The AZ-104 Is Getting an April 2026 Update. Here's What Changes and How to Adjust Your Study Plan

Microsoft just confirmed the AZ-104 Azure Administrator exam gets an update on April 17, 2026. If you're mid-study or planning to take it soon, this matters. I've been tracking Azure cert changes for a while now, and every update shifts the weight between domains just enough to catch people off guard. The AZ-104 has always been a beast — not because any single topic is impossibly hard, but because the breadth is brutal. You need to know networking, identity, storage, compute, and monitoring, and you need to know them well enough to answer scenario questions under pressure. Let me walk through what the exam actually looks like right now, what's changing, and how I'd study for it if I were starting today. What the AZ-104 Tests in 2026 The exam has five domains, and the weighting tells you exactly where to spend your time: Manage Azure identities and governance (20–25%) — Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), RBAC, policy, subscriptions Implement and manage storage (15–20%) — Storage accounts, bl