JITA Learning · Microsoft · Field Guide
MD-102 · Managing and Securing Microsoft 365 Endpoints by using Intune
Build working judgment for Microsoft Intune endpoint management and security.
What you should expect
Build working judgment for Microsoft Intune endpoint management and security.
This Field Guide develops a working mental model of Microsoft Intune endpoint management and security. You will connect choose device join, registration, enrollment, and Windows Autopilot approaches, configure compliance, configuration, update, security, and application policies, deploy and manage applications, scripts, remediation, and endpoint settings, and apply attack-surface reduction, app control, endpoint security, and least-privilege controls. You are not just memorizing feature names; you are learning what owns the requirement, what can fail, and how to verify the outcome.
What you will learn
- choose device join, registration, enrollment, and Windows Autopilot approaches
- configure compliance, configuration, update, security, and application policies
- deploy and manage applications, scripts, remediation, and endpoint settings
- apply attack-surface reduction, app control, endpoint security, and least-privilege controls
- recognize why one technically plausible alternative loses under the stated requirement
- apply Changed Fact reasoning and verify the design or implementation through operational evidence
Decision skills you will practice
- identify the governing requirement
- compare the nearest plausible alternative
- apply Changed Fact reasoning
- trace prerequisites, dependencies, and failure paths
- verify configured state, effective state, runtime outcome, and negative-path evidence
Who this is for
endpoint administrators managing enrollment, configuration, applications, security, compliance, Autopilot, and device health
Use this when you need to learn the architecture, mechanics, dependencies, tradeoffs, failure paths, and verification logic behind the certification.
Decisions you will learn to distinguish
- enrollment/join issue vs policy-assignment issue
- configuration policy vs compliance or endpoint-security control
- reported policy assignment vs effective device state
Why JITA is different
Microsoft explains the platform. JITA teaches the decision.
Microsoft Learn explains the services, features, and documented behavior that support Microsoft Intune endpoint management and security. JITA connects those capabilities into decisions: what owns the requirement, what the nearest alternative is, what changes when one fact changes, and what evidence proves the implementation worked.
How to choose:
Use the Field Guide to build understanding. Use the Exam Preparation Guide to test whether that understanding survives exam-style decisions.