AZ-800T00-A: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure

Deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments (30–35%)

Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment (10–15%)

Manage virtual machines and containers (15–20%)

Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure (15–20%)

Manage storage and file services (15–20%)

Deploy and manage domain controllers on-premises

Deploy and manage domain controllers in Azure

Deploy read-only domain controllers (RODCs)

Troubleshoot flexible single master operation (FSMO) roles

Configure and manage forest and domain trusts

Configure and manage AD DS sites

Configure and manage AD DS replication

Create and manage AD DS users and groups

Manage users and groups in multi-domain and multi-forest scenarios

Implement Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSAs)

Join Windows Servers to AD DS, Microsoft Entra Domain Services, and Microsoft Entra

Integrate Microsoft Entra ID, AD DS and Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Implement Microsoft Entra Connect Sync

Manage Microsoft Entra Connect Sync synchronization

Implement Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

Manage Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Manage Microsoft Entra Connect Health

Manage authentication in on-premises and hybrid environments

Configure and manage AD DS passwords

Implement Group Policy in AD DS

Implement Group Policy Preferences in AD DS

Implement Group Policy in Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Deploy a Windows Admin Center Gateway server

Configure a target machine for Windows Admin Center

Configure PowerShell remoting

Configure Credential Security Support Provider protocol (CredSSP) or Kerberos Delegation for 2nd Hop Remoting

Configure Just Enough Administration (JEA) for PowerShell remoting

Manage Windows Servers by using Azure Arc

Create and assign Azure Policy that uses guest configuration extension

Deploy Azure services using VM extensions on non-Azure machines

Manage updates for Windows machines

Integrate Windows Servers with Log Analytics

Integrate Windows Servers with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Manage Windows Server Azure VMs

Implement Azure Automation for hybrid workloads

Create runbooks to automate tasks on target VMs

Implement Azure Automation State Configuration to prevent configuration drift in IaaS machines

Enable VM Enhanced session mode

Manage VM using PowerShell remoting, PowerShell Direct and Secure Shell (SSH) Direct for Linux VMs

Configure nested virtualization

Configure VM Memory

Configure integration services

Configure Discrete Device Assignment

Configure VM resource groups

Configure VM CPU groups

Configure hypervisor scheduling types

Manage VM checkpoints

Implementing high availability for virtual machines

Manage virtual hard disk (VHD) and virtual hard disk v2 (VHDX) files

Configure Hyper-V Network Adapter

Configure network interface card (NIC) Teaming

Configure Hyper-V Switch

Create Windows Server container images

Manage Windows Server container images

Configure container networking

Manage container instances

Manage data disks

Resize Azure VM

Configure connections to VMs

Manage Azure VM network configuration

Integrate DNS with AD DS

Create and manage DNS zones and records

Configure DNS forwarding/conditional forwarding

Integrate Windows Server DNS with Azure DNS private zones

Implement Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)

Implement and manage IP Address Management (IPAM)

Implement and configure the Dynamic Host Configuration protocol (DHCP) server role (on-premises only)

Resolve IP address issues in hybrid environments

Create and manage DHCP scopes

Create and manage IP reservations

Implement DHCP high availability

Implement and manage the Remote Access role

Implement and manage Azure Network Adapter

Implement and manage Azure extended network

Implement and manage Network Policy and Access Services role

Implement Web Application Proxy

Implement Azure Relay

Implement site-to-site VPN

Implement Azure Virtual WAN

Implement Microsoft Entra Application Proxy

Create Azure File Sync Service

Create sync groups

Create cloud endpoints

Register servers

Create server endpoints

Configure cloud tiering

Monitor File Sync

Migrate Distributed File System (DFS) to Azure File Sync

Configure Windows Server file share access

Configuring file screens

Configure file server resource manager (FSRM) quotas

Configure BranchCache

Implement and configure Distributed File System (DFS)

Configure disks and volumes

Configure and manage Storage Spaces

Configure and manage Storage Replica

Configure Data Deduplication

Configure Server Message Block (SMB) direct

Configure Storage QoS

Configure file systems