AZ-140 Bootcamp: Azure Virtual Desktop in 4 Days

AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop Bootcamp Overview

This AZ-140 bootcamp is a four-day, instructor-led path to the Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification. You take the AZ-140 exam, Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, while you attend, and the camp is taught using the Microsoft Official Courseware course AZ-140T00 by Microsoft Certified Trainers.

Azure Virtual Desktop is a narrow specialty with an unusually wide surface. Delivering it properly means being competent in Azure networking, storage, identity, compute and monitoring all at once, and then in the desktop-specific layer on top: FSLogix profile containers, session host images, host pool architecture, RemoteApp publishing and the client experience. This camp works through that whole stack in the order you would actually build it, from network capacity planning and storage design through host pools and images, then identity and security, then the user environment, and finally the monitoring and recovery that keep it running.

AZ-140 itself runs 100 minutes with a passing score of 700. The certification carries a 12 month renewal cycle, renewed free through an online assessment on Microsoft Learn. This camp is delivered as remote classroom live, the same instructor-led class delivered online.

Who This Azure Virtual Desktop Course Is For

Microsoft writes AZ-140 for server and desktop administrators with expertise in designing, implementing, managing and maintaining Azure Virtual Desktop experiences and remote apps for any device. That is the core audience here: the administrator who has been handed a virtual desktop estate and is responsible for making it fast, available and secure on any device the business turns up with.

In practice the role sits between teams, and the camp suits people who work across those boundaries: desktop and end-user computing administrators moving their estate into Azure, Azure administrators whose remit has grown to include virtual desktops, and infrastructure engineers who own the compute, networking, identity, storage and resiliency underneath. It also fits Microsoft 365 administrators delivering Microsoft 365 Apps, OneDrive and Teams into multisession environments, and consultants deploying Azure Virtual Desktop for clients who need the whole build rather than one layer of it.

What You'll Learn in AZ-140

AZ-140 is scored across four skill areas, in Microsoft's own weightings, measured as of July 20, 2026:

• Plan and implement an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (40-45%): by far the largest area, covering network capacity and configuration including RDP Shortpath, RDP Multipath, quality of service policies and Azure Private Link; storage for user data and FSLogix components including Azure NetApp Files; planning host pool architecture, operating systems, licensing and capacity; creating host pools and session hosts through the portal, PowerShell, Azure CLI, ARM templates and Bicep; and building, modifying and managing session host images with Azure VM Image Builder and Azure Compute Gallery.
• Plan and implement user environments and apps (20-25%): FSLogix Profile Containers, ODFC containers, Cloud Cache and application masking; client choice, deployment and troubleshooting; device, multimedia and printing redirection including Universal Print; user settings through Microsoft Intune policies or Group Policy; RDP properties and session timeouts; Start VM on Connect; application groups and RemoteApp publishing; Microsoft 365 Apps, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams in multisession environments; and dynamic application delivery with App attach.
• Plan and implement identity and security (15-20%): choosing an identity scenario across AD DS, Microsoft Entra ID and Entra Domain Services; Azure role-based access control and Conditional Access for Azure Virtual Desktop connections; passwordless, smart card and multifactor authentication; Entra single sign-on; and securing session hosts with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender Antivirus, Defender for Endpoint, network security groups, Azure Firewall, Azure Bastion or just-in-time access, App Control for Business, and confidential VMs with Trusted Launch.
• Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure (10-15%): log collection and analysis, Azure Monitor and customised workbooks for Azure Virtual Desktop Insights, optimising session host capacity and performance, autoscaling host pools, managing active sessions, and planning updates, multi-region implementation, backup and disaster recovery including FSLogix profiles, personal desktops and images.

Why Choose This AZ-140 Camp

Azure Virtual Desktop is difficult to learn from documentation because almost nothing about it is self-contained. A profile problem is a storage problem, a slow session is a networking problem, and a login failure is an identity problem. Four days with a Microsoft Certified Trainer, working through the labs and asking why a design fails rather than just how to configure it, gets you past that faster than reading the docs layer by layer, and you sit the exam before you leave.

• 4-day accelerated format, one course, one exam, one certification.
• Taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs), not generalists.
• 95% first-attempt pass rate, with a retake voucher if you need it.
• Microsoft exam voucher included for AZ-140, with no hidden exam fees.
• Microsoft Official Courseware, AZ-140T00, plus Microsoft study labs and simulations.
• Exam administered while you attend, delivered through Pearson VUE.
• Remote classroom live, instructor-led online with the same interaction as the classroom.
• Delivered by an authorized Microsoft Solutions Partner, so courseware, labs and exam delivery meet Microsoft's accredited training standards.