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MS-900 Practice Question: A tenant administrator is advising a department…
A tenant administrator is advising a department that wants to web/mobile Office apps, business email, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, but not desktop Office apps. Microsoft 365 licensing, admin, or support concept is most relevant?
⚠ Common exam trap
MS-900 often tests the boundary between Business Basic, Standard, and Premium — candidates confuse 'Office apps' (web/mobile) with 'desktop Office apps' and pick a higher SKU than required.
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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Microsoft 365 Business Basic
Microsoft 365 Business Basic is the subscription that includes web and mobile versions of Office apps, business email (Exchange Online), Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, but excludes the desktop Office applications. That matches the department's requirement exactly. Business Standard and Premium would include desktop apps, which the department explicitly does not want.
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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Microsoft Stream
Why it's wrong here
Microsoft Stream is a video hosting and streaming service inside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, not an organization-wide subscription plan. It delivers a single-purpose function—storing and playing video—and does not grant entitlement to Exchange Online mailboxes, Teams, SharePoint, or web versions of Office. A user still needs a valid Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license to access Stream, so recommending it would not satisfy the department's licensing and support requirement.
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Microsoft Whiteboard
Why it's wrong here
Microsoft Whiteboard is an infinite-canvas collaboration app, not a licensing SKU and not a cloud service package. It enables freeform drawing and diagramming in Teams meetings, but it lacks the administrative constructs—tenant identity, email hosting, and compliance policies—that a department would need from an enterprise product plan. Therefore, it is a feature that rides on a broader Microsoft 365 license, not a substitute for Business Basic.
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Microsoft Forms
Why it's wrong here
Microsoft Forms is an online survey and quiz tool that captures structured responses, which is unrelated to the department's need for a base productivity and collaboration license. It is not a commercial subscription with user-based entitlement, and it requires an underlying Office/Microsoft 365 plan to be assigned to users. Choosing Forms would leave the department without Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, or the web Office apps, so it cannot fulfill the administrator's recommendation.
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Microsoft 365 Business Basic
Why this is correct
Microsoft 365 Business Basic is the correct per-user subscription because it supplies the core cloud workloads—Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for document storage, Teams for collaboration, and browser/mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—while deliberately excluding desktop Office installations. This matches the department's desire for a lightweight, web-first productivity solution under centralized tenant administration. With Business Basic, the tenant administrator can assign licenses, enforce conditional access policies, and provide support from a single admin console.
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Exchange Online
Exchange Online is Microsoft's cloud-based email, calendar, and contact hosting service that is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, allowing organizations to manage corporate messaging without maintaining their own mail servers.
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