Azure Governance: Policy, Management Groups & Blueprints | AZ-104 Exam Prep – Module 03 of 18

🏛️ Master Azure Governance — Policy, Management Groups, Blueprints & Cost Management
for the AZ-104 Azure Administrator exam!

This is Module 03 of our complete 18-part AZ-104 exam prep series. In this video we
cover the full Azure governance stack — how organisations enforce standards, control
costs, and manage compliance at scale across subscriptions and resource groups.

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📌 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO
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✅ Management Groups — organising subscriptions into a hierarchy
✅ Azure Policy — enforcing rules and auditing compliance across resources
✅ Policy effects: Deny, Audit, Append, DeployIfNotExists, Modify & more
✅ Policy Initiatives (policy sets) — grouping policies for easier assignment
✅ Azure Blueprints — packaging policies, RBAC, and ARM templates together
✅ Resource Locks — ReadOnly vs Delete and when each applies
✅ Resource Tags — enforcing tagging strategies for cost tracking
✅ Azure Cost Management — budgets, alerts, and spending analysis
✅ Key exam scenarios and the gotchas Microsoft loves to test

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
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0:00 Introduction
1:10 Management Groups — hierarchy and use cases
2:18 Azure Subscriptions — how it works
3:23 Azure Policy Definition, Initiatives and Effects
5:19 Policy Assignments Compliance
6:48 Resource Locks
8:27 Tags
10:03 Cost Management — budgets & alerts
11:43 Azure Advisor
13:30 Governance Framework
15:48 Key exam scenarios & gotchas
17:10 Summary & what's next (Module 04 — Storage Accounts)
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📚 COMPLETE AZ-104 SERIES PLAYLIST
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✔ Module 01 — Microsoft Entra ID: Users & Groups
✔ Module 02 — RBAC & Access Management
▶ Module 03 — Governance, Policy & Blueprints ← YOU ARE HERE
○ Module 04 — Azure Storage Accounts
○ Module 05 — Storage Access & Security
○ Module 06 — Azure Blob Storage & Files
○ ...and 12 more modules covering Compute, Networking & Monitoring

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🎓 ABOUT THIS SERIES
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This course covers all five AZ-104 exam domains across 18 focused modules:

🔐 Identities & Governance (20–25%) — Modules 01–03
🗄️ Storage (15–20%) — Modules 04–06
💻 Compute (20–25%) — Modules 07–11
🌐 Virtual Networking (15–20%) — Modules 12–14
📊 Monitor & Maintain (10–15%) — Modules 15–18

Every module includes exam tips, visual diagrams, and real-world context — not just theory.

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🔗 USEFUL LINKS
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📄 Official AZ-104 Study Guide:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/resources/study-guides/az-104

📄 Azure Policy Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/policy/overview

📄 Management Groups Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/management-groups/overview

📄 Azure Blueprints Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/blueprints/overview

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