Exam MD-102 topic 1 question 99 discussion

Correct. Device categories is strictly a MANUAL category assignment to a device, either by the end user or an admin in the portal. Creating a categories literally only generates a list of all the created categories that can then be manually selected to apply to enrolled devices, but it does not query or determine device characteristics and then "tag" the device the category based on it's query. A dynamic group does query device characteristics then add them to a group based on those characteristics. Example: you can create a device category called "iOS devices" and then create a dynamic group called "iOS devices" and configure the rules to include only devices who match the device category "iOS devices" but the problem is that Android users could have selected that category for their device so this would NOT ensure specific platforms or versions are selected correctly.

Device categories didn’t mention anything related to device version though. Whereas under the dynamic device group, there is a function of that