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MS-900 Practice Question: Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Drag and drop the steps to deploy Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise to a Windows device using the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center into the correct order.
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Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
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Step 1: Sign in to the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. Step 2: Create a configuration for deployment. Step 3: Download the Office Deployment Tool and the configuration file. Step 4: Run the Office Deployment Tool on the client device.
Deploying Office uses the admin center to create a config, then ODT to install based on that config.
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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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Step 1: Sign in to the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. Step 2: Create a configuration for deployment. Step 3: Download the Office Deployment Tool and the configuration file. Step 4: Run the Office Deployment Tool on the client device.
Why this is correct
This order is correct because you first need to create a configuration in the admin center, which generates the configuration file. Then you download the ODT and that file, and finally run ODT to install. The admin center is the starting point for managing the deployment.
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Step 1: Download the Office Deployment Tool. Step 2: Sign in to the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. Step 3: Create a configuration. Step 4: Run the ODT on the client device.
Why it's wrong here
This is incorrect because you must create the configuration before running ODT, and you need to sign in to the admin center to create the configuration. Downloading ODT first doesn't help without a configuration file.
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Step 1: Run the Office Deployment Tool on the client device. Step 2: Sign in to the admin center. Step 3: Create a configuration. Step 4: Download the configuration file.
Why it's wrong here
This order is invalid because the Office Deployment Tool (ODT) requires a valid configuration.xml file to know which products, languages, and update channel to install; running ODT first would fail with a missing or invalid configuration. Furthermore, the configuration is authored in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, which must be accessed before any files are downloaded, and the configuration file must be downloaded before ODT execution. The sequence arbitrarily places sign-in and configuration creation after the installation attempt, making the step order non-actionable.
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Step 1: Sign in to the admin center. Step 2: Download the ODT. Step 3: Create a configuration. Step 4: Run ODT with the configuration.
Why it's wrong here
This is incorrect because you need to create the configuration in the admin center first, then download the ODT and the configuration file together. Downloading ODT before creating the configuration would result in missing the configuration file.
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