MS-900 Exam: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Course + DEC 2021

Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft 365, including its applications, the portal, and how to create an account, select a license, and access the admin center for configuration.

Explore how Microsoft 365 bundles Windows 10 professional, Office 365, and Enterprise Mobility and Security into a single cloud subscription.

Create a new Microsoft 365 account, compare plans, and start a premium trial. Verify your mobile, set a domain, and access the admin center in readiness for setup.

Explore the Microsoft 365 user portal, manage files, apps, and collaboration tools, including SharePoint stored documents, real-time co-editing, and security settings.

Explore the Microsoft 365 admin center, a single portal to manage users, licenses, devices, security, compliance, and apps like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams.

Discover how Outlook handles sending and receiving emails with calendar and tasks, and how Exchange Online offers admin center controls, mailbox storage, shared mailboxes, and security across devices.

Explore how SharePoint serves as a content management and collaboration tool. Create team and communication sites to share documents, manage permissions, and automate approvals with workflows.

Explore how Microsoft Teams drives collaboration in Microsoft 365 with chat, calls, file sharing, and meetings. Integrate cloud storage, SharePoint, and third-party apps, and navigate the Teams admin portal.

Explore OneDrive as your personal cloud storage, showing file sync across devices, easy sharing options, and admin center controls for default link types, external sharing, and device rules.

Create and organize team tasks with Microsoft Planner by building plans and buckets, assigning members and due dates, tracking progress with notes, checklists, and documents.

Learn to use Microsoft To Do to manage personal tasks, tasks assigned to you, and flagged emails as tasks with reminders, categories, and planner tasks, organized by lists.

Learn how Microsoft Stream acts as a private enterprise video hosting service, like a corporate YouTube, enabling uploads, viewing, sharing, captions, comments, and channel-based access.

Automate time-consuming tasks with Power Automate, connecting 300+ data sources and apps without coding. Create flows to handle approvals, emails, and file management across SharePoint, Outlook, Twitter, and more.

Explore a practical overview of Microsoft 365 apps such as Booking, Delve, Forms, Kaizala, My Analytics, Power Apps, Power BI, Project, Sway, Whiteboard, and Yammer to boost productivity and collaboration.

Describe cloud concepts, service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment types (public, private, hybrid), and benefits of cloud vs on-premises, plus Dynamics 365's role.

Understand why cloud computing replaces company data centers, offering pay-as-you-go resources, managed upgrades, and scalable compute and storage. Explore how virtualization improves hardware efficiency and reduces costs.

Define cloud computing as an internet-based, on-demand resource rental. Explain how cloud providers own data centers and hardware and offer pay-per-use services such as Gmail and Google Drive.

Explore the benefits of cloud computing, including on-demand resources, no hardware or software maintenance, pay-per-use pricing, global data centers, scalable and secure services, and faster app deployment.

Explore public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models, showing where data and apps reside and trade-offs between control and cost, including mixing on premises data center with cloud resources.

Explore cloud service models: infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service, and how each shifts management between you and the vendor.

Explore how Microsoft Dynamics 365 blends CRM and ERP to unify front- and back-office processes. Leverage Power Apps, Common Data Services, and Azure to boost data intelligence and integrated workflows.

Explore core Microsoft 365 capabilities, deployment for Windows and Office, analytics and collaboration solutions, and security and compliance concepts like identity and access management.

Explore how Microsoft 365 supports productivity and teamwork with tools like Teams and Outlook. Select the right apps for instant messaging, online meetings, email, file storage, and intranet.

Explore how Microsoft 365 apps are made accessible for users with vision, hearing, mobility, and neurodiversity needs using features like color filters, immersive reader, read aloud, translator, captions, and dictation.

Explore how Microsoft 365 boosts organizational productivity by streamlining processes, cutting costs, and enabling growth, with insights from workspace analytics and secure score to optimize security posture.

Explore how to view the Office 365 secure score, apply actionable items like multifactor authorization, and compare your 15.52 percent score with other organizations to improve security.

