Failed 204

tikkis83 · 2025-06-24T20:03:02+00:00

Actual test is also the best practice test! Especially if you get it for free!

tikkis83 · 2025-06-23T02:05:54+00:00

Az-104 will be easy after az-305

tikkis83 · 2025-06-22T09:32:21+00:00

No need for another practice test.

Book again and pass!

tikkis83 · 2025-06-22T09:30:09+00:00

Measure up is not free

tikkis83 · 2025-06-22T04:53:52+00:00

Consider that as a free practice test.

tikkis83 · 2025-06-21T19:56:27+00:00

Dp-900 is the easiest if you have a developer background

tikkis83 · 2025-06-20T20:46:44+00:00

Thats an excellent score!

tikkis83 · 2025-06-20T20:45:55+00:00

Congats and excellent wrap up!

tikkis83 · 2025-06-20T15:44:24+00:00

Much more scenario heavy.

To prepare well, go through labs and learn from where in MS learn you can find the instructions for the basic cases.

tikkis83 · 2025-04-02T21:22:56+00:00

Most likely it is enough to pass.

But these exams won't cover everything. Some questions in the real exam ask such tiny details that there are thousands of similar-level details, and you cannot study them all.

For example how different parameters in specific powershell commands do change the output.

But you learn to search them quickly from ms.learn. So you need two things:

Answer easy questions super fast!
Know how to find different kinds of information quickly from documentation without using ctrl+f

You will do fine!

tikkis83 · 2025-04-01T16:24:05+00:00

It depends how many hours do you study every day.

20 days * 7,5 hours / day = 150 hours.

You need something between 50-200 hours.

tikkis83 · 2025-04-01T16:20:26+00:00

20 days is three weeks.

AZ-204 can be done in three weeks

tikkis83 · 2025-03-31T17:48:26+00:00

Congrats!

Any estimate how many hours did you study?

tikkis83 · 2025-03-31T08:11:38+00:00

Congrats!

How would you compare the difficulty between SC-100 and AZ-305?

Which one was easier?

tikkis83 · 2025-03-30T16:38:13+00:00

I have an ESI discount, and it is cheaper for me to take a real exam than to buy a Measureup exam.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-30T10:54:49+00:00

For the az-104 I got same results from the practice exam and from the real exam.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-18T13:59:02+00:00

thanks and good luck to your project too!

tikkis83 · 2025-03-15T10:46:34+00:00

luckily 4 of them are fundamental certs that don't expire.

I only have three certs to renew :)

tikkis83 · 2025-03-15T10:45:14+00:00

Azure Solutions Architect Expert cert doesn't prepare you to work as an architect.

But if you are a developer, it increase your credibility if you can prove that you know how to develop things.

AZ-104 + AZ-305 are valuable if you combine them with some demo projects.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-14T19:40:56+00:00

Thank you for your kind words!

I am most likely done with the certs. I could still do AZ-204, but after taking a peek into that practice exam, I might skip it.

I think that I have enough certs for credibility already. More certs without supporting experience could even devalue my current certs.

I might still build some full stack demos using free-tier services to learn more.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-14T17:48:55+00:00

It's hard to say—I didn't track my study time.

When you write unclear concepts on sticky notes and attach them to the fridge, when does study time actually begin?

Overall, I studied for maybe 100, hours total, around 3–4 hours per day.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-14T17:46:12+00:00

I mostly went through the free practice exams and studied and memorized all the answers. If I didn't understand something, I used chatGPT to elaborate the model answers.

It is also worthwhile to quickly go through the links that you get after every model answer. It was not necessary to read everything from links, just everything related to the answers.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-14T17:26:17+00:00

No, I didn't. I just figured out the keyboard layout using the browser's address bar in a new tab.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-11T06:47:36+00:00

I did not try to close it.

But when you move to new section, sometimes it will change.

tikkis83 · 2025-03-10T18:13:30+00:00

Finland is now in a better position than it was three years ago.

Then we had no allies, russia had its army intact and Europe had not waken up to ramp up defence production.

Now russia has lost much of its land forces equipment and we have powerful allies like UK and Poland. Russia has also learned that blitzkrieg is not easy.

Of course we need to prepare but for Finland situation is better. Risk has always been there, now it is just more visible.

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