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 365 Certified:Administrator Expert
The Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert certification validates your expertise in deploying and managing Microsoft 365 environments, emphasizing tenant management, identity synchronization, and security compliance. Ideal for administrators collaborating across multiple workloads, it ensures proficiency in coordinating with architects and other specialists on infrastructure, security, and applications.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions401
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What MS-102 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
100concepts
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 365 Certified: Administrator Expert certification demonstrates your ability to deploy and manage Microsoft 365 environments, including tenant management, identity synchronization, and security and compliance.
This certification is designed for administrators who coordinate across multiple Microsoft 365 workloads and work with architects and other administrators responsible for workloads, infrastructure, identity, security, compliance, endpoints, and applications.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for administrators who deploy and manage Microsoft 365 and perform tenant-level implementation and administration of cloud and hybrid environments. Candidates should have functional experience with all Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID, and have administered at least one of these.
Recommended experience
Functional experience with Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID. Experience with networking, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, and PowerShell.; Administered at least one Microsoft 365 workload.
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 a Microsoft 365 tenant
- Implement and manage a Microsoft 365 tenant
- Manage users and groups
- Manage roles and role groups
Implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity and access
- Implement and manage identity synchronization with Microsoft Entra tenant
- Implement and manage authentication
- Implement and manage secure access
Manage security and threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR
- Review and respond to security reports and alerts generated by Microsoft Defender XDR
- Implement and manage email and collaboration protection by using Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Implement and manage endpoint protection by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Manage compliance by using Microsoft Purview
- Implement Microsoft Purview information protection and data lifecycle management
- Implement Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP)
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
To become a Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert, you must earn at least one of the following: Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate.
Exam codeMS-102
CertificationMicrosoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Chinese (Simplified), German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
PricingUS $165
Certification levelExpert
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 365 Certified: Administrator Expert
PrerequisiteTo become a Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert, you must earn at least one of the following: Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate.
Credential earnedMicrosoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert Expert level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your certification for free by passing an 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.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
What job roles does the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as Microsoft 365 administrator, identity and access administrator, and security administrator.
Is there a hands-on lab component in the MS-102 exam?
No, the exam consists of multiple-choice and multiple-response questions.
What is the retake policy for the MS-102 exam?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No, you must pass the online renewal assessment specific to the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert credential.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 401 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
100concepts
86free 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 a Microsoft 365 tenant99 questions
2Implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity and access107 questions
3Manage security and threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR134 questions
Review and respond to security reports and alerts generated by Microsoft Defender XDR6 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Implement and manage email and collaboration protection by using Microsoft Defender for Office 36510 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Implement and manage endpoint protection by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint5 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps6 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
4Manage compliance by using Microsoft Purview61 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.
Implement and manage a Microsoft 365 tenant8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
38 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
401 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.
401questions
86pages
12objectives
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 a Microsoft 365 tenant99 questions
2Implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity and access107 questions
3Manage security and threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR134 questions
4Manage compliance by using Microsoft Purview61 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.
100concepts
401free 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.
1official link
100concepts 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, 100 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
12objectives on the outline→100concepts written→401free 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.