MS-900 Practice Test 16 — 15 Questions

Question 1

Your organization uses Microsoft 365 and wants to automatically scale resources based on demand, paying only for what is used. Which cloud characteristic does this describe?

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Elasticity. Elasticity is the cloud characteristic that allows resources to automatically scale based on demand, paying only for what is used. This matches the requirement to scale resources automatically and pay only for consumption.

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Fault tolerance

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Disaster recovery

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High availability

Question 2

A company needs to audit user activities in Microsoft 365 for compliance. Which tool should they use?

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Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium). Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) is specifically designed to retain and search audit logs for user and admin activities across Microsoft 365 services, meeting compliance and forensic investigation needs. It provides high-bandwidth access to the Office 365 Audit Log, supports custom retention policies (up to 10 years), and offers intelligent insights such as high-value events and access to critical events like MailItemsAccessed. This makes it the correct tool for auditing user activities for compliance.

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Microsoft Defender XDR

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Microsoft Sentinel

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Microsoft Intune

Question 3

A company with 50 users currently has Microsoft 365 Business Basic licenses. They now need to use desktop versions of Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for all users. They also want to keep their existing business email and online meeting features. What is the most cost-effective licensing strategy?

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Upgrade all users to Microsoft 365 Business Standard. Microsoft 365 Business Basic includes only web and mobile versions of Office apps, not the desktop versions. Upgrading to Microsoft 365 Business Standard provides the full desktop Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) while retaining the existing business email (Exchange Online) and online meeting features (Teams), making it the most cost-effective option for 50 users.

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Purchase Microsoft 365 Apps for business for all users

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Purchase Microsoft 365 E3 for all users

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No change needed – Business Basic already includes desktop apps

Question 4

A business stakeholder asks how Microsoft 365 can help them protect Windows endpoints with endpoint detection and response capabilities. Microsoft security, identity, or compliance capability should it use?

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the correct choice because it provides endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities specifically designed to protect Windows endpoints. It uses behavioral sensors, cloud analytics, and threat intelligence to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats in real time, aligning directly with the stakeholder's request.

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Microsoft Planner

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Microsoft Forms

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Microsoft Stream

Question 5

Which three options describe key capabilities of Microsoft Purview that help organizations manage compliance and data governance in Microsoft 365? (Choose three.)

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Apply retention policies and labels to preserve or delete content based on legal requirements. Microsoft Purview provides integrated data governance and compliance capabilities across Microsoft 365. It automatically classifies and labels sensitive data using trainable classifiers and exact data match, applies retention policies and labels to meet legal and regulatory requirements, and enables eDiscovery searches with legal hold to preserve content for litigation. These three capabilities directly address data classification, lifecycle management, and legal discovery.

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Provide anti-malware and phishing protection in email

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Monitor network traffic to prevent DDoS attacks

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Manage user passwords and enforce multi-factor authentication

Question 6

An administrator is reviewing an ARM template for a storage account. The template includes a storage account with Standard_LRS redundancy. Which Microsoft 365 licensing feature does this relate to?

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Microsoft Purview audit log storage. The ARM template's Standard_LRS redundancy is used for Azure storage accounts, which underpin Microsoft 365's audit log storage in Microsoft Purview. Audit logs are stored in Azure Blob Storage, and Standard_LRS (Locally Redundant Storage) is the default redundancy tier for this data, providing three copies within a single datacenter. This directly links to the Purview audit log storage feature, not user-facing storage quotas or limits.

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OneDrive for Business storage

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SharePoint Online storage quotas

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Exchange Online mailbox limits

Question 7

A multinational corporation needs to ensure that all emails containing a customer's passport number are automatically blocked from being sent externally. Additionally, the sending user should receive a policy tip explaining the block. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Microsoft Purview are specifically designed to detect sensitive information, such as passport numbers, in emails and automatically block external transmission while displaying a policy tip to the user. This matches the requirement exactly, as DLP can inspect email content for sensitive data types and enforce actions like blocking and notifying the sender.

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Sensitivity labels

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Conditional Access policies

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eDiscovery

Question 8

Which TWO Microsoft 365 apps are included in Microsoft 365 Business Basic?

