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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

Chapter 3: Core Microsoft 365 Components

In Chapter 2, Cloud Deployment Models and Services, we covered high-level cloud computing concepts, deployment models, and the different categories of services available. MS-900 primarily focuses on Microsoft 365, which is one of Microsoft's SaaS cloud offerings. If that still seems unclear to you, then it may be a good idea to go back to the first two chapters to brush up.

The objective of this chapter is to understand the core technologies that make up Microsoft 365.

In the exam, you might run into a variety of terms and product names, including Exchange
Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, Stream, Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Office 365 ProPlus), Forms, Power Automate, Power Apps, Tasks by Planner and To Do, and Yammer. All of these products are part of a broader suite called Office 365.

Added to that are products such as Intune, Azure AD Premium, and Azure Information Protection. Together, these products make up another...