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1. Topic 1, Contoso Ltd



Overview

General Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a national freight company in the United States. The company has 15,000 employees.



Physical Locations

Contoso has a main office in Houston and 10 branch offices that each contains 1,000 employees.



Existing Environment

Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Server Environments

The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. The forest contains one root domain named contoso.com and 10 child domains. All domain controllers run Windows Server 2019.

The forest has Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) deployed.

You have a hybrid deployment of Exchange Server 2019 and Microsoft Office 365.

There are 2,000 user mailboxes in Exchange Online.

Each office contains two domain controllers and two Mailbox servers. the main office also contains an Edge transport server.

The organization contains 100 public folders. The folders contain 80 GB of content.

All email messages sent to contoso.com are delivered to Exchange Online. All messages sent to on-premises mailboxes are routed through the Edge Transport server.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is enabled and configured for the Office 365 tenant.



Network Infrastructure

Each office connects directly to the Internet by using a local connection. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link.



Requirements

Planned Changes

Contoso plans to implement the following changes:

✑ For all new users in the on-premises organization, provide an email address that uses the value of the Last Name attribute and the first two letters of the First Name attribute as a prefix.

✑ Decommission the public folders and replace the folders with a Microsoft 265 solution that maintains web access to the content.



Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

✑ All email messages sent from a SMTP domain named adatum.com must never be identified as spam.

✑ Any solution to replace the public folders must include the ability to collaborate with shared calendars.



Security Requirements

Contoso identifies the following security requirements:

✑ The principle of least privilege must be applied to all users and permissions.

✑ All email messages sent from an SMTP domain named com to contoso.com must be encrypted.

✑ All users must be protected from accessing unsecure websites when they click on URLs embedded in email messages.

✑ If a user attempts to send an email message to a distribution group that contains more than 15 members by using Outlook, the user must receive a warning before sending the message.



Problem statements

Recently, a user named HelpdeskUser1 erroneously created several mailboxes.

Helpdesk1user1 is a member of the Recipient Management management role group.



Users who have a mailbox in office 365 report that it takes a long time for email messages containing attachments to be delivered.



Exhibit







You need to recommend an Office 365 solution that meets the technical requirements for email from adatum.com.

Which two components should you recommend configuring from the Exchange admin center in Exchange Online? Each correct presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

2. You need to recommend a solution for the public folders that supports the planned changes and meets the technical requirements.

What should you recommend?

3. You need to resolve the email delivery delay issue.

What should you do?

4. You need to configure the Exchange organization to meet the security requirements for

sending email messages to distribution groups.

Which cmdlet should you run?

5. You need to recommend a solution that meets the security requirements for protecting users.

What should you recommend?

6. You must prevent HelpDeskUser1 from repeating the same mistake.

You need to identify which management role provided HelpDeskUser1 with the necessary permissions to make the mistake identified in the problem statement.

Which two cmdlets should you run? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

7. HOTSPOT

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that complete each statement based on the information presented in the Exchange Online Connector exhibit. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

8. HOTSPOT

You need to configure the environment to support the planned changes for email addresses.

How should you complete the command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

9. Topic 2, Litware, inc



Case Study

Overview

Litware, Inc. is food service supplier in Europe.



Physical Locations

Litware has a main office in Paris and branch offices in Munich, London, Brussels, Vienna, and Rome.

Each branch office has its own compliance officer.



Existing Environment

The network contains one Active Directory forest named litware.com. The forest contains a single Active Directory domain. Each office is configured as an Active Directory site.



Each branch office is represented organizational unit (OU) in an OU named Offices in Active Directory.



Each branch office has a special Administrators group that contains the delegated administrators for that office. Each Administrators group is named based on its location in a format of RegionalAdmins_Brussels, RegionalAdmins_Munich, RegionalAdmins_London, RegionalAdmins_Vienna and RegionalAdmins_Rome.



Network Infrastructure

Each office contains two domain controllers from the litware.com domain. All the domain controllers are configured as DNS servers. All client computers connect only to the DNS servers in their respective office.

All offices have a high-speed connection to the Internet. Each office connects to the Internet by using a VPN appliance.



Each office has the following servers and client computers:

One reverse proxy appliance

One Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 server

One Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server

Computers that run Windows 10 and have Microsoft Office 2019 installed.



The office in Brussels contains an Exchange Server 2016 server that has the Unified Messaging role installed and hosted voicemail configured.

