55071-A Microsoft Software Asset Manager

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in managing Microsoft software assets through licensing knowledge, inventory, entitlement reconciliation, compliance, optimization, and repeatable governance. The learning path progresses from planning and essential concepts to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, instructor-led demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Each topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals build dependable skills, explain their decisions, identify failure points, and create an actionable improvement plan that can be applied to future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Define software asset management roles, scope, lifecycle, policies, and stakeholders
• Identify Microsoft product, licensing, agreement, subscription, and deployment concepts
• Create inventory, entitlement, ownership, and evidence requirements
• Interpret client, server, virtual, cloud, and subscription licensing concepts
• Use Volume Licensing Service Center and agreement information
• Document purchases, rights, upgrades, maintenance, and license metrics
• Collect deployment and usage evidence using approved discovery methods
• Reconcile installations, users, devices, processors, cores, and entitlements

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.