MS-721: Microsoft Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer

MS-721: Microsoft Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: plan and design collaboration communications systems; configure and manage Teams meetings, webinars, and town halls; configure and manage Teams Phone; and configure and manage Teams Rooms and devices.

As a candidate for this exam, you’re responsible for planning, deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting:

◉ Microsoft Teams Phone
◉ Meetings
◉ Personal and shared space devices, including Teams Rooms and Microsoft Surface Hub

As a collaboration communications systems engineer, you have a fundamental understanding of networking, telecommunications, audio/visual and meeting room technologies, and identity and access management. You’re proficient in managing and monitoring Teams Phone, meetings, and certified devices by using:

◉ Microsoft Teams admin center
◉ PowerShell
◉ Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
◉ Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard

You deploy and configure Teams Phone with Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) connectivity through:

◉ Teams Calling Plans
◉ Operator Connect
◉ Teams Phone Mobile
◉ Direct Routing

You work with:

◉ Teams administrators
◉ Microsoft identity and access administrators
◉ Microsoft 365 administrators
◉ Owners of other workloads, including facilities managers, network engineers, security engineers, device manufacturers, telephony providers, and Microsoft Certified solution providers

Microsoft Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Exam Summary:


Exam Name Microsoft 365 Certified - Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate
Exam Code   MS-721
Exam Price  $165 (USD)
Exam Price  120 mins
Number of Questions  40-60
Passing Score  700 / 1000
Books / Training  Course MS-721T00-A: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer
Sample Questions Microsoft Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Sample Questions
Practice Exam  Microsoft MS-721 Certification Practice Exam

Microsoft MS-721 Exam Syllabus Topics:


