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It is anticipated that to be ready to take this exam you have been working with Teams in the real world for approximately six months. While this is certainly not a requirement and it is possible to take and pass the exam with no hands-on experience (not that I recommend this approach!), it does give you an idea of what to expect when tackling the exam. There is a lot of ground to cover, and if you have been living and breathing Teams to some degree before taking it, you will certainly find things easier.

For this exam you are expected to have a good understanding of how to manage all the different workloads in Teams and especially how to migrate away from Skype for Business Online. You should have a good idea of how you manage features, either via the Teams Admin Console (or O365 Security and Compliance Center, Azure AD, or SharePoint Admin) or via the command line with PowerShell, but as this is an Associate-level exam, you are not expected to be an expert in advanced workloads, such as detailed call routing and so on.

However, do not underestimate the importance of the calling and media workloads. This can account for 30 percent of the exam and is something easily overlooked if you are used to dealing only with the collaboration aspects of Teams. This is something that is given a lot of attention by Microsoft because it is something visible to end users if it does not work right. You need to take the time to understand how media works and how the network should be configured to accommodate it.

Remember that the exam is also targeting enterprise-level knowledge, so it will be discussing features that need an E5 license, particularly in the security and compliance space. If you work for a Microsoft Partner, the Demos (https://demos.microsoft.com/) site will let you create fully featured test or demo tenants that are prepopulated with sample users to practice with. If you are not able to access the Demos site, you may be eligible for a Teams Exploratory License (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory), which gives you functionality equivalent to an E3 license for a trial. There is a requirement here to already have a domain and Azure AD configured in O365. If all else fails, you can sign up for Teams free (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free) and at least get access to the core application and configuration options. Chapter 1 has some more ideas and information about how you can get access to your own Teams tenant for testing.