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Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals MS-900 Exam Guide - Second Edition

By : Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Marcos Zanre
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Book Image

Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals MS-900 Exam Guide - Second Edition

4 (1)
By: Aaron Guilmette, Yura Lee, Marcos Zanre

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals certification demonstrates your foundational knowledge of adopting cloud services, specifically the software as a service (SaaS) model. Exam MS-900 tests your understanding of Microsoft 365 services, components, their implementation, security, licensing, and general cloud concepts. This updated second edition covers all the recent and important changes in the examination in detail to help you achieve certification. You’ll begin by exploring key topics such as Microsoft security and compliance policies, pricing and support, and cloud concepts. The book helps you to understand these concepts with the help of real-world scenarios, learning about platform services such as Microsoft Windows, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 apps, Teams, and Exchange. The content has been updated to include Microsoft Forms, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Security Center, Windows Virtual Desktop, and Insider Risk Management. Each chapter contains a section that will test your knowledge of the core concepts covered. Finally, you’ll take a practice exam with extra questions to help prepare you for the actual test. By the end of this MS-900 book, you’ll be well-equipped to confidently pass the MS-900 certification exam with the help of the updated exam pattern.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1:Understanding Cloud Concepts
4
Section 2:Microsoft 365 Core Services and Concepts
11
Section 3:Understanding Security, Compliance, Privacy, and Trust in Microsoft 365
15
Chapter 12: Exploring the Service Trust Portal, Compliance Manager, and the Microsoft 365 Security Center
16
Section 4:Understanding Microsoft 365 Pricing and Support
21
Section 5:Practice Exams
22
Chapter 17: Mock Exam

Differences between Azure AD licenses

As we've explained so far in this chapter, the choice of which license to acquire is determined by several factors, with one of them being the technical capability of the service. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is one of them, which requires an understanding of the different capabilities that are available in each plan to decide from before the acquisition.

Now, we will explain what the main service differences between the Azure AD licenses are:

  • Azure Active Directory Free: Available with a subscription to a commercial service, such as Dynamics or Azure, includes on-premises directory synchronization, reports, and the ability for cloud users to reset their passwords without admin interaction.
  • Azure Active Directory P1: Available as part of the Microsoft 365 F3 or Microsoft 365 E3 plan or acquired as an add-on for other plans in which it is not available, it includes Azure Active Directory Free features, the ability to create...