Azure AZ-140 study guide
Azure AZ-140 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty is an intermediate-level Microsoft certification for administrators who plan, deliver, manage, and monitor virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Azure for any device. It targets server or desktop administrators who already have hands-on experience with Azure compute, networking, identity, storage, and resiliency, and who manage end-user desktop environments - delivering applications and configuring user settings - using the Azure portal, templates, scripting, and command-line tools. The Azure AZ-140 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,291 words.
01Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
An AVD deployment is a chain, and most questions ask which link controls a behavior: host pool (session hosts plus load balancing) → application group (what is published: full desktop or RemoteApp programs) → workspace (what the user sees in the client). Session hosts are ordinary Azure VMs registered to the pool by the AVD agent.
317 words, about 2 min02Plan and implement identity and security
Session host identity: AD DS joined (needs line of sight to a domain controller), Entra joined (no domain controller, Intune-managed, fully supported by AVD), or hybrid Entra joined. Choose before deployment; changing later means redeploying hosts.
332 words, about 2 min03Plan and implement user environments and apps
Decide what lives in the golden image (OS, AVD agent, FSLogix agent, line-of-business apps, language packs) and what is delivered separately. Options: bake apps into a Compute Gallery image, deliver them with App Attach / MSIX app attach (per-user, staged and registered, no drivers or services), or publish RemoteApp programs through an application group.
312 words, about 2 min04Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
AVD does not send diagnostics anywhere by default. Create diagnostic settings on the host pool , workspace , and application group to send checkpoints (Connection, HostRegistration, AgentHealth) and error/warning events to a Log Analytics workspace.
330 words, about 2 min