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A concept-first knowledge vault for AZ-900, AZ-104, retired AZ-204 application-development foundations, and AZ-400. One note = one concept, linked everywhere it appears, so the graph view and canvases become your mental map.

Courses

Course	Focus	Progress
🟦 AZ-900	Azure Fundamentals	Start from zero — first path
🟦 AZ-104	Azure Administrator	Azure from Zero — after AZ-900
🟪 AZ-204	Azure application-development foundation	Retired foundation — courseware and exam retired; technical material retained
🔁 AZ-400	DevOps Solutions	Course MOC — after administration and development foundations

How to study here

1. Each course has a Map of Content (MOC) per learning path — start there for the overview and the mind-map canvas.
2. Open any term to get the one-page explanation: what it is, why it exists, key ideas, and links out to related concepts.
3. Use the graph view and canvases to see how products fit together.
4. Do the matching lab after each MOC. Reading creates recognition; configuration and troubleshooting create administrative skill.
5. Hit the Glossary to look up any term quickly, or an Exam question to test yourself.

Recommended route — beginner to advanced

0. Start from zero — AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals — cloud, Azure architecture, services, governance
1. Shared technical prerequisites and Azure from Zero — identity, hierarchy, tools, ARM, networking basics
2. AZ-104 — Azure Administrator
   • Manage identities & governance
   • Configure virtual networks
   • Implement storage
   • Deploy compute
   • Monitor and back up
3. Retired AZ-204 application-development foundation — runtime, data, identity, integration, and telemetry
4. AZ-400 — advanced DevOps — flow, source, pipelines, IaC, security, and feedback
5. Cross-course synthesis and reference use — follow canonical concepts, comparisons, maps, and audits

AZ-104 — Azure Administrator

0. Start here — Azure from Zero (foundation path) ⚠️ complete after AZ-900 if new
1. Manage identities & governance ✅ started
2. Configure & manage virtual networks
3. Implement & manage storage
4. Deploy & manage compute
5. Monitor & back up resources

Supporting references after the foundation path: Get started with Azure · Core architecture

AZ-400 — DevOps Solutions

0. Start here · Design processes & communications
1. 1 · Work with Git for enterprise DevOps
2. 2 · Implement CI with Pipelines & GitHub Actions
3. 3 · Design & implement a release strategy
4. 4 · Implement secure continuous deployment
5. 5 · Manage infrastructure as code
6. 6 · Implement security & validate code bases for compliance
7. 7 · Design & implement dependency management
8. 8 · Implement continuous feedback

Cross-cutting

• Hands-on labs — Learn → Do → Verify → Break → Fix → Clean up.
• Concept index and glossary — start from the workload/identity/delivery mental model, then follow the atomic terms.
• Exam questions — practice across both courses.
• Coverage audit — current objective groups → vault artifacts, with explained/partial/missing status (open).
• Source-to-Vault Audit — authoritative-source evidence, high-risk gaps, and the remediation queue.
• Identity and authorization boundary · identity map — authentication, roles, scope, pipeline access, and private network boundaries.
• Azure comparison boundaries — the cross-course decision boundaries, handoffs, and failure clues for commonly confused services and concepts.
• Readiness standard — what “ready” means beyond reading notes.
• Question-bank blueprint — target mix and quality standard for scenario practice.

Meta

• Serving: static Quartz render of this vault via Caddy (CT 100, podman).
• Source of truth: each note is plain Markdown. Edit anywhere; the site rebuilds from the vault.