Mailboxes are hosted on all the Exchange servers. Public folders are hosted only on an

Exchange server in the main office. Litware uses a disjoint namespace to access the servers.

Each user has an archive mailbox. Archiving is configured to use the default settings.

Exchange services are published to the internet by using a reverse proxy in each office.

A full backup of Exchange is performed nightly. Incremental backups occur every six hours.

All the users in the transport department connect to network resources by using a connection in the main office.



Requirements

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

✑ Implement calendar sharing to partner companies.

✑ Implement a solution that prevents malware from being delivered to end users.

✑ Use personal archives to eliminate the need for PST files.

✑ Ensure the Brussels office and move all the users in the Brussels office to the main office. All the mailboxes in the Brussels office will be moved to a server in the main office.

✑ Implement a compliance solution to ensure that items deleted from public folders are retained. If an item in a public folder is modified, the original version of the item must be available.



Technical Requirements

Litware identifies the following technical requirements:

✑ Minimize administrative effort.

✑ Use the principle of least privilege.

✑ Ensure that junk email is deleted automatically after 14 days.

✑ Ensure that sent items and deleted items are deleted automatically after 30 days.

✑ Ensure that users in the customer service department can open multiple mailboxes.

✑ Ensure that all the former Brussels office users always maintain access to hosted voicemail.

✑ Ensure that the staff in the IT department can manage the email environment without and-user involvement.

✑ Ensure that users cannot recover email messages that are deleted from the Junk Email folder and the Deleted Items.

✑ Ensure that if an email message has a spam confidence level (SCL) of 3 or higher, the message automatically moves to the Junk Email folder.



Problem statements

The transport department users report that accessing a public folder named TransportPF is sometimes very slow.

Users in the customer service department report that Microsoft Outlook sometimes hangs when many mailboxes are open.



You need to recommend a procedure for closing the Brussels office that meets the technical requirements.

What should you recommend?

10. HOTSPOT

Your company named Contoso, Ltd. has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains the mailbox databases shown in the following table.





You need to assign an offline address book (OAB) named Managers to all the users in a group named Managers.

How should you complete the PowerShell script? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

11. You need to implement a solution to support the planned changes for the branch office administrators.

What should you do?

12. You need to configure the required objects for the branch office administrators.

What should you create for each administrator?

13. HOTSPOT

You need to implement a solution to meet the technical requirements for the SCL.

How should you complete the command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

14. You need to implement a solution to support the planned changes for the helpdesk users.

What should you do?

15. HOTSPOT

You need to implement a solution that meets the technical requirements for the retention of junk email, sent items, and deleted items.

What is the minimum number of retention policies and retention tags you should use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

16. You need to recommend a solution to retain the items in the public folders. The solution must support the planned changes.

What should you recommend?

17. You need to resolve the issue for the transport department users.

What is the best way to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the

BEST answer.

18. You need to resolve the issue for the customer service department users.

What should you modify?

19. Topic 3, Fabrikam, Inc



Case study

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Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal.

Fabrikam has a partnership with a company named Litware, Inc.



Existing Environment

Network Environment

The on-premises network of Fabrikam contains an Active Directory domain named fabrikam.com.

Fabrikam has a Microsoft 365 tenant named fabrikam.com. All users have Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 licenses.

User accounts sync between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and the Microsoft 365 tenant.

Fabrikam.com contains the users and devices shown in the following table.





Fabrikam currently leases mobile devices from several mobile operators.



Microsoft Exchange Online Environment

All users are assigned an Outlook Web App policy named FilesPolicy.

In-Place Archiving is disabled for Exchange Online.

You have the users shown in the following table.







User1 and User3 use Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android to access email from their mobile device. User2 uses a native Android email app.



A Safe Links policy in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is applied to the fabrikam.com tenant. The marketing department uses a mail-enabled public folder named FabrikamProject.

Default MRM Policy is disabled for the fabrikam.com tenant.



Problem Statements

Fabrikam identifies the following issues:

✑ Users report that they receive phishing emails containing embedded links.

✑ Users download and save ASPX files when they use Outlook on the web.

✑ Email between Fabrikam and Litware is unencrypted during transit.

✑ User2 reports that he lost his mobile device.



Requirements

Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes:

✑ Configure FilesPolicy to prevent Outlook on the web users from downloading attachments that have the ASPX extension.

✑ Purchase a new smartboard and configure the smartboard as a booking resource in Exchange Online.

✑ Ensure that the new smartboard can only be booked for a maximum of one hour.

