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Free AZ-802: Administering Windows Server Practice Questions
Microsoft's Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate exam, covering AD DS, hybrid management with Azure Arc, Hyper-V, networking, storage, security, and troubleshooting across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. AZ-802 consolidates the retiring AZ-800 and AZ-801 into a single exam.
10
Sample questions
100 min
Exam time limit
70%
Passing score
$165
Exam voucher
About the AZ-802: Administering Windows Server Exam
AZ-802, "Administering Windows Server", is Microsoft's exam for the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate credential. If you deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Windows Server across on-premises, Azure, and hybrid environments, this is the exam that certifies it. Here is the part that matters if you have been studying already: AZ-802 replaces the old two-exam path. Microsoft retired AZ-800 and AZ-801 on 30 September 2026 and folded both into this single exam, which earns the identical credential. If you were halfway through the old route, you are not starting over, but you do need to know what moved and what got cut. The exam spans seven domains. Active Directory Domain Services is the heaviest, and the hybrid half is where traditional Windows administrators feel least at home: Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, Azure Monitor, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud all appear, alongside the on-premises skills you already have. You are expected to be comfortable with Windows Admin Center, Hyper-V, PowerShell, and AD DS going in. Expect roughly 40 to 60 items in a mix of multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and case studies. The pass mark is 700 on a 1000-point scaled scale, and the credential renews annually through a free assessment on Microsoft Learn. This is a broad exam with no domain small enough to skip, which is exactly why targeted practice beats re-reading. Work every domain in proportion to its weight, and treat the case studies as their own skill.
Exam Domains Covered
Exam Format & Details
Roughly 40 to 60 questions in a mix of multiple choice, drag-and-drop, and case studies. Pass mark is 700 out of 1000 (scaled scoring, so this is not a simple percentage of questions correct). Voucher cost is around 165 USD in the United States, with regional variation. Book through Pearson VUE, at a test centre or online proctored. There are no traditional performance-based labs, but case studies present a scenario with multiple linked questions and are where unprepared candidates lose the most marks. You can explore the exam interface in advance using Microsoft's exam sandbox at aka.ms/examdemo. The credential renews every year via a free online assessment on Microsoft Learn.
Why Practice Questions Matter
AZ-802 is wide, and Microsoft Learn reads like a parts catalogue: you can finish it and still have no mental model of how the pieces fit. Practice questions fix that by forcing recall and decision-making instead of recognition. They also rehearse the exam's real traps, the ones that fail prepared people: transfer versus seize on FSMO roles, why Protected Users breaks service accounts, how DFSR authoritative SYSVOL restore actually works. And they build stamina for the case studies, which blindside candidates who only ever practised isolated questions. Work each domain to its weight, and let your weak spots surface here rather than on exam day.
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Sample Practice Questions
The following questions are a preview of the type of syllabus-aligned questions you will practise in CertCrush. They reflect the format and reasoning style of the AZ-802: Administering Windows Server exam — not actual exam content.
Q1.You need a fast, forest-wide answer to the question of whether AD DS replication is currently healthy, showing the largest replication delta and any failures per domain controller. Which command should you run?
- A.repadmin /showrepl
- B.repadmin /syncall
- C.repadmin /replsummary
- D.dcdiag /test:dns
Domain: Deploy and manage AD DS
Q2.You want to test the effect of moving a user account to a different OU before you actually move it, without touching any real machine. Which tool should you use?
- A.Group Policy Results
- B.Group Policy Modeling
- C.gpresult /r
- D.gpupdate /force
Domain: Deploy and manage AD DS
Q3.A domain controller has suffered an unrecoverable hardware failure and cannot contact any other domain controller. You run Uninstall-ADDSDomainController with the -ForceRemoval parameter. What must you do next?
- A.Raise the domain functional level to purge references to the failed domain controller.
- B.Perform metadata cleanup by deleting the failed domain controller's object from the directory.
- C.Run repadmin /syncall on the failed domain controller to flush its final changes.
- D.Seize all five FSMO roles onto the nearest surviving domain controller.
Domain: Deploy and manage AD DS
Q4.Forest 1 has a two-way forest trust with Forest 2. Forest 2 has a two-way forest trust with Forest 3. Users in Forest 3 report they cannot be granted access to resources in Forest 1. What is the cause?
- A.Forest trusts are non-transitive, so only the two forest root domains trust each other.
- B.A forest trust does not chain onward, so Forest 1 has no trust relationship with Forest 3.
- C.Selective authentication is enabled on the Forest 2 to Forest 3 trust, blocking the chain.
- D.The forest functional level of Forest 3 is too low to participate in a transitive chain.
Domain: Deploy and manage AD DS
Q5.A multi-domain forest has a universal group whose membership changes several times a day. Administrators report heavy replication traffic to global catalog servers across the forest. You need to reduce it. What should you do?
- A.Convert the universal group to a global group and grant permissions with it forest-wide.
- B.Reduce the number of global catalog servers so that fewer copies of the membership exist.
- C.Nest global groups inside the universal group instead of adding individual user accounts.
- D.Increase the site link interval so that membership changes replicate less often.
Domain: Deploy and manage AD DS
Frequently Asked Questions
What is included in the free AZ-802: Administering Windows Server sample?
The free sample includes 10 syllabus-aligned practice questions, sample flashcards, and a preview chapter from the study guide. No account or payment is required to try the sample.
How many questions are in the full AZ-802: Administering Windows Server course?
The full course includes a comprehensive question bank covering all exam domains. You can see the total question count on the AZ-802: Administering Windows Server course page.
Are these official Microsoft exam questions?
No. CertCrush questions are independently written and syllabus-aligned — they mirror the format, difficulty, and reasoning style of the official exam. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
Which domains does the AZ-802: Administering Windows Server course cover?
The course covers 7 exam domains: Deploy and manage AD DS, Manage Windows Server instances and workloads in a hybrid environment, Manage virtual machines, Implement and manage an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure, Manage storage and file services, Secure Windows Server infrastructure, Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments.
Can I study on mobile?
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