AZ-140 Exam Study Guide (Configuring And Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop)
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Preparing for the AZ-140 Configuring & Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the AZ-140 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).
I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the AZ-140 exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture (10-15%)
- Implement an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (25-30%)
- Manage Access and Security (10-15%)
- Manage User Environments and Apps (20-25%)
- Monitor and Maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (20-25%)
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For each test objective, I’ve compiled a thorough collection of articles from Microsoft documentation. Please feel free to forward this page to your friends and coworkers in order to assist them in preparing for the test .
Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture (10-15%)
Design the Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture
- Assess existing physical and virtual desktop environments
- Windows Virtual Desktop assessment
- Free tool to determine if WVD is right for you
- Assess network capacity and speed requirements for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Network guidelines
- Azure Virtual Desktop experience estimator
- Recommend an operating system for an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
- Supported virtual machine OS images
- Plan and configure name resolution for Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS)
- Configure Active Directory
- Plan a host pools architecture
- Plan Windows Virtual Desktop host pool
- Recommend resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
- Management groups Subscriptions Resource groups for WVD
- Configure a location for the Azure Virtual Desktop metadata
- Metadata locations for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Calculate and recommend a configuration for performance requirements
- Network guidelines
- Azure Virtual Desktop Experience Estimator
- Calculate and recommend a configuration for Azure Virtual Machine capacity requirements
- Recommended VM sizes for standard or larger environments
Design for User Identities and Profiles
- Select an appropriate licensing model for Azure Virtual Desktop based on requirements
- Plan Windows Virtual Desktop licenses
- Recommend an appropriate storage solution (including Azure NetApp Files versus Azure Files)
- Benefits of using NetApp Files with Windows Virtual Desktop
- Azure Files integration with Azure AD DS
- Create a profile container with Azure Files and AD DS
- Plan for Azure Virtual Desktop client deployment
- Azure Virtual Desktop deployment overview
- Plan for user profiles
- User profiles
- Recommend a solution for network connectivity
- Understanding Azure Virtual Desktop network connectivity
- Plan for Azure AD Connect for user identities
- Plan Azure AD Identities
Implement an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (25-30%)
Implement and Manage Networking for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Implement Azure virtual network connectivity
- Windows Virtual Desktop network security
- Azure Networking: Secure Window Virtual Desktop deployments
- Manage connectivity to the internet and on-premises networks
- Connections to on-premises networks
- Implement and manage network security
- Security best practices
- Azure security baseline for Windows Virtual Desktop
- Manage Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts by using Azure Bastion
- Manage your Windows Virtual Desktop host pools with Bastion
- Monitor and troubleshoot network connectivity
- Troubleshoot the Remote Desktop client
- Use Log Analytics for the diagnostics feature
Implement and Manage Storage for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Configure storage for FSLogix components
- Storage options for FSLogix profile containers
- Configure storage accounts
- Set up an Azure Storage account
- Configure disks
- Prepare a master virtual hard disk
- Create file shares
- Create a profile container with Azure Files and AD DS
Create and Configure Host Pools and Session Hosts
- Create a host pool by using the Azure portal
- Create a host pool with the Azure portal
- Automate the creation of Azure Virtual Desktop host and host pools by using PowerShell, Command-Line Interface (CLI), and Azure Resource Manager templates
- Create a Windows Virtual Desktop host pool with PowerShell
- Create a host pool in Windows Virtual Desktop with an ARM template
- Create a host pool based on Windows client or Windows Server session hosts
- Expand an existing host pool with new session hosts
- Configure host pool settings
- Customize RDP properties for a host pool
- Manage licensing for session hosts that run Windows client or Windows Server
- Apply Windows license to session host virtual machines
- Assign users to host pools
- Configure the desktop host pool assignment
- Apply OS and application updates to a running Azure Virtual Desktop host
- Windows Virtual Desktop patch management
- WVD update management
- Apply security and compliance settings to session hosts
- Windows Virtual Desktop session host security
Create and Manage Session Host Images
- Create a gold image
- Everything you need to know about golden images
- Set up a master VHD image
- Modify a session host image
- Update session hosts from the latest image
- Install language packs in Azure Virtual Desktop
- Add language packs to a Windows 10 multi-session image
- Deploy a session host by using a custom image
- WVD session host with custom image
- Prepare and customize a master VHD image
- Plan for image update and management
