Microsoft 365 Messaging Administrator MS-203 Questions Available

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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 convert all the mailboxes to shared mailboxes, and then you run the Set-Mailbox cmdlet and specify the -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $false parameter.

Does this meet the goal?

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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?

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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 convert all the mailboxes to shared mailboxes, and then you run the Set-Mailbox cmdlet and specify the -EmailAddressPolicyEnabled $true parameter.

Does this meet the goal?

4. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.

Several users report today that they cannot access email from their mobile device. They successfully accessed their email from the same device yesterday.

You need to identify which mobile device access rule applies to the devices.

Which cmdlet should you run?

5. 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?

6. You manage a hybrid deployment between Microsoft Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange Server 2019. The deployment contains a primary SMTP domain named contoso.com.

Users have email addresses that use a syntax of [email protected].

A user named Ben Smith receives a new client computer. You configure the computer to access Ben Smith’s mailbox. Ben Smith reports that he cannot connect to his mailbox from the new computer.

You verify that other users can connect successfully to their mailbox and that new users can discover their mailboxes by using Autodiscover.

You need to ensure that Ben Smith can connect to his mailbox from the new computer.

What should you do?

7. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains 1,000 user mailboxes and 10 mail-enabled users. The mail-enabled users have email addresses in two SMTP domains named fabrikam.com and contoso.com.

You need to convert the mail-enabled users into user mailboxes.

What should you do first?

8. You have 1,000 user accounts that are each licensed for Microsoft 365. Each user account has a Microsoft Exchange Online mailbox.

Ten of the user accounts are configured as service accounts for applications. The applications send event notifications to the mailboxes of the service accounts by using SMTP. The developers of each application have delegated access to the mailbox of their respective application.

You need to ensure that all the event notifications sent by the applications are retained in the service account mailboxes so that new developers can review older notifications. The developers must be able to view only the notifications for their respective application.

What should you do?

9. All the users in your company have Microsoft 365 mailboxes.

Each user connects to Microsoft Exchange Online and OneDrive for Business from a personal computer that runs Windows 10.

You need to ensure that the users can save attachments to OneDrive for Business only when they connect to their mailbox from Outlook on the web.

What should you create?

10. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

A compliance manager plans to create retention policies for the mailboxes of executive users. The policies will move specific emails to an archive mailbox.

You need to create an archive mailbox for each executive user.

What should you do?

11. 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 configure the Exchange organization to meet the security requirements for sending email messages to distribution groups.

Which cmdlet should you run?

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

What should you do?

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

What should you recommend?

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

What should you recommend?

18. 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.

19. 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 configure the required objects for the branch office administrators.

What should you create for each administrator?

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

What should you modify?

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 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.

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

What should you do?

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

What should you do?

26. 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?

27. 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.

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

What should you recommend?

29. Topic 3, Misc. Questions

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains several thousand users. Most users connect to their mailbox by using a mobile device.

A new corporate security policy requires that when connecting from a mobile device, all users on devices that run iOS must use the Outlook mobile app only.

You need to modify the organization to meet the security requirement.

What should you do?

30. Your company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment.

You are migrating mailboxes to Exchange Online by using remote mailbox move requests.

A recent security breach at the company required that the passwords of all privileged accounts be changed.

Since the password change, mailbox move requests are failing.

You need to ensure that the mailbox migration can resume.

What should you do first?

31. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 tenant that contains the users shown in the following table.

You have a connector for a remote domain named contoso.com as shown in the following exhibit.

You have a transport rule as shown in the following exhibit.

User1 sends an email message to [email protected] that has a subject line containing the word Confidential.

User2 sends an email message to [email protected] that has a subject line of New report. The body of the message contains the word confidential.

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

32. HOTSPOT

You create a transport rule 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.

33. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization that contains 5,000 mailboxes.

You need to migrate 1,000 users to Exchange Online. The migrated users must support Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA).

Which migration method should you use?

34. You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

A user attempts to send an email message to an external recipient and receives the following error message: “Your message couldn’t be delivered because you weren’t recognized as a valid sender. The most common reason for this is that your email address is suspected of sending spam and it’s no longer allowed to send messages outside of your organization. Contact your mail admin for assistance. Remote Server returned ‘550 5.1.8 Access denied, bad outbound sender’.”

You need to ensure that the user send email to external recipients.

What should you do?

35. Your company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment.

The company has a finance department.

You need to move all the on-premises mailboxes of the finance department to Exchange Online. The bulk of the move operation must occur during a weekend when the company’s Internet traffic is lowest. The move must then be finalized the following Monday. The solution must minimize disruption to end users.

What should you do first?

36. HOTSPOT

Your company named ADatum Corporation has a Microsoft Exchange Online subscription that contains the sharing policies shown in the following table.

The subscription contains the mailboxes shown in the following table.

ADatum does business with the partner companies shown in the following table.

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

37. 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?

