Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate

Candidates for this exam are messaging administrators who deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and monitor recipients, compliance, threat protection, and mail flow in hybrid and cloud enterprise environments.

Messaging administrators are responsible for managing message hygiene, permissions, messaging infrastructure, hybrid configuration, migration, transport, mailboxes, and client access.

Messaging administrators collaborate with other workload administrators and the Microsoft 365 enterprise administrator to implement a secure hybrid or cloud-only messaging topology that meets the business needs of an enterprise

The messaging administrator should have a working knowledge of authentication types, licensing, and integration with Microsoft 365 applications

• The content of this exam was updated on November 22, 2021. Please download the exam skills outline below to see what changed.
• Manage organizational settings and resources (30-35%)
• Plan and manage the mail transport architecture (20-25%)
• Plan and implement a hybrid configuration and migration (15-20%)
• Secure the messaging environment (25-30%)