- WVD session host image management
- Create and use a Shared Image Gallery
- Create an Azure shared image gallery
- Deploy a shared image gallery to WVD
- Troubleshoot OS issues related to Azure Virtual Desktop
- Troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop agent issues
Manage Access and Security (10-15%)
Manage Access
- Plan and implement Azure roles and role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Built-in roles for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Delegated access in Azure Virtual Desktop
- Manage local roles, groups, and rights assignment on Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts
- Configure the personal desktop host pool assignment type
- Manage app groups with Azure portal
- Configure user restrictions by using Azure AD group policies and AD policies
- Administer Group Policy in an Azure AD
Manage Security
- Plan and implement Conditional Access policies for connections to Azure Virtual Desktop
- Create a Conditional Access policy
- Plan and implement multifactor authentication in Azure Virtual Desktop
- Enable MFA for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Manage security by using Azure Security Center
- Protect Windows Virtual Desktop with Security Center
- Configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus for session hosts
- Enable endpoint protection with Defender Antivirus
- Deployment guide for Defender Antivirus in a VDI environment
Manage User Environments and Apps (20-25%)
Implement and Manage FSLogix
- Plan for FSLogix
- Plan FSLogix storage
- Install and configure FSLogix
- Download and Install FSLogix
- Configure Profile Containers
- Configure Profile container to redirect User Profiles
- Configure Cloud Cache
- Configure Cloud Cache
- Migrate user profiles to FSLogix
- Migrate user profile disks to FSLogix
Configure User Experience Settings
- Configure Universal Print
- Set up Universal Print
- Configure user settings through group policies and Endpoint Manager policies
- Administer group policies
- Assign user & device profiles in Intune
- Configure persistent and non-persistent desktop environments
- Device identity and desktop virtualization
- Configure Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) properties on a host pool
- Customize RDP properties for a host pool
- Configure session timeout properties
- Configuring RDP/RDS session timeout on Windows
- Configure timeout settings for Remote Desktop sessions
- Troubleshoot user profile issues
- Troubleshoot user profiles with events
- Troubleshoot Azure Virtual Desktop clients
- Troubleshoot the Remote Desktop client
Install and Configure Apps on a Session Host
- Configure dynamic application delivery by using MSIX App Attach
- What is the MSIX app attach?
- Deploy apps by using the MSIX app attach for WVD
- Implement application masking
- Implement FSLogix Application Masking
- Deploy an application as a RemoteApp
- RemoteApp: Deploying applications
- Implement and manage OneDrive for Business for a multi-session environment
- Start OneDrive when using a RemoteApp in WVD
- Implement and manage Microsoft Teams AV Redirect
- Use Microsoft Teams on Azure Virtual desktop
- Configure Teams with AV Redirection on WVD
- Implement and manage browsers and internet access for Azure Virtual Desktop sessions
- Connect to Azure Virtual Desktop with a web client
- Host pool outbound access to the internet
- Create and configure an application group
- Manage app groups with the portal
- Troubleshoot application issues related to Azure Virtual Desktop
- Troubleshoot the Remote Desktop client
Monitor and Maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (20-25%)
Plan and Implement Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Plan and implement a disaster recovery plan for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Set up a disaster recovery plan
- Design a backup strategy for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Backups for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Using Azure Backups
- Backup with Site recovery
- Create a snapshot using the portal
- Configure backup and restore for FSLogix user profiles, personal virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), and golden images
- Backup and restore for FSLogix
- What is a golden image?
- Back up VMs from the Recovery Services vault
Automate Azure Virtual Desktop Management Tasks
- Configure automation for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Automatically Start and Stop Azure Virtual Desktop
- Automate management of host pools, session hosts, and user sessions by using PowerShell and Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Windows Virtual Desktop host pool automation
- Scale session hosts using Azure Automation
- Implement autoscaling in host pools
- Creating Host Pools with Auto-scaling
Monitor and Manage Performance and Health
- Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Monitor
- Use Azure Monitor for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop by using Azure Advisor
- Use Azure Advisor with Azure Virtual Desktop
- Resolve Azure Advisor recommendations
- Customize Azure Monitor workbooks for Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring
- Monitor Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Monitor workbooks
- Optimize session host capacity and performance
- Optimize Azure Virtual Desktop in Azure
- Manage active sessions and application groups
- Manage app groups using PowerShell
- Monitor and optimize autoscaling results
- WVD scaling tool
- Optimize WVD costs with autoscaling
This brings us to the end of the AZ-140 Configuring & Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop exam study guide.
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