AZ-500 Timed Practice Test 3 — 10 Questions

Question 1

A healthcare organization stores sensitive patient data in Azure SQL Database. They need to encrypt specific columns containing medical history so that even database administrators with highly privileged roles, such as 'sysadmin', cannot view the plaintext data. Additionally, they need to support complex queries on the encrypted data, including pattern matching and range comparisons. Which encryption technology should they implement?

10 minute time limit — choose an answer to begin.

Accepted Answer

Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Always Encrypted with secure enclaves is correct because it encrypts specific columns at the client side, ensuring that even database administrators with sysadmin privileges cannot view the plaintext data. The secure enclave feature allows computations (such as pattern matching and range comparisons) to be performed on the encrypted data inside a trusted execution environment, which is required by the question's need for complex queries on encrypted columns.

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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

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Dynamic Data Masking

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Row-Level Security

Question 2

A company uses Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) on Windows virtual machines. They use a key encryption key (KEK) stored in Azure Key Vault to wrap the disk encryption key. The security policy requires that the KEK be automatically rotated every 90 days. They need to ensure that after rotation, the OS and data disks of running VMs automatically get re-wrapped with the new KEK version. Which configuration should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Use Key Vault key auto-rotation with a 90-day rotation period, and configure the disk encryption set to use the latest key version (empty string).. Azure Key Vault supports automatic key rotation with a configurable rotation period, and when a disk encryption set (DES) is configured with an empty string as the key version, it automatically uses the latest version of the KEK. This ensures that after the KEK is rotated every 90 days, the running VMs' OS and data disks are re-wrapped with the new KEK version without manual intervention or VM restart.

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Enable soft-delete and purge protection on the Key Vault.

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Create a new KEK every 90 days and modify the disk encryption set to point to the new key version.

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Use Azure Policy to enforce automatic key rotation.

Question 3

Your organization has deployed Azure Front Door Premium with Web Application Firewall (WAF) policy in front of an Azure App Service. You need to ensure that only traffic from Azure Front Door is allowed to reach the App Service, and all other traffic is blocked. Which configuration should you implement?

Accepted Answer

Configure IP restrictions on the App Service to allow only the Azure Front Door service tag AzureFrontDoor.Backend.. The Azure Front Door Premium service tag 'AzureFrontDoor.Backend' represents the backend IP address range used by Azure Front Door to forward traffic to the origin. By configuring IP restrictions on the App Service to allow only this service tag, you ensure that only traffic originating from Azure Front Door can reach the App Service, effectively blocking all other traffic.

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Configure the App Service to require client certificates and configure Azure Front Door to present a certificate.

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Set the App Service access restrictions to deny all and then add a rule to allow the Azure Front Door service tag AzureFrontDoor.Frontend.

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Configure a WAF policy to block all requests that do not contain the X-Azure-FDID header.

Question 4

A company uses Azure AD B2B collaboration to invite external partner users to collaborate on a project. The security team wants to ensure that when a partner user's account is disabled in their home Azure AD tenant, the user should immediately lose access to the company's resources, even if the user had a valid session token. Which configuration should they implement in cross-tenant access settings?

Accepted Answer

Configure cross-tenant access settings to trust the user's account status from the home tenant.. Configuring cross-tenant access settings to trust the user's account status from the home tenant enables Azure AD to evaluate the external user's account state (enabled/disabled) in their home tenant at each authentication. When the partner user's account is disabled in their home tenant, Azure AD will deny access even if a valid session token exists, because the token's validity is rechecked against the home tenant's account status via the cross-tenant trust policy.

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Configure external collaboration settings to restrict B2B users to specific apps.

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Assign a conditional access policy that requires device compliance for B2B users.

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Enable Azure AD Identity Protection for B2B users.

Question 5

You have an Azure virtual machine that hosts a web application. You need to allow inbound HTTP (80) and HTTPS (443) traffic from the internet to this VM only. You also need to allow outbound traffic to the internet from the VM. You want to use a managed Azure service with minimal configuration. What should you use?

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Network Security Group (NSG). A Network Security Group (NSG) is the correct choice because it is a managed Azure service that provides a stateful, layer-3/4 firewall for filtering inbound and outbound traffic to a virtual machine. With minimal configuration, you can create inbound rules to allow HTTP (TCP/80) and HTTPS (TCP/443) from the internet (source 'Internet' or 'Any') and an outbound rule to allow all traffic to the internet (default outbound rule already allows this). NSGs are directly associated with a VM's subnet or network interface, making them the simplest managed solution for this scenario.

