The MD-102 exam topics changed on July 24, 2026 - a new fifth domain, four major skill-area revisions and a weighting shift. Here is the current list.
The MD-102 exam topics changed on July 24, 2026. There is a new fifth domain, four skill areas were revised enough to re-study, and the weighting moved between the two largest sections.If you built a study plan for MD-102 before the end of July, it is missing a domain. The MD-102 exam topics were revised on July 24, 2026, and the revision was not a reshuffle of bullet points: an entirely new functional group was added, four skill areas were marked as majorly changed, and the balance shifted between the two largest sections of the exam.
This is the current list, taken from Microsoft's published study guide, along with what actually changed and what it means for the order you study in.
The exam is Managing and Securing Microsoft 365 Endpoints by using Intune, and Microsoft publishes the weighting of each functional group as a range rather than a fixed number.
| Functional group | Weighting |
| Prepare infrastructure for devices | 20-25% |
| Manage and maintain devices | 25-30% |
| Protect devices | 15-20% |
| Manage and secure applications | 15-20% |
| Optimize endpoint operations by using automation, monitoring, and reporting | 10-15% |
Two things are worth reading off that table before anything else.
Optimize endpoint operations by using automation, monitoring, and reporting appears in Microsoft's change log with a single word against it: New. Both of its skill areas, Automate management tasks and Monitor and optimize health, are new as well.
The Security Copilot bullets are the ones to notice. The audience profile now says a candidate manages devices "by using Microsoft Intune and agentic tools and workflows", and asks for an understanding of Microsoft Security Copilot and Intune agents. That language was not in the previous version.
Plan this domain as new material even if you are experienced with Intune. Reporting and Endpoint Analytics are features administrators often leave to someone else, and an agentic workflow is genuinely recent.
It is also the domain where hands-on time pays back fastest. Three of its objectives - investigating a threat a Security Copilot agent raised, analyzing device performance with one, and responding to its recommendations - describe a workflow rather than a setting, and workflow questions are hard to answer from reading alone. If you have a tenant you can experiment in, spend an hour in Endpoint Analytics and an hour building a proactive remediation script before you go near a question bank.
Microsoft's change log marks each skill area Minor, Major or New. Four carry Major, which is the signal worth acting on - a minor change is usually a reworded bullet, and a major one is new subject matter.
| Skill area | Group | Change |
| Enroll devices to Microsoft Intune | Prepare infrastructure for devices | Major |
| Deploy and upgrade Windows clients by using cloud-based tools | Manage and maintain devices | Major |
| Perform remote actions on devices | Manage and maintain devices | Major |
| Configure endpoint security | Protect devices | Major |
Reading the current objectives against those four, the additions that stand out are device preparation policies alongside Autopilot deployment profiles, Windows 365 Cloud PC provisioning, Windows Backup and Restore through Intune, running a device query with KQL, and App Control for Business. Disk encryption picked up user self-service recovery and encryption compliance monitoring.
There is also a weighting shift that no bullet list makes obvious: Prepare infrastructure for devices went up and Manage and maintain devices came down. If you allocate study time by weighting, move some of it toward enrollment, Entra ID join types and compliance.
One group was renamed - Manage applications is now Manage and secure applications - but its change log entry says No change, so the rename is cosmetic.
If your notes date from before July 24, work through this list before you book. Each item is in the current objectives and was not in the previous version, or sat under a skill area now marked Major:
None of these is difficult on its own. The risk is that they are individually small and collectively add up to a whole evening you had not budgeted.
Microsoft also notes that most questions cover features that are generally available, but that preview features may appear if they are commonly used - which, given how recently Intune's agentic features shipped, is worth taking literally this year.
The weightings are a time budget. Spend roughly a quarter of your preparation on Manage and maintain devices, another quarter across Protect devices and Manage and secure applications, and do not let the new fifth domain get squeezed into the last evening because it is listed last.
That last step is the one that changes outcomes. Reading a syllabus tells you what is on the exam; it does not tell you which of the five domains you are weak in. Our MD-102 practice exam reports per-domain results against exactly the groups in the table above, so a weak area shows up as a domain rather than as a general feeling that it went badly. If MD-102 is one of several exams on your plan, the full practice exam catalog covers the rest of the Microsoft and CompTIA tracks.
One last thing worth doing before you book: read Microsoft's own study guide end to end at least once. It is about 2,000 words, it is the only document that is authoritative, and the change log at the bottom is the fastest way to check whether anything has moved since this post was written. Microsoft updates the English version of an exam first, and localized versions follow roughly eight weeks later - so if you are sitting MD-102 in another language, check which version of the objectives applies to your booking. The renewal page is worth a bookmark for the same reason: the credential you are about to earn lasts a year, and keeping it costs nothing but an assessment.
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