MS-900 Timed Practice Test 3 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A project team needs to create a shared workspace to manage tasks, share files, track project milestones, and communicate through conversation threads. They want a single app that integrates with other Microsoft 365 services like Outlook and Teams. Which Microsoft 365 app is best suited for this requirement?

10 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Planner. Microsoft Planner is best suited because it provides a shared workspace with buckets and cards for task management, file attachments, milestone tracking via checklists and due dates, and conversation threads on each task. It integrates natively with Outlook for task visibility and with Teams via the Planner tab, meeting the requirement for a single app that combines these capabilities.

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Microsoft To Do

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Microsoft Project for the web

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Microsoft Lists

Question 2

A company with 250 users has Microsoft 365 E3 licenses. They want to add advanced anti-phishing and anti-malware protection for email and also deploy endpoint detection and response (EDR) for all devices. What is the most cost-effective licensing add-on?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft 365 E5 Security add-on. Microsoft 365 E5 Security add-on provides advanced anti-phishing and anti-malware protection via Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 and includes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 for EDR capabilities. This is the most cost-effective option because it adds exactly the required security features to existing E3 licenses without the higher cost of a full E5 upgrade or the redundancy of separate plan 1 add-ons.

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Microsoft Defender for Microsoft 365 Plan 1 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 add-ons

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Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance add-on

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Upgrade all users to Microsoft 365 E5

Question 3

A marketing manager needs to create a modern intranet site that publishes news, important announcements, and upcoming events. The site must be responsive on mobile devices and allow employees to like, comment, and share articles. Which Microsoft 365 service should they use?

Accepted Answer

SharePoint Communication site. A SharePoint Communication site is designed for broadcasting news, announcements, and events to a broad audience, with built-in support for responsive mobile rendering and social features like likes, comments, and sharing. This makes it the correct choice for a modern intranet that needs to engage employees across devices.

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Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Viva Engage

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Microsoft Viva Connections

Question 4

A company runs a custom application on a cloud provider's infrastructure. The provider manages the physical servers, networking, and storage, but the company installs, configures, and patches the operating system and application. Which cloud service model is this?

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This scenario describes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) because the cloud provider manages the underlying physical infrastructure (servers, networking, storage), while the customer retains control over the operating system, middleware, and application. In IaaS, the customer is responsible for OS patching, configuration, and application management, which matches the given responsibilities.

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Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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Function as a Service (FaaS)

Question 5

A non-profit organization with 200 employees needs to equip their staff with Microsoft 365 Business Premium, which includes desktop Office apps, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID Premium P1, and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1. They are eligible for non-profit pricing. What is the most cost-effective way to obtain these capabilities?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft 365 Business Premium (non-profit pricing). Microsoft 365 Business Premium (non-profit pricing) is the most cost-effective option because it bundles all required capabilities—desktop Office apps, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID Premium P1, and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1—into a single per-user license at a significantly reduced non-profit rate. Purchasing separate add-ons or a higher-tier plan like E3 would incur unnecessary costs without providing additional needed features.

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Microsoft 365 Business Basic (non-profit) plus separate add-ons for Intune and Defender for Office 365

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Microsoft 365 E3 (non-profit pricing)

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Microsoft 365 Business Standard (non-profit) plus add-ons for Intune and Defender for Office 365

Question 6

Which cloud characteristic allows an organization to increase or decrease computing resources quickly based on demand, without requiring manual intervention?

Accepted Answer

Rapid elasticity. Rapid elasticity is the cloud characteristic that enables automatic, on-demand scaling of computing resources (such as virtual machines, storage, or network bandwidth) in response to fluctuating workload demands, without requiring manual provisioning or de-provisioning. This is a core feature of cloud computing defined by NIST SP 800-145, allowing resources to scale out (increase) or scale in (decrease) dynamically, often using orchestration tools like Azure Autoscale or AWS Auto Scaling. The key distinction is that the scaling happens quickly and automatically, based on predefined rules or metrics like CPU utilization or request count.

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Measured service

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Resource pooling

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Broad network access

Question 7

A sales representative needs to quickly create a professional-looking price quote that includes dynamic pricing from a company database and send it as a PDF to a customer. Which Microsoft 365 app is best suited for this?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is best suited because it supports mail merge and dynamic content from external data sources like a company database. Using Word's 'Insert Quick Parts' or mail merge features, a sales rep can pull live pricing data into a professional quote template and then export the document as a PDF directly from Word.

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Microsoft Excel

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Microsoft Sway

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Microsoft SharePoint Online

Question 8

A project team needs to track action items and issues in a shared list that is accessible from within Outlook and SharePoint. They need to be able to create custom columns, set reminders, and view a history of changes. Which Microsoft 365 app is best suited for this?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Lists. Microsoft Lists is the correct choice because it provides a shared, customizable list that integrates directly with both Outlook and SharePoint. It allows users to create custom columns, set reminders via Power Automate or column formatting, and track version history for changes, meeting all specified requirements.

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Microsoft To Do

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Microsoft Planner

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Microsoft Viva Engage

Question 9

A cloud user can access their files from a work desktop, a personal laptop at home, and a mobile phone while traveling. Which essential characteristic of cloud computing does this scenario best illustrate?

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Broad network access. Broad network access is the correct answer because it describes the ability to access cloud resources from diverse client platforms (work desktop, personal laptop, mobile phone) over the network using standard protocols such as HTTPS, SSH, or VPN. This characteristic ensures that services are available from any location with internet connectivity, not just from a single device or network.

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On-demand self-service

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Resource pooling

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Rapid elasticity

Question 10

An organization is concerned about data leakage from sensitive emails. They want to enforce encryption on emails containing financial information automatically. Which Microsoft 365 solution should they configure?

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Microsoft Purview Message Encryption. Microsoft Purview Message Encryption (Option B) is the correct solution because it enables organizations to send and receive encrypted email messages, and it can be configured with mail flow rules to automatically encrypt emails containing sensitive financial information. This service leverages Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS) to provide persistent protection that follows the email, ensuring only authorized recipients can decrypt and read the content.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection (Microsoft Purview Information Protection)

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Exchange Online Protection (EOP)