38. You manage a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment. All user mailboxes are located both on-premises and in the cloud.

You need to configure the deployment so that the on-premises mailboxes can access the public folders.

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

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You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains 1,000 mailboxes.

All the users in the sales department at your company are in a group named Sales.

The company is implementing a new policy to restrict the use of email attachments for the users in the Sales group.

You need to prevent all email messages that contain attachments from being delivered to the users in the Sales group.

Solution: You modify the permissions granted to the Sales group.

Does this meet the goal?

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Your company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment that contains two Mailbox servers named MBX1 and MBX2.

The company has the departments shown in the following table.

From the on-premises organization, outbound email is sent directly to the Internet by using DNS lookups.

You are informed that some sales department users send email messages that are identified as spam.

You need to automatically block the sales department users from repeatedly sending spam.

Solution: You migrate all the mailboxes of the sales department to Exchange Online.

Does this meet the goal?

41. HOTSPOT

You need to create an address list that contains all the users who have a title of Director.

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

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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 convert all the mailboxes to shared mailboxes, and then you run the Set-Mailbox cmdlet and specify the CEmailAddressPolicyEnabled $true parameter.

Does this meet the goal?

43. 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?

44. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment.

You use Advanced Threat Protection (ATP).

You have safe attachments policies configured as shown in the following table.

You have the users shown in the following table.

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

45. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains 1,000 user mailboxes and 10 main enabled users. The mail-enabled users have email addresses in two SMTP domains named fabrikam.com and contoso.com.

You need to convert the mail-enabled users into user mailboxes.

What should you do first?

46. HOTSPOT

You are migrating mailboxes from a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 organization to Exchange Online. The mailbox migrations are configured to suspend, and you plan to perform a coordinated cutover.

Which PowerShell command should you run to complete all the suspended mailbox migrations? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

47. NO: 13

You manage an Exchange Online tenant.

You plan to migrate on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes by using a cutover migration.

You need to grant the required permissions to the migration administrator account to complete the migration. The solution must use the principle of least privilege.

Which three permissions should you grant? Each correct answer presents a complete solution . NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

48. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Exchange Online subscription that uses a namespace of litwareinc.com.

You create a connector in Exchange Online that is 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.

49. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

You purchase a Microsoft Office 365 E5 subscription.

You plan to implement Exchange Modern Hybrid and free/busy sharing.

Which two components should you configure for the planned implementations? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

50. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

A compliance manager plans to create retention policies for the mailboxes of executive users. The policies will move specific emails to an archive mailbox.

You need to create an archive mailbox for each executive user.

What should you do?

51. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 organization.

You run the following commands.

You have a user named Admin1.

You need to ensure that Admin1 can manage the mailboxes of users in the Executives organizational unit (OU) only.

What should you do?

52. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online subscription.

You need to generate a CSV file containing all the email messages that failed to send from the [email protected] email address during the last 30 days.

What are two possible ways to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

53. HOTSPOT

Your company purchases new mobile devices for each user in its sales department and marketing department. The new devices only support Exchange ActiveSync.

You need to configure mobile device access to meet the following requirements:

Apply a specific password policy to all the sales department users.

Prevent all the marketing department users from using an Exchange ActiveSync-based client to access their mailbox.

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

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Your company has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 hybrid deployment that contains two Mailbox servers named MBX1 and MBX2.

The company has the departments shown in the following table.

From the on-premises organization, outbound email is sent directly to the Internet by using DNS lookups.

You are informed that some sales department users send email messages that are identified as spam.

You need to automatically block the sales department users from repeatedly sending spam.

Solution: You modify the outbound spam filter policy in Exchange Online.

Does this meet the goal?

55. You have a Microsoft Exchange Online tenant that contains 1,000 users.

A user recently sent an email message that was never received by a recipient on the internet. From the Exchange admin center, you successfully run a message trace but cannot see the message in the trace.

What is the most likely reason why the message fails to appear in the message trace?

56. You have a Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 hybrid deployment.

You plan to migrate mailboxes from the on-premises Exchange organization to Exchange Online.

You have the appropriate permissions to perform the mailbox migrations.

You need to prepare the environment for the planned migration.

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 the Exchange organization, you create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy.

Does this meet the goal?

58. You manage a hybrid deployment between Microsoft Exchange Online and on-premises Exchange Server 2019. The deployment contains a primary SMTP domain named contoso.com.

Users have email addresses that use a syntax of [email protected].

A user named Ben Smith receives a new client computer. You configure the computer1 to access Ben Smith’s mailbox. Ben Smith reports that he cannot connect to his mailbox from

the new computer.

You verify that other users can connect successfully to their mailbox and that new users can discover their mailboxes by using Autodiscover.

You need to ensure that Ben Smith can connect to his mailbox from the new computer.

What should you do?

59. HOTSPOT

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

From the Exchange admin center, you issue a Wipe Data command for User1 and User2.

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

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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?