You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification validates your expertise in designing, implementing, and managing Azure Virtual Desktop environments. It is ideal for administrators responsible for delivering virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Azure. Achieving this certification demonstrates your ability to manage end-user environments effectively.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions397
Content last reviewed 20 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AZ-140 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
12objectives
94concepts
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 Virtual Desktop Specialty certification confirms your skills in configuring and operating Azure Virtual Desktop environments. It targets professionals who design, implement, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Microsoft Azure.
Earning this certification shows that you can effectively manage end-user environments, deliver applications, and configure user settings using Azure technologies. It highlights your ability to work with Azure administrators, architects, and security engineers to deliver seamless virtual desktop experiences.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for server or desktop administrators with expertise in designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining Azure Virtual Desktop experiences. Candidates should be familiar with Azure technologies and capable of managing end-user desktop environments. You should have experience working with Azure administrators, architects, and security engineers to deliver virtual desktop solutions. Proficiency in using the Azure portal, templates, scripting, and command-line tools is essential.
Recommended experience
Experience with Azure technologies and managing virtual desktop environments is recommended. Designing and implementing Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure; Managing identity and security for Azure Virtual Desktop; Configuring user environments and applications; Monitoring and maintaining Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
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 20 July 2026 · See the source
Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
- Plan, implement, and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Plan and implement storage for Azure Virtual Desktop user data
- Plan host pools and session hosts
- Implement host pools and session hosts
- Create and manage session host images
Plan and implement identity and security
- Plan and implement identity integration
- Plan and implement security
Plan and implement user environments and apps
- Plan and implement FSLogix
- Plan and implement user experience and client settings
- Install and configure apps on a session host
Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
- Monitor and manage Azure Virtual Desktop services
- Plan and implement updates, backups, and disaster recovery
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeAZ-140
CertificationAzure Virtual Desktop Specialty
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified)
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 Virtual Desktop Specialty
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop 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
Is any part of the AZ-140 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam includes interactive components where you complete tasks in a simulated Azure environment.
If I fail AZ-140, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt.
What job roles does the Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as Azure Virtual Desktop Administrator and Azure Solutions Architect.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No. You must complete the online renewal assessment specific to this certification.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-20 Up to date
Practice free questions 397 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
12objectives
94concepts
83free 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 20 July 2026 · See the source
1Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure160 questions
Plan, implement, and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop10 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Plan and implement storage for Azure Virtual Desktop user data5 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Plan host pools and session hosts8 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Implement host pools and session hosts9 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Create and manage session host images7 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
2Plan and implement identity and security68 questions
3Plan and implement user environments and apps89 questions
4Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure80 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.
Plan, implement, and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
36 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
397 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.
397questions
83pages
12objectives
Freealways
Start anywherePlan, implement, and manage networking for Azure Virtual Desktop 36 questions · 8 pages
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure160 questions
2Plan and implement identity and security68 questions
3Plan and implement user environments and apps89 questions
4Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure80 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.
94concepts
397free 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
94concepts 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 — 12 objectives, 94 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
12objectives on the outline→94concepts written→397free 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.