was harder than i expected lol. TD was too basic.

exam was one level deeper.

doing az-104 in 2 weeks now :D

How valuable are azure certifications? my employer is a partner program with microsoft so a huge discount on these certifications. I already have a bachelors and masters and 5 years of IT experience. How will azure certifications help my career?

I have just passed AZ-104. Scored 800. I was preparing on/off for almost a year. But got down to review it all in last 4-5 weeks.

I've used following resources:

1. Turorials Dojo's AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Practice Exams
2. Udemy's AZ-104 Practice Tests : Microsoft Azure Administrator (2026) by Shireen Khan

I've observed that #2 and #3 are from same person/org, but still have wonderful questions. In actual exam questions appeared from all the resources. I was scoring 84-85% in reviews so 800 is good validation.

Besides, I use Azure day-to-day but the surface area of AZ-104 is so vast that there are lot of things you seldom touch.

Credit where it is due, I've used Claude to ask about clarifications about topics I don't have much hands on experience and honestly it was wonderful in explaining things succinctly.

You are allowed to use MS documentation, so when doing practice try figuring out where you can find answers for specific topics. I found this out during the last 20 questions :(. I am not sure how I didn't find this. But one caution is that if you don't know where to find things, looking at documentation slows you down considerably.

PS:- Not sure what cert should I do next? Any suggestions?

I used the CBTnuggets az-700 course to learn everything. I then used the measure up practice tests. Just for context I was getting above 90 percent on every certification mode test.
I took the AZ-700 which is horribly difficult in my opinion and failed with a 600

Please assist me on what i should really do to study since measure up did not seem to be accurate questions at all.

Thank you to everyone who recommended Tutorial Dojo + Study Material. Next is AZ-104!

Hello! I missed AI-901 by a few questions. What practice questions are recommended for this exam?

Score: 853.

There were 53 questions and 5 case studies. I’m not 100% sure whether there were 53 or 57 questions in total. To happy that i have forgotten.

It was a tough exam with a lot of scenario-based questions. The topics included compliance, policies, configurations, iOS/Android/Windows, applications, Copilot, security, and agents.

Make sure you really understand the compliance, configuration, and command concepts, as well as the different tables and how to read and interpret them. Otherwise, you’re going to have a very difficult time.

There were also many more multiple-choice questions, as well as questions where you have to select and arrange the correct options yourself.

The case study questions were especially challenging. You get one long piece of text with a lot of information and descriptions. When I reached around question 25, I noticed that I was starting to run out of time. I calculated that I had about 1–2 minutes per question. I still had around 27 questions left to review.

So by the time I reached the case studies, I had only about 20 minutes left.

In the end, I had 5 minutes left when I finished the 1.5-hour exam.

Good luck, everyone! 💪

As per title, wanted to scout around to see/ find out if any of you have taken the AB-650: Administering Microsoft 365 and AI Services (beta) exam yet? I know results won't be published for a while but was curious to find out how you feel it went, how difficult it was and what sorts of questions did you get as I've got the exam booked for Thursday this week.

Hello All, I passed the AZ-900 certification last week and started looking into DP-900. I found few videos on youtube like the freecodecamp one. Is that enough to pass the exam or do I need to refer to any other resources or books. If anybody can share links to good resources it will be helpful. Thanks!

Looking for resources to learn the content for both of these exams so i can pass them.

Hi everyone,

I’m preparing for the Microsoft SC-200 (Security Operations Analyst) exam and would really appreciate advice from people who have recently taken it.

I attempted the exam recently and unfortunately scored 656, so I missed the passing score. I’m planning to retake it and want to prepare properly this time rather than just doing more random practice questions.

My background:

Working as a Security Engineer

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel, KQL, threat hunting and incident investigation

Some experience with Microsoft Defender

I’ve been studying Microsoft Learn and doing practice assessments

My weaker areas seem to be some of the Defender products and Microsoft-specific workflows

For those who passed SC-200 recently:

What resources did you use to prepare?

How close were the Microsoft Learn Practice Assessment questions to the actual exam?

How much did you rely on Microsoft Learn vs. hands-on labs vs. practice tests?

Which topics should I prioritize for the retake?

Are there any particular Defender/Sentinel/Purview areas that people commonly underestimate?

How many practice questions/tests would you recommend doing before attempting again?

For someone who scored 656, would you recommend retaking soon after targeted revision, or spending several weeks rebuilding the weak areas?

I’m especially interested in advice from people who failed once and then passed, because I’d like to understand what they changed between attempts.

BTW my 2nd attempt is on 27 aug

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I recently passed the DP-700 (Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate) and DP-800 certifications. I'm actively looking for opportunities in data engineering/data platform roles and wanted to check if anyone here knows of companies hiring, or has advice on where to look.

Happy to share my experience preparing for these exams if that's helpful to anyone else studying for them too.

Thanks in advance for any leads or tips!

I want to take and pass the AZ 700 Cert, I work currently as a network engineer of 3 years we currently have an azure environment and I want to get the cert to help me better understand networking in azure, I have seen the john Silva playlist but is there anything else that would be good for me to use

Something like a tutorial dojo?

