Description

Questions: 154
Release Date: 09/2020 (Last Update: 08/2022)
Job Role: Administrator
Language: English

The MS-203 practice test contains 154 questions and covers the following objectives:

Manage Organizational Settings and Resources – 47 questions

Plan and manage organizational settings

• Manage a Global Address List (GAL), including hierarchical address books (HAB)
• Manage an Offline Address Book (OAB)
• Manage address book policies
• Manage email address policies
• Plan and configure organization relationships and individual sharing
• Manage add-ins from Microsoft 365 Admin Center

Plan and manage client access

• Plan namespaces
• Configure virtual directories and URLs in a hybrid environment
• Configure global Outlook on the Web policies
• Configure Autodiscover
• Troubleshoot client access connectivity problems

Manage recipient resources

• Manage archive mailboxes
• Manage resource mailboxes
• Manage groups including distribution lists, dynamic distribution lists, mail-enabled security groups, and Microsoft 365 groups
• Manage user mailboxes
• Manage mailbox permissions, including delegation
• Manage shared mailboxes, including converting to a shared mailbox
• Manage license for shared resources
• Create and manage contacts, including Mail contacts and Mail users
• Manage email addresses for Microsoft Teams

Plan and Manage the Mail Transport Architecture – 34 questions

Plan and configure connectors

• Plan connectors to route or secure mail flow
• Create and configure connectors to route mail
• Create and configure connectors to secure mail flow between organizations
• Create and configure conditional mail routing
• Configure enhanced filtering for connectors

Manage mail flow

• Manage mail flow rules
• Manage accepted and remote domains
• Manage hybrid mail flow

Troubleshoot mail flow

• Trace a message
• Analyze a message trace
• Analyze message headers
• Analyze Non-Deliverable Reports (NDRs)
• Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
• Troubleshoot by using the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant
• Troubleshoot by using transport logs and queues in a hybrid environment

Plan and Implement a Hybrid Configuration and Migration – 26 questions

Plan and implement a hybrid environment

• Plan a hybrid deployment by using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW)manage the Edge server role in a hybrid environment
• Configure Organization Configuration Transfer (OCT)
• Configure the environment by using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
• Deploy the Exchange Hybrid Agent
• Manage the Exchange certificates lifecycle in a hybrid environment

Plan and implement migration

• Evaluate migration methods, including cutover, minimal hybrid (express migration), cutover, cross tenant, staged, PST Imports, IMAP, Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite), batch migration by using the Exchange admin center
• Configure migration endpoints in Microsoft 365
• Manage mailbox migration batches 
• Troubleshoot mailbox migration 
• Plan a public folder migration to Microsoft 365 

Secure the Messaging Environment – 47 questions

Manage role-based permissions in Exchange

• Plan RBAC roles 
• Manage role groups 
• Assign user accounts to admin roles 
• Manage user roles 

Manage message hygiene

• Plan for message hygiene
• Configure and manage Anti-spam settings
• Configure and manage Anti-malware policies
• Monitor and review quarantined items
• Plan and configure Spam Confidence Levels (SCL)
• Configure and manage Safe attachments
• Configure and manage Safe links
• Configure and manage Anti-phishing
• Manage email user submissions
• Add and manage DNS records for domains
• Validate settings by using Configuration Analyzer

Manage compliance

• Configure retention labels and retention policies
• Configure data loss prevention (DLP) policies
• Configure sensitivity labels and policies
• Configure and analyze audit logs
• Manage journal rules
• Manage content search
• Manage core eDiscovery cases (not including Advanced eDiscovery)

Notes: 

• The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. Related topics may be covered in the exam. 
• Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.