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Microsoft 365 Certified: AI Services Administrator Associate (beta)

This certification validates your ability to administer Microsoft 365 and AI services, enabling secure and compliant productivity across the organization

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Overview

As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you configure, manage, secure, and govern Microsoft 365 tenants, workloads, and AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents, and connected AI capabilities. You enable secure, compliant, and scalable productivity across the organization by governing data access, protecting information, and supporting collaboration between users and agents. You operate and continuously optimize Microsoft 365 and AI services at enterprise scale, helping to ensure reliable and effective outcomes in an AI-powered workplace.

As a Microsoft 365 and AI services administrator, you collaborate with architects and administrators across workloads, infrastructure, identity, security, compliance, endpoints, and applications.

For this exam, you should have experience with Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID, an understanding of Defender XDR capabilities, and familiarity with Microsoft Graph PowerShell.

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Learn more about the beta exam AB-650

Passing score: 700. Learn more about exam scores. Beta exams are not scored immediately because we’re gathering data on the quality of the questions and the exam. Learn more about beta certification exams.

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  • Review the AB-650 study guide to help you prepare for the exam.
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This exam will be proctored. 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.

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Assessed on this exam

  • Configure and manage Microsoft 365 tenants and workloads
  • Govern and secure Microsoft 365 tenants and workloads
  • Manage and secure AI services in Microsoft 365

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