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Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel to correlate data from multiple sources. You need to create an analytics rule that triggers an incident when a user signs in from an unfamiliar location and then performs a high-risk action in Azure. What is the best approach?
2Refer to the exhibit. This is an excerpt from an Azure Policy assignment. What is the effect of the 'notScopes' property?
3Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You need to ensure that all Azure subscriptions have the 'Auto-provisioning' extension enabled for Log Analytics agent on new VMs. What should you configure?
4Your organization is using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect Azure SQL databases. You need to enable Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for all existing and future Azure SQL databases in a subscription. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you do?
5Which TWO actions can be performed using Microsoft Defender for Cloud's security alerts? (Choose two.)
6You are a security analyst using Microsoft Sentinel. You need to create an analytics rule that triggers an incident when more than 10 failed sign-ins occur from the same IP address within 5 minutes. The rule should use a KQL query. Which query should you use?
7You are using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. You need to receive alerts about suspicious activities within the cluster, such as privilege escalations. What should you enable?
8Which TWO of the following are valid ways to integrate Microsoft Sentinel with Microsoft Defender XDR?
9Your organization has multiple Azure subscriptions and uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You need to ensure that all subscriptions have a consistent security policy applied. You create a management group containing all subscriptions. What should you do next to assign a Defender for Cloud initiative to all subscriptions?
10Which THREE are prerequisites for integrating Microsoft Sentinel with Microsoft Defender XDR? (Choose three.)
11Which THREE of the following are features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud's Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)?
12Which TWO actions can be performed using Microsoft Defender for Cloud's 'Regulatory Compliance' dashboard?
13Your company has a hybrid environment with Azure resources and on-premises servers. You have deployed Microsoft Sentinel and connected it to Azure AD, Azure Activity Logs, and Windows Security Events from on-premises servers via the Log Analytics gateway. You need to create a workbook that shows the number of sign-ins from each country over the last 24 hours. The data source is the SigninLogs table. However, the workbook does not display any data. You verify that the Log Analytics workspace is receiving sign-in logs from Azure AD. Which of the following is the most likely reason the workbook shows no data?
14Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure a multi-cloud environment that includes Azure, AWS, and GCP resources. You need to ensure that all resources are assessed against a consistent set of security standards. What should you configure first?
15Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect Azure resources. You want to enable the 'Defender for Containers' plan to secure AKS clusters. Which two configurations are necessary? (Choose two.)
16Your security team wants to use Microsoft Defender for Cloud's 'Just-In-Time (JIT) VM access' to reduce the attack surface. Which Azure policy must be enabled on the subscription to use JIT?
17Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess the security posture of Azure subscriptions. The security team wants to implement a continuous compliance monitoring solution using Microsoft Defender for Cloud's regulatory compliance dashboard. They need to monitor compliance against the 'CIS Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark' and 'PCI DSS v3.2.1'. Currently, the subscription has the 'Azure Security Benchmark' initiative assigned. You need to configure the compliance dashboard to show both CIS and PCI DSS standards. The subscription already has Microsoft Defender for Cloud's CSPM plan enabled. You have also enabled the 'Defender for Cloud' plan for servers. What should you do to meet the requirements?
18Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel to monitor security events. You need to configure automated response actions for incidents. Which TWO of the following can be used to trigger automated responses in Microsoft Sentinel?
19A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect its hybrid workloads. Security administrators report that critical alerts for SQL servers are not appearing in the Defender for Cloud dashboard. The SQL servers are on-premises and have Azure Arc enabled. Which configuration step should be verified first?
20You are a security architect for a large enterprise with 500 Azure subscriptions organized into a management group hierarchy. The company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess security posture. The CISO wants a single dashboard view of the secure score across all subscriptions, but with the ability to drill down into individual management groups. You need to recommend a solution that provides this capability with minimal administrative overhead. The company already has Log Analytics workspaces deployed per region. Which approach should you take?
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