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MS-102 assesses cross-workload administration of a Microsoft 365 tenant: tenant configuration, identity and access with Microsoft Entra ID, security and threats with Microsoft Defender XDR, and compliance with Microsoft Purview. Microsoft retires the exam on 30 November 2026.
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A company wants employees to be able to create their own Microsoft 365 groups from Outlook, but wants IT to review naming conventions and prevent uncontrolled proliferation of groups. Which feature should the administrator configure?
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Microsoft 365 administrators with hands-on experience across the tenant workloads and Microsoft Entra ID, with working knowledge of networking, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS and PowerShell.
MS-102 evaluates cross-workload administration of Microsoft 365. Preparation must connect tenant, identity, security, compliance and collaboration services instead of studying each product in isolation. Start from the official outline and take a diagnostic to see which areas you already handle at work.
Work with scenario-based questions: identify the main requirement first, then the constraints, and finally the right admin tool. Reviewing the distractors is especially useful because Microsoft 365 has portals and policies with similar names.
You must understand Microsoft Entra ID, Conditional Access, admin roles, identity synchronization, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Purview and general tenant configuration. You also need to interpret alerts, policies, retention and information protection.
The usual challenge is deciding which portal, role or policy solves each requirement with the least privilege. Practice the relationships between identity, devices, applications and data, and verify any recent naming or interface change in the official documentation.
With Microsoft 365 administration experience, six weeks of structured work is a reasonable starting point. Without cross-workload experience, extend the calendar and practice in a lab tenant. Split each week between theory, configuration and questions.
In the final phase take timed mock exams, classify failures by domain and return only to the concepts you cannot justify. Being ready means explaining a decision, not recognizing a memorized answer. Remember that MS-102 retires on 30 November 2026, so plan your exam date accordingly.
Official source: study guide MS-102 on Microsoft Learn
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Yes. Microsoft retires MS-102 and the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert certification on 30 November 2026. Book and pass before that date; afterwards it can no longer be earned or renewed.
It helps to have administered a Microsoft 365 tenant and to know identity, security and compliance. Experience in a single product is usually not enough.
With cross-workload experience, six to eight weeks is reasonable. If you must learn several services from scratch, you will need more practice and a longer calendar.
Yes. Start for free to assess your level before unlocking the rest of the certification.
Yes. Identity, threat protection, data security and compliance are a major part of the profile being assessed.
Microsoft sets the price per country. USD 165 list price (varies by country; confirm on Pearson VUE when booking). CertifyDeck does not sell the exam, only the preparation: you can start for free and full access is a one-off fee per certification.
Microsoft does not publish an exact number; its exams usually have between 40 and 60 questions. Our timed mock exam mirrors that length and the official domain weights.
You need a scaled score of 700 out of 1000. The scale does not map to a fixed percentage of correct answers, so aim for consistent results above 80% on unseen mock exams before booking.
Yes. Microsoft offers MS-102 in Spanish as well as English. On CertifyDeck every question, option and explanation is available in both languages, keeping the official English terminology.
It is a good free starting point, but it is short and repeats the same items. A practice test with hundreds of original Microsoft 365 Administrator questions, timed mock exams and practice by domain tells you where you fail and whether you keep the level under time pressure.
No. Dumps are leaked exam questions: using them breaks Microsoft's exam agreement and can void your certification. Our questions are original, written from the official skills outline, and train you to reason through new scenarios instead of memorizing answers.
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