Simplify modern workspace management by unifying Microsoft Endpoint Manager with Intune and Configuration Manager, enabling cloud and on-premises workloads, desktop analytics, Windows Autopilot, and Active Directory integration.

Automate repetitive, time-consuming business tasks with SharePoint workflows and Power Automate in Microsoft 365. Use templates and drag-and-drop tools to implement approvals, collect feedback, signatures, and three-state progress.

Explore how Microsoft 365 apps are extensible, enabling custom applications, rest api and sdk access via Microsoft Graph to connect data across Teams and SharePoint.

Explore forms for surveys and data capture and booking for appointment scheduling, including client booking pages, a Facebook page, and a mobile app.

Explore how business intelligence collects, transforms, and models data to create actionable insights for management. Learn to use Excel Get and Transform and Power BI to publish reports.

Explore how Microsoft 365 Planner organizes work with task boards, charts, and collaboration. Understand groups in Outlook and SharePoint that simplify permissions across apps via Active Directory.

Explore Microsoft 365 security and compliance through three foundational principles that span platforms, with single sign on, AI-driven threat detection, and automated responses protecting users, data, and devices.

Master identity and access management in Microsoft 365 by applying single sign-on, strong and multi-factor authentication, conditional access, identity protection, and governance to control login and resource access.

Explore threat protection across identity, endpoint, apps, and email to detect unusual user or device behavior and restrict access when needed. Understand how cloud app security blocks unsecured mobile apps and how advanced threat protection shields against phishing and malicious links in Office 365, SharePoint, and Teams.

Explore information protection and governance, insider risk management, and discover and respond compliance management tools in Microsoft 365, including classification, policy across devices, analytics dashboards, and control mapping to regulations.

Discover Windows as a service, delivering six-month feature updates managed by configuration manager with servicing channels and deployment rings to reduce disruption and boost apps and drivers compatibility.

Master Windows as a service by learning feature and quality updates, insider preview, semiannual, and long-term servicing channels, and deployment rings for piloting and safe rollout.

Explore WaaS deployment methods, including Windows autopilot, in-place upgrade, dynamic provisioning, and subscription activation. Learn how business requirements, network capacity, and infrastructure influence tool selection.

Explore Windows virtual desktop, a cloud service delivering Windows desktops or apps with multi session Windows 10, Office 365, and Windows 7 options, accessible via html5 browsers on any device.

Learn how Microsoft 365 apps—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more—work on Windows, Mac, and web with synchronized offline and online versions, licensing, and Exchange/SharePoint compatibility.

Explore deployment methods for Microsoft 365 apps, including click-to-run, from a local source, and configuration manager current branch, using the Office deployment tool and configuration files to automate pilot collection.

Master update channels for Microsoft 365 apps, including current, monthly enterprise, and semiannual, and configure them via Office deployment tool, Group Policy, or Microsoft 365 admin center.

Explore workspace analytics, which provides organization-level insights into how employees use Microsoft 365 tools, boosting productivity, engagement, and collaboration across the organization.

Apply workspace analytics to design a teamwork plan focused on deep work, collaboration, and well-being, and translate top performers’ practices into a similar success plan with measurable tasks.

Discover my analytics in Microsoft 365 to gain personal productivity insights from the dashboard and digest, including focus and wellbeing, network and collaboration, and email and meeting optimization.

Explore Microsoft 365 reports to measure how employees use services, view productivity score, usage, and security and compliance, in admin centers, with a pre-built dashboard and custom reports.

Explore Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and privacy fundamentals, covering zero trust, six security pillars, unified endpoint management, identity with MFA and conditional access, threat protection, service trust portal, security center.

Explore the guiding principles of zero trust: verify explicitly, least privilege access, and assume breach, applied across devices, networks, and cloud with risk-based policies and end-to-end encryption.

Explore the six foundational security pillars—identity, endpoints, application, data, infrastructure, and network—and how signals guide real-time protection and enforcement of critical resources.

Explore unified endpoint management as a concept and platform that securely manages devices and apps across employee choices while protecting corporate data in mobile BYOD environments.

