Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

A multinational organization is migrating to Microsoft 365 and needs to ensure that data for EU employees remains stored within EU datacenters while US employees' data stays in US datacenters. The organization also requires that eDiscovery searches can be performed across all regions simultaneously by the legal team. Which combination of features should be implemented?

An organization uses Microsoft Teams for collaboration and has experienced a security incident where sensitive financial documents were shared with external users through a public link. The security team needs to implement a solution that prevents similar incidents while maintaining legitimate external collaboration. The solution must work retroactively on existing shared content and provide automated remediation. Which approach best addresses these requirements?

A healthcare organization subject to HIPAA compliance needs to implement a Microsoft 365 solution for clinical staff to collaborate on patient cases. The solution must ensure that patient identifiers are automatically detected and protected, prevent accidental disclosure via email, maintain an immutable audit trail for 7 years, and allow secure sharing with external specialists. Which combination of Microsoft 365 services fully satisfies these requirements?

An enterprise with 5,000 users is designing their Microsoft 365 licensing strategy. They need Power BI Pro for 500 analysts, Advanced eDiscovery for 50 compliance officers, Phone System for 1,000 call center agents, and advanced threat protection for all users. The remaining users need standard Office apps and email. What is the most cost-effective licensing approach that meets all requirements without over-licensing?

A financial services company is evaluating Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise deployment. They have a mix of 3,000 Windows 10 devices, 500 MacOS devices, 200 shared VDI sessions, and users who frequently work on personal devices. They require monthly security updates but need to test feature updates before broad deployment. The IT team has limited resources for package management. Which deployment and update channel strategy best fits these requirements?

An organization has implemented Microsoft 365 and is experiencing performance issues with large SharePoint libraries containing 100,000+ files. Users report slow synchronization, search delays, and timeout errors when accessing document libraries. The organization uses retention policies, has extensive metadata columns, and requires version history. What combination of solutions would most effectively resolve these performance issues?

A global organization needs to implement a zero-trust security model for Microsoft 365. They have users accessing resources from managed devices, unmanaged BYOD devices, and third-party contractor devices across various locations and networks. Which comprehensive approach best implements zero-trust principles while maintaining user productivity?

A manufacturing company needs to implement an information governance strategy for Microsoft 365. They must retain engineering documents for 10 years, delete marketing materials after 3 years, preserve legal hold items indefinitely when litigation occurs, and ensure deleted items cannot be recovered after retention periods expire. Some documents may fall into multiple categories. How should retention policies and labels be configured to meet these complex requirements?

An organization is experiencing a critical issue where 500 users suddenly cannot access their Exchange Online mailboxes, receiving authentication errors. Azure AD sign-in logs show successful authentication, but Exchange Online access fails. Microsoft 365 Service Health shows no reported outages. The issue started after a conditional access policy change. What is the most likely cause and resolution approach?

A university is implementing Microsoft 365 and needs to provide services to 10,000 students, 2,000 faculty members, and 500 administrative staff. Students need Office apps and email with 50GB storage. Faculty need advanced research collaboration tools, unlimited OneDrive storage, and meeting recording. Administrative staff need advanced security and compliance tools. The university has limited budget and is eligible for academic licensing. What licensing strategy optimally balances cost and requirements?