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Exam MS-200: Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform

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This exam retired on August 31, 2020. A replacement exam, MS-203, is available. For more information, visit the MS-203 exam details page.

Candidates for this exam are Messaging Administrators who deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and monitor recipients, permissions, mail protection, mail flow, and public folders in both on-premises and cloud enterprise environments.

Messaging Administrators are responsible for managing hygiene, messaging infrastructure, hybrid configuration, migration, disaster recovery, high availability, and client access.

Messaging Administrators collaborate with the Security Administrator and Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator to implement a secure hybrid topology that meets the business needs of a modern organization.

The Messaging Administrator should have a working knowledge of authentication types, licensing, and integration with Microsoft 365 applications.

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  • MS-200: Planning and Configuring a Messaging Platform

    Languages: English

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    This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: manage modern messaging infrastructure; manage mail flow topology; and manage recipients and devices.

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    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

Skills measured

  • Manage modern messaging infrastructure (45-50%)
  • Manage mail flow topology (35-40%)
  • Manage recipients and devices (15-20%)

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