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Who Should Read This Book?
This book is intended for individuals who want to earn their Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate: Windows 10 certification by passing exams MD-100 and MD-101.
Use this book as a study guide to help you pass the Microsoft exams. It will also help anyone who wants to learn the real ins and outs of the Windows 10 operating system using the question explanations.
What's Inside?
Here is a glance at what's contained in each chapter:
Part I: Modern Desktop Admin, Exam MD-100
Chapter 1: Deploy Windows In the first chapter, we cover questions on how to deploy Windows 10 and how to perform post-installation configurations. This is a partial list, but some of the questions will cover subjects such as configuring language packs, migrating user data, performing a clean installation, performing an in-place upgrade, specifying mobility settings, and customizing the Windows desktop.
Chapter 2: Manage Devices and Data This chapter asks questions on how to manage local users, local groups, and devices. It covers questions regarding configuring data access and protection, configuring devices by using local policies, and managing Windows security. Questions will cover subjects such as configuring permissions, configuring the local registry, troubleshooting group policies, configuring user account control (UAC), and implementing encryption.
Chapter 3: Configure Connectivity This chapter asks questions on how to configure networking and configuring remote connectivity. It covers questions regarding configuring IP settings, configuring VPN clients, troubleshooting networking, and configuring Wi-Fi profile and remote management, as well as PowerShell remoting.
Chapter 4: Maintain Windows This chapter asks questions on configuring system and data recovery, managing updates, and monitoring and managing Windows. It covers questions regarding performing file recovery, using OneDrive, recovering Windows 10, checking and troubleshooting updates, selecting the appropriate servicing channel, analyzing event logs, and managing the Windows 10 environment.
Part II: Modern Desktop Admin, Exam MD-101
Chapter 5: Deploy and Update Operating Systems This chapter asks questions on how to plan and implement Windows 10 by using dynamic deployment, planning and implementing Windows 10 by using Windows Autopilot, upgrading devices to Windows 10, managing updates, and managing device authentication. It covers questions regarding managing and troubleshooting provisioning packages, evaluating and selecting an appropriate deployment option, assigning deployment profiles, identifying upgrade and downgrade paths, migrating user profiles, optimizing Windows 10 delivery, using Desktop Analytics, configuring Windows Update for Business, and more.
Chapter 6: Manage Policies and Profiles This chapter asks questions on planning and implementing co-management, implementing conditional access and compliance policies for devices, configuring device profiles, and managing user profiles. It covers questions regarding implementing co-management precedence, migrating group policies to mobility device management (MDM) policies, conditional access policies, device compliance policies, device profiles, user profiles, Enterprise State Roaming, and Folder Redirection.
Chapter 7: Manage and Protect Devices This chapter asks questions on how to manage Microsoft Defender and managing Intune device enrollment and inventory. It covers questions regarding implementing and managing Microsoft Defender tools, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, and Microsoft Defender Antivirus; configuring enrollment settings and Intune automatic enrollment, enrolling devices; and monitoring device health using different tools.
Chapter 8: Manage Apps and Data This chapter asks questions on how to deploy and update applications and how to implement Mobile Application Management (MAM). This chapter covers questions pertaining to assigning apps to groups, deploying apps, enabling sideloading, gathering readiness data, configuring and implementing kiosks, using MAM policies, using Windows Information Protection (WIP) policies, and using Azure Information Protection templates.
Chapter 9: Practice Exam 1: MD-100 This is a series of review questions on what you learned when going through Chapters 1–4.
Chapter 10: Practice Exam 2: MD-101 This is a series of review questions on what you learned when going through Chapters 5–8.
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Exam MD-100 and Exam MD-101 Certification Objectives
This book has been written to cover the MCA Modern Desktop Administrator exam MD-100 and exam MD-101 objectives. The following table lists the domains measured by these exams and the extent to which they are represented:
| Exam Objective | Percentage of Exam |
| Part 1 - MD-100 Objectives | |
| 1.0 Deploy Windows 10 | 15–20% |
| 2.0 Manage Devices and Data | 35–40% |
| 3.0 Configure Connectivity | 15–20% |
| 4.0 Maintain Windows | 25–30% |
