Introduction
With the new Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification, Microsoft have changed the way that IT Pro certifications work. Rather than being based on a technology area, they are focused on a specific job role. The Microsoft MD-100: Windows 10 exam provides the foundation of this new Modern Desktop Administrator Associate certification.
This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the “Need more review?” links you’ll find in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on the Microsoft website at docs.microsoft.com.
Organization of this book
This book is organized by the “Skills measured” list published for the exam. The “Skills measured” list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learn website: http://microsoft.com/learn. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapter’s organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book will contain six chapters.
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Important: How to use this book to study for the exam
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This book is organized by the “Skills measured” list published for the exam. The “Skills measured” list for each exam is available on the Microsoft Learn website: http://aka.ms/examlist.
Note that this Exam Ref is based on this publicly available information and the author’s experience. To safeguard the integrity of the exam, authors do not have access to the exam questions.