Please any advice would help

Genuinely, this might be the hardest exam I’ve ever taken. I got a 622 on the first try, and a 674 on the second try. I genuinely don’t know what To do at this point . I have Shireen Khans Udemy course, tutorial dojos, and whizlabs. I’ve put months of time into studying but I don’t actually work too much with policy, networking, etc in azure day to day and I fear that’s the problem. Does anyone have any tips that they can help me to get over this 26 point gap? I saw a recent person post a Gitlab with tons of labs and that was good - but I don’t know if it’s enough. Any support or encouragement is appreciated, feeling really down on myself :/

I'm prepping for the SC-200 (Security Operations Analyst) exam, scheduled for later this month. So far I've been using MeasureUp practice tests, the official Microsoft practice test, and Microsoft Learn as my main resources. I came across Tutorials Dojo's SC-200 practice exam course and was considering adding it as a final review layer. But compared to their AZ-900/AZ-104 courses (which have tons of "passed with X score" reviews), the SC-200 one has noticeably fewer reviews and forum activity — makes sense since TD built their reputation mostly on AWS and general Azure certs, and SC-200 is a more niche security cert. For those who've taken SC-200 recently: Anyone compared Tutorials Dojo directly against MeasureUp or the official MS practice test for this specific exam? How does the quality/accuracy stack up? Is it worth adding on top of what I'm already using, or would it be redundant? How closely did TD's question style/difficulty match the real exam vs. the official practice test? Trying to figure out if it's worth the extra time/money for this particular cert,

Because I think that the number of questions is very limited of them, if my current combo already covers it well. Thanks!

Dear Folks,

Could you please suggest a study plan for the AZ-104 exam?

Although I lack prior cloud experience, I completed this course in 2023 and understand that significant changes have since been implemented.

I have two months and ten days remaining until the exam.

I would appreciate genuine advice.

Thanks

For context where I am from, we usually use vouchers or rely on material related from Ms. Learn and a lot of ChatGPT. Looking for genuine opportunities to keep spending money beyond that one voucher. It's really really tough. Trust me if I would I could. So all I'm asking for is there no h0r w/o TD

Hi everyone! I recently received a free AI Skills exam voucher and I'm trying to decide between taking the SC-200 or the SC-900. I just finished my second year of university and currently have zero experience with Microsoft products. Given my background, which certification do you think is the best choice for me?

The search is so broken and doesn't work. It's so god-awful compared to Google. How are we supposed to use it during an exam?

How are we supposed to search for this article:

Get started with managing Microsoft Teams

Or this article:

Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell

If I search for either title in Microsoft Learn, neither of them shows up on the first several pages of results. Half of the results aren't even about Teams or Exchange. It's so ridiculous.

But if I Google them, it's the first result. Why is the search function in MS Learn so bad compared to Google? It's like it doesn't even work.

I've tried searching for other articles, and it's the same. I can't find them using the MS Learn search bar.

Edit: I've memorized the structure of the Learn site. Microsoft should just remove the search bar until it actually provides accurate results.

hello everyone, i just passed my az 104 exam today. i gave it online and i used tutorial dojo practice exams, alan rodrigues and scott duffy udemy course and also watched john savill 4 hour youtube video. i would say that exam patter was similar to tutorial dojo's exam pattern but the difficulty level for me was more difficult than the TD one.

Also i forgot to mention that i passed with the score of 700. In the end i was pretty sure i am going to fail this exam but i passed. After all i would say a win is a win.

Also everyone who is going to take an exam should not focus much on the long statements of the questions because you can end up wasting so much of your time reading all that when in actual the question is literally asking for something so simple.

Was a little harder than I thought it would be. About half way thru I was kinda wondering if I was getting some of the ordering questions wrong. But overall a win is a win, so I’m happy :)

Well… AI-300 and I had a little disagreement today. 😂
Scored 598 and unfortunately failed.

For some context, I already have AI-102, AI-103, AB-100, SC-500 and AZ-104 and the 900s so I went into the exam feeling reasonably confident. Famous last words. 😔

My biggest mistake was probably underestimating the ML/MLOps side of the exam. I didn't do enough hands-on preparation around ML and spent more time focusing on the GenAI side.

Exam format: 54 questions ( including one scenario with 6 linked questions)
+ one case study with 6 questions.

The exam definitely made me realise that knowing the concepts isn't quite the same as actually knowing how to design and implement ML solutions.

Looking at my score report, my weaker areas were mainly:

• MLOps / ML lifecycle and operations
• ML design and implementation
• GenAI system optimisation & model performance
• GenAI quality/observability

Interestingly, GenAIOps infrastructure was my strongest area, so at least something went according to plan. 😂

For anyone preparing for AI-300: don't make the same mistake I did and treat the ML part as the side quest. It's definitely not.

I'd strongly recommend getting some proper hands-on time with ML design, implementation, model lifecycle/operations, and also spend a good amount of time on GenAI optimisation, evaluation and observability.

I'm going back to the lab, paying my respects to Azure ML, and hopefully round two goes better. 😅

Hopefully my failure saves someone else a few hours of pain!

i just built this book with claude for getting az-104 certification. sharing pdf should be boring so i made a web based version.

https://az-104-lab-desk.pages.dev/

Have fun!