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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification validates your ability to manage Windows Server workloads in hybrid environments. It is designed for administrators who deploy, implement, and troubleshoot Windows Server in Azure and on-premises. Earning this certification demonstrates your expertise in managing identity, security, networking, and storage solutions.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions570
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What AZ-800 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.
5domains
16objectives
155concepts
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: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification validates that you can administer Windows Server as a workload in both on-premises and hybrid environments. You will learn to deploy, implement, manage, and troubleshoot Windows Server in Azure, as well as migrate and deploy workloads to Azure.
This certification demonstrates your ability to manage identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery for Windows Server. You will collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers using tools like Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, and more.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend their capabilities by integrating on-premises environments with Azure services. You typically collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers to manage identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery for Windows Server.
Recommended experience
Several years of experience with Windows Server operating systems. Deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS); Managing Windows Servers and workloads in hybrid environments; Implementing and managing networking infrastructure; Managing storage and file services
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
Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments
- Deploy and manage AD DS domain controllers
- Configure and manage multi-site, multi-domain, and multi-forest environments
- Create and manage AD DS security principals
- Implement and manage hybrid identities
- Manage Windows Server by using domain-based Group Policies
Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment
- Configure remote management for Windows Servers in a hybrid environment
- Manage Windows Servers and workloads by using Azure services
Manage virtual machines and containers
- Manage Hyper-V and guest virtual machines
- Create and manage containers
- Manage Windows Server virtual machines on Azure
Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure
- Implement on-premises and hybrid name resolution
- Manage IP addressing in on-premises and hybrid scenarios
- Implement on-premises and hybrid network connectivity
Manage storage and file services
- Configure and manage Azure Files
- Configure and manage Windows Server file shares
- Configure Windows Server storage
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-800
CertificationWindows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
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: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your Microsoft Certification for free by passing an online assessment on Microsoft Learn. 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-800 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. In addition to multiple-choice items, AZ-800 includes a performance-based lab section where you complete tasks in a live environment.
If I fail AZ-800, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as Windows Server Administrator, Network Engineer, and Security Engineer.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
Yes. Earning a higher-level Microsoft certification can renew this credential without taking the AZ-800 renewal assessment.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 570 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.
5domains
16objectives
155concepts
121free 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
1Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments148 questions
Deploy and manage AD DS domain controllers8 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Configure and manage multi-site, multi-domain, and multi-forest environments9 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Create and manage AD DS security principals9 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →Implement and manage hybrid identities7 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Manage Windows Server by using domain-based Group Policies9 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →
2Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment66 questions
3Manage virtual machines and containers128 questions
4Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure118 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.
Deploy and manage AD DS domain controllers8 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
570 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.
570questions
121pages
16objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments148 questions
2Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment66 questions
3Manage virtual machines and containers128 questions
4Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure118 questions
5Manage storage and file services110 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.
155concepts
570free 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
155concepts 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 — 16 objectives, 155 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
16objectives on the outline→155concepts written→570free 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.