{"id":843,"date":"2014-09-15T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=843"},"modified":"2014-09-15T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:33:44","slug":"learning-guide-office-365-exam-70-346","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/learning-guide-office-365-exam-70-346\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning guide for the Office 365 exam 70-346"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the requirements when you work for a Microsoft gold partner is to keep your qualifications up to date. Following the release earlier this year of the Office 365 exams, I decided to take 70-346 last week. This exam forms the first of two for the office 365 MCSA.<\/p>\n<p>This entailed lots of frantic reading up, as I only gave myself a couple of weeks to study in before taking the exam.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn\u2019t a great deal of into regarding reading lists, so this list is a collection of the articles that i found useful while studying. This is by no means a definitive list but should hopefully prove valuable!<\/p>\n<p>The headings are from the exam guide on the Microsoft Learning site <em>(Which appears to have disappeared today with all the searches going to 404 \u2013 not found pages!)<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Reading List<\/h1>\n<h4>Provision office 365 (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Administering Office 365 Jump Start (Video) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/video\/administering-office-365-jump-start-03-dirsync-sso-and-adfs.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/video\/administering-office-365-jump-start-03-dirsync-sso-and-adfs.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Create DNS records for Office 365 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365-suite-help\/create-dns-records-for-office-365-when-you-manage-your-dns-records-ha102851099.aspx\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365-suite-help\/create-dns-records-for-office-365-when-you-manage-your-dns-records-ha102851099.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plan an office 365 pilot &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852499.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852499.aspx<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure you understand the tasks and phases in &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh852404.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh852404.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Plan and implement networking and security in office 365 (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Administration roles in Office 365\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh852528.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/hh852528.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Enabling Multi-factor authentication for Office 365 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/azure\/dn383636.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/azure\/dn383636.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Manage Azure AD using PowerShell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151815.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151815.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Network Security (more dedicated online tenancy focus?) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj945178.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj945178.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Administer Rights Management (RM)\n<ul>\n<li>Using PowerShell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/jj585027.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/library\/jj585027.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Password Policy in Azure AD &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj943764.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj943764.aspx<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Note: DirSync accounts take the password policy from on-prem with them and overrides Azure AD policy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>User account management in Office 365 &#8211; Platform Service Description &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/office-365-user-account-management.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/office-365-user-account-management.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Manage cloud identities (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Setting a password policy for online accounts &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/office365-suite-help\/set-a-user-s-password-expiration-policy-HA102816546.aspx\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/office365-suite-help\/set-a-user-s-password-expiration-policy-HA102816546.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Setting Online accounts to non-expire passwords &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/office365-suite-help\/set-up-user-passwords-to-never-expire-HA102816049.aspx?CTT=5&amp;origin=HA102816546\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/office365-suite-help\/set-up-user-passwords-to-never-expire-HA102816049.aspx?CTT=5&amp;origin=HA102816546<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Implement and manage identities by using DirSync (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan for Directory Synchronisation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852469.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852469.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Prepare for Directory Synchronisation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151831.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151831.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Implement password synchronisation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn246918.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn246918.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Prepare to provision users through Directory Synchronisation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852478.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/hh852478.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Synchronise your directories &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151771.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj151771.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Implement and manage federated identities (single sign-on [SSO]) (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan your ADFS Deployment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/dn151324.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/dn151324.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Checklist &#8211; Use ADFS to implement and manage single sign-on &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj205462.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/jj205462.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Monitor and troubleshoot Office 365 availability and usage (15-20%)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Using the MOSDAL support toolkit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/support\/using-the-mosdal-support-toolkit-ha102892891.aspx\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/support\/using-the-mosdal-support-toolkit-ha102892891.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reporting features and troubleshooting in Exchange Online &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/exchange-online-reporting-features-and-troubleshooting-tools.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/exchange-online-reporting-features-and-troubleshooting-tools.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Service health features in Office 365 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/office-365-service-health.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/library\/office-365-service-health.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Useful additional links<\/h1>\n<p>Manage Office 365 using PowerShell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn568031.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn568031.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exchange Online PowerShell Cmdlets &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj200780%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj200780(v=exchg.150).aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lync Online PowerShell Cmdlets &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj994021.aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj994021.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SharePoint Online PowerShell Cmdlets &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/fp161364(v=office.15).aspx\">http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/fp161364(v=office.15).aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope this proves useful.<\/p>\n<p>Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the requirements when you work for a Microsoft gold partner is to keep your qualifications up to date. 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