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And welcome to my podcast as 
Your Tech Talk. 

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Today. 
The podcast only focuses on easy

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one of four exams and I will be 
covering around how to pass the 

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exam and what training courses 
you have to go through to get 

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yourself prepared for easy one 
of four. 

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The way I started my AZ one O 4 
is about like 2 months ago. 

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This journey and what I did it 
is like I started with Azure 

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learning. 
Azure learning is a very good 

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platform which provides you very
good structured learning for 

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your any kind of certification. 
So for AZ 1 of it covers 

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everything from virtual 
machines, your networking, your 

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identity management, your money 
trained, your as your backup, 

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your containers, your app 
Service plan, everything. 

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It covers very well. 
It does have like a lapse 

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available to you, which is 
called sandbox accounts to which

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you can do the training and you 
can always go for a free PSU 

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account if you sign up for a new
AC Azure account. 

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So these are the things which it
can easily provide you total. 

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First of all, go through that 
Azure learning part, try to 

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read, try to understand that's 
really important for passing ACU

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point O 4. 
If you haven't read it, just go 

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and and do this thing as a first
go. 

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Then after that, what you could 
do that you can go on to video 

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kind of learning. 
So Microsoft Azure now provides 

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on demand learning as well, 
which is like a recorded session

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for different kind of 
certification for and these are 

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not very kind of like long or 
time consuming kind of videos. 

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They are small, 15 minutes, 20 
minutes or 30 minutes, something

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like that which covers wide 
variety of topics, for example, 

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networking, monitoring and other
things which are required in 

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easy one O 4. 
So go through that video that 

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gives you a very good 
understanding because that the 

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trainer is actually doing the 
practical work along with 

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telling you exactly what easy 
one of his. 

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What are the different things 
you're going to be covering in 

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that? 
Once you prepare that video or 

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you have gone through that 
video, then I would recommend 

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you go to any other learning 
site. 

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So I've used Pluralsight along 
with this one. 

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Now why have said like go to 
Pluralsight? 

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Because the reason is like 
Pluralsight goes into much 

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details and they have a 
certified trainers technically 

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very sound and they can give you
very industry real life kind of 

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experience from those kind of 
videos and labs. 

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So Microsoft learned on demand 
videos can cover you, does cover

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you in through all kind of 
services which you're going to 

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be learning through is your 104.
But as compared to Chloroside, 

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they might not have that much 
kind of a real problem life like

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kind of structure, which can 
enable you to actually 

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understand how it will show to 
side does give you this kind of 

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thing in even if you don't have 
a pluralside, for example, then 

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you can always go to Udemy. 
And if you Udemy does offer you 

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a similar kind of thing. 
But my recommendation is 

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pluricide. 
It's in case like if you want to

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be fully prepared that that 
gives you a very good kind of 

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understanding, like starting 
from the Azure learning part, 

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then going into on demand videos
from Microsoft Learning and then

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going into the plural side down.
The three different kind of 

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sources will actually Polish 
your concepts around the 

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different areas which you're 
going to be covering in the AZ 

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One O 4 exam. 
I find it really helpful because

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you can why to compare what you 
maybe have not understood 

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properly in in in the earlier 
two-part could be understood in 

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the last part. 
So this is how you can balance 

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this between your learning 
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Labs are remote important. 
I'll definitely recommend you to

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do the labs. 
If you're not interested in 

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following the labs which are 
available in the exam in the 

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plural side or in the Azure 
learning, I will recommend you 

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to set up your Azure account. 
So this way you could easily 

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able to do something kind of 
experiment for yourself. 

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Doing practically is important. 
Make sure you understand what is

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your portal is you can able able
to navigate. 

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Remember the menus from the high
level point of view where this 

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diagnostic settings available, 
that is your budget is available

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from the in terms of managing 
your cost, how do you set up the

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loads? 
How do you set up the action 

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groups? 
So you should know the 

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navigation of how you can manage
it, navigate it through the your

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portal. 
Once you understood all those 

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kind of things, then you can go 
ahead and do your exam now not 

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the real exam, the MOC exam. 
So Microsoft does have a MOC 

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exam available on their website.
You can do that one. 

