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)

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