Candidates for this exam identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with Microsoft Exchange Online, hybrid Exchange environments and related components, technologies, and services.
Candidates work with customers and other stakeholders to understand the details of any issues. They also interact with administrators and peers that work with other related technologies.
Candidates should have experience with PowerShell and the Exchange PowerShell module. The support engineer should also have significant experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Online environments
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Exam MS-220: Troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Online
Languages: English, Chinese (Simplified)
Retirement date: none
This exam measures your ability to troubleshoot the following issues: mail flow; compliance and retention; mail client; Exchange Online configuration; and hybrid and migration.
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All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you’ll be ready for any question on the exam.
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The English language version of this exam was updated on October 19, 2022.
Download the study guide in the preceding “Tip” box for more details about the skills measured on this exam.
Troubleshoot mail flow issues (20–25%)
Troubleshoot compliance and retention issues (25–30%)
Troubleshoot mail client issues (20–25%)
Troubleshoot Exchange Online configuration issues (15–20%)
Troubleshoot hybrid and migration issues (10–15%)
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Objective domain: skills the exam measures
The English language version of this exam was updated on October 19, 2022.
Some exams are localized into other languages, and those are updated approximately eight weeks after the English version is updated. Other available languages are listed in the Schedule Exam section of the Exam Details webpage. If the exam isn’t available in your preferred language, you can request an additional 30 minutes to complete the exam.
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Functional groups
Troubleshoot mail flow issues (20–25%)
Troubleshoot Exchange Online mail flow issues
• Review and interpret message headers
• Review and interpret message trace results and policies associated with those results
• Determine whether a mail flow rule or conditional mail routing is affecting mail flow
• Identify rules that are evaluated and policies that are applied when sending or receiving email
• Troubleshoot issues where users cannot send or receive email and no NDR is generated or displayed
• Troubleshoot issues where email destined for one tenant is incorrectly routed to another tenant
• Troubleshoot delivery delays
Troubleshoot mail flow issues with external systems
• Read and analyze SMTP protocol logs for hybrid deployments and third-party systems
• Troubleshoot issues related to mail flow for hybrid deployments
• Troubleshoot DNS-related mail flow issues
• Troubleshoot SMTP relay issues
• Troubleshoot SMTP certificate issues
Troubleshoot other mail flow issues
• Identify types of NDRs and interpret NDR data
• Determine which active rules impact email attachments
• Determine which rules are triggered when an email arrives at a user’s inbox
• Troubleshoot issues related to blocked attachment types
• Troubleshoot issues with corrupted inbox rules
Troubleshoot issues reported by Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Determine why an email is marked as spam
• Determine why messages are being quarantined
• Determine whether the sender SPF, DMARC, and DKIM records are valid
• Troubleshoot anti-spam policies
• Troubleshoot messages that are categorized as false positive or false negative
Troubleshoot compliance and retention issues (25–30%)
Troubleshoot compliance issues
• Identify roles required to perform eDiscovery actions
• Describe Microsoft Purview compliance portal retention policies
• Troubleshoot eDiscovery issues
• Determine what types of holds are associated with an item
• Troubleshoot in-place and eDiscovery holds
• Search for and delete email messages in an organization
• Determine how to clear or purge recoverable item folders
Troubleshoot retention issues
• Describe retention tag types and actions
• Describe the process for calculating item retention age
• Troubleshoot issues creating and applying retention policies
• Review and interpret Messaging Records Management (MRM) mailbox diagnostics logs
• Interpret message properties used by message records management (MRM)
Troubleshoot Microsoft Purview Message Encryption and S/MIME issues
• Troubleshoot issues with messages that are not encrypted or decrypted as expected
• Troubleshoot issues where external users cannot decrypt messages but internal users can decrypt messages
• Troubleshoot issues reading, replying to, or forwarding protected messages from Microsoft 365 on mobile devices
• Troubleshoot mail flow rules
• Troubleshoot revocation issues for encrypted emails
• Troubleshoot S/MIME issues
Troubleshoot mailbox auditing issues
• Troubleshoot issues searching audit logs
• Troubleshoot user actions (for example, user reports an item is deleted but they say they did not delete)
• Troubleshoot bulk actions including email creation, moves, modifications, and deletion
