5-compute-moc

Deploy & Manage Compute — MOC

MS Learn path: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources · From traditional VMs to serverless — the full compute spectrum.

Map / Canvas

• Open the mind-map canvas

The core idea

Compute is where workloads run. The current AZ-104 blueprint concentrates on VMs, App Service, Container Instances, Container Apps, Container Registry, and ARM/Bicep deployments. AKS and Functions remain useful context, but they are not a substitute for those assessed administration skills.

Concepts (linked from here)

Virtual machines

• Azure Virtual Machines
• VM sizes & families
• Managed disks, ephemeral OS disk
• Snapshots & images
• Availability set
• Availability zones / VMSS
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS)
• VM extensions & custom script
• Moving / resizing VMs
• VM encryption at host

Infrastructure as Code

• Bicep
• ARM templates
• Azure CLI & PowerShell (compute ops)

Platform as a Service

• Azure App Service
• App Service plans
• Deployment slots
• Azure Container Apps
• App Service TLS, custom domains & certs
• App Service backup
• App Service networking

Containers

• Azure Container Instances
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Container Registry

Context only (not a current AZ-104 objective)

• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Functions

Modules in this path

Grounded in MS Learn: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (az-104-manage-compute-resources) — 5 modules.

1. Introduction to Azure virtual machines
2. Configure virtual machine availability
3. Configure Azure App Service plans
4. Configure Azure App Service
5. Configure Azure Container Instances

Skills measured

1. Create & configure virtual machines
2. Manage VM disks, availability & scaling
3. Deploy & manage App Service
4. Provision and manage containers (ACR, ACI, Container Apps, sizing and scaling)
5. Automate deployments with ARM templates or Bicep

Practice questions

• Q: VM availability options
• Q: App Service plan scale
• Q: VMSS autoscale
• Q: single container with ACI
• Q: deployment slots
• Q: Container Apps scaling
• Q: portal deployment to Bicep
• Q: App Service custom domain and TLS

Ordered practice route

1. Complete the VM introduction and availability modules, then az104-vm-lifecycle-disk-move-lab. You should now be able to trace a VM’s compute, disk, move, and encryption boundaries.
2. Complete configure-azure-container-instances, then az104-acr-container-app-revisions-lab. You should now be able to grant image pull access and roll a revision back without confusing rollout with scaling.
3. Complete az104-bicep-deploy-rollback-lab. You should now be able to preview, deploy, diagnose, and restore a small desired-state change.
4. Complete configure-app-service-plans and configure-azure-app-services, then az104-app-service-ingress-lab. You should now be able to choose app-plan boundaries and trace inbound TLS/private access separately from outbound VNet integration.

Conceptual checkpoint

Explain the sequence in this path using one workload scenario: identify the boundary being changed, the identity or tool acting on it, the expected evidence, and the failure that would change your decision.

Sources and re-audit

• AZ-104 course overview, checked 2026-08-31.
• AZ-104 study guide, checked 2026-08-31.

Re-audit when the AZ-104 course path, study-guide effective date, or the services and permissions taught here change.