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Microsoft Azure Course in Nagpur Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
The cloud that organisations already running Windows Server, Microsoft 365 and Active Directory reach for first. Built on the full AZ-104 Azure Administrator outline, networking and monitoring included, and taught by a trainer who holds AZ-104 himself. Sit both exams at our Pearson VUE centre.
- 10 modules
- AZ-900 then AZ-104
- Hands-on Azure labs
- Classroom or online
Taught by Nikhil SakharwadeMicrosoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900Beginner: about 45 minutes, pass at 700 on a scale of 1 to 1,000. Never expires. - Azure Administrator Associate
AZ-104This course. About 100 minutes. The employable one, and what the syllabus is built around. - Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AZ-305Expert: Microsoft requires AZ-104 first. - DevOps Engineer Expert
AZ-400Expert: AZ-104 is the route in for anyone starting now.
This course prepares you for AZ-900 and AZ-104; the two expert exams come after it. The fee is set by Microsoft and paid when you book, and you can sit both exams at our Pearson VUE centre in Dharampeth.
Course at a glance
Everything you need to know before you call
Ten modules mapped onto the AZ-104 outline, taught in Nagpur or live online.
- Level
- Beginner to associateStarts from what a subnet is
- Mode
- Classroom or live onlineDharampeth, Nagpur; one-on-one on request
- Before you join
- Comfort with a computerNo Windows Server or Active Directory needed
- Certifications
- AZ-900, then AZ-104Built on the April 2026 AZ-104 outline
- What you build
- An Azure estate, end to endNetworks, VMs, storage, identity, monitoring and backup
- Exams
- At our Pearson VUE centreFour seats, in the same building you train in
Why Azure
Not the better cloud. The one your employer probably already has.
If an organisation already runs Microsoft everywhere else, Azure is the cloud it reaches for, which is why Azure skills turn up in enterprise IT, banking, healthcare and government work.
01 · Identity is the real reason
If a company bought Microsoft 365, its staff identities already live in Microsoft Entra ID. Azure is then one step away, and AWS would be a second identity estate to govern.
02 · Licensing decides more than architects do
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets an organisation carry existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences onto Azure VMs. For a Windows-heavy estate, that often settles the platform before anyone draws a diagram.
03 · Market position
Microsoft holds about 21% of the cloud infrastructure market against Amazon's 28% and Google's 14% (Synergy Research, Q1 2026): a clear second, and first by a distance where Windows Server, Microsoft 365 and Active Directory already run.
04 · Built like the enterprise it serves
Every Azure resource lives in a resource group, a real lifecycle and permission boundary, and Azure keeps identity (Entra ID: who you are) apart from authorisation (RBAC: what you may do).
05 · Certification is cheaper to keep
Microsoft renewals are free: a short, open-book online assessment in the six months before expiry. Fundamentals certifications, AZ-900 among them, never expire at all.
06 · One honest warning
Azure renames things far more often than AWS does: Azure AD became Microsoft Entra ID, and Azure AI Foundry became Microsoft Foundry. Checking the current name is itself an Azure skill, and the course teaches it as one.
Syllabus
Ten modules, in the order they make sense
The full syllabus as it is taught, in order.
