Let's wrap up with the Pluralsight AZ‑801 path.
I designed our paths for both AZ‑800 and 801,
and I aligned them very simply to Microsoft's published exam objectives,
so there wasn't too much creativity I needed to apply other than making sure
I brought in all of the skills that you'll be tested on.
So we have six courses in the 801 path.
We're looking, or we're working, through this first one now,
Introduction to Exam AZ‑801.
Then the content starts with the next course,
Secure On‑premises and Hybrid Infrastructure.
Then we have Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability,
Implement Disaster Recovery,
Migrate Servers and Workloads, and Monitor and Troubleshoot.
Now I just want to pause here. This is where we can really begin to see some
of the separation of duties between AZ‑800, the core exam, and 801, the
advanced exam. The core exam is about deployment,
configuration, troubleshooting Active Directory, whereas the 801 is
assuming that your environment is already in place and fairly
optimized, and it deals with stuff like migration,
high availability,
disaster recovery, and deeper monitoring and troubleshooting. I
would strongly recommend you build out a practice environment to
support your study as a Windows Server Hybrid Administrator.
What would this look like?
Well, for example, if you have Windows 10 on your laptop or desktop computer,
as long as it's Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition,
you can install Hyper‑V and bring up virtual machines on that box.
Don't have a license for Windows Server? You can get 180‑day eval
licenses from the Microsoft Evaluation Center,
and Microsoft has a 30‑day free trial for Azure.
This is going to be all you need, assuming,
I guess, the biggest prerequisite is that you have a
computer that can run Hyper‑V and that you have enough RAM
to support the virtual machines. Let me show you a sample topology I've created.