Administering Configuration Manager, Part I: Fundamentals and Asset Management (55313AC)

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in administering Microsoft Configuration Manager fundamentals, discovery, collections, inventory, queries, reporting, and asset management. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

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

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain sites, roles, boundaries, clients, hierarchy, administration, communications, and prerequisite services
• Navigate the console and plan naming, permissions, collections, maintenance, monitoring, and documentation
• Configure discovery methods, boundaries, boundary groups, client installation, assignment, and health
• Build user and device collections with queries, membership rules, limiting collections, and refresh schedules
• Configure inventory cycles, classes, software metering, asset intelligence, normalization, and data quality
• Use resource explorer, queries, status, logs, reports, and evidence to understand managed assets
• Create queries and reports for devices, applications, users, inventory, health, and operational decisions
• Troubleshoot discovery, clients, inventory, collections, permissions, data, and site communication

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.