Can You Use Patterns to Find the Last Two Digits of Powers of 4?

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How does one solve problems like these :

finding last two digits of 4^ 300
 
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One simple way is to look for patterns. For example, the last digit of powers of 4 alternate between 4 and 6. Can you relate that to the number of factors of 4?
 

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