MS-700 study guide
MS-700 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate is an intermediate-level Microsoft certification for administrators who work with Microsoft 365. Microsoft describes the role this way: a Teams administrator plans, implements, manages, and maintains internal and external collaboration and communication solutions using Teams, and is responsible for configuring and managing teams, channels, chat, apps, events, and calling. Candidates should have a working knowledge of how Teams integrates into Microsoft 365 services, and the role collaborates with owners of identity, licensing, information management, user adoption, security, compliance, devices, and networking. Passing exam MS-700 earns the credential. The MS-700 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,325 words.
01Configure and Manage a Teams Environment
Teams administration spans several consoles, and MS-700 questions test whether you know which one owns a setting. Guest access (letting external users join teams as guest accounts via Entra B2B) and external access (federation for chats and calls with other domains) are independent switches in Teams admin center; enabling one never enables the other.
343 words, about 2 min02Manage Teams, Channels, Chats, and Apps
Every team is backed by a Microsoft 365 group, so membership is either assigned or driven dynamically by an Entra ID group rule; a dynamic team cannot have members edited manually in Teams. Guests must be enabled at tenant level before they can be added, and sensitivity labels applied to the team control container privacy and guest permissions.
347 words, about 2 min03Manage Meetings and Calling
Meeting policies control lobby behavior, who can present, recording and transcription, and anonymous join; tenant-level meeting settings supply the defaults those policies inherit. Live events have a separate policy controlling who can schedule events, recording, and third-party encoder support.
319 words, about 2 min04Monitor, Report on, and Troubleshoot Teams
Teams admin center reports cover usage (active users, teams and channels, messages), app usage, PSTN and calling activity, and device health. The exam expects you to separate the two quality tools clearly.
316 words, about 2 min