Azure AZ-104 case studies

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate is an intermediate-level Microsoft certification for administrators who implement, manage, and monitor an organization's Azure environment, including virtual networks, storage, compute, identity, security, and governance. Candidates usually sit within a larger cloud infrastructure team and coordinate with networking, security, database, application development, and DevOps roles, so the credential assumes familiarity with operating systems, networking, servers, and virtualization, plus working experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, the Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager templates or Bicep files, and Microsoft Entra ID. The Azure AZ-104 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,890 words.

Northwind: Effective Permissions Across a Management Group Hierarchy

Northwind has three management groups - Platform, Workloads and Sandbox - all beneath the Tenant Root Group. Sub-Prod sits under Platform; Sub-App sits under Workloads.

705 words, about 4 min 2

Fabrikam: Private Endpoint Reachability and Cold Blob Tiering

Fabrikam stores 120 TB of blob data in one storage account, stfabprod, in West Europe: Standard general-purpose v2, LRS, hot tier. About 40 TB is read every month by an application running in VNet-Prod.

810 words, about 4 min 3

Tailwind: Reaching 99.99% and Paying for It

Tailwind runs a public web app in West Europe. The web tier is 6 Standard D4s v3 VMs in a single availability set behind a Standard Load Balancer; the app tier is 2 VMs, and SQL Server runs on a single IaaS VM.

740 words, about 4 min 4

Adventure Works: Spoke-to-Spoke Traffic Through a Hub Firewall

Adventure Works has a hub VNet (10.0.0.0/16) in North Europe with Azure Firewall at 10.0.1.4 in AzureFirewallSubnet. Spoke1 (10.1.0.0/16) and Spoke2 (10.2.0.0/16) are each peered with the hub only; the two spokes are not peered to each other.

800 words, about 4 min 5

Litware: An Alert That Never Fired and an Ingestion Bill That Will Not Stop

Litware has 320 VMs across three subscriptions reporting to one Log Analytics workspace, LAW-OPS, with 90-day retention. The workspace collects Syslog, Windows Event Log and six Perf counters at a 10-second sample interval; ingestion is 4.2 TB per month and growing 9% month over month.

835 words, about 4 min