Firerband Logo

Microsoft Certified: 365 Administrator Expert (MS-102)

Achieve your Microsoft 365 Administrator (MS-102) certification with this immersive Firebrand course.

What you’ll 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:

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%)

Upcoming Courses

Filter courses by learning type:

Sorry, there are currently no dates available for this course. Please submit an enquiry and one of our team will contact you about potential future dates or alternative options.

FAQs

Yes, we do provide courses suitable for beginners. However, Firebrand's courses aren't easy and it's essential that you are interested and actively pursuing a career in IT.

Traditional training providers usually run their courses from 9am to 5pm. At Firebrand Training we maximise the number of learning hours to minimise the number of training days, so you’ll be back to your job as quickly as possible. You don’t waste time travelling to several courses and finding an exam centre after that.

Firebrand's courses are constantly reviewed. We ask our delegates for feedback after every course. We are official partners with leading vendors and therefore, we're provided with certification changes and updates, which we can then implement in our course delivery at a very early stage. This feedback is then analysed in view of changes or discrepancies. We will then address the topics mentioned and have a panel of subject matter experts provide us with valuable suggestions for improvement and solutions.

Our award-winning Lecture | Lab | Review method focuses on what matters:

Industry professionals delivering your lectures

Labs that bring the real world into the classroom, immersing you in every practical detail.

Reviews to test – and stretch – your knowledge

Exams that come at the perfect moment – when the material is still fresh in your mind.

Our focused approach delivers results!

It’s our promise that if you don’t pass your certification exam the first time, you can retrain for free on the same course and delivery mode (Async Online, Live Online, or Classroom) within 12 months of your original course start date. You won’t pay course fees again, only a exam rebooking fee. To qualify, you must: 1. Attend all scheduled training dates 2. Score at least 60% on your first mock exam.

Can't find the answer you're looking for?

Our expert learning advisors are ready to help. Whether you need course recommendations, have technical queries, or want to discuss your learning goals, we're just a message away.

Train your team

Since 2001 we’ve trained 134,561 employees from thousands of large and small organisations, saving them more than one million hours in training time.