You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
The Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification validates your ability to plan, migrate, and operate SAP solutions on Azure. It is designed for architects and engineers responsible for managing SAP landscapes on Azure. Earning this certification demonstrates your expertise in leveraging Azure resources for optimal SAP solution performance.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions286
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AZ-120 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
4domains
8objectives
71concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification validates your skills in planning, migrating, and operating SAP solutions on Microsoft Azure. This certification is aimed at professionals who design and manage SAP landscapes, ensuring optimal performance and resiliency.
Candidates will demonstrate their ability to implement industry-specific standards for migrations and integrations, manage SAP infrastructure using Azure tools, and collaborate with cloud administrators and clients to implement solutions like RISE with SAP.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for architects and engineers who design and manage SAP landscapes on Azure. You are responsible for implementing industry-specific standards for migrations and integrations, ensuring sustained operation of SAP solutions within the Azure environment. You should have extensive experience with SAP applications and databases, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and networking. Experience with Azure tools and services is essential.
Recommended experience
Extensive experience with SAP applications and databases, and knowledge of Azure tools and services. Experience with SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA), SAP Business Suite, and SAP NetWeaver; Experience with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, data protection, and networking
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Migrate SAP workloads to Azure
- Identify requirements for target infrastructure
Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure
- Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads
- Design and implement networking for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)
- Design and implement a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
- Design and implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines
Maintain SAP workloads on Azure
- Optimize performance and costs
- Monitor and maintain SAP on Azure
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
We strongly recommend that candidates have an Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Exam codeAZ-120
CertificationAzure for SAP Workloads Specialty
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)
PricingUS $165
Certification levelSpecialty
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
PrerequisiteWe strongly recommend that candidates have an Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty Specialty level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your certification annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
What job roles does the Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as SAP architect, SAP engineer, and cloud solution architect responsible for SAP landscapes on Azure.
Is there a hands-on component in the AZ-120 exam?
Yes, the exam may include interactive components that require practical application of skills.
What is the retake policy for the AZ-120 exam?
You can retake the exam 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the waiting period varies.
Can I schedule the AZ-120 exam with a work account?
It is recommended to register with a personal MSA account to avoid losing exam records if you leave your organization.
Are there any testing accommodations available for the AZ-120 exam?
Yes, Microsoft offers a variety of accommodations to support candidates with disabilities.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 286 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
4domains
8objectives
71concepts
60free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Migrate SAP workloads to Azure32 questions
2Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure110 questions
3Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)71 questions
4Maintain SAP workloads on Azure73 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Identify requirements for target infrastructure7 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
32 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
286 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
286questions
60pages
8objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Migrate SAP workloads to Azure32 questions
2Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure110 questions
3Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR)71 questions
4Maintain SAP workloads on Azure73 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
71concepts
286free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
71concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 8 objectives, 71 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
8objectives on the outline→71concepts written→286free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.