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Cloud Concepts & Microsoft 365 Overview Flashcards

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  1. Which Microsoft 365 feature provides a centralized view of your organization's security posture and suggests improvements?

    Answer: Microsoft Secure Score

    Microsoft Secure Score is a measurement of an organization's security posture that provides recommendations to improve security across Microsoft 365 services.

  2. A university wants to provide students and faculty with Microsoft 365 at no cost or reduced cost. Which licensing category should they explore?

    Answer: Microsoft 365 Education plans

    Microsoft 365 Education plans (A1, A3, A5) are specifically designed for educational institutions and offer free and discounted options for students and faculty.

  3. What does the term 'OpEx vs CapEx' mean in the context of cloud computing adoption?

    Answer: Operational expenditure (ongoing costs) vs capital expenditure (upfront investment)

    Moving to cloud shifts spending from CapEx (large upfront hardware/software purchases) to OpEx (predictable recurring subscription costs), improving cash flow flexibility.

  4. Which Microsoft 365 tool helps organizations understand how employees are using productivity tools and identifies opportunities to improve collaboration?

    Answer: Microsoft Adoption Score

    Microsoft Adoption Score measures how people use Microsoft 365 apps and provides insights and recommendations to improve employee productivity and collaboration.

  5. What is the key difference between Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5 licensing?

    Answer: E5 includes advanced security, compliance, and analytics features not in E3

    Microsoft 365 E5 builds on E3 by adding advanced security (Microsoft Defender), compliance tools, and Power BI Pro, making it suitable for organizations with higher security needs.

  6. Which core principle ensures that Microsoft 365 services remain accessible even when individual data center components fail?

    Answer: Redundancy and fault tolerance

    Microsoft 365 uses redundancy (duplicate systems) and fault tolerance (ability to operate despite failures) across geographically distributed data centers to maintain service availability.

  7. What is Microsoft's commitment called that outlines how they handle, protect, and use customer data in Microsoft 365?

    Answer: Microsoft Online Services Terms (OST) / Product Terms

    Microsoft's Online Services Terms (now called Product Terms) and associated Data Processing Agreement outline Microsoft's obligations regarding customer data privacy and security.