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Massimo Bonanni
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Book Review: Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond - Second Edition

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In my opinion, the AZ-104 exam is one of the most important exams you can take in the Azure landscape. It contains a lot of topics, and all of these topics have a theoretical part and a practical part, and both are important. You need to know the services in Azure, and you must know how to manage them.

I suggest this book because the authors mix the theoretical part with the practical part in each paragraph giving you the possibility to understand the theory and make practical exercise on the portal. The book is clear even when the authors go into the details, deep into the topic. Furthermore, at the end of each chapter, there is a practice lab that allows the student to make a recap using a practical approach.

At the end of the book, in the final chapter, you can, furthermore, find a set of questions similar to those found in the exam, which allows you to verify your preparation. The questions are, of course, not the ones you will find on the exam, but they are very similar and are not trivial at all.

In conclusion, this is a rich and full-bodied book (more than 750 pages) that, due to its practical approach (but without disdaining the theory), can be handy not only for those preparing for the exam but also as a vademecum for the daily job. A book, generally, becomes old after a bref amount of time, but I think that this one can be still valid for long time and you can use it as a reference guide during your daily job.

You can buy the book from the Packt Publishing web site, and, now, you can find it at 5€ only!!!

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