Microsoft 365 Messaging (MS-203) Practice Exam - RETIRED
Microsoft 365 Messaging (MS-203)
About Microsoft 365 Messaging (MS-203) Practice Exam
The candidates preparing for the Microsoft 365 Messaging (MS-203) Exam work as messaging administrators responsible to plan, deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and secure the messaging infrastructure in hybrid and cloud enterprise environments.
Roles and Responsibilities
As a Messaging administrators you will be responsible for -
- Managing recipients, mailboxes, transport, mail flow, administrative roles, threat protection, compliance, migrations, and client connectivity.
- Collaborate with other workload administrators and the Microsoft 365 enterprise administrator
- Implement a secure hybrid or cloud-only messaging topology that meets the business needs of an enterprise.
Skills and Knowledge Required
As a messaging administrator candidate should have a working knowledge of -
- Authentication types
- Licensing
- Integration with Microsoft 365 applications
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra.
MS-203 Course Outline
The Microsoft 365 Messaging (MS-203) exam covers the latest exam updates and topics as per exam updates on May 2, 2023 -
Domain 1 - Understand to Manage organizational settings and resources (15–20%)
1.1 Planning and managing organizational settings and client connectivity
- Learn to Manage a Global Address List (GAL)
- Learn to Manage an Offline Address Book (OAB)
- Learn to Manage address book policies
- Learn to Manage email address policies
- Learn to Plan and configure organization relationships and individual sharing
- Learn to Configure virtual directories and URLs in a hybrid environment
- Learn to Configure global Outlook on the Web policies
- Learn to Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA)
1.2 Managing recipient resources
- Learn to Manage resource mailboxes
- Learn to Manage groups including distribution lists, dynamic distribution lists, mail-enabled security groups, and Microsoft 365 groups
- Learn to Create and manage group naming policies
- Learn to Manage user mailboxes
- Learn to Manage mailbox permissions, including delegation
- Learn to Manage mailbox Mailflow settings
- Learn to Manage shared mailboxes, including converting to a shared mailbox
- Learn to Create and manage contacts, including mail contacts and mail users
- Learn to Create and manage public folders
Domain 2 - Understand to Plan and manage the mail transport architecture (30–35%)
2.1 Planning and configuring connectors
- Learn to Plan connectors for mail flow
- Learn to Create and configure connectors to route mail
- Learn to Create and configure connectors to secure mail flow between organizations
- Learn to Configure enhanced filtering for connectors in Microsoft 365 Defender
- Learn to Manage and secure flow of internal and internet mail
- Learn to Manage mail flow rules
- Learn to Manage accepted and remote domains
- Learn to Manage hybrid mail flow
- Learn to Identify the appropriate DNS MX record for a specific scenario
- Learn to Plan and implement Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)
- Learn to Plan and implement Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
2.2 Troubleshooting mail flow
- Learn to Configure and manage alert policies
- Learn to Trace a message
- Learn to Analyze a message trace
- Learn to Analyze message headers
- Learn to Analyze Non-Deliverable Reports (NDRs)
- Learn to Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
- Learn to Troubleshoot by using transport logs and queues in a hybrid environment
Domain 3 - Plan and implement a hybrid configuration and migration (15–20%)
3.1 Planning and implementing a hybrid environment
- Learn to Plan a hybrid deployment by using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)
- Learn to Manage the Edge server role in a hybrid environment
- Learn to Configure the environment by using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
- Learn to Deploy the Exchange Hybrid Agent
- Learn to Manage the Exchange certificates lifecycle in a hybrid environment
3.2 Planning and implementing migration
- Learn to Evaluate migration methods, including minimal hybrid (express migration), remote move, cutover, cross tenant, staged, PST Imports, IMAP, and Google Workspace
- Learn to Configure migration endpoints
- Learn to Create and manage a migration batch
- Learn to Specify cross-tenant migration requirements
- Learn to Troubleshoot mailbox migration
Domain 4 - Secure the messaging environment (25–30%)
4.1 Managing role-based permissions in Exchange
- Note: Exchange-related roles only
- Learn to Plan RBAC roles
- Learn to Manage default and custom admin role groups
- Learn to Manage user roles
4.2 Securing messages by using Microsoft 365 Defender
- Learn to Configure and manage Anti-phishing policies
- Learn to Configure and manage Anti-spam policies
- Learn to Configure and manage Anti-malware policies
- Learn to Configure and manage Safe Attachments
- Learn to Configure and manage Safe Links
- Learn to Configure Tenant Allow/Block lists
- Learn to Configure and manage quarantine policies
- Learn to Investigate messaging threats by using Microsoft 365 Defender Explorer and Advanced hunting
- Learn to Manage user-reported message settings
- Learn to Validate settings by using Configuration analyzer
4.3 Managing compliance
- Learn to Configure retention tags and retention policies for a specific mailbox folder
- Learn to Enable and configure archive mailboxes
- Learn to Analyze audit logs
- Learn to Manage journal rules
- Learn to Manage content search
- Learn to Manage standard eDiscovery cases (not including Premium eDiscovery)
- Full-Length Mock Test with unique questions in each test set
- Practice objective questions with section-wise scores
- An in-depth and exhaustive explanation for every question
- Reliable exam reports evaluating strengths and weaknesses
- Latest Questions with an updated version
- Tips & Tricks to crack the test
- Unlimited access
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