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Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Administrator Associate

This certification validates your ability to deploy, implement, manage, and troubleshoot Windows Server workloads across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, with expertise in identity, security, networking, storage, monitoring, and modern administration technologies.

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Overview

As a candidate for this certification, you're responsible for deploying, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows Server as a workload in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.

You administer identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, and monitoring for Windows Server. You typically collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers.

Note

Related exams Exam AZ-800 and Exam AZ-801 were retired on September 30, 2026. You can view the replacement exam, AZ-802.

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  • The Practice Assessment for this exam is not currently available. Practice Assessments are usually available within 8 weeks of the exam being out of beta and generally available.

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You will have 120 minutes to complete this assessment.

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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.

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.

Assessed on this exam

  • Deploy and manage AD DS
  • Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment
  • Manage virtual machines
  • Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure
  • Manage storage and file services
  • Secure Windows Server infrastructure
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments

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