You are no longer the developer who breaks things. You are the Administrator who fixes them at 2 AM with a PowerShell script, a cup of coffee, and the cold confidence that you remembered to set the to 30 days.
Let’s address the elephant in the datacenter. When people look at the cloud, they see magic. They see a button that says "Deploy VM" and a machine appears. They see "Auto-scale" and traffic vanishes.
You will study and suddenly realize why your last job lost their Sharepoint data (they forgot Soft Delete). You will study Load Balancers and finally understand why your favorite website went down during the Super Bowl (they used Basic SKU instead of Standard SKU).
Every concept you learn for this exam is a war story you will tell at a future job interview. Passing AZ-104 doesn't mean you know everything about Azure. It means you are dangerous enough to be trusted with the keys.