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The original was posted on /r/azurecertification by /u/AFriendlyLighthouse on 2023-09-30 08:22:30.
Since there’s so many posts about people failing 104, I thought I’d make a post about someone passing it. After all, in the end… there is light in the darkness.
Didn’t pass the exam with flying colors but for an exam like 104, you rarely see those. I passed at 700 on my first try, which is the borderline passing grade. I totally wasn’t expecting it and was more like mentally prepared to fail at 670/690. They aren’t wrong when they say this is an insane exam, this exam truly tries it’s best to mentally break you.
I’ll post just my feedback on the exam here and how one should prepare for it, I’ll link a detailed version below.
I spent approx 3-4 weeks studying for this exam, I remember in the last 2 weeks I binged 3-5 hours on average studying for the exam everyday and being a student gives me this leeway in time. I mainly used John Savil’s resources, his studycram, masterclass v2 and the github. For labs I just did the interactive simulation at aka.ms/az104labs. For practice tests I used MeasureUp & MSLearn, scored good in MU but failed twice in MSLearn. Pretty odd.
Here’s what I’d recommend you truly focus on for your 104 exam:
- Networking (I even recommend doing the aka.ms/az700labs)
- Backup & Monitoring
In my exam these two topics were everywhere, from my case study to my similar question set it always had something related to these topics. So study hard and hard work does pay off, it truly does. A night before the exam, practice doing an exam with MSLearn also opened (I used the virtual desktop method on linux (also on windows) to emulate, better than resizing browser windows) which would give you some experience of navigating the docs during the exam.