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:Teams Administrator Associate
The Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate certification validates your ability to plan, deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams. It is designed for administrators responsible for collaboration and communication solutions in a Microsoft 365 environment. Earning this certification demonstrates your expertise in managing teams, channels, chat, apps, events, and calling.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions410
Content last reviewed 29 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What MS-700 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
116concepts
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: Teams Administrator Associate certification validates your skills in planning, deploying, configuring, and managing Microsoft Teams. It targets administrators responsible for ensuring efficient and effective collaboration and communication within a Microsoft 365 environment.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to manage teams, channels, chat, apps, events, and calling, as well as collaborate with other areas such as identity, licensing, information management, user adoption, security, compliance, devices, and networking.
Who it’s for
This certification is intended for Microsoft Teams administrators who plan, implement, manage, and maintain internal and external collaboration and communication solutions using Teams. You are responsible for configuring and managing teams, channels, chat, apps, events, and calling. Candidates should have a working knowledge of how Teams integrates into Microsoft 365 services and collaborate with owners of other areas, including identity, licensing, information management, user adoption, security, compliance, devices, and networking.
Recommended experience
Experience with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 services is recommended. Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft 365 services; Experience in configuring and managing Teams environments
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 29 July 2026 · See the source
Configure and manage a Teams environment
- Plan network settings for Teams
- Manage security and compliance settings for Teams
- Plan and implement governance for Teams
- Configure and manage external collaboration
- Manage Teams clients and devices
Manage teams, channels, chats, and apps
- Create and manage teams
- Manage channels and chats
- Manage apps for Teams
Manage meetings and calling
- Manage meetings and events
- Manage phone numbers and services for Teams Phone
Monitor, report on, and troubleshoot Teams
- Monitor and report on Teams
- Troubleshoot audio, video, and client issues
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 codeMS-700
CertificationMicrosoft 365 Certified: Teams 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 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
The Teams Administrator Associate certification is valid for one year. Renew before it expires by completing Microsoft's free online renewal 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
If I fail MS-700, 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 Teams Administrator Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as Teams administrator, responsible for managing collaboration and communication solutions in Microsoft 365.
Is any part of the MS-700 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam may include interactive components to complete as part of the assessment.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No. You must complete the online renewal assessment to maintain your certification.
Are there any testing accommodations available?
Yes. Microsoft offers a variety of accommodations to support candidates with disabilities.
How soon are results available after taking MS-700?
Results are typically available immediately after completing the exam.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-29 Up to date
Practice free questions 410 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
116concepts
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 29 July 2026 · See the source
1Configure and manage a Teams environment174 questions
Plan network settings for Teams5 concepts · 6 pagesOpen →Manage security and compliance settings for Teams14 concepts · 10 pagesOpen →Plan and implement governance for Teams12 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Configure and manage external collaboration11 concepts · 9 pagesOpen →Manage Teams clients and devices8 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
2Manage teams, channels, chats, and apps98 questions
3Manage meetings and calling76 questions
4Monitor, report on, and troubleshoot Teams62 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 network settings for Teams6 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
30 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
410 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.
410questions
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.
1Configure and manage a Teams environment174 questions
2Manage teams, channels, chats, and apps98 questions
3Manage meetings and calling76 questions
4Monitor, report on, and troubleshoot Teams62 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.
116concepts
410free 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
116concepts 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, 116 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
12objectives on the outline→116concepts written→410free 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.