly, I think it was just luck that I got enough points today. I was also a little better at using MS Learn to verify some things, which maybe helped on 4 or 5 questions?

What did I use to prep?
- MS Learn AZ-104 Training: useless and way too general, but everyone should do it still
- AZ-104 Github labs: OK, but not nearly specific enough. You need to go way deeper!
- MeasureUp: This was good, it helped me get in the right mindset for the test question styles, but still I don't think it was all that helpful other than getting the mindset
- CloudLee AZ-104 Course: Great course for learning Azure fundamentals
- CloudLee AZ-500 Course: Great for zeroing in on network and RBAC/Entra
- Work experience: two years of mainly Azure networking/VPNs and Azure Web Apps

What's next? Probably AZ-305. I had originally planned for AZ-400. Not sure though if that's the goal anymore. But I would like to get smarter at Azure DevOps pipelines. I suppose the replacement for AZ-500 would be interesting and useful for learning more about Azure and AI. But it's not ready yet. For now I've created a monthly calendar reminder to remind me about re-certification, even if it is still 6 months from today!

Don't give up, AZ-104 candidates! Just don't give up!

AZ-104 Passed! In my second attempt. You can check my previous post for more details, I revisited TD exams, and got a couple of more from Udemy.

Total questions 54 (including 1 case study at end with 4 questions).Left around 10 minutes before final submission. Microsoft wording is super tricky, cramming won’t help you at all if you don't know the reasoning. Make your own notes in your language.

Do more hands on in your account , it costs only a small amount if you know what you are doing and try to create what you are reading from practice papers, read Microsoft Docs for updated reasoning, don’t just use AI for copy paste. Try to understand the logic then you can answer any variant of the question. Next up will be bend towards security side SC300, AZ-305 can be done later after landing some real cloud related role otherwise it won’t help much.

I am full time working in IT and it's very difficult to manage this sidecar but you got this. Happy learning

Hi everyone, I want to get the AZ-900 basic certification. I see there's a practice quiz on the Microsoft Learn website. Are the exam questions at the same level? Are they similar? Because, honestly, the practice quiz questions weren't that difficult. I'm worried the exam questions will be difficult

Which method of studying for an exam has proven to be the most beneficial for you in terms of passing? I’m currently doing LLM designed hands on labs with a Free Trial and I have noticed after my fifth lab that the AZ-104 cram by John Savill makes so much more sense now compared to the first time I gave it go.

I have also realised that simply reading the heavy text MS Learn modules isn’t a guarantee that the material will stick with me, but when I do practice tests (TD, MS Learn and LLMs), and afterwards read the results showing why this answer was right and why that answer was wrong, it does persist as gained knowledge.

What about you guys?

Please share your methods. 👍

Just passed with only a weekends worth of work. Minor Azure experience but I passed with a 731/700, there was 31 questions. I hit mid 90s on Cloud Concepts and low 80s on architecture and services and around a 50% on management and governance. My resources were Tutorial Dojo, Microsoft Learn Practice Exams, and John Savill(I only watched 16 episodes), and used Claude to explain rationales and give me questions in the format of the az900 to include its select this many that apply, multiple choice, and drag and drop(which was more of a match the concept with the correct definition). I was hitting consistent 90s on my practice and still got questions I didn't see before. Flagged questions I wasn't familiar with and came back at the end. Resources I used below:

John Savill Playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVtbbG169nED0\_vMEniWBQjSoxTsBYS3&si=nIrcJOW8h\_F0brVV

Microsoft Learn Practice Assessment & Exam Sandbox:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/azure-fundamentals/

Tutorial Dojo($12.99 - $2 discount: WELCOME-2-TD)

https://portal.tutorialsdojo.com/courses/az-900-microsoft-azure-fundamentals-practice-exams/

Does anyone know of any long term labs that can be used for the AZ-104? What I mean by long term is a set of labs that build upon one another vs the typical, ok we’re going to create this resource group, and vms and v nets to learn this one thing then delete it right after only to need to create all that over again 2 labs from now to learn a new topic. I did Scott Duffy’s course and it drove me absolutely insane.

I just passed the Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam with a score of 826. I went into it thinking it would be “just basics,” but honestly some of the questions were tricky. Not difficult in terms of depth, but the wording can really throw you off if your concepts aren’t clear.

I’m pretty new to Azure, so I started with Scott Duffy’s Udemy course, which was helpful to understand the fundamentals. But what actually made the difference was practicing scenario-based questions.

I used Inside Cloud and Security practice questions -

https://insidethemicrosoftcloud.com/az900quiz

these are quite tricky and much closer to the real exam. The default Microsoft practice test and the Udemy ones are pretty straightforward, so relying only on those isn’t enough at all.

The actual exam had a lot of scenario-based and slightly confusing questions. I expected it to be harder overall, but it turned out to be manageable. I took my time going through the questions so ended up finishing with about 7 minutes left.

Overall, it was a good experience. Happy to help if anyone is preparing for it

Hello! I am a silent reader on this sub. Just want to share my journey in passing the certification. For background I have 5+ years of exeperience in network engineering, no Azure related work experience, just some experience spinning up VM for testing purposes of softwares.

