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Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate

Demonstrate skills to plan, deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment.

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Overview

As a Microsoft Teams administrator, you manage and maintain internal and external collaboration and communication solutions using Teams and Microsoft 365.

You’re responsible for configuring and managing teams, channels, chat, apps, calling, meetings, and events. You manage:

  • Phone numbers and services for Teams Phone.
  • Operational aspects of Teams clients and devices.

You collaborate with owners of other areas, including:

  • Networking
  • Identity
  • Licensing
  • Information management
  • User adoption
  • Security
  • Compliance

You work with collaboration and communication system engineers to implement Teams device scenarios. You plan and implement governance, security, and compliance for Teams.

As a candidate for this exam, you should have a working knowledge of Microsoft 365 services, including:

  • Microsoft 365 groups
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • OneDrive
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Microsoft Purview
  • Microsoft Entra ID

You should understand the options for integrating and extending Teams with:

  • Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Viva
  • Power Platform
  • Third-party apps
  • Custom apps

Skills measured

  • Configure and manage a Teams environment
  • Manage teams, channels, chats, and apps
  • Manage meetings and calling
  • Monitor, report on, and troubleshoot Teams

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You will have 100 minutes to complete this assessment.

Exam policy

This exam will be proctored, and is not open book. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.

If you fail a certification exam, don’t worry. You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the amount of time varies. For full details, visit: Exam retake policy.

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This exam is offered in the following languages:

English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Italian

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