22 June 2026
A condensed AZ-104 cheat sheet from exam notes: NSG vs ASG, storage RBAC vs SAS gotchas, VNet move limitations, Recovery Services Vault restrictions, and other exam traps around networking and resource moves.
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A full AZ-400 cheat sheet: DevOps terms and definitions, branch strategies, tooling, deployment strategies, and test types.
10 June 2026
Why building a personal website during AZ-400 prep was one of the best calls made: real custom domains, TLS, and production-like deployments for demos turned abstract Azure concepts into a genuine portfolio.
9 June 2026
14k impressions and 88 reactions on a post about the AZ-400 lab's unclear instructions — including one comment from someone who failed the exam for the same reason, which is exactly why the AZ-400 cheat sheet followed the next day.
4 June 2026
Renewing AZ-204 in about 30 minutes on memory alone, right after passing AZ-400 — next up, full focus on AZ-305's architecture and governance content.
29 May 2026
Six Microsoft certifications in twelve months of evenings and weekends, capped by an 863/1000 score on AZ-400 — the certification order so far, and AZ-305 up next.
23 May 2026
80% on the Whizlabs AZ-400 final mock, first attempt, 5 days before the real exam — solid improvement from earlier practice tests after focusing hard on weak areas.
11 April 2026
From sandbox success to a full CI/CD pipeline in a day: Terraform for AKS, Spot nodepools, a clean LLM-adapter pattern, Traefik on ARM64, ConfigMap-driven prompts, and a cross-subscription, bootstrap-plus-main-stage pipeline — all on €45 of remaining credits.
10 April 2026
The first working milestone: a self-hosted sentiment-analysis service running in the Whizlabs AKS sandbox — Terraform + PowerShell automation, a multi-container Ollama/LLM-adapter/Flask architecture, and ConfigMap-driven prompts with proper health probes.
30 January 2026
Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), with a shoutout to Whizlabs' updated agentic/multi-agent practice exams and Tutorials Dojo's Azure AI scenario drills.
6 January 2026
A study day untangling Semantic Kernel, Azure AI Foundry orchestration, and AutoGen for AI-102: SK for prototyping and simple setups, Azure AI Foundry for enterprise-scale governed multi-agent systems — and the bot-vs-agent distinction that ties it together.
21 December 2025
Realizing that everyday exam-prep habits already were prompt engineering: a four-step Azure exam strategy built around priming, format/quantity constraints, and length limits to get sharper, more useful answers out of AI chat tools.
27 November 2025
Three Azure certifications in 2025 — AZ-900, AZ-204, AI-900 — with AI-102 up next.
12 November 2025
Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certification.