✑ Allow only Admin1 to accept or deny booking requests for the new smartboard.

✑ Standardize mobile device costs by moving to a single mobile device operator.

✑ Migrate the FabrikamProject public folder to Microsoft SharePoint Online.

✑ Enable In-Place Archiving for users in the marketing department.

✑ Encrypt all email between Fabrikam and Litware.



Technical Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following technical requirements:

✑ Ensure that the planned Sharepoint site for FabrikamProject only contains content that was created during the last 12 months.

✑ Any existing file types that are currently configured as blocked or allowed in the FilesPolicy policy must remain intact.

✑ When users leave the company, remove their licenses and ensure that their mailbox is accessible to Admin1 and Admin2.

✑ Generate a report that identifies mobile devices and the mobile device operator of each device.

✑ Use the principle of least privilege.

✑ Minimize administrative effort.



Retention requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following retention requirements for all users:

✑ Enable users to tag items for deletion after one year.

✑ Enable users to tag items for deletion after two years.

✑ Enable users to tag items to be archived after one year.

✑ Automatically delete items in the Junk Email folder after 30 days.

✑ Automatically delete items in the Sent Items folder after 300 days.

✑ Ensure that any items without a retention tag are moved to the Archive mailbox two years after they were created and permanently deleted seven years after they were created.



User3 leaves the company.

You need to ensure that Admin1 and Admin2 can access the mailbox of User3. The solution must meet the technical requirements.

What should you do?

20. HOTSPOT

You need to configure the new smartboard to support the planned changes.

Which three settings should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate settings in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

21. You need to identify which users clicked the links in the phishing emails.

What should you do?

22. HOTSPOT

You need to modify FilesPolicy to prevent users from downloading ASPX files. The solution must meet the technical requirements.

How should you complete the command? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

23. You need to generate a report for the mobile devices that meets the technical requirements.

Which PowerShell cmdlet should you use?

24. HOTSPOT

You need to perform a remote wipe of the devices of User2 and User3.

You run the following commands.

Clear-MobileDevice -id User2-Device

-NotificationEmailAddress "[email protected]"

Clear-MobileDevice -id User3-Device

-NotificationEmailAddress "[email protected]"

What occurs on each device? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

25. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization and a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

From the Microsoft 365 admin center, you open Data migration as shown in the following exhibit.





Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

26. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains the groups shown in the following table.





Which groups can you upgrade to a Microsoft 365 group?

27. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that uses an email domain named contoso.com.

Your company has a partnership with another company named fabrikam.com.

You need to ensure that all email messages sent to and received by the users at fabrikam.com are encrypted by using TLS.

What should you create in the Exchange admin center?

28. Your network contains an Active Directory domain named fabrikam.com.

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains two Mailbox servers. The servers are members of a database availability group (DAG).

You plan to implement an Exchange hybrid deployment.

You are evaluating the use of the Exchange Modern Hybrid connection option during the hybrid deployment.

What are two benefits of using Exchange Modern Hybrid instead of Exchange Classic Hybrid? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

29. You have a Microsoft 365 environment that contains 1,000 mailboxes.

You need to ensure that only an administrator named Admin1 can use the Exchange Management Shell to manage

What should you do?

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You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment. All user mailboxes are hosted in Microsoft 365. All outbound SMTP email is routed through the on-premises Exchange organization.

A corporate security policy requires that you must prevent credit card numbers from being sent to internet recipients by using email.

You need to configure the deployment to meet the security policy requirement.

Solution: From Microsoft 365, you create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy.

Does this meet the goal?

31. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains a retention policy named Policy1 and a user named User1.

Policy1 is assigned to all users and contains the retention tags shown in the following table.





Tag3 is applied to an email message in the inbox of User1.

You remove Tag3 from Policy1.

What will occur to the message?

32. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment.

You run the Get-HybridConfiguration cmdlet and receive the output shown in the following exhibit.





Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

33. You manage a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains several thousand users.

All the users connect to their mailbox by using a mobile device and Exchange ActiveSync.

You need to prevent the users from syncing email messages that are older than 14 days to the mobile devices.

What should you use?

34. DRAG DROP

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

You plan to implement a hybrid deployment between Exchange Online and Exchange Server.

You need to install the Exchange Online Hybrid Agent. The solution must use the principle of least privilege.