I studied for about 1.5 months. A month watching Scott Duffy Udemy course and binge listening/watching JS Study Cram V2. Used TD for practice exam only review mode. I read the explations on why the answer is wrong it helps alot. It reinforces the knowledge I got from the videos

Thanks for the tips everyone gave here.

Score: 800

Background

I've worked in Entra solidly now for about 2 years at my organisation, managing CA's, applications, PIM.

After looking at the scope of the SC-300 and doing some practice exams at the start of my revision I realised I had a lot to learn to pass the exam. I revised for around a month and a half. About 4 hours during the week, and a full day at the weekend.

Revision

I haven't done a Microsoft cert in over 5 years, and the one I have done was a fundamentals. I took a bit of a scatter gun approach to revision, which in retrospect now I will change next time. I worked through MS-Learn content, taking notes in my OneNote, which I never really revisited. Used the online training platform CBTNuggets, of which I found Bob Salmans's course and explanations on SC-300 very good. If there was a topic I was struggling to understand on MS-Learn, Bob's videos helped clarify things up, and I also used the official SC-300 Training videos from Microsoft, on some topics I struggled on like app registrations.

I setup a test tenant with some Entra trial licences which for me was invaluable, reading these things in MS-Learn and then putting them into practice in the test tenant was where I solidified my learning(s).

Exam Content

Compared to the SC-300 Practice exams, the exam completely took me back. The questions in the MS-Learn practice exams are sentences, the questions in the exam for me were paragraphs. I haven't done an exam in a long while, this caught me off guard the sheer amount of information to read and ingest per question, not all, but alot of them.

For me, the exam focused heavily on Defender for Cloud Apps (there was lots of questions on this around session controls and app controls, more than I'd of liked), Identities in Azure, PIM, GSA, and entitlement management with access reviews and access packages.

I had 53 questions, and 8 questions in my case study. No labs.

Time management was extremely important, and something I wasn't prepared for. I felt very rushed during the exam, so in retrospect have a good idea of a time management plan going into this exam.

Score breakdown: 815/1000

Happy to answer questions. Good luck to everyone currently studying — it's a solid cert and worth the effort.

Azure AI 102 Certification exam

Hi Friends, I am planning to take Azure AI 102 Certification exam next week. Please help where I can get practice questions and help with any exam preparation tips.

Hello everyone,

I just started studying for DP-300.
I saw an offer on Udemy to buy Exam voucher + retake for 120$
is it decent or I should wait since im not looking to take the exam in the next month anyway.

Thanks :D
Edit note: the exam voucher in my country goes for 80$

Hi all, first time posting in this subreddit, since English is not my first language, so please bare with my grammar. For context, I will taking the AI-102 exam on next month, current company required all IT coworkers to write down at least 1 AI-related fulfillment in our goal settings, which I subsequently choose to certification route.

Right now I have payed $100 on booking the exam, want to know what I need to prepare before the exam? Atm I have bought a Udemy course that goes throughs AI-102 syllabus & introductions on every Azure AI tools, with 2 sample test included. Is that enough? Or should I also purchase practice tests from other platforms to ensure I pass the exam? This goal setting need to be fulfilled or else I will have trouble renewing my contract lol, so Redditor here please shed some lights on this.

Challenging but not super hard. This is coming from doing AWS solutions architect professions. That exam was such a brain melter I could barely think straight for the rest of the day. Dunno if az-305 will help with job prospects, but guess it’s good to have along with Aws.

Hi,

I have access to Udemy, and have done the Scott Duffy Practice Exams (194 questions, a bit wordy), and the Phil Ebiner (TechLabGuru) Practice Exams (120 questions, a varied range of questions).

I can do the Nikolai Schuler Practice Exams (250 questions) next, unless anyone has any better idea for me?

What are your opinions on Scott Duffy vs Phil Ebiner vs Nikolai Schuler Practice Exams?

Thanks in advance :)

Good morning, i'm a Junior Software Developer who works in a Microsoft Gold Partner company in Italy. I work with .NET/C# backend and i'm looking to improve myself with a couple of certs that can help me in my company and prob outside my company for the future. What's my best options? Thanks!

I started working as IT Systems Administrator.

Already passed AZ900 last year

My goal for this year:

SC900 -> MD 102 -> SC300.

Already working on AD and Intune/Azure and being a part of main project -> migration to fully cloud Intune system.

Is my goal about certifications is correct?

Would you change anything?

It seems that the AZ-104 has updated their exam. Link below here: https://cciedump.spoto.net/newblog/2026-microsoft-az-104-exam-update-what-you-need-to-prepare.html

I passed AZ-104 2 weeks ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/AzureCertification/s/j1kgYvFNkV

I just started to review the MS Learn training materials but I found the contents fairly dry and broad. Is it normal? Anyway, would anyone recommend going to mock exams on TutorialsDOJO or MeasureUp directly before thoroughly studying the official materials? Thanks.