Exam Ref MD-102 Microsoft Endpoint Administrator

Book description

Prepare for Microsoft Exam MD-102and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills and knowledge required to deploy, manage, and protect modern endpoints at scale in Microsoft 365 environments. Designed for endpoint administrators, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certifi ed Associate level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

  • Deploy Windows client

  • Manage identity and compliance

  • Manage, maintain, and protect devices

  • Manage applications

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

  • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

  • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

  • Assumes you have experience deploying, configuring, protecting, managing, and monitoring devices and client applications in a Microsoft 365 environment

About the Authors

Andrew Bettany is a Microsoft MVP and consults on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows client. He has authored Windows exam prep guides, official Microsoft training, and video training for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight. He co-created the IT Masterclasses series of short, intensive technical courses. His most recent project involved delivering Microsoft Fundamentals skills training to over 250,000 students worldwide.

Andrew Warren has helped Microsoft develop official training curricula, served as subject matter expert on many current Windows Server courses, was technical lead on several Windows titles, and co-developed courses on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Intune

About the Exam

Exam MD-102 focuses on the knowledge needed to prepare for Windows client deployments; plan and implement them with Windows Autopilot and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT); confi gure remote management; manage identity; implement compliance policies for all supported device platforms with Microsoft Intune; manage device lifecycles, configurations, and updates with Intune; monitor devices; protect endpoints; deploy and update apps; and establish app protection and configuration policies.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate credential, demonstrating your ability to deploy, configure, protect, manage, and monitor devices and client apps in Microsoft 365 environments; manage endpoint identity, security, access, policies, updates, and apps; efficiently deploy and administer diverse endpoints at scale, and collaborate on modern workplace strategies that address organizational needs.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  5. Contents at a glance
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the authors
  9. Introduction
    1. Organization of this book
    2. Preparing for the exam
    3. Microsoft certifications
    4. Access the exam updates chapter and online references
    5. Errata, updates & book support
    6. Stay in touch
  10. Chapter 1. Deploy Windows client
    1. Skill 1.1: Prepare for a Windows client deployment
    2. Skill 1.2: Plan and implement a Windows client deployment by using Windows Autopilot
    3. Skill 1.3: Plan and implement a Windows client deployment by using MDT
    4. Skill 1.4: Configure remote management
    5. Chapter summary
    6. Thought experiment
    7. Thought experiment answers
  11. Chapter 2. Manage identity and compliance
    1. Skill 2.1: Manage identity
    2. Skill 2.2: Implement compliance policies for all supported device platforms by using Intune
    3. Chapter summary
    4. Thought experiment
    5. Thought experiment answers
  12. Chapter 3. Manage, maintain, and protect devices
    1. Skill 3.1: Manage the device lifecycle in Intune
    2. Skill 3.2: Manage device configuration for all supported device platforms by using Intune
    3. Skill 3.3: Monitor devices
    4. Skill 3.4: Manage device updates for all supported device platforms by using Intune
    5. Skill 3.5: Implement endpoint protection for all supported device platforms
    6. Chapter summary
    7. Thought experiment
    8. Thought experiment answers
  13. Chapter 4. Manage applications
    1. Skill 4.1: Deploy and update apps for all supported device platforms
    2. Skill 4.2: Plan and implement app protection and app configuration policies
    3. Chapter summary
    4. Thought experiment
    5. Thought experiment answers
  14. Chapter 5. MD-102 Endpoint Administrator exam updates
    1. The purpose of this chapter
    2. Exam objective updates
    3. Updated technical content
    4. Objective mapping
  15. Index
  16. Exam Ref MD-102 Microsoft Endpoint Administrator
  17. Code Snippets

Product information

  • Title: Exam Ref MD-102 Microsoft Endpoint Administrator
  • Author(s): Andrew Warren, Andrew Bettany
  • Release date: September 2023
  • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
  • ISBN: 9780138254919