01Cloud foundations and the Azure platformFoundation
- Service models and the shared responsibility model
- Regions, region pairs and availability zones, and the Central and South India regions
- Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups and Azure Resource Manager
- Three ways to drive Azure: the portal, Azure CLI, and Azure PowerShell with the Az module
- Cloud Shell, and why a browser is enough to administer a subscription
- Naming and tagging conventions that survive contact with a real estate
- Reading Microsoft's service lifecycle: preview against general availability, and checking a service has not been renamed
02Identity with Microsoft Entra IDIdentity
- Microsoft Entra ID against Windows Server Active Directory: what changed, and what only changed name
- Tenants, users, groups and licence assignment
- Guest access with Microsoft Entra B2B, and External ID for customer identity
- Self-service password reset
- Multifactor authentication, and which factors actually help
- Conditional Access policies, and testing one before it locks you out
- Hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra Connect: password hash sync against pass-through authentication
- Service principals and managed identities, so nothing has to hold a password
03Governance, RBAC and cost controlGovernance
- Azure RBAC: built-in roles, custom roles, scope inheritance and effective access
- Azure RBAC against Microsoft Entra roles, the distinction candidates most often get wrong
- Azure Policy: definitions, initiatives, assignments and remediation
- Designing a management group hierarchy you will not regret
- Resource locks, and the tag-inheritance policy that keeps billing honest
- Microsoft Cost Management: budgets, cost alerts, cost analysis and Azure Advisor
- Template specs and deployment stacks, the successors to Azure Blueprints
04StorageStorage
- Storage account types, performance tiers and access tiers
- Redundancy in full: LRS, ZRS, GRS, GZRS, RA-GRS and RA-GZRS, and how to choose
- Blob containers, the hot, cool, cold and archive tiers, and lifecycle management rules
- Blob versioning, soft delete, snapshots and immutability policies
- Azure Files: SMB and NFS shares, identity-based access and Azure File Sync
- Securing access: storage firewalls, service and private endpoints, SAS tokens and stored access policies
- Encryption, customer-managed keys and key rotation
- Moving data with AzCopy and Azure Storage Explorer
05ComputeCompute
- Virtual machine families and sizing, and reading a workload before you pick one
- Managed disks, disk types and encryption at host
- Availability sets against availability zones, and what each does to the SLA
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets and autoscale rules
- Moving a VM between resource groups, subscriptions and regions
- Azure App Service: plans, scaling, deployment slots, custom domains, TLS and backup
- Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps
- Azure Kubernetes Service fundamentals, taught as a job skill (AZ-104 no longer examines it)
- VM extensions and Azure Update Manager
06Virtual networkingNetworking
- Virtual networks, subnets, addressing and subnet delegation
- VNet peering, regional and global, and why peering is not transitive
- Network security groups and application security groups, and evaluating effective rules
- System routes and user-defined routes
- Standard SKU public IPs and NAT Gateway for outbound access
- Azure DNS: public zones, private zones and name resolution inside a VNet
- Choosing a load balancer: Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway with WAF, Front Door and Traffic Manager
- Azure Bastion, and administering a VM with no public IP at all
- Service endpoints against private endpoints, and Azure Private Link
- VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute in outline
- Troubleshooting with Network Watcher, Connection Monitor and flow logs
07Monitoring, backup and business continuityOperations
- Azure Monitor: metrics against logs, and which question each one answers
- The Azure Monitor Agent and data collection rules
- Log Analytics workspaces, and enough KQL to answer a real question
- Alert rules, action groups and alert processing rules
- VM, Storage and Network Insights
- Recovery Services vaults against Azure Backup vaults, and when each applies
- Backup policies, and actually performing a restore rather than assuming one
- Azure Site Recovery: replication, failover, failback and running a drill
08Infrastructure as code and automationAutomation
- ARM template anatomy: parameters, variables, resources and outputs
- Bicep syntax and modules, and why it is pleasanter than the JSON underneath
- Deployment modes, and what-if before you apply
- Terraform on Azure with the AzureRM provider, taught as a skill
- Scripting with Azure CLI and PowerShell
- CI/CD for infrastructure with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Workload identity federation, so a pipeline holds no secrets at all
09Security operations on AzureSecurity
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: secure score, recommendations and the regulatory compliance dashboard
- Azure Key Vault: secrets, keys and certificates
- Layered network security: NSGs, Azure Firewall and web application firewall
- Microsoft Entra ID Protection and Privileged Identity Management
- Microsoft Sentinel as a SIEM: data connectors, analytics rules and incidents, in the Microsoft Defender portal
- Data residency and compliance considerations for Indian customers
- Where this stops and the security certifications begin: none of this module is AZ-104 content
10Data and AI on Azure, at awareness levelAwareness
- Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: APIs, partitioning and consistency levels
- Microsoft Fabric as the current analytics platform: OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse and Real-Time Intelligence
- Azure Data Factory and Fabric Data Factory pipelines
- Microsoft Foundry: its model catalogue, agents and deployments
- Azure AI Search, and the basics of retrieval-augmented generation
Mapped onto the AZ-104 outline. Where something is taught but not examined, such as Kubernetes, Terraform or Sentinel, the line says so.
Certification
What is actually on AZ-104
Domain weights from the skills outline Microsoft published on 17 April 2026. Networking, and monitoring and backup, are the ones short courses quietly drop.