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Try to aim for 80% what they 
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And I think that's that's really
from that point of view, because

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if you was always aiming for 60 
or 70%, that's that's means like

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you have a less likely chance of
getting through there. 

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AZ one O 4. 
I would recommend you to all the

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same for above 80%. 
Now Pluralside has like 3-4 

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different exams, mock exams 
available through their partner 

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website which is called Cloud 
Group which comes as free. 

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So you can go to Cloud Guru 
through Pluralside if you have a

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subscription, you can go there 
and then you can do some kind of

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like 4 different kinds of exam 
then case study based exams as 

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well to help you prepare for the
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So these are different kind of 
tactics, strategies you can 

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apply to actually pay for easy 
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Most of the things you need to 
do that is like practical is 

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important. 
Understanding the concept is 

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important. 
And the key thing is like, for 

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example, I'll give you one 
example is like if you want to 

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create a backup policy, what is 
required forced? 

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Definitely your backup key vault
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And if you don't have a backup 
key vault, you won't be able to 

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backup. 
This is this is a kind of 

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information is required to 
actually to make your 

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understanding better than 
another example is like whenever

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you are setting up your accounts
in Azure Entra, what is the most

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important thing is required over
still, you will require your 

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e-mail first name, last rain. 
But the location is important 

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because it understands from the 
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where your user is actually 
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apply the licensing cost list. 
So these are the key things 

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which you should be remembering 
as an example when you're going 

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for easy one O 4 exam. 
Other than that, I think it just

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practice more and just going 
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again. 
It's it's important. 

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One thing where what they have 
done is good is like they have 

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introduced Azure learning into 
the exam as well into the real 

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exam. 
So make sure you know how to 

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navigate through Azure Learn, 
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So for example, if you want to 
find out something about app 

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Service plan, container 
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identity services, networking, 
Vnet subnet, you should know how

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to find those articles on Azure 
Learn. 

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So how it's going to help you 
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It's like during the exam, you 
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which means like you can go to 
Azure Learn with the examination

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tab and you should be able to 
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Now my recommendation condition 
is don't heavily rely on looking

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for your answers into Azure 
Learn because Azure Learn will 

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only provide you with the 
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So for example, if you have some
miss conception or confusion 

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about something within the your 
question, you can always refer 

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to it. 
Because when you are referring 

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to your learning, your time 
doesn't stop there, it continues

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to load. 
So aim for the better 

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preparation for yourself and 
only go to Azure learning when 

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you think like you have enough 
time and you want to refer your 

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questions back to Azure Learning
to just revalidate your answers.

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Other than that, you make sure 
like you spend full time even 

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you know the answers very well. 
Try to stay there as long as 

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possible. 
It just give you much more kind 

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of flexibility in terms of like 
even if you have to go back and 

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reflect your answers which you 
have done it ensure like the 

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answer which you don't know very
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Mark it as a review so you can 
review it at the end of it. 

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There are some study questions 
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so you are not able to go back 
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So make sure like you answer 
them very well and then then 

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move on to rest of your MCQ 
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Preparation is not that much 
difficult if you know the basics

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of Azure that you just need to 
track on with easy open for the 

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full learning part in Azure 
Learning and then move on to 

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your videos on demand. 
And if you have access to 

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Pluralside, I would recommend 
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If you don't have it Pluralside.
That's why neither though. 

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But I find it really helpful 
from preparing from the three 

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different kind of sources just 
to give me much more better 

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understanding. 
So maybe if I missed it first 

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part or second part, I can 
always go to refer to the third 

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part. 
So that's how you can get 

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yourself prepared better for 
Easy 104. 

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I hope like you find this 
information valuable. 

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But at the end, I would say that
just be focused on your learning

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and I hope like you to pass your
easy one of four Excel. 

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So thank you very much and good 
luck with your preparation.