Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Practice Test (MS-900)

Microsoft Viva Insights provides personalized insights and actionable recommendations to help employees improve productivity and wellbeing by analyzing their work patterns. It offers suggestions on how to manage time, build better work habits, and balance work-life priorities. Other options like Microsoft Planner, Power BI, and Teams serve different purposes such as task management, data analytics, and collaboration, respectively.

Microsoft Secure Score provides a numerical summary of your organization's security posture and offers recommended actions to improve it. This helps you prioritize security tasks and track your progress over time. It does not implement security controls for you, provide real-time threat protection, or assess on-premises workloads directly.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) provides an environment for developers to build, test, and deploy applications without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure like servers, storage, or operating systems. This allows the company to focus on application development. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) requires management of operating systems and more, while Software as a Service (SaaS) offers ready-to-use applications without the ability to develop custom software.

Microsoft Teams is the best choice because it offers a comprehensive platform that includes chat functionality, video conferencing for virtual meetings, and the ability to collaborate on documents in real time. This makes it ideal for a hybrid work environment where employees are distributed across different locations. While Microsoft OneDrive provides file storage and sharing capabilities, it does not offer built-in communication or meeting features. Microsoft SharePoint allows for document management and team collaboration but lacks the integrated chat and meeting functionalities. Microsoft Outlook is primarily an email and calendar application and does not provide the necessary tools for real-time communication and collaboration required in a hybrid setting.

Data Loss Prevention is the feature that allows organizations to create policies to detect and restrict the sharing of sensitive information, such as financial data. It monitors data across services like email, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business, and can automatically block or warn users when attempts are made to share sensitive information improperly. Sensitivity labels classify and protect content by applying labels, but they do not monitor or restrict the sharing of data based on policies. Information Rights Management applies encryption and usage restrictions to content but does not provide automatic detection and restriction of sensitive data sharing. Data Classification helps in identifying and labeling data but does not enforce any restrictions on data sharing.

Hybrid Identity allows integration between the on-premises directory and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), enabling users to have a single identity to access resources in both environments. This is achieved through directory synchronization tools like Microsoft Entra Connect.

Cloud Identity involves creating user accounts exclusively in the cloud, requiring separate credentials from the on-premises directory.

On-Premises Identity refers to identities managed only within the local network, without cloud integration.

Guest Access is designed for external users and does not address the need for internal users to access both environments with the same credentials.

The Adoption Score dashboard (found under Reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center) analyzes both People experiences (communication, meetings, content collaboration, teamwork, mobility) and Technology experiences (endpoint analytics, network connectivity, Microsoft 365 Apps health). It benchmarks your tenant against similar organizations and offers tailored actions to boost productivity.

Usage Analytics supplies detailed raw usage metrics and can be surfaced in Power BI, but it does not include the built-in benchmarks or improvement guidance provided by Adoption Score.

The Microsoft Teams Admin Center focuses on configuring and managing Teams settings and policies rather than providing tenant-wide productivity insights.

A Business Intelligence Dashboard is not a specific reporting feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

An add-on license extends the capabilities of a base license by adding additional features or services that are not included in the base license. This allows organizations to enhance functionality for users without upgrading the entire base license. The other options either describe base licenses or unrelated aspects of license management.

Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft Purview allow organizations to embed protection settings directly into documents and emails. This means the protection persists with the content, even if it is shared outside the organization, ensuring continuous enforcement of policies like encryption and access restrictions.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies help prevent the sharing of sensitive information but do not embed protection into the content itself.

Information Barriers are used to prevent communication between specific groups within an organization.

Retention Policies manage how long content is kept but do not provide persistent protection embedded in the content.

OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage service for individual users, allowing them to store files in the cloud and sync them across multiple devices. It facilitates easy access and sharing of files. Microsoft Exchange is an email server solution, Microsoft Stream is a video streaming service for organizations, and SharePoint is a platform for team collaboration and document management, primarily used for sharing and managing content among teams.

A hybrid cloud model is the best fit because it combines the organization's own infrastructure with cloud services. This allows them to keep sensitive data within their own environment to meet compliance requirements while also benefiting from the scalability and cost advantages of cloud computing. A public cloud does not satisfy the need to keep sensitive data within the organization's infrastructure, as all data is stored off-site. A private cloud provides dedicated resources but can be costly and might not offer the same scalability benefits. Using the organization's own infrastructure does not leverage cloud services, so it would not help reduce costs or increase scalability.

Microsoft Secure Score offers recommendations to improve your organization's security posture by suggesting specific actions you can take. It helps prioritize and guide the implementation of security features to enhance protection. This makes the second option correct. The first option is incorrect because Secure Score does not provide reports of past security incidents; it focuses on assessing and improving current security configurations. The third option is incorrect because Secure Score does not fix security issues without administrative input; it requires administrators to implement the recommended actions. The fourth option is incorrect because monitoring user activities for insider threats is handled by other Microsoft 365 security tools, not Secure Score.

This is correct. Microsoft 365 subscriptions typically include both desktop versions of apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that can be installed for full-featured, offline access, and web-based versions for convenient access from any device with an internet connection. This dual availability is a key productivity benefit.

To receive service credits under Microsoft's Service Level Agreement (SLA), you must submit a claim to Microsoft within the specified time frame. Microsoft does not automatically apply service credits; it's the customer's responsibility to request them. Waiting for Microsoft to notify you, modifying your subscription, or expecting automatic credits without action will not result in compensation.

Microsoft Exchange is the server-side service that handles email storage, delivery, and management for organizations. It provides the infrastructure for email, calendars, contacts, and tasks at an enterprise level.

Microsoft Outlook is the client-side application that users interact with to access their email and calendar, connecting to Exchange to retrieve and send information.

Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft SharePoint are geared towards file storage and collaboration, not email management.