Microsoft Certified: 365 Administrator Expert (MS-102)
Achieve your Microsoft 365 Administrator (MS-102) certification with this immersive Firebrand course.
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What youâll learn
This Microsoft 365 Administrator (MS-102) course is designed to help you develop the skills you need to effectively manage and administer Microsoft 365 services.
This includes deploying and managing a Microsoft 365 tenant, implementing identity and access management with Azure Active Directory, and utilizing Microsoft 365 Defender to handle security and threats.
The course also covers compliance management using Microsoft Purview, focusing on data governance, information protection, and data loss prevention.
At Firebrand, we are one of the few companies in the world to be designated a Microsoft Cloud Partner. By studying with us, you'll gain access to the latest Microsoft curriculum, learn from Microsoft Certified Trainers, and take the official MS-102 exam at the Firebrand Training Centre after your course, covered by our Certification Guarantee.
You will learn to:
Create tenants, configure organization profiles, manage domains, monitor service health, and configure Microsoft 365 Backup
Respond to security reports, alerts, and incidents, and implement endpoint protection with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Manage users, groups, licenses, role groups, directory synchronization (Connect Sync/Cloud Sync), and authentication methods including MFA and Conditional Access
Implement information protection, data lifecycle management, and data loss prevention (DLP)
Curriculum
This in-depth course helps you become an expert across 9 learning paths.
Learning Path 1: Configure your Microsoft 365 Tenant
Learning Path 2: Manage your Microsoft 365 Tenant
Learning Path 3: Implement Identity Synchronization
Learning Path 4: Manage Identity and Access in Microsoft 365
Learning Path 5: Manage your Security Services in Microsoft Defender XDR
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should have one of these four potential pre-requisite options:
Microsoft Certified: 365 Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700)
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
As a candidate for this exam, you have functional experience with all Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID and have administered at least one of these. You should also have a working knowledge of the following:
Networking
Server administration
DNS
PowerShell
Exam info
At the end of this course, you'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
Microsoft 365 Administrator Exam MS-102 exam
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: deploy and manage a Microsoft 365 tenant; implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity and access; manage security and threats by using Microsoft 365 Defender; and manage compliance by using Microsoft Purview.
Passing score: 700
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
Deploy and manage a Microsoft 365 tenant (25-30%)
Implement and manage Microsoft Entra identity and access (25-30%)
Manage security and threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR (30-35%)
Manage compliance by using Microsoft Purview (10-15%)
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