
Establish the Microsoft 365 security foundation with zero trust, least privilege, and assume breach, and see how Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, MFA, and data labeling protect co-pilot.
Position Entra ID as the identity backbone of Microsoft 365, enabling authentication, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and conditional access with device management.
Enforce zero-trust access with conditional policies that evaluate signals such as user, group, device, location, app, and sign-in risk in real time and apply controls like MFA and device compliance.
Microsoft Entra ID protection uses AI to detect and remediate identity risks, flagging impossible travel and anonymous IPs, with risk-based actions and just-in-time PIM (P2 license required).
Apply defense in depth by layering physical, network, identity and access, data, and endpoint security to sustain protection and embody zero trust across Microsoft 365.
Assess your understanding of zero trust and least privilege through knowledge checks, covering Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud Apps, and Office 365, plus location-based MFA and 2-4 global admins.
Explore the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as a cloud-based productivity platform unifying apps, security, identity, and devices across four pillars: productivity apps, security and compliance, identity and access, and device management.
Explore the Microsoft 365 admin center to manage users, licenses, and group-based licensing with security features like MFA. Navigate Exchange, team, and SharePoint admin centers and monitor governance and roles.
Explain RBAC in Microsoft 365, detailing how built-in roles grant specific permissions, enforce the principle of least privilege, and assign global, user, exchange, and helpdesk admin roles.
Learn how to protect and govern data in Microsoft 365 using Microsoft Purview, a unified platform that discovers, classifies, labels, and protects sensitive information.
Discover how Microsoft Purview links Compliance Manager, AI data discovery (DSPM), and eDiscovery to map sensitive data, boost compliance scores, detect oversharing, govern Copilot access, and export legal evidence.
Microsoft 365 Copilot and ai agents, learn their architecture and licensing, plan deployments, and master governance, administration, and ongoing optimization across the four learning modules.
Explore Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents through concrete use cases, uncover the three core components powering Copilot, security boundaries, licensing models, and deployment planning.
Explore how Microsoft 365 Copilot lives inside the apps you use daily, drafting relevant project updates from your emails, Teams notes, and SharePoint documents while respecting all permission boundaries.
Copilot relies on three components: Microsoft Graph, large language models, and the orchestration service, to securely provide memory, permissioned data access, and safe contextual responses.
See how Copilot integrates into Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams to draft, analyze, and summarize, and compare Copilot chat with Microsoft 365 Copilot for licensing and data access.
Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot embeds generative AI into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams with Graph, LLMs, secure orchestration, agents, and licensing basics for deployment readiness.
discover the four-layer copilot architecture—identity, service, data, and intelligence—and learn admin troubleshooting, isolation, business-tuned llms, and scalable, secure deployment within your tenant.
Explore the five Copilot licensing doors from free Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to per-user add-ons, pay-as-you-go credits, and personal plans, highlighting base licenses and hybrid governance.
Learn when pay-as-you-go copilot billing is advantageous for experimentation, seasonal work, and autonomous agents, and how to set up budgets, guardrails, and Azure–M365 roles to control costs.
Evaluate copilot adoption by tracking enabled vs active users, then use the Viva Insight and admin center dashboards to measure usage patterns, app breakdown, and return on investment.
Create a SharePoint agent with Copilot Studio's readymade integration by selecting up to 20 documents, defining sources, behavior, and startup prompts to ground responses.
Manage agent access by assigning a Microsoft 365 copilot license and configuring environment roles (environment maker, system customizer) with best practices for least privilege and dev-prod separation.
Monitor and manage the agent life cycle with three lenses—permission usage, cross-service dependencies, and trend analysis. Run a monthly review to trim unused permissions.
Master the four pillars of co-pilot administration—create, test and edit, access and permission, and govern and monitor—to keep agents in your tenant secure, compliant, and aligned with business needs.
Explore AI, ML, neural networks, and deep learning from a high-level perspective, and learn a developer roadmap to build intelligent apps with prompts and AI APIs.
Explore how ai-driven applications differ from traditional non-ai apps by enabling natural language input, unstructured data processing, and continuous learning that evolves tools like chatbots, recommendation systems, and autonomous vehicles.
Explore three AI types—narrow AI, artificial general intelligence (AGI), and super AI—through real-world tasks like Siri, Alexa, and Netflix recommendations, and discuss the current gap to AGI.
Explore ai workloads from machine learning and computer vision to natural language processing and generative ai, with document intelligence, anomaly detection, and knowledge mining powering cross-industry use cases.
Learn how machine learning learns from data to find patterns and build models for predictions and decisions as a subset of artificial intelligence, guided by supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
Explore common machine learning algorithms like linear and logistic regression, Naive Bayes, decision trees, SVM, neural networks, and k-means clustering, and learn to select and train a model.