- Manage Azure identities and governance20–25%
- Deploy and manage Azure compute resources20–25%
- Implement and manage storage15–20%
- Implement and manage virtual networking15–20%
- Monitor and maintain Azure resources10–15%
Sitting the exams. Both pass at 700 on a scale of 1 to 1,000, which is not 70% of the questions: Microsoft scales the score, and says so. You may consult Microsoft Learn during AZ-104, because it is a role-based exam, but not during AZ-900.
Why AZ-104, when Microsoft is retiring so much else. The Azure administrator path carries no retirement notice, its outline was refreshed in April 2026, it is compulsory for AZ-305, and it is the route into AZ-400 now that the Azure Developer Associate can no longer be earned.
Projects
What you build
Practical Azure, not portal tours. You build an estate the way an administrator would be asked to, then keep it running.
- Build a virtual network with subnets, network security groups and Bastion access
- Deploy virtual machines across availability zones behind a load balancer
- Host a web app on App Service with an Azure SQL database
- Lock it down with Entra ID users, groups and RBAC roles
- Add monitoring, alerts and backup, then run a restore and a recovery drill
Configure, then troubleshoot
Networks, storage, access and applications are configured by hand first, then broken on purpose so you learn to find the fault.
Monitoring as a daily habit
Azure Monitor, alerts and Log Analytics queries, so a problem is noticed before a user reports it.
Identity and governance first
Users, groups, RBAC and Azure Policy are set up before workloads, the way real estates are run.
Certification exams
Sit your exam where you trained
Unisoft is a Pearson VUE Select authorised test centre, and Microsoft certification exams are delivered through Pearson VUE. Pearson VUE's own test-centre finder lists Unisoft in Nagpur for AWS and Microsoft exams, so you can sit yours in the room down the corridor from your classroom instead of travelling to another city.
- Select centre since
- 2011
- Exam seats
- 4
- Also delivers
- CompTIA, Cisco, GMAT
We prepare you for the exam; the exam itself belongs to Microsoft. More about our test centre
How to book your exam here
- Find the exam on Microsoft Learn, for example AZ-900 or AZ-104, and choose to schedule it.
- Schedule it with Pearson VUE, and pick a test centre rather than an online exam.
- Search for Nagpur and choose Unisoft Technologies in Dharampeth.
- Pay the exam fee to Microsoft when you book, and bring the identification Microsoft asks for on the day.
Your trainer
Learn from Nikhil Sakharwade
Nikhil Sakharwade
Cloud & DevOps faculty, Unisoft Technologies
Nikhil is the core faculty for cloud at Unisoft: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Linux and the DevOps tooling around them, such as Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform. He holds Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate himself, the credential this course is built around.
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
- Azure Administrator Associate
- Azure Fundamentals
- Red Hat RHCSA
- Cisco CCNA
- MCSA
- CompTIA A+
Unisoft Technologies is a great place to learn hardware networking, CCNA, and Linux. Nikhil Sir and Gaurav Sir explain everything clearly and make sure you understand the concepts well.
★★★★★ Pankaj Mahajan · hardware networking, CCNA and Linux · Google review
A trainer who holds the certification they prepare you for should be the minimum; it is worth checking wherever you study. Unisoft is rated 4.6 on Google from more than 1,600 reviews; read them on Google.
Careers
Roles this course prepares you for
Azure skills are in demand wherever Microsoft already runs the office: IT services, global capability centres, banking and the public sector.
- Azure cloud support engineer
- Azure administrator
- Cloud engineer
- Cloud operations engineer
- Cloud support associate
- System administrator
- Cloud infrastructure engineer
- Junior DevOps engineer
Placement assistance covers your resume, interview preparation, mock interviews and relevant openings when we hear of them. It is help with your job search, not a guarantee of a job; selection depends on your skills, your interviews and the employer.
Google reviews
What students say
From Unisoft's Google listing, in the students' own words. Each card opens the review on Google.
We joined Unisoft for Linux and Azure training, and the vast knowledge and hands-on explanations we received were just amazing. Before coming to Unisoft, we visited several training centers that promised a 100% job placement with certification. … I would strongly recommend Unisoft for training, as technical skills and in-depth knowledge are essential everything else can be achieved.
★★★★★ Abhishek Bhadke · Read it on Google Unisoft is the best institute for Cloud Computing training in Nagpur. The course covers AWS, Azure, and practical labs. The placement cell is very active—they arranged interviews directly related to Cloud roles. Highly recommended!
