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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

Exploring Exchange Online

If you've used Outlook before, you might have some familiarity with Exchange Online. Exchange Online, an essential part of Office 365, is the cloud version of Exchange Server.Exchange Online is a messaging collaboration tool that allows you to email your colleagues and clients, organize tasks, schedule meetings, view calendars, and manage contacts.

You can do all of this through a desktop application such as Outlook by using a web browser, or from a mobile device.

Exchange Online for users

Let's discuss some of the basic Exchange Online end user features!

Each user has an Exchange Online mailbox. This allows users to send and receive emails. Users may be required to preserve or archive content so that administrators can enable a variety of mailbox archiving and retention policies.

When a user views their mailbox using Outlook on the web, they will have an experience similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

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