Microsoft MTA Cloud Fundamentals: Exam 98-369 Guide

Compare on-premises and cloud pricing models, highlighting capital and operation costs, disaster recovery, and pay-as-you-go pricing, showing how cloud migration reduces cost and administration.

Choose a cloud model that meets security and regulatory needs, considering hybrid or dedicated hardware options, data residency, encryption at rest and in transit, backups, and provider transparency.

Examine Office 365 plan categories—enterprise, small business, and home—and compare options such as E1, E3, E5, business premium, and essentials, focusing on services versus software.

Explore how intune delivers cloud-based mobile device and app management, enforcing security and compliance policies, device enrollment, encryption, and selective data protection across iOS, Android, and Windows.

Learn to add an Intune trial subscription to an existing Office 365 tenant by signing in, selecting the trial option, and assigning a 30-day license for 100 users.

Explore Office 365 administration tasks and Intune services, including cloud identities, user creation, license assignment, group management, and password policies. Learn to monitor services and delegate administration with a demo.

Compare the three cloud identity models—cloud identity only, synchronized identities, and federated identities with Azure AD Connect—and their sign‑on workflows for Office 365.

Learn to create and manage Office 365 user identities: add users in the portal, bulk import via CSV, or sync on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect.

Learn to create and manage groups and explore different types such as security groups and Office 365 groups.

Learn to configure Intune administration tasks, set the mobile device management authority, configure the company portal, enroll devices, assign licenses, manage groups, and implement compliance and conditional access policies.

Verify firewall and proxy allow outbound ports 443 and 80 to Intune domains so devices can reach Intune services, then set the MDM authority and customize the company portal.

Assign intune licenses via the Office 365 portal, enable EMI suite licenses, and enroll devices across Android, iOS, and Windows, including BYOD scenarios and enrollment management.

Explore configuring Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business Online, and Office 365 services, manage recipients and mailboxes, enable mobile device management with Intune, and apply anti-spam and antivirus policies.

Create and manage a shared mailbox in Exchange Online, assign access permissions, and configure display name, alias, and full access for multiple users without requiring a license.

Configure endpoint protection to secure computers and laptops with anti-spam and antivirus features, and deploy the endpoint protection policy to enrolled devices via Intune.

Configure Skype for business online, enable use of Foursquare for business online, set external communication and public DNS, then connect the Skype for business client to Skype for business online.

Explore configuring the Intune client for Windows PCs and laptops using administrator deployment via group policy or imaging, and end-user installation through the portal for enrollment and compliance.

Learn to troubleshoot Office 365 connectivity for cloud users by checking DNS resolution and proxy settings, using IP config, ping, trace route, and telnet to diagnose email and calendar issues.

Troubleshoot office installation and sign-in by verifying internet connectivity and activation counts up to five devices in Office 365, then repair or reinstall via control panel. Prefer 32-bit versions.

Configure the Outlook client to connect to your mailbox in Office 365 by downloading Office 2016, creating a mail profile in Control Panel, and using DNS to locate the mailbox.

Troubleshoot SharePoint and OneDrive for business storage limits, review quotas in the admin portal, recover deleted files within 90 days, and resolve sync errors from invalid file name characters.

Diagnose Skype for Business Online connectivity by validating the public DNS record for your domain and ensuring firewall ports, protocols, and proxy settings, plus proper client configuration.