Topic Details
Plan and design collaboration communications systems (25-30%)
Plan and design Teams meetings - Plan and design Teams meeting policies and settings
- Plan for PSTN audio conferencing
- Plan for Teams webinars, live events, and town halls
- Compare capabilities and features of Teams Core and Teams Premium
- Recommend meeting types based on business requirements (virtual appointments, webinars, live events, town halls and Teams meetings)
- Design Teams policy packages (includes meeting policies, calling policies, and live events policies)
- Recommend methods for assigning policies
Plan and design Teams Phone and PSTN connectivity - Identify licensing requirements to enable Teams Phone for users, shared devices, and Teams resource accounts
- Identify PSTN connectivity requirements
- Plan for Teams Phone Mobile
- Plan for Operator Connect
- Plan for Communication Credits or pay-as-you-go calling subscriptions
- Plan for Shared Calling
- Plan usage scenarios for service and user phone numbers
- Choose between porting and acquiring phone numbers
- Plan a solution to acquire or port phone numbers based on PSTN connectivity method (DR, OC, TPM, Teams Calling Plans)
- Recommend Teams Phone devices
- Plan for and recommend analog devices, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) handsets, and SIP devices
- Recommend when to use Survivable Branch Appliances (SBAs)
- Plan and design Direct Routing call flows
- Recommend a Session Border Controller (SBC) solution based on PSTN connectivity
- Identify an appropriate compliance recording solution
- Identify an appropriate certified contact center solution
- Plan for SBC and SBA updates
Plan and design Teams-certified device solutions - Recommend a room configuration based on the meeting space
- Recommend a room configuration based on customer and business requirements
- Compare capabilities and features of Teams Rooms Basic and Teams Rooms Pro
- Recommend a Teams Rooms device platform (Android vs. Windows vs. Surface Hub)
- Recommend Teams-certified devices
- Recommend Teams Rooms certified components
- Recommend when to use coordinated meetings
- Recommend when to use Cloud Video Interop (CVI) or Direct Guest Join
- Recommend an update strategy for Teams Meeting Room devices
- Identify the requirements for a Microsoft Exchange Online resource account
- Identify the enrollment requirements for Microsoft Intune
- Plan for advanced features on shared devices
Prepare the network for the deployment of Teams - Perform a network analysis by using the Microsoft Teams Network Assessment Tool
- Determine network readiness for Teams
- Determine Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) requirements for Teams live events and town halls
- Specify the network configuration for certified devices
- Determine network requirements by using the Network planner for Teams
- Specify the optimal network architecture for Teams
- Specify Teams Quality of Service (QoS) requirements and policies
- Validate local internet breakout strategy for client media optimization
- Validate VPN split tunneling
- Validate DNS resolves to the nearest point of entry in Microsoft 365
- Configure Teams for QoS
- Configure Media Bit Rate (MBR)
- Create and assign a network roaming policy
- Configure the network topology
- Configure tenant data upload for the Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard
- Configure Microsoft Power BI reports for the Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard
- Configure reporting labels for Call Analytics
Troubleshoot call failures and session quality - Troubleshoot a missing dial pad
- Troubleshoot voice & meeting issues by using self-help diagnostics in the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Troubleshoot Entra ID sign-in issues for Teams phones
- Interpret Teams media flows
- Troubleshoot tenant dial plans by using regular expressions and PowerShell
- Interpret E.164 normalization rules to resolve dialing issues
- Interpret reverse number lookup to resolve caller ID issues
- Diagnose call failures
- Troubleshoot dynamic emergency address by using client debug logs
- Troubleshoot Teams client media issues by using the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer for Teams
- Troubleshoot calls by using Advanced Call Analytics
- Troubleshoot calls by using the Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard
- Inspect PSTN usage reports for SIP call failures
Configure and manage Teams meetings, webinars, and town halls (15-20%)
Configure and manage Teams meetings - Create and manage meeting policies
- Configure meeting settings
- Configure and manage Teams webinars
- Configure avatars for Teams meetings
- Configure and manage Teams Premium meeting features
- Create and manage Teams meeting templates and policies
Configure and manage audio conferencing - Configure audio conferencing for Teams
- Configure a default audio conferencing bridge
- Configure an audio conference bridge number
- Configure a toll-free conference bridge number
- Assign a specific audio conferencing number to a user
- Configure toll-free audio conferencing
- Configure the audio conferencing numbers included in meeting invitations
Configure and manage live events, webinars, and town halls - Configure the Live events settings
- Create and manage live events policies
- Configure meeting and event roles
- Configure live events and town halls with Teams, Viva Engage, and Microsoft Stream
- Configure in-org vs public town halls
- Configure town halls with Teams Premium
- Manage access to scheduling Teams webinars
- Configure policies for Teams webinars
- Configure in-org vs public webinars
- Configure webinars with Teams Premium
- Configure attendee interaction for webinars
Configure and manage Teams Phone (25-30%)
Configure Teams Phone policies - Create a dial plan
- Configure calling policies
- Configure call park policies
- Configure caller ID policies
- Configure call hold policies for users
- Configure outbound call restrictions
- Configure inbound call blocking
- Configure routing of unassigned numbers
- Assign voice policies through policy packages
- Configure compliance recording policies
Configure auto attendants and call queues - Design call flows for auto attendants and call queues
- Configure auto attendants and call queues
- Deploy channel-based call queues
- Configure resource accounts
- Assign licenses to resource accounts
- Assign phone number to resource accounts
- Assign a resource account to an auto attendant or call queue
- Configure Microsoft 365 groups for voicemail
- Interpret call queue conference mode
- Interpret call queue routing methods
- Configure holidays for auto attendants and call queues
- Configure custom Music on Hold (MoH)
- Assign a dynamic caller ID policy for call queues
- Configure voice applications policies for auto attendants and call queues
Configure dynamic emergency calling - Design dynamic emergency calling scenarios
- Configure emergency calling locations
- Configure emergency calling policies
- Configure networks and locations (Location Information Service (LIS))
- Validate emergency address and emergency calling from Teams clients
- Enable external location lookup mode
Configure and manage users for Teams Phone - Assign a Teams Phone Standard license
- Assign a Teams Calling Plan
- Assign user dial plans
- Assign phone numbers to users by using the Microsoft Teams admin center
- Assign phone number to users by using PowerShell
- Assign a verified emergency address location
- Assign a calling policy to a user
- Assign a voice routing policy to a Direct Routing user
Configure and manage calling features for Teams Phone - Configure voicemail for users
- Configure group call pickup for users
- Configure Call Forwarding
- Configure Simultaneous Ring
- Configure call delegation for users
- Enable and configure audio conferencing for a user
- Assign a Dial-out from meetings policy for a user
- Assign a call hold policy for a user
- Configure Shared Calling
Configure and manage Direct Routing for Teams Phone - Configure connectivity for Teams Phone to a SBC
- Create and configure an online PSTN gateway
- Create PSTN usage records
- Create and configure a voice route
- Create and configure voice routing policies
- Validate Direct Routing SBC connectivity
- Troubleshoot firewall issues for Direct Routing
- Troubleshoot certificate issues for Direct Routing
- Troubleshoot Direct Routing SBC connectivity
- Troubleshoot SIP option issues for Direct Routing
- Investigate and diagnose calling issues by using an SBC SIP trace
- Design and configure Location-Based Routing (LBR)
- Design and configure Local Media Optimization (LMO)
- Configure trunk translation rules
- Configure on-network conferencing for Direct Routing
- Configure an SBA
- Manage emergency call routing policies for Direct Routing
Configure and manage Teams Rooms and devices (25-30%)
Maintain Teams Rooms and devices - Configure device settings
- Configure IP phone policies
- Configure local network settings
- Configure security and updates
- Configure Conditional Access Policy MFA exception for Resource accounts
- Configure meeting room settings by using the Microsoft Teams admin center or the local Teams application settings
- Create and configure device configuration profiles for Android based devices
- Manage Teams Rooms from the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
- Configure Intune policies for Teams devices
- Configure Intune Configuration profiles (for Windows MTRs)
- Enable advanced voice capabilities for shared space devices
- Enable hotline for shared space devices
- Configure Virtual frontdesk
- Deploy common area phones, user phones, conference phones
- Create and manage Teams device tags
- Deploy Android devices remotely
- Configure SIP Gateway
- Monitor Teams device health
- Troubleshoot authentication issues
- Troubleshoot update issues
- Troubleshoot remote provisioning issues
- Troubleshoot Bluetooth beaconing
Configure and manage Teams Rooms on a Surface Hub or Windows - Configure the authentication type during a Surface Hub out-of-box -experience (OOBE) setup
- Configure meeting room settings on a Surface Hub device
- Create and validate a Surface Hub provisioning package
- Assign a provisioning package to a Surface Hub
- Specify domain group policy exclusions for Teams Rooms on Windows
- Configure custom displays for Teams Rooms on Windows
- Customize meeting room settings by using XML files on Windows
- Configure settings for peripherals for Teams Room on Windows
- Monitor Surface Hub health with Azure Monitor
- Manage Surface Hub Updates via Update Rings
Configure optional features for Teams Rooms and devices - Configure HDMI ingest and options
- Configure a content camera
- Configure Teams casting
- Auto accept a proximity join
- Allow room remote
- Configure an intelligent speaker
- Configure Direct Guest Join
- Configure hot desking on Teams shared devices
- Configure Hotline phones

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