Candidates for this exam are IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating the Office 365 services, including its dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. Candidates should have experience with the Office 365 Admin Center and an understanding of Microsoft Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online, Office 365 ProPlus, and Windows Azure Active Directory. This includes experience with service descriptions, configuration options, and integrating services with existing identity management and on-premises infrastructure to support the business requirements of an organization.http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/exam-70-346.aspx.
The skills measured include adding and configuring custom domains of Office 365; managing users and licenses by using the administration center; planning a pilot; planning and implementing networking and security in Office 365; configuring DNS records for services; enabling client connectivity to Office 365; administering rights management; managing administrator roles in Office 365; managing cloud identities; configuring password management; managing user and security groups; managing cloud identities with Microsoft Powershell; implementing and managing identities by using DirSync; preparing on-premises Active Directory; setting up DirSync; managing Active Directory users and groups with DirSync in place; implementing and managing federated identities for single sign-on (SSO); planning requirements for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS); installing and managing ADFS and proxy servers; monitoring and troubleshooting Office 365 availability and usage; analyzing reports; monitoring service health; and isolating service interruption.