Candidates for this exam are Azure Administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Candidates have a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle, and take requests for infrastructure services, applications, and environments. They make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Candidates for this exam should have proficiency in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, ARM templates, operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.
Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Related exams: 2 related exams
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This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: secure identities, evaluate and perform server migration to Azure, implement and manage application services, and implement advanced virtual networking.
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There may be certifications and prerequisites related to "Exam AZ-101: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security"
Azure Administrators implement, manage, and monitor an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: manage Azure subscriptions and resources, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs), configure and manage virtual networks, and manage identities.
This exam is intended only for candidates who have taken Exam 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. If you have not taken Exam 533, you will not earn a certification by taking this exam.
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