Understand how a machine learning model is created from training data and algorithms to predict outcomes, and learn to evaluate it with a training and test data split.
Evaluate ml models using accuracy, precision, recall, f1, mse, and rmse across the workflow from problem definition to deployment and monitoring; explore careers like data analyst and ml engineer.
Train a supervised machine learning model in Python on a diabetes dataset using logistic regression, split data, evaluate with a confusion matrix and accuracy, and deploy via a web app.
Explore fundamentals of artificial neural networks and deep learning, from perceptron basics to multi-layer networks that learn features automatically, using activation functions, backpropagation, and GPUs for unstructured data like images.
Explore the four main neural network architectures—fully connected, convolutional (cnn), recurrent (rnn), and autoencoders—and their use in vision, sequential data, and content generation.
Microsoft's AB-900 certification is one of the newest credentials in the Microsoft ecosystem — and the organisations racing to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot need administrators who can govern it, secure it, and manage it responsibly. This course prepares you to pass the AB-900 exam and step into that role with confidence.
Here is what makes this course different from every other AB-900 course on Udemy: 360+ real practice questions mapped to the official exam objectives. No other AB-900 course on this platform includes a practice test bank at this scale. You will not just learn the content — you will test yourself against it, identify gaps, and walk into the exam knowing exactly where you stand.
Built by Sandeep Soni, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Azure Solution Architect, and corporate technology trainer with over 30 years of experience, this course reflects the teaching approach that has helped more than 500,000 IT professionals build practical, job-ready cloud skills across the USA, UK, Australia, and the Middle East. Sandeep holds 20+ Microsoft certifications and has spent decades helping developers, administrators, and architects master Microsoft technologies in real-world enterprise environments.
Why the AB-900 certification matters right now:
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is being adopted across enterprises at a pace that is outrunning the supply of administrators who know how to govern it. Organisations need professionals who understand not just how Copilot works, but how to deploy it securely, protect sensitive data from being exposed through it, manage AI agents responsibly, and maintain compliance in a Copilot-enabled environment. The AB-900 is the certification Microsoft created to validate exactly these skills — and it is brand new, meaning early adopters gain a significant career advantage.
What you will master, topic by topic:
Microsoft 365 and Copilot Fundamentals — Understand the Microsoft 365 architecture and how Copilot integrates with Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, and other M365 services. Learn how licensing works for Copilot, how to assign licenses, and how to configure Copilot features at the tenant level — including what can be enabled, disabled, and controlled by administrators.
Security and Zero Trust for Copilot — Implement Zero Trust principles and Conditional Access policies in Microsoft 365 environments where Copilot is deployed. Understand how Copilot uses Microsoft Graph permissions and M365 access controls to determine what data it can access and surface in responses — and how to configure those controls to protect sensitive information.
Identity and Access Management — Configure and manage Microsoft Entra ID identities, RBAC role assignments, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and SSO in the context of Copilot administration. Understand how identity decisions directly affect what Copilot can do on behalf of each user.
Data Governance with Microsoft Purview — Implement sensitivity labels, Data Loss Prevention policies, retention policies, and information protection using Microsoft Purview. Understand how Copilot interacts with classified and protected data, and how Purview governance directly limits what Copilot can access, share, and expose.
DSPM for AI and Compliance — Discover and manage AI activity using Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI — a 2026 capability that gives administrators visibility into how AI tools like Copilot are accessing and processing data across the organisation. Identify compliance risks, respond to alerts, and investigate incidents using Purview Compliance Manager, Insider Risk Management, and Communication Compliance.
Oversharing and SharePoint Governance — Identify oversharing risks in SharePoint using data access governance reports, configure SharePoint Advanced Management, and apply site-level restrictions to prevent Copilot from surfacing data that users should not have access to.
Copilot Agent Administration — Create, deploy, and manage AI agents within Microsoft 365 including configuration in Copilot Studio, user access controls, approval workflows, and lifecycle monitoring through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and Microsoft Power Platform admin center.
360+ Practice Questions — Test your knowledge across every AB-900 exam domain with over 360 real practice questions that mirror the format, difficulty, and objective coverage of the official exam. Identify where you need to review, build confidence in your strong areas, and arrive at exam day fully prepared — something no other course in this category currently provides.
Your transformation:
By completing this course, you will have both the knowledge to pass the AB-900 exam and the practical understanding to administer Microsoft 365 Copilot in a real organisation. You will know how to deploy Copilot securely, govern data access, manage AI agents, and maintain compliance in an enterprise environment. These skills are in active demand right now as organisations accelerate their Copilot adoption and need qualified administrators to manage it.
Whether you are an IT professional looking to specialise, a security specialist taking on AI governance responsibilities, or a beginner stepping into cloud administration for the first time, this course is built to take you from zero to exam-ready.
Enroll now — study the content, test yourself with 360+ questions, and pass the AB-900.