Explore how Microsoft endpoint manager unifies on-premises and cloud tools to manage diverse devices, including Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux, with Intune, Configuration Manager, Autopilot, and Defender for Endpoint.

Identify and authenticate users across on premises, hybrid, and cloud identities in Microsoft 365, using multi factor authentication and explicit verification to guard access.

Learn how password breaches and phishing threaten security, and implement robust authentication with multi factor authentication and password less options using biometrics, Microsoft authenticator app, security keys, and Windows Hello.

Learn how conditional access uses signals like location, device, apps, and time to make real-time risk-based access decisions, then enforce them with policies, MFA, and trusted locations.

Explore common network and data security threats, from sniffing and denial-of-service attacks to data leakage, phishing, ransomware, and malware, and learn how Microsoft 365 threat protection safeguards environments.

Use the compliance manager to assess and improve your organization's compliance with standards like GDP and PCI, guided by risk assessments, improvement actions, and a measurable compliance score.

Explore the security center, a one-stop shop to monitor and manage security across identities, data, devices, applications, and infrastructure, and track secure score with MFA-guided steps.

Discover how insider risk management in Microsoft 365 helps detect, triage, investigate, and act on internal threats through policies, alerts, cases, and e-discovery integration.

Discover how data loss prevention (DLP) protects sensitive information across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and desktop apps by preventing leaks, triggering alerts, and guiding policy creation with templates.

Explore e-discovery to locate and preserve evidence across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer, using core and advanced end-to-end workflows and licensing (E3 for basic, E5 for advanced).

Explore Office 365 e-discovery in the Microsoft 365 compliance portal, creating cases, defining search criteria, holding data, and exporting results with core and advanced tools (licenses: 3 and 5).

Explore information protection and governance with Microsoft 365, learning how to know, protect, and govern data through labeling, access controls, and retention across cloud and on premises.

Examine sensitivity labels that classify and protect data with customizable labels. Explore application of labels to groups, documents, and emails, including automatic and persistent usage.

Explore how information protection tools like AIP, OME, and DLP classify and protect data with manual and automatic labeling, visual markings, metadata, and Office 365 message encryption.

Define data governance as managing the data life cycle—retention, storage, and removal—using Microsoft 365 tools like retention policies and Activity Explorer to meet regulatory obligations.

Examine pricing, CSP licensing, and licensing options (home, business, enterprise); trace the product life cycle from private to general availability, plus service health and user voice for certification practice questions.

CSP helps you choose the right subscription, licensing, and pricing for your organization, manage configurations and security, and provide tier-one support and optional consultancy, with pay-as-you-go, per-user scaling options.

Manage billing options and license assignments in the admin center, including direct Microsoft subscriptions, per-user pricing, and billing notifications for enterprise and basic plans.

Explore how Microsoft 365 optimizes cost by consolidating licenses and reducing administration. Move from capital expenditure to operational expenditure with cloud subscriptions and automation.

Compare licensing and subscription options across home, business, and enterprise, including personal and family plans, with Office 365 apps, Intune, and information protection features.

Discover the Azure Active Directory premium capabilities included with Microsoft 365. Learn how premium BE1, BE2, P1, and P2 unlock identity protection, access reviews, and risk investigations.

Explore the product lifecycle of Microsoft launches, from private preview to public preview and general availability, and learn how end of support prompts migration to new solutions.

Explore the Microsoft 365 road map portal to view future features and their rollout status. Filter by product and platform, view updates, and learn about notifications, downloads, and migration tools.

Explore Microsoft 365 support options, from community forums and automated assistants to paid on-site and CSP-backed plans, and learn how subscription level and issue type shape the right support path.

Learn how service level agreements with Microsoft guarantee uptime, trigger credits, and outline the incident, downtime, and claim process to recover costs.

Explore how the Microsoft 365 service health dashboard shows incidents, advisories, and history to understand outages and recovery. Access insights via admin center, admin app, and APIs to monitor health.

Learn how user voice gathers public feedback for Microsoft 365 services, enabling you to submit and vote ideas in dedicated forums such as Teams and SharePoint, with reviews and implementation.