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Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate

About the course

Exam Prefix

MS-203

Level

Associate

Length

60 minutes to complete the exam

Format

40-60 questions, multiple-choice and multi-select questions

Passing Score

700 / 1000

Microsoft 365 Messaging Administrators deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and monitor recipients, compliance, threat protection, and mail flow in hybrid and cloud enterprise environments.

What you will learn

Skills measured

  • Manage organizational settings and resources

  • Plan and manage the mail transport architecture

  • Plan and implement a hybrid configuration and migration

  • Secure the messaging environment

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Average salary for Messaging Administrator professionals

£45,855.00+

The average messaging administrator salary in the United Kingdom is £45,855 per year or £23.52 per hour. Entry level positions start at £45,641 per year while most experienced workers make up to £86,255 per year.

Job Roles

  • Microsoft 365 & Cloud Consulant

  • Messaging & Collaboration Manager

  • Microsoft 365 Trainer

  • Exchange/Messaging Specialist

  • Office 365 Engineer

  • 3rd Line Messaging Engineer

Related Exams

Exam skills outline

Exam MS-203: Microsoft 365 Messaging

Candidates for this exam are messaging administrators who deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and monitor recipients, compliance, threat protection, and mail flow in hybrid and cloud enterprise environments.


Messaging administrators are responsible for managing message hygiene, permissions, messaging infrastructure, hybrid configuration, migration, transport, mailboxes, and client access.


Messaging administrators collaborate with other workload administrators and the Microsoft 365 enterprise administrator to implement a secure hybrid or cloud-only messaging topology that meets the business needs of an enterprise


The messaging administrator should have a working knowledge of authentication types, licensing, and integration with Microsoft 365 applications


  • The content of this exam was updated on November 22, 2021. Please download the exam skills outline below to see what changed.

  • Manage organizational settings and resources (30-35%)

  • Plan and manage the mail transport architecture (20-25%)

  • Plan and implement a hybrid configuration and migration (15-20%)

  • Secure the messaging environment (25-30%)

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