★★★★★ Mukesh Chandanbatwe · Read it on Google Unisoft’s faculty for CCNA, Linux, and Cloud Computing (AWS & Azure) are world-class. They focus on networking fundamentals first and then take you deep into practical cloud deployment. The labs are very well equipped. It’s not just certification-based learning it’s skill-based growth.
★★★★★ Surabhi Tiwari · Read it on Google
Who it is for
Who should join
Students and fresh graduates
BCA, BSc, BE, BTech or MCA: an associate-level Microsoft certification before your first interview.
Windows and network administrators
If you already run Active Directory or a network, Azure is the natural next step for your skills.
IT support professionals
Helpdesk and support staff moving into cloud administration roles.
Next step
Get the next batch dates and fees
Tell us what you have done so far and a counsellor will call you back, and tell you honestly whether to start here, with the foundation, or with AWS instead.
- The current fee for classroom, live online or one-on-one
- Upcoming weekday, weekend and fast-track batches
- Whether to start here or with the Cloud Computing foundation
Visit us in Dharampeth
Unisoft Technologies, 2nd Floor, Prananand Building, West High Court Road, above Anand Bhandar, opposite Dress Code, Dharampeth, Nagpur 4400104.6 on Google from 1,600+ reviews · Directions and reviews
FAQ
Questions students ask before joining
Which certification does this course prepare me for?
Azure Fundamentals (exam AZ-900) first, then Azure Administrator Associate (exam AZ-104), the one employers actually ask for. The syllabus is built on the AZ-104 skills outline Microsoft published on 17 April 2026, including the networking and monitoring domains that shorter courses tend to skip; between them they are a quarter to a third of the exam. The exam fee is not included in the course fee.
Can I sit the Azure exams at Unisoft?
Yes. Unisoft is a Pearson VUE Select authorised test centre, and Microsoft exams are delivered through Pearson VUE. Schedule the exam from Microsoft Learn, choose a Pearson VUE test centre and pick Unisoft Technologies, Nagpur. About our test centre
Azure or AWS: which should I learn?
Take one and go deep, and pick it by looking at the jobs you actually intend to apply for. Azure concentrates where an organisation already runs Microsoft: Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Windows Server and SQL Server. In practice that means enterprise IT, IT services firms, global capability centres, banking and government. AWS is stronger in product companies and start-ups. Most of what you learn transfers either way, so finishing one matters more than the choice. We also teach AWS.
Do I need to know Windows Server or Active Directory first?
It helps, and it is not required. Microsoft's own short AZ-104 course assumes on-premises virtualisation, TCP/IP, DNS and Active Directory behind you, plus months of hands-on Azure. This course is built for people without that background, which is why it is much longer and starts from what a subnet is.
Is AZ-104 still current? I have read that Microsoft is retiring exams.
Microsoft has retired several Azure certifications in 2025 and 2026, including the Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) on 31 July 2026. The Azure administrator path is not among them: AZ-104 carries no retirement notice, its outline was refreshed in April 2026, and it remains compulsory for AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert. It is also one of the two routes into AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert. (Checked against Microsoft's retirement notices, August 2026.)
Does the certification expire? What does renewal cost?
AZ-900 never expires; no Microsoft fundamentals certification does. AZ-104 lasts a year, and renewing is free: a short online assessment on Microsoft Learn, unproctored and open book, taken any time in the six months before it expires. Passing extends it a year from the expiry date, so renewing early costs you nothing.
What does the exam cost?
Microsoft sets exam prices per country and shows the current one on the exam's own page on Microsoft Learn, so check it there when you book. You pay Microsoft directly; it is not part of the course fee.
How long is the course, and what does it cost?
That depends on the batch and on whether you study in the classroom, live online or one-on-one. Send an enquiry or call +91 95030 05060 for the current duration, fee and next batch date.
Who teaches the course?
Nikhil Sakharwade, who holds Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate himself, earned in June 2026 and current, along with Azure Fundamentals, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Red Hat RHCSA, Cisco CCNA and CompTIA A+. His certificates are on this page. His full profile
Do you help with jobs afterwards?
We help with resume building and interview preparation, and we offer placement assistance. We do not promise a job and we do not publish placement percentages; treat any institute that does with suspicion.
Still have a question? Ask a counsellor about the course, the batches or the fee.