AD & Windows Server Practice Tests: 250 Questions Explained

Do you run Active Directory and Windows Server - or are you about to? These practice tests check the knowledge an administrator uses every day: forests, domains and domain controllers, users, groups and Group Policy, securing AD DS, certificates and federation, and the server roles around them - DNS, DHCP, storage, Hyper-V and failover clustering.

You get 5 practice tests with 250 questions in total (50, 50, 50, 50, 50). Every question was checked twice before release: once by the author against the official documentation, and once by an independent reviewer who answered it blind - any disagreement was settled with a source.

What makes the explanations useful

Each answer tells you why the right option is right and why each wrong option is wrong. The wrong options are real features, commands and settings that are easy to pick by mistake - that is where most of the learning is.

How the tests are built

• Practice Test 1: Active Directory Domain Services Infrastructure: forests, domains and trusts, domain controllers, global catalog, FSMO roles, sites and replication, the AD DS database, backup and recovery.
• Practice Test 2: Users, Groups, OUs and Group Policy: users, groups, computers and OUs, delegation, PowerShell for Active Directory, and Group Policy processing, preferences and troubleshooting.
• Practice Test 3: Security, AD CS and AD FS: securing domain controllers, password and lockout policies, Kerberos and authentication, auditing, managed service accounts, AD CS and AD FS.
• Practice Test 4: Networking, Storage, Hyper-V and High Availability: IPv4 and IPv6, DHCP, DNS, storage, Hyper-V and containers, failover clustering and NLB, deployment, Azure and Windows Server 2025 features.
• Practice Test 5: Full Mock Exam: a mixed exam across all four areas - take it last, in one sitting.

Questions use single-answer and multiple-answer formats; the number of answers to pick is always stated. Suggested time: 75 minutes per test.

Versions: Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 (Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, AD CS, AD FS, DNS, DHCP, Hyper-V, Failover Clustering), PowerShell 5.1 ActiveDirectory module / PowerShell 7, as of October 2026.

Please note: these are original practice questions written by an instructor. This course is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft; Windows Server and Active Directory are Microsoft trademarks.