MS-700 Configure and Manage a Teams Environment Practice Question
You are the Teams administrator for a company with 5,000 users. The security team reports that employees can add external consultants as members of existing teams, which exposes internal SharePoint content. You must allow external consultants to be added only as guests with limited access, and block any attempt to add them as regular members. Which configuration should you implement?
⚠ Common exam trap
Many exam-takers confuse external access (federation for chat and meetings with other tenants) with guest access (adding outside people into your own teams).
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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In the Microsoft 365 admin center, configure guest sharing settings and restrict who can invite guests, then verify guest access is enabled in Teams.
Guest access is the Teams and Microsoft 365 capability that lets people outside the organization participate in teams with limited permissions. Enabling guest access while restricting who can invite guests ensures external consultants are added only as guests, not as full members. External access, sensitivity labels, and meeting policies address different concerns and cannot enforce the required membership restriction.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Modify the global meeting policy to disable anonymous users from joining meetings.
Why it's wrong here
Meeting policies govern meeting participation, lobby behavior, and anonymous join, not team membership. Consultants could still be added as members of a team and access channel content without ever joining a meeting. This setting is unrelated to the requirement and would only affect meeting attendance, leaving the membership exposure unresolved.
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In the Microsoft 365 admin center, configure guest sharing settings and restrict who can invite guests, then verify guest access is enabled in Teams.
Why this is correct
Guest access controls whether people outside the tenant can be added to teams as guests with scoped access to channels, files, and chats. By enabling guest access and limiting who can invite guests, consultants can only be added as guests rather than as members, which matches the security requirement. This is the supported way to control external membership in teams.
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Create a sensitivity label that blocks external sharing and publish it to all teams.
Why it's wrong here
Sensitivity labels can restrict external sharing of content in sites and teams, but they do not determine whether a user is added as a member or a guest. Applying a label would limit sharing of content, yet it would not stop someone from adding a consultant as a regular member with full access. The scenario specifically requires controlling the membership type, which labels do not govern.
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In the Microsoft Teams admin center, set the external access policy to Block all external domains.
Why it's wrong here
External access (federation) governs whether users can chat and call with people in other organizations who use Teams, Skype for Business, or Skype. It does not control membership inside a team, so blocking all external domains would break cross-tenant chat and calls while still allowing guest invitations. It fails to enforce the requirement that consultants be added only as guests.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Microsoft exam blueprint
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