To which roles should you be assigned to perform the installation? To answer, drag the appropriate roles to the correct products. Each role may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

35. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

Users access their email by using Microsoft Outlook 2019.

The users report that when a mailbox is provisioned for a new user, there is a delay of many hours before the new user appears in the global address list (GAL). From Outlook on the web, the users can see the new user in the GAL immediately.

You need to reduce the amount of time it takes for new users to appear in the GAL in Outlook 2019.

What should you do?

36. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant.

All users are assigned only an Office 365 Enterprise E3 license.

You need to ensure that the users can use only Microsoft Outlook to connect to their Microsoft 365 mailbox when they connect from an Android device.

What should you create?

37. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

You need to ensure that a user named User1 can prevent mailbox content from being deleted if the content contains the words Fabrikam and Confidential.

What should you do?

38. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains two SMTP domains named contoso.com and litwareinc.com.

You need to ensure that users who have a contoso.com email address are prevented from seeing users who have a litwareinc.com email address in the global address list (GAL). The litwareinc.com users must be able to see the contoso.com users in the GAL.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

39. DRAG DROP

You purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription.

You create mailboxes for 10 users. Each user has a PST file stored in a network share.

You need to migrate the PST files to the mailboxes.

In which order should you perform the actions? To answer, move all actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order. NOTE: More than one order of answer choices is correct. You will receive credit for any of the correct orders you select.

40. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment. All user mailboxes are hosted in Microsoft 365. All outbound SMTP email is routed through the on-premises Exchange organization.

A corporate security policy requires that you must prevent credit card numbers from being sent to internet recipients by using email.

You need to configure the deployment to meet the security policy requirement.

Solution: From the Exchange organization, you modify the properties of the Send connectors.

Does this meet the goal?

41. DRAG DROP

You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant.

You enable hierarchical address books (HABs).

You create a new distribution group named Contoso.

You need to configure the Contoso group as the root of the hierarchy. The members of the group must appear in the hierarchy.

How should you complete the PowerShell commands?

42. HOTSPOT

NO: 23 HOTSPOT

Your company named Contoso, Ltd. has a Microsoft Exchange Online subscription that uses a domain named contoso.com.

Contoso works with a partner company named A.Datum Corporation. A.Datum has an Exchange Server 2016 organization that uses a domain named adatum.com.

You need to ensure that users at Contoso can share their free/busy information with the users at A.Datum.

What should you do for each company? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

43. HOTSPOT

You are evaluating the email hygiene configuration of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

You run the command shown in the following exhibit.





Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

44. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription for a company named Fabrikam,Inc. The company uses an Exchange Online tenant that has an email domain named fabirkam.com.

Fabrikam works with a partner company Contoso, Ltd. that uses an email domain named contoso.com.

A new security policy at Contoso states that any email sent from partners to Contoso employees must use TLS encryption.

You need to ensure that email sent from Fabrikam to Contoso uses TLS.

What should you create in the tenant?

45. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.

A safe attachments policy that uses Dynamic Delivery is applied to all recipients who match your SMTP

domains.

You need to prevent attachments form being scanned when internal users send email to one another.

What should you do?

46. You have two mailboxes named Mailbox1 and Mailbox2 that have the ProhibitSendReceiveQuota parameter set to 50 GB.

From a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant, you run the following PowerShell command.





You receive the license status of each mailbox and discover the configurations shown in the following table.





You need to increase the quota for Mailbox1 and Mailbox2.

What should you do first?

47. HOTSPOT

You have an Exchange Online tenant that has the anti-spam settings configured as shown in the following exhibit.





Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

48. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains three Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) security groups named Administrators, Managers, and Marketing.

The tenant contains the users shown in the following table.





The tenant contains the resources shown in the following table.





ConferenceRoom1 has he following policy.





For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

49. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains 200 mailboxes.

You need to add a second email address to each mailbox. The address must have a syntax that uses the first letter of each user’s last name, followed by the user’s first name, and then @fabrikam.com.

Solution: You create an email address policy that uses the %1s%[email protected] email address format.

Does this meet the goal?

50. HOTSPOT

You manage a Microsoft Exchange Online subscription.

You use Advanced Threat Protection (ATP).

A partner company sends daily invoices to your company. The invoices are always named AdatumInvoice.xlsx.

Some users report that sometimes they cannot find the invoices in their Inbox folder.

You need to identify whether the invoices are identified as malicious by Microsoft 365.

Which two blades should you use? To answer, select the appropriate blades in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.