Exam AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Azure Administrators implement, monitor, and maintain Microsoft Azure solutions, including major services related to compute, storage, network, and security. Learn more about changes to this certification that take effect on May 1, 2019.

Required exams: Exam AZ-100 and Exam AZ-101, or Transition Exam AZ-102.

Optional prerequisite: 1 exam | See details

Prerequisite for: Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

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Exam AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator

Starting on May 1, 2019, you will only need to pass one exam—AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator—to earn this certification. This new exam combines the skills covered in AZ-100 and AZ-101, with the majorityof the new exam coming from AZ-100.

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. Less