Brian Svidergol - Exam Ref MS-101 Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security

Brian Svidergol

Bob Clements

Exam Ref MS-101 Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security

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Brian Svidergol I would like to acknowledge my wife Lindsay, my son Jack, and my daughter Leah thanks for being supportive of my endeavors. And thanks for providing me good times and great memories that enable me to maintain a high level of motivation. I love you! I would also like to thank the people working hard on the backend of the project Loretta Yates (executive editor), Santos Martinez (technical reviewer), Charvi Arora (assistant sponsoring editor), and Troy Mott. I would like to dedicate this book to all the IT professionals taking the time to explore, learn, experiment, and test their skills with certification exams. Keep up the good work and good luck!

Bob Clements I would like to acknowledge my amazing family for all their love, support, and laughter. To my wife Diane, who enables me to work on fun projects like these. To my daughter Abigail, who surprises me every day with her kindness and creativity. And to my son Samuel, who consistently finds ways to make me laugh out loud. Thank you! I would like to dedicate this book to my wife Diane. Your encouragement and support are invaluable. Thank you for all that you do!

BRIAN SVIDERGOL designs and builds infrastructure, cloud, and hybrid solutions. He holds many industry certifications including the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Cloud Platform and Infrastructure. Brian is the author of several books covering everything from on premises infrastructure technologies to hybrid cloud environments. He has extensive real-world experience from startup organizations to large Fortune 500 companies on design, implementation, and migration projects.

BOB CLEMENTS specializes in enterprise device management. He holds industry certifications around client manageability and administration for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Bob has an extensive background in designing, implementing, and supporting device management solutions for private and public sector companies. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his family, writing, and exploring new technologies.

The MS-101 exam focuses on common tasks and concepts that an administrator needs to understand to deploy and manage infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. Managing Azure subscriptions and resources is a key topic on the exam, which includes configure cost center quotas, tagging, subscription level policies, as well as resource organization using resource groups. Another topic covered is implementing and managing storage; which includes creating and configuring storage accounts, implementing Azure backup, as well as configuring Azure files and understanding the services for importing and exporting data to Azure. A significant portion of the exam is focused on deploying and managing virtual machines, which includes configuring of networking, storage and monitoring, automated deployments and managing VM backups. Configuring, managing, and monitoring virtual networks is part of the exam, as-is configuring load balancing. This book covers the creation and managing of virtual networks, DNS, connectivity between virtual networks, and configuring network security groups. The final topic is managing identities, which includes topics on managing Azure Active Directory (AD) when creating users, groups, and devices. You will also find the configuring of hybrid identity using Azure AD Connect, multi-factor authentication, as well as configuring services such as identity protection and self-service password resets.

This book is geared toward Azure administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking and compute. It explains how to configure and deploy services across a broad range of related Azure services to help you prepare for the exam.

This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the Need more review? links youll find in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on MSDN, TechNet, and in blogs and forums.