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What hands-on Azure projects should an aspiring Azure Administrator build to demonstrate job-ready infrastructure skills?

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Build projects that demonstrate how Azure infrastructure is actually deployed, secured, monitored, and maintained—not just theoretical knowledge of Azure services. Explore practical scenarios involving virtual machines, networking, storage, identity and access, monitoring, backup, security, automation, and cost optimization. Each project should include configuration, troubleshooting, documentation, and operational considerations that mirror real enterprise environments. The discussion helps aspiring Azure Administrators create a portfolio they can confidently explain during technical interviews.
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The projects should demonstrate the core areas an Azure Administrator actually manages: identity and governance, storage, compute, networking, monitoring and backup/recovery. These areas remain central to Microsoft's current AZ-104 role definition.

A useful project sequence would be:

Project 1: Design a secure Azure VNet with subnets, NSGs and routing.

Project 2: Deploy VMs and configure monitoring, backup and recovery.

Project 3: Build Azure Storage with appropriate access controls, lifecycle management and redundancy.

Project 4: Implement Entra ID, RBAC, Azure Policy, resource locks, tags and budgets.

Project 5: Build a production-style application environment using Application Gateway, private endpoints and Azure Monitor.

The key is to include failure scenarios: break connectivity, investigate logs, restore a resource, diagnose permission problems and recover from an outage.

That demonstrates administration—not simply Azure Portal navigation.

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