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Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is included in Microsoft 365 Business Basic as a core app for chat, meetings, and collaboration. Exchange Online is also included, providing hosted email, calendars, and contacts with a 50 GB mailbox per user. Both are cloud-only services in this plan, with no desktop Office apps.

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Microsoft Power BI Pro

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Microsoft Project Online Plan 3

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Microsoft Word (desktop app)

Question 9

A sales team uses Microsoft 365 and wants to automatically capture and store email signatures for all outgoing messages. Which Microsoft 365 app should the administrator configure?

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Microsoft Exchange Online. (Microsoft Exchange Online) is correct because email signatures are managed via Exchange mail flow rules or the Exchange admin center. Option A is wrong because Microsoft Teams is for collaboration, not email signatures. Option B is wrong because Microsoft Viva Insights focuses on productivity analytics. Option C is wrong because Microsoft SharePoint Online is for document management.

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Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Viva Insights

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Microsoft SharePoint Online

Question 10

A business stakeholder asks how Microsoft 365 can help them create a short-term test environment and delete it after the pilot. Cloud concept or benefit best matches this requirement?

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Agility. Agility is the correct answer because it refers to the ability to rapidly provision and deprovision resources, such as creating a short-term test environment and deleting it after a pilot. Microsoft 365's cloud-based infrastructure enables on-demand scaling and resource lifecycle management, allowing organizations to spin up environments quickly and tear them down without long-term commitments or hardware procurement delays.

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Sensitivity labels

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Microsoft Planner

Question 11

A department asks for the Microsoft 365 service best suited for task tracking using boards and buckets. Which service should they use? The design must avoid adding custom operational scripts.

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Microsoft Planner. Microsoft Planner is the correct service because it provides task tracking using boards and buckets, which are core features of its Kanban-style interface. It is designed for lightweight project management within Microsoft 365, allowing users to create plans, organize tasks into buckets, and track progress without requiring custom scripts or additional configuration.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Question 12

During a Microsoft 365 planning workshop, view service health and create support requests without broad user management. Microsoft 365 licensing, admin, or support concept is most relevant?

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Service Support Administrator. The Service Support Administrator role in Microsoft 365 is specifically designed to allow users to view service health and create support requests without granting broader user management permissions. This role is part of the least-privilege administrative model, enabling helpdesk or support staff to monitor service incidents and open tickets via the Microsoft 365 admin center or the Microsoft 365 admin mobile app, while being restricted from modifying users, licenses, or other administrative settings.

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Microsoft Stream

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Microsoft Forms

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Microsoft Whiteboard

Question 13

A department asks for the Microsoft 365 service best suited for interactive business dashboards. Which service should they use?

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Power BI. Power BI is the correct choice because it is Microsoft's dedicated business analytics service that enables users to create interactive dashboards and reports from various data sources. It provides real-time data visualization, drill-down capabilities, and natural language querying, making it ideal for business intelligence needs within Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

Question 14

Your organization uses Microsoft 365 Copilot and wants to ensure that sensitive data is not exposed through AI-powered features. Which Microsoft Purview capability should be configured?

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies for Copilot. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies can be scoped specifically to Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing organizations to detect and prevent sensitive data from being processed or surfaced by Copilot. This is the direct Purview control for governing data exposure through AI-powered features. Configuring a DLP policy with Copilot as the workload ensures that prompts and responses involving sensitive content are blocked or warned.

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Microsoft Intune app protection policies

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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Microsoft Entra Conditional Access

Question 15

Drag and drop the steps to create a new user account in Microsoft 365 admin center into the correct order.

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Sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center, then navigate to Users > Active users, then click Add a user, then enter user details, then assign licenses and roles, then review and finish.. Creating a user in M365 admin center requires signing in, navigating to active users, adding a user, entering details, and assigning licenses/roles.

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Navigate to Users > Active users, then sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center, then click Add a user, then enter user details, then assign licenses and roles, then review and finish.

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Click Add a user, then sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center, then navigate to Users > Active users, then enter user details, then assign licenses and roles, then review and finish.

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Enter user details, then assign licenses and roles, then sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center, then navigate to Users > Active users, then click Add a user, then review and finish.