• Track non-owner actions
• Troubleshoot audit log retention period issues
• Troubleshoot auditing not working
Troubleshoot journaling
• Troubleshoot duplicate journal entries
• Troubleshoot email not being journaled
• Troubleshoot journal OME decryption issues
Troubleshoot mail client issues (20–25%)
Troubleshoot connectivity and authentication issues
• Describe how to obtain Outlook client configuration information
• Troubleshoot Exchange authentication policies
• Troubleshoot client access rules
• Troubleshoot issues with modern authentication
• Troubleshoot Outlook on the web (OWA) sign in issues
• Troubleshoot Autodiscover issues
• Outlook client cannot connect to Exchange Online mailbox
• Troubleshoot Outlook continuously prompting for Exchange Online password
Troubleshoot calendaring issues
• Review and analyze mailbox and calendar diagnostic logs
• Troubleshoot broken manager/delegation issues
• Troubleshoot Resource Booking Assistant issues
Troubleshoot calendar sharing issues
• Troubleshoot permissions issues related to calendar sharing
• Troubleshoot issues publishing and accessing calendars shared with external users
• Determine why content for a published calendar is not up to date
Troubleshoot issues with mobile devices
• Identify mobile device access states and what the states indicate
• Review mobile devices statistics to confirm the reason for a block
• Review the Allow/Block/Quarantine (ABQ) list to identify blocked or quarantined devices
• Troubleshoot Exchange device access rules
• Review and interpret ActiveSync logs to troubleshoot Outlook Sync EAS connection issues
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues with native ActiveSync
Troubleshoot Exchange Online configuration issues (15–20%)
Troubleshoot provisioning issues
• Interpret and troubleshoot validation errors encountered during object provisioning
• Determine when to restore or recover an inactive mailbox
• Troubleshoot issues managing resource mailboxes
• Troubleshoot issues purging deleted users
Troubleshoot recipient issues
• Troubleshoot automatic email forwarding
• Troubleshoot matching issues with Azure AD, part of Microsoft Entra
• Troubleshoot distribution list membership issues (including dynamic distribution groups)
• Troubleshoot issues with archive mailboxes including auto-expanding archive mailboxes
Troubleshoot org-wide settings
• Troubleshoot domain setup and configuration issues
• Troubleshoot address book policies
• Troubleshoot address lists
• Troubleshoot allowed file types
• Troubleshoot mailbox plans
• Troubleshoot Client-Access Services (CAS) mailbox plans
Troubleshoot public folder issues
• Troubleshoot Exchange Online access to public folders
• Troubleshoot mail-enabled public folders
• Troubleshoot issues sending email to public folders
• Troubleshoot hybrid access to public folders
• Troubleshoot load-balancing issues for public folders
Troubleshoot hybrid and migration issues (10–15%)
Troubleshoot hybrid configuration issues
• Troubleshoot Hybrid Configuration Wizard issues
• Troubleshoot hybrid mail flow issues
• Troubleshoot free/busy issues for hybrid deployments
• Troubleshoot issues synchronizing remote recipient attributes with Exchange Online
Troubleshoot migration issues
• Troubleshoot endpoint creation issues
• Review migration users and move requests
• Troubleshoot slow migrations
• Troubleshoot Data Consistency Score (DCS) issues
• Troubleshoot failed migrations
• Troubleshoot public folder migration issues
Sample Questions
QUESTION 1
You need to investigate the issue reported by User1. What should you review?
A. the mailbox audit log for the shared mailbox
B. the mailbox audit log for User1 s mailbox
C. the non-owner mailbox access report
D. the sign-in logs
Answer: D
QUESTION 2
You need to troubleshoot the Outlook issue reported by User6.
Which port is blocked on the client computer?
A. 25
B. 110
C. 443
D. 587
Answer: D
QUESTION 3
You need to resolve the issue reported by Admin2.
Which role should you assign to Admin2?
A. Author
B. Publishing Author
C. Editor
D. Non-Editing Author
Answer: C
QUESTION 4
A company uses Exchange Online.
You observe that emails are being automatically forwarded to external recipients using inbox rules and SMTP forwarding. You need to create a report that lists forwarded emails. What should you use?
A. Microsoft 365 compliance
B. the Get-TransportRule Cmdlet
C. Exchange admin center
D. the Get-OutboundConnector cmdlet
Answer: D
QUESTION 5
A company uses Exchange Online. The company creates a public folder mailbox named Pub1.
A user named User1 reports they are unable to access Pub1.
User1 reports they receive the following error message after you configure the permission on Pub1:
There is no existing permission entry found for user: User1
You need to resolve the issue. Which cmdlet should you use?
A. Update-PublicFolder
B. Update-PublicFolderMailbox
C. Set-PublicFolder
D. Update-PublicFolderHierarchy
E. Set-MailPublicFolder
Answer: A
QUESTION 6
A company uses Exchange Online.
A user configures a Microsoft Outlook rule to forward email to external recipients. The user reports that emails are not being automatically forwarded. You need to resolve the issue. What should you configure?
A. Anti-spam policy
B. Anti-phishing policy
C. Data loss prevention rule
D. Connection filter policy
Answer: A
