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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
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Section 1: Modern Device Services
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Section 2: Microsoft 365 Security Threat Management
11
Section 3: Microsoft 365 Governance Compliance
17
Section 4: Mock Exams
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Mock Exam 1
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Mock Exam 2

Configuring the audit policy

One of the exam skills is configuring the audit policy, but it was made part of the exam's skill listing before some of the newer Office 365 features were available. There really isn't a lot to configure, as much of the auditing is enabled by default now (see the list of activity examples in the previous section). That being said, it's still helpful to be aware of the following information.

With an Office 365 E3 license, you're given 90 days of audit log retention. Office 365 E5 licenses get 365 days OR you can purchase the Office 365 Advanced Compliance add-on (currently in a package called Information Protection & Compliance), which would also grant 365 days' auditing.

As seen in the last section's screenshot for enabling auditing in SharePoint, you could choose specifically in a SharePoint site collection, to keep...