SharePoint Online Management and Administration (55370AC) — Lesson 1: SharePoint Online Architecture, Tenant Controls, and Site Planning

Topics Covered

• Explain SharePoint Online architecture, service boundaries, and administrator responsibilities
• Plan site structures, hub relationships, navigation, and information architecture
• Configure tenant settings, site creation controls, sharing, and storage policies
• Course objectives, terminology, environment, roles, and realistic use cases
• Prerequisites, dependencies, assumptions, and expected business outcomes
• Baseline setup, safe working practices, and initial validation evidence

Guided Practice Steps

1. Translate the lesson requirement into a clear SharePoint Online Management and Administration (55370AC) implementation or analysis objective.
2. Document assumptions, selected tools or features, dependencies, risks, and expected results.
3. Perform the guided task, capture evidence, and compare the result with the acceptance criteria.
4. Record issues, corrective actions, and a reusable operational or development note.

Practical Activity

Create a tenant administration plan for a departmental collaboration and document-management scenario.

• Define the scenario, inputs, constraints, and expected outcome.
• Complete the activity and preserve screenshots, outputs, logs, code, or decision evidence.
• Review the result, identify gaps, and document corrective or improvement actions.

Validation Checklist

• The stated requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• Configuration, code, data, or design decisions are documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational considerations are reviewed.
• Evidence supports the conclusion and the next action is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply SharePoint Online Architecture, Tenant Controls, and Site Planning within a realistic SharePoint Online Management and Administration (55370AC) scenario and support the result with validation evidence.