MS-102 Practice Test 7 — 10 Questions

Question 1

You are investigating an alert in Microsoft Defender XDR that indicates a user clicked a malicious link in an email. You need to gather additional information to determine the scope of the attack. Which three sources should you examine?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Email entity page. To fully investigate a phishing incident, you should examine the alert timeline for related events, the email entity page for email details, and the user entity page for user actions. Device timeline may not be relevant if the user only clicked a link without further action. The incidents page provides a summary but not detailed scope.

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Incidents page

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Device timeline

Question 2

Match each Microsoft 365 service to its primary purpose.

Accepted Answer

Exchange Online: Email hosting and calendaring. The correct matches associate Exchange Online with email and calendaring, SharePoint Online with document management and collaboration, Microsoft Teams with chat and meetings, and OneDrive for Business with personal cloud storage. Common confusions include misassigning Exchange's purpose to OneDrive or OneDrive's purpose to SharePoint.

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OneDrive for Business: Email hosting and calendaring

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SharePoint Online: Personal cloud storage

Question 3

Which THREE features are included in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 but NOT in Plan 1? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Automated Investigation and Response (AIR). Options C, D, and E are correct. Plan 2 includes Automated Investigation and Response (AIR), Threat Explorer, and Attack Simulation Training. Plan 1 includes anti-phishing policies (A) and Safe Links (B), so they are not correct.

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Anti-phishing policies

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Safe Links

Question 4

Which THREE components are required to implement Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management for Microsoft 365? (Choose three.)

Accepted Answer

Retention labels. Options A, B, and E are correct because retention labels, retention policies, and a file plan are core components for Data Lifecycle Management. Option C is incorrect because sensitivity labels are part of Information Protection, not Data Lifecycle Management. Option D is incorrect because DLP is a separate solution.

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Sensitivity labels

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Data loss prevention policies

Question 5

A compliance officer needs to ensure that all outbound emails containing credit card numbers sent to external recipients are automatically encrypted without requiring user intervention. Which Microsoft Purview feature should be configured?

Accepted Answer

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy with a rule that encrypts the message when credit card numbers are detected.. A Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy in Microsoft Purview can be configured with a rule that automatically detects credit card numbers (using a built-in sensitive info type) and applies encryption via Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Information Rights Management (IRM) to outbound emails sent to external recipients. This meets the compliance officer's requirement for automatic encryption without user intervention, as the DLP rule triggers encryption at the transport level in Exchange Online.

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Sensitivity label with auto-labeling based on credit card numbers.

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Retention policy for Exchange Online.

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eDiscovery case for content search.

Question 6

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365. You need to ensure that users are warned before opening potentially malicious attachments in Outlook on the web. Which policy setting should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Open in protected view. The 'Open in protected view' policy setting in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 ensures that when a user opens an email attachment in Outlook on the web, the file is opened in a sandboxed, read-only environment that warns the user of potential risks before allowing full interaction. This directly addresses the requirement to warn users before opening potentially malicious attachments, as it triggers a warning banner and restricts editing capabilities until the user explicitly enables editing.

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Attachments in email are blocked

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Attachments are held and scanned

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Dynamic Delivery

Question 7

A security administrator needs to block executable files from running from the %TEMP% folder on Windows devices to prevent common malware execution. Which attack surface reduction (ASR) rule should be enabled?

Accepted Answer

Block executable files from running unless they meet a prevalence, age, or trusted list criteria. The ASR rule 'Block executable files from running unless they meet a prevalence, age, or trusted list criteria' (GUID: 01443614-cd74-433a-b99e-2ecdc07bfc25) specifically targets executables launched from locations commonly used by malware, such as the %TEMP% folder. This rule uses cloud-delivered reputation data to allow only executables that are prevalent, have sufficient age, or are on a trusted list, effectively blocking unknown or suspicious binaries from running in temporary directories.

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Block credential stealing from the Windows local security authority subsystem

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Block all Office applications from creating child processes

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Block JavaScript or VBScript from launching downloaded executable content

Question 8

A security analyst needs to create a custom detection rule in Microsoft Defender XDR that triggers when a device communicates with a new, unclassified IP address flagged by Microsoft threat intelligence as potentially malicious. The rule must run every hour and create an incident if the count of such communications exceeds 10 in a 24-hour window. Which type of rule should the analyst create?

Accepted Answer

custom detection rule using advanced hunting. A custom detection rule using advanced hunting is the correct choice because Microsoft Defender XDR allows you to create custom detection rules based on Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries that run on a scheduled interval (e.g., every hour). This rule can query the `DeviceNetworkEvents` table to identify communications with IP addresses flagged as malicious by Microsoft threat intelligence, aggregate the count over a 24-hour sliding window, and trigger an incident when the threshold of 10 is exceeded. This directly meets the requirement for a scheduled, threshold-based detection within Defender XDR.

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scheduled alert rule in Microsoft Sentinel

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An incident creation rule in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

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custom remediation action rule

Question 9

A new administrator needs to automatically assign Microsoft 365 E5 licenses to all users in the Sales department. The Sales department is identified by the 'department' attribute in Azure AD. Which licensing method should the administrator use to minimize manual effort?

Accepted Answer

Group-based licensing using a dynamic group. Group-based licensing using a dynamic group is the correct method because it automatically assigns Microsoft 365 E5 licenses to all users in the Sales department based on the 'department' attribute in Azure AD. Dynamic groups evaluate membership rules in real time, so when a user's department attribute is set to 'Sales', the license is assigned without manual intervention. This minimizes administrative effort by eliminating the need for per-user or batch operations.

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Manual license assignment per user

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PowerShell script to assign licenses

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Bulk license assignment via CSV file

Question 10

Contoso uses Microsoft Entra ID P1 licenses and has a dedicated corporate office with static public IP addresses. The company wants to require MFA for all users, but exempt users when they connect from the corporate office. Which configuration should the administrator implement?

Accepted Answer

Create a Conditional Access policy that targets all users, grant access requiring MFA, and exclude the corporate office location from the policy.. A Conditional Access policy can target all users, require MFA as a grant control, and exclude the corporate office location (defined by static public IP addresses as a named location). This ensures MFA is enforced for all connections except those originating from the trusted corporate network, aligning with the requirement to exempt users at the office.

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Create a Conditional Access policy that targets all users, grant access requiring MFA, and include the corporate office location as a condition.

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Configure a Per-User MFA policy and add the corporate office IPs to a list of trusted IPs in the MFA settings.

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Create a Conditional Access policy that targets the corporate office location and grant access with MFA for all other locations.