Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800 & AZ-801)

Teams often cite this certification when documenting who is trained to administer identity, Group Policy, server security and recovery across on-premises and Azure systems. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while your auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to any framework.

It fits systems administrators and infrastructure engineers who manage Windows Server in environments that extend into Azure. A certified team can own Active Directory sites, replication and trusts, hybrid identity with Entra Connect and Cloud Sync, Group Policy, endpoint and network security, failover and stretch clusters, and the backup, replication and Azure Migrate work behind hybrid recovery and migration plans.

CBT Nuggets Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800 & AZ-801) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

From the admin console, managers assign the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800 & AZ-801) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

The linked courses add up to about 77 hours of video across the core infrastructure, AZ-800 and AZ-801 material. Actual time depends on the team's starting point, particularly existing experience with Active Directory, clustering and Azure, and team reporting shows each learner's progress and completion along the way.

CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.