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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Issued by Microsoft · Exam AZ-104
AZ-104 certifies people who run day-to-day Azure environments: identity, storage, compute, virtual networks and monitoring. It is aimed at sysadmins moving workloads and operations into Microsoft Azure.
- Exam price
- $165
- Exam time
- 100 min
- Valid for
- 1 year
- Prerequisite
- None required
Exam details
- Price
- $165US price shown on the certification page; varies by country. Retake not included.
- Format
- proctored exam; may include interactive components (Microsoft does not disclose question types in advance)
- Length
- 100 minutes
- Passing score
- 700 (scale 1-1,000)
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Required
- None
- Recommended
- Familiarity with operating systems, networking, servers, virtualization; experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure portal, ARM/Bicep and Microsoft Entra ID
- Renewal
- Free online renewal assessment on Microsoft Learn, taken in the 6-month window before expiry; extends the certification by one year.
Checked October 29, 2026 against Microsoft's official page. Fields the vendor does not publish are left out rather than estimated.