Exam 74-324:

Administering Office 365 for Small Businesses

Published:September 06, 2012
Language(s):English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified)
Audience(s):Partners
Technology:Microsoft Office 365
Type:Proctored Exam

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This assessment validates skills learned in the Administering Office 365 for Small Businesses Jump Start. These skills are key to administering Office 365 for Small Business clients and are especially designed for Microsoft partners excited to achieve a Small Business Competency through an Office 365 assessment
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Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.

The information after “This objective may include but is not limited to” is intended to further define or scope the objective by describing the types of skills and topics that may be tested for the objective. However, it is not an exhaustive list of skills and topics that could be included on the exam for a given skill area. You may be tested on other skills and topics related to the objective that are not explicitly listed here.
Administer Microsoft Office 365 (50 percent)
  • Provision and manage users, groups, and domains.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: create users; configure user and group properties and settings; manage user licenses and subscriptions; Bulk Add Users Wizard (CSV import); use Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization Tool to provision and manage users and groups; recover identities and users; add and verify domains; Microsoft Online Services module for Windows PowerShell
  • Manage roles.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: Office 365 administrator roles; delegated administration; Exchange role-based access control (RBAC) roles including management role assignment policies for users
  • Prepare the client computer and configure remote connectivity.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: prepare the client computer (prerequisites, desktop integration, group policy settings, managing desktop shortcuts, Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant); troubleshoot remote connectivity issues (Windows Firewall and network firewall for Lync, Exchange, and SharePoint); autodiscover and service location, trusted zones; configure remote administration (enable administrator for remote Windows PowerShell, Exchange Management Console), Office Professional Plus 2010
Administer Exchange and Lync Online (30 percent)
  • Manage mailboxes, contacts, and groups.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: single item recovery; recover mailboxes; migrate mailboxes; Email Migration Wizard; configure global policy settings including Outlook Web App mailbox policy and Exchange ActiveSync policies; security and distribution groups (moderated, restricted, dynamic, and self-service)
  • Manage messaging security and compliance.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: antivirus/antispam (Forefront Online Protection for Exchange); Exchange Hosted Encryption; S/MIME; Information Rights Management (IRM); journal rules; certificates; Mutual TLS (MTLS); create and manage retention policies and retention tags; administrator audit logging; mailtips; litigation hold; archive mailbox (personal and online)
  • Manage Lync in an Office 365 environment.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: configure Lync services; configure federation and public IM connectivity (PIC); configure user settings (audio/video, file transfer, dial-in audio conferencing settings)
Administer SharePoint Online (20 percent)
  • Manage site collections.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: create site collections; manage site collection properties (quotas, owners, administrators, and external user policies); create and configure the public website
  • Manage user profiles.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: configure user and organization properties and policies; manage social tags and notes; configure MySite properties; manage audiences
  • Manage sites.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: manage team site; external user permissions; send external invites; create permission sets; define roles and groups; site templates; solution and feature framework (activating, deactivating, sandbox solutions); mobile device support; Recovery and Recycle Bin
  • Manage Public Facing Web Site.
    • This objective may include but is not limited to: Create a public Website with the default domain, Create a public Website with a custom domain name, Change the domain name of your existing public Website, View the public Website DNS information.
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