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Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security – Exam Guide MS-101

By : Nate Chamberlain
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Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security – Exam Guide MS-101

By: Nate Chamberlain

Overview of this book

Exam MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security is a part of the Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert certification path designed to help users validate their skills in evaluating, planning, migrating, deploying, and managing Microsoft 365 services. This book will help you implement modern device services, apply Microsoft 365 security and threat management, and manage Microsoft 365 governance and compliance. Written in a succinct way, you’ll explore chapter-wise self-assessment questions, exam tips, and mock exams with answers. You’ll start by implementing mobile device management (MDM) and handling device compliance. You’ll delve into threat detection and management, learning how to manage security reports and configure Microsoft 365 alerts. Later, you’ll discover data loss prevention (DLP) tools to protect data as well as tools for configuring audit logs and policies. The book will also guide you through using Azure Information Protection (AIP) for deploying clients, applying policies, and configuring services and users to enhance data security. Finally, you’ll cover best practices for configuring settings across your tenant to ensure compliance and security. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned to work with Microsoft 365 services and covered the concepts and techniques you need to know to pass the MS-101 exam.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Modern Device Services
6
Section 2: Microsoft 365 Security Threat Management
11
Section 3: Microsoft 365 Governance Compliance
17
Section 4: Mock Exams
18
Mock Exam 1
19
Mock Exam 2

Summary

In this chapter, we covered reporting and alerts; these are topics you'll find on the exam, including the following:

  • Managing the Service Assurance Dashboard
  • Tracing and reporting on Azure AD Identity Protection
  • Microsoft 365 security alerts
  • Azure AD Identity Protection dashboard and alerts

We learned that the Service Assurance Dashboard can be shared with others who are not global admins, and that the two dashboards when combined with Compliance Manager give us insight into knowing how our data is stored and how the various services we use are made compliant with industry regulations. The Compliance Manager dashboard also allows us the ability to assign responsibility for generic or custom compliance topics to users in our organization.

The Azure AD Identity Protection allows us to investigate risk events, such as anomalous sign-in events and alerts, and to configure...