And welcome to my podcast as Your Tech Talk.
Today. The podcast only focuses on easy
one of four exams and I will be covering around how to pass the
exam and what training courses you have to go through to get
yourself prepared for easy one of four.
The way I started my AZ one O 4 is about like 2 months ago.
This journey and what I did it is like I started with Azure
learning. Azure learning is a very good
platform which provides you very good structured learning for
your any kind of certification. So for AZ 1 of it covers
everything from virtual machines, your networking, your
identity management, your money trained, your as your backup,
your containers, your app Service plan, everything.
It covers very well. It does have like a lapse
available to you, which is called sandbox accounts to which
you can do the training and you can always go for a free PSU
account if you sign up for a new AC Azure account.
So these are the things which it can easily provide you total.
First of all, go through that Azure learning part, try to
read, try to understand that's really important for passing ACU
point O 4. If you haven't read it, just go
and and do this thing as a first go.
Then after that, what you could do that you can go on to video
kind of learning. So Microsoft Azure now provides
on demand learning as well, which is like a recorded session
for different kind of certification for and these are
not very kind of like long or time consuming kind of videos.
They are small, 15 minutes, 20 minutes or 30 minutes, something
like that which covers wide variety of topics, for example,
networking, monitoring and other things which are required in
easy one O 4. So go through that video that
gives you a very good understanding because that the
trainer is actually doing the practical work along with
telling you exactly what easy one of his.
What are the different things you're going to be covering in
that? Once you prepare that video or
you have gone through that video, then I would recommend
you go to any other learning site.
So I've used Pluralsight along with this one.
Now why have said like go to Pluralsight?
Because the reason is like Pluralsight goes into much
details and they have a certified trainers technically
very sound and they can give you very industry real life kind of
experience from those kind of videos and labs.
So Microsoft learned on demand videos can cover you, does cover
you in through all kind of services which you're going to
be learning through is your 104. But as compared to Chloroside,
they might not have that much kind of a real problem life like
kind of structure, which can enable you to actually
understand how it will show to side does give you this kind of
thing in even if you don't have a pluralside, for example, then
you can always go to Udemy. And if you Udemy does offer you
a similar kind of thing. But my recommendation is
pluricide. It's in case like if you want to
be fully prepared that that gives you a very good kind of
understanding, like starting from the Azure learning part,
then going into on demand videos from Microsoft Learning and then
going into the plural side down. The three different kind of
sources will actually Polish your concepts around the
different areas which you're going to be covering in the AZ
One O 4 exam. I find it really helpful because
you can why to compare what you maybe have not understood
properly in in in the earlier two-part could be understood in
the last part. So this is how you can balance
this between your learning activities.
Labs are remote important. I'll definitely recommend you to
do the labs. If you're not interested in
following the labs which are available in the exam in the
plural side or in the Azure learning, I will recommend you
to set up your Azure account. So this way you could easily
able to do something kind of experiment for yourself.
Doing practically is important. Make sure you understand what is
your portal is you can able able to navigate.
Remember the menus from the high level point of view where this
diagnostic settings available, that is your budget is available
from the in terms of managing your cost, how do you set up the
loads? How do you set up the action
groups? So you should know the
navigation of how you can manage it, navigate it through the your
portal. Once you understood all those
kind of things, then you can go ahead and do your exam now not
the real exam, the MOC exam. So Microsoft does have a MOC
exam available on their website. You can do that one.
Try to aim for 80% what they said.
And I think that's that's really from that point of view, because
if you was always aiming for 60 or 70%, that's that's means like
you have a less likely chance of getting through there.
AZ one O 4. I would recommend you to all the
same for above 80%. Now Pluralside has like 3-4
different exams, mock exams available through their partner
website which is called Cloud Group which comes as free.
So you can go to Cloud Guru through Pluralside if you have a
subscription, you can go there and then you can do some kind of
like 4 different kinds of exam then case study based exams as
well to help you prepare for the field exam.
So these are different kind of tactics, strategies you can
apply to actually pay for easy one of four.
Most of the things you need to do that is like practical is
important. Understanding the concept is
important. And the key thing is like, for
example, I'll give you one example is like if you want to
create a backup policy, what is required forced?
Definitely your backup key vault is required.
And if you don't have a backup key vault, you won't be able to
backup. This is this is a kind of
information is required to actually to make your
understanding better than another example is like whenever
you are setting up your accounts in Azure Entra, what is the most
important thing is required over still, you will require your
e-mail first name, last rain. But the location is important
because it understands from the interrupt point of view, like
where your user is actually going to be based in and how to
apply the licensing cost list. So these are the key things
which you should be remembering as an example when you're going
for easy one O 4 exam. Other than that, I think it just
practice more and just going through those topics again and
again. It's it's important.
One thing where what they have done is good is like they have
introduced Azure learning into the exam as well into the real
exam. So make sure you know how to
navigate through Azure Learn, right?
So for example, if you want to find out something about app
Service plan, container services, VMS, storage accounts,
identity services, networking, Vnet subnet, you should know how
to find those articles on Azure Learn.
So how it's going to help you out.
It's like during the exam, you have access to Azure Learn,
which means like you can go to Azure Learn with the examination
tab and you should be able to access those kind of articles.
Now my recommendation condition is don't heavily rely on looking
for your answers into Azure Learn because Azure Learn will
only provide you with the reference right?
So for example, if you have some miss conception or confusion
about something within the your question, you can always refer
to it. Because when you are referring
to your learning, your time doesn't stop there, it continues
to load. So aim for the better
preparation for yourself and only go to Azure learning when
you think like you have enough time and you want to refer your
questions back to Azure Learning to just revalidate your answers.
Other than that, you make sure like you spend full time even
you know the answers very well. Try to stay there as long as
possible. It just give you much more kind
of flexibility in terms of like even if you have to go back and
reflect your answers which you have done it ensure like the
answer which you don't know very well.
Mark it as a review so you can review it at the end of it.
There are some study questions comes in the 1st and in the end
so you are not able to go back to them.
So make sure like you answer them very well and then then
move on to rest of your MCQ questions.
Preparation is not that much difficult if you know the basics
of Azure that you just need to track on with easy open for the
full learning part in Azure Learning and then move on to
your videos on demand. And if you have access to
Pluralside, I would recommend you go there.
If you don't have it Pluralside. That's why neither though.
But I find it really helpful from preparing from the three
different kind of sources just to give me much more better
understanding. So maybe if I missed it first
part or second part, I can always go to refer to the third
part. So that's how you can get
yourself prepared better for Easy 104.
I hope like you find this information valuable.
But at the end, I would say that just be focused on your learning
and I hope like you to pass your easy one of four Excel.
So thank you very much and good luck with your preparation.