MS 900 – Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Starting with a new company called rhipe has required me to go and certify in the various Microsoft security solutions portfolio. Rather than provide a lot of detail on how to pass the exam I wanted to collect together the information that I used so that you can find the details yourself and use these to help pass the exam.

The MS 900 Microsoft fundamentals exam is not difficult, I do not have a Microsoft 365 background at all and was coming at this exam with a very low knowledge point.

Firstly, the exam that I sat had 35 questions, these questions are not necessarily wrong or right in their entirety, this means that although you may lose a point on a multiple choice option you guess incorrectly there are still points to be gained for the question. This helped a lot as there were some areas I was not completely confident with.

Makes sure you reread the question, more than once I realised I have made an error as the question was a ‘negative’ and not a ‘positive’, so always confirm your answer.

There are some really good internet resources that will assist in passing this exam, first do complete the Microsoft readiness path:

https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/

specifically here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/microsoft-365-fundamentals/

Youtube:

John Saville is very good, he does not cover everything so mix his content with other producers:

Then watch Mark Grimes with his MS-900 fundamentals video:

Finally I used another channel to run through 20 questions and check my understanding of the topic:

The licensing area was probably my weakest part, this url has some good licensing information that will help:

Finally, I watched another YouTube, Gabrielle Kristofich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKAuLLpcRWk&t=182s

And although her video is not quite as detailed she does have very good thoughts and insights into what to do to help pass the certification:

Below are Gabrielles notes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZTh3PAUoWCKmsKFeNWqOte7XFEFJ3FWm4EPxF8zMgMA/edit

All of these resources were enough for me to pass with a good score despite having no M365 knowledge to start with. Good luck in your sitting of these exams and I wish you the best.