Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

Microsoft Azure · Associate · $165

Managing Azure identities, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks.

Exam Code: AZ-104 Fee: $165 Study: 40–80 hours Difficulty: 3/5 Validity: 1 year Focus: admin, architecture Demand: 88/100 Salary Premium: +$12K/yr (est.)

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Cross-Cloud Closest Matches

Day-to-day cloud operations — managing resources, identities, storage, compute, and networking.

SysOps Administrator – Associate

SOA-C02

$15040–80h

Google Cloud

Associate Cloud Engineer

ACE

$20040–80h

Very close equivalents. All target the 'hands-on admin' role. Microsoft is cheapest ($165 vs $200 GCP). AWS has 3-year validity vs Microsoft's annual free renewal. Google's ACE is the most popular GCP cert.

Get the cert for the cloud you administer daily. Multi-cloud? Start with your primary, then branch out.

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Microsoft Certification Programme

Renewal: Annual free renewal assessment on Microsoft Learn (no fee). Fundamentals never expire. Training: Official Training → All Certs: Certification Page →

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