Published: January 23, 2015
Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
French, German, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft Intune
Credit toward certification: MCP, MCSE
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.
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Deploy and manage virtual applications (10–15%)
Prepare virtual applications
Sequence applications, install and configure the sequencer environment, prepare
applications for deployment in different environments, configure virtual
application interaction and sharing
Manage application virtualization environments
Configure App-V, manage application cache, configure System Tray/SFTTray.exe
switches, configure application extensions with virtualized applications,
configure application settings using group policies
Deploy and manage RemoteApp
Configure RemoteApp and Desktop Connections settings, configure Group Policy
Objects (GPOs) for signed packages, subscribe to the RemoteApp and Desktop
Connections feeds, support iOS and Android, configure Remote Desktop web access
for RemoteApp distribution, configure and deploy Azure RemoteApp
Deploy and manage desktop and mobile applications (15–20%)
Plan an application distribution strategy
Considerations, including impact on clients due to offline access, deployment
infrastructure, and remote locations; choose the appropriate application
distribution method; plan to distribute applications to mobile devices,
including Windows Phone, iOS, and Android, by using Microsoft Intune; plan to
distribute applications to devices including Windows Store Apps
Deploy applications using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Choose and configure deployment types, configure user device affinity, configure
requirements, manage the software library and application catalog
Deploy applications using Microsoft Intune
Choose between automatic and manual deployment, configure application deployment
policies, add software packages, configure the company portal
Plan for application upgrades
Considerations, including application version co-existence, compatibility
issues, and migrating application settings and configurations;
re-sequence/redeploy applications
Monitor applications
Monitor offline application usage; monitor real-time sessions; monitor
application licensing usage; configure Asset Intelligence in Configuration
Manager; monitor applications, using Software Center
Manage content distribution
Manage distribution points, distribution point groups, and Content Library;
monitor log files
Plan and implement software updates (15–20%)
Plan and deploy third-party updates
Plan for third-party support, integrate System Center Updates Publisher with
Configuration Manager
Deploy software updates by using Configuration Manager and Windows Server Update
Services (WSUS)
Configure software update point synchronization to Windows Update, use reports
and In Console Monitoring to identify required updates, create update groups,
create and monitor deployments, analyze log files, configure Automatic
Deployment Rules (ADR), provide secondary access to Windows Update, configure
GPO settings
Servicing Windows using Microsoft Intune and the Windows as a Service Model
Use reports and In Console Monitoring to identify required updates, approve or
decline updates, configure automatic approval settings, configure deadlines for
update installations, deploy Microsoft and non-Microsoft updates, plan for a
service branch
Manage compliance and Endpoint Protection settings (15–20%)
Build a Configuration Item (CI)
Create a CI, import a CI, set CI versioning, remediate rules
Create and monitor a baseline
Deploy a baseline, import a configuration pack, build a custom baseline
Configure Endpoint Protection
Create and manage the Endpoint Protection policy; configure definitions within
the client policy; export policies; choose which template to use; select
exclusions; configure Endpoint Protection, using Microsoft Intune; use In
Console Monitoring to monitor client compliance
Manage Configuration Manager clients (15–20%)
Deploy and manage the client agent
Identify deployment methods, manage client agent settings
Manage collections
Plan the collection structure; define rules for collections; customize
collection-specific settings, including maintenance windows and power management
Configure and monitor client status
Configure client status settings, use In Console Monitoring to determine client
health, configure alert thresholds, configure client health auto-remediation
Manage inventory using Configuration Manager (10–15%)
Manage hardware and software inventory
Extend hardware inventory WMI classes, export and import WMI class settings,
configure standardized vendor names, analyze the identified inventory and
generate reports
Manage software metering
Create software metering rules, enable or disable auto-generated rules, report
software metering results
Create reports
Clone and modify reports, create custom reports, import and export reports,
manage asset intelligence, install the asset intelligence sync point, enable the
WMI classes, modify categories and labels, analyze reports
Provision and manage mobile devices (10–15%)
Integrate Configuration Manager with the Exchange ActiveSync Connector
Configure and apply ActiveSync policies, view inventory on mobile devices,
configure connection to an on-premises or Hosted Exchange server environment,
monitor the Exchange connector log file
Manage devices with Microsoft Intune
Provision user accounts, enroll devices, integrate Microsoft Intune with
Configuration Manager, view and manage all managed devices, configure the
Microsoft Intune subscriptions, configure the Microsoft Intune connector site
system role, manage profiles and conditional access by using Microsoft Intune
Manage connection profiles, by using Configuration Manager
Configure Remote Desktop profiles, certificate profiles, email profiles, and
Wi-Fi profiles
Question 1
You need to recommend a deployment solution for App6.
What is the best recommendation? More than one answer choice may achieve the
goal.
Select the BEST answer.
B. a local installation
C. a RemoteApp program
D. a Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) package
Answer: D
Question 2
You need to resolve the Windows update issue.
What should you do?
A. Modify the Group Policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory.
B. Synchronize software updates from Configuration Manager.
C. Create an automatic deployment rule.
D. Add distribution points to each branch office.
Answer: D
Question 3
You need to ensure that the personal devices that run Windows 8.1 meet the
corporate
security policy requirements.
What should you do first?
A. Create a federated trust with Windows Azure Active Directory.
B. Create a federated identity relationship with the Microsoft Federation
Gateway.
C. Enroll the device in Windows Intune.
D. Join the devices to the domain by using an offline domain join.
Answer: C
Question 4
You need to make App4 available to all of the users.
What should you do?
A. Package App4 as an MSI package and upload the installer to Windows Intune.
B. Sequence App4 and use streaming delivery.
C. Deploy App4 as a Configuration Manager package.
D. Deploy App4 to a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server.
Answer: D
