Microsoft Certification Cheat Sheet 2026
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60 questions
100 min time limit
70.00% to pass
- What is the role of Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) in Microsoft 365? → Identity and access management for users and services
- What is the primary difference between Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plans? → Enterprise plans support more than 300 users and include advanced compliance tools
- Which of the following is used to link a virtual machine (VM) to a virtual network (VNet)? → Network interface card
- Which Azure tool allows you to deploy resources using infrastructure-as-code templates? → Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
- In Azure, which service offers serverless computing? → Azure Functions
- Which Microsoft 365 licensing tier includes advanced security features like Microsoft Defender for Identity? → Microsoft 365 E5
- What does Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Microsoft 365 help prevent? → Unauthorized sharing of sensitive information
- What does Azure Network Security Group (NSG) control? → Inbound and outbound network traffic rules for Azure resources
- What is Power BI Desktop used for? → Creating and designing Power BI reports and data models on a local Windows machine
- What is Dynamics 365 Commerce primarily used for? → Providing end-to-end omnichannel retail commerce solutions
- Which Microsoft solution provides Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time admin access? → Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management
- What does Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure allow administrators to do? → Grant specific permissions to users, groups, or applications for Azure resources
- What is the Common Data Service (now Microsoft Dataverse) used for in Dynamics 365? → Providing a secure, scalable data platform for storing Dynamics 365 app data
- What is the role of connectors in Power Apps? → They allow Power Apps to access and interact with external data sources and services
- What is the purpose of an Azure Resource Group? → A logical container that holds related Azure resources
- What is the primary function of Azure Monitor? → Collecting and analyzing telemetry from resources and applications
- What is the maximum file size that can be uploaded to SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365? → 15 GB
- What does the Azure free account include during the first 30 days? → A credit to spend on eligible services
- Which Power Automate flow type runs on a schedule rather than being triggered by an event? → Scheduled cloud flow
- What are SLAs (Service Level Agreements) used for in Dynamics 365 Customer Service? → Defining and tracking response and resolution time commitments for customer cases
- What is the purpose of Azure Bastion? → Providing secure RDP/SSH connectivity to VMs without exposing public IP addresses
- What is the difference between authentication and authorization? → Authentication verifies identity; authorization determines access rights
- What is an Azure Availability Set designed to protect against? → Hardware failures and planned maintenance within a single datacenter
- Which Microsoft 365 plan is best suited for small businesses needing basic Office apps plus email? → Microsoft 365 Business Basic
- What type of Azure subscription scope is HIGHEST in the management hierarchy? → Management Group
- In Azure, which of the following is the primary technique of access management? → RBAC (role-based)
- What does Dynamics 365 Marketing help businesses do? → Create and run marketing campaigns to attract and engage customers
- What is the primary purpose of a data warehouse? → To store and analyze large volumes of historical data for reporting
- In Dynamics 365, what does a 'queue' represent in Customer Service? → A holding area for cases or activities to be picked up and worked by agents
- What architectural benefit does deploying across Azure Availability Zones provide? → Protection against an entire datacenter failure within a region, providing 99.99% SLA
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