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Azure Application Gateway

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Azure Firewall

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Azure Bastion

Question 6

A company has several Azure virtual machines (VMs) in a VNet that host a legacy application. IT support staff need to perform remote administration using RDP. The security team wants to avoid exposing the VMs to the public internet and also enforce Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all RDP sessions. Which Azure service should they deploy to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Azure Bastion. Azure Bastion provides secure, seamless RDP/SSH connectivity to Azure VMs directly from the Azure portal over TLS, without exposing the VMs to a public IP address. It also integrates with Azure AD and Conditional Access to enforce Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all RDP sessions, meeting both the security and compliance requirements.

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Just-in-Time (JIT) VM Access from Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Network Security Groups (NSGs) with allow rules for RDP only from a trusted IP

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Azure Firewall with DNAT rules to forward RDP traffic

Question 7

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud's Just-In-Time (JIT) VM access to manage RDP connections to a critical jump-box virtual machine. The company has a CI/CD pipeline running on Azure DevOps agent pools that needs to periodically RDP into this VM to deploy software. The agent pool's source IP addresses are dynamic and change frequently. They want the pipeline to automatically request JIT access before each deployment without manual intervention. Which approach should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Use the Azure REST API with a managed identity assigned to the DevOps agent to request JIT access, specifying the agent's current source IP address. It uses the Azure REST API with a managed identity to dynamically request JIT VM access, specifying the agent's current source IP address. This approach allows the CI/CD pipeline to authenticate without secrets and automatically obtain time-bound RDP access, even though the agent's IP changes frequently. The managed identity provides secure, automated authentication to Azure Resource Manager, enabling the pipeline to call the JIT policy endpoint and grant access for the deployment duration.

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Create a JIT access rule in Defender for Cloud with a scheduled time window that matches the pipeline's deployment schedule

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Configure a PowerShell script in the pipeline to modify the network security group (NSG) to allow the agent's IP during deployment

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Assign a static public IP to the Azure DevOps agent and add that IP to the JIT allowed list permanently

Question 8

A company uses Azure AD Identity Protection. They have detected a user with a 'High' user risk level due to suspicious activity. The security team wants to automatically block sign-ins for this user only when the sign-in comes from a location that is not in the company's list of trusted IPs. They have created a Conditional Access policy. Which configuration should they use?

Accepted Answer

Assign the user to the policy, set condition 'User risk level: High' and condition 'Locations: All locations except trusted', and set 'Grant' to 'Block access'. It combines the 'User risk level: High' condition (triggered by Identity Protection's user risk detection) with the 'Locations: All locations except trusted' condition, and sets 'Grant' to 'Block access'. This ensures that only sign-ins from untrusted locations are blocked when the user's risk is high, meeting the requirement to allow sign-ins from trusted IPs even for high-risk users.

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Assign the user to the policy, set condition 'Sign-in risk level: High' and condition 'Locations: All trusted locations', and set 'Grant' to 'Block access'

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Assign the user to the policy, set condition 'User risk level: High' and set 'Grant' to 'Require multi-factor authentication'

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Create a risk detection policy in Identity Protection that triggers a user risk policy, and have Conditional Access use the risk policy

Question 9

A company plans to enable Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) on their Windows virtual machines. They will use a Key Encryption Key (KEK) stored in Azure Key Vault. What additional configuration must be made in the Key Vault to allow the Azure platform to access the KEK for encrypting the VM disks?

Accepted Answer

Set the key vault's 'enabledForDiskEncryption' property to true.. Azure Disk Encryption requires the key vault's 'enabledForDiskEncryption' property to be set to true. This property explicitly authorizes the Azure platform (specifically the Azure Disk Encryption service) to access the Key Encryption Key (KEK) stored in the vault for encrypting VM disks. Without this flag, the platform cannot retrieve the KEK, even if other permissions exist.

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Grant the Azure Disk Encryption service principal 'Reader' role on the key vault.

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Grant the virtual machine's managed identity 'Contributor' role on the key vault.

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Configure soft-delete and purge protection on the key vault.

Question 10

A company uses Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access. A user is detected with a 'High' user risk level due to suspicious activity. The security team wants to automatically block sign-ins for this user, but only when the sign-in originates from a location that is not in the company's list of trusted IPs. They have created a Conditional Access policy targeting all users. Which configuration should they add to the policy to achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Add a condition for 'User risk' set to 'High' and exclude 'All trusted locations' under the 'Locations' condition, then grant 'Block access'.. It combines a condition for 'User risk' set to 'High' with an exclusion of 'All trusted locations' under the 'Locations' condition, then grants 'Block access'. This ensures that the block only applies when the sign-in originates from an untrusted location, meeting the requirement to automatically block sign-ins for high-risk users only from locations not in the company's trusted IP list.

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Add a condition for 'User risk' set to 'High', and a condition for 'Sign-in risk' set to 'High', then grant 'Block access'.

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Add a condition for 'User risk' set to 'High', and under 'Grant', select 'Require multi-factor authentication' and 'Block access'.

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Add a condition for 'Locations' set to 'Any location' and under 'Grant', select 'Block access' for all users.