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Start Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities PracticeYour organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to automatically respond to high-severity incidents. Which feature should you configure?
Explanation: Automation rules in Microsoft Sentinel allow you to define automated responses that trigger when an incident is created or updated, including running playbooks (Azure Logic Apps workflows) automatically. This is the correct approach for automatically responding to high-severity incidents because it eliminates manual intervention and ensures consistent, immediate action based on incident properties like severity.
A company plans to implement Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies. They need to prevent users from sharing credit card numbers via email. What should they configure?
Explanation: Option C is correct because Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies can be configured to detect sensitive data types, such as credit card numbers, in Exchange Online emails. When a DLP policy is created with a rule that identifies credit card numbers and blocks the email from being sent, it directly prevents users from sharing that data via email. This is the native mechanism for enforcing DLP on email traffic in Microsoft 365.
Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure multi-cloud workloads. You need to ensure that Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources are assessed against the same security baseline. What should you do?
Explanation: Microsoft Defender for Cloud can assess resources from Azure, AWS, and GCP using security policies. By default, Azure Policy is used for Azure resources. To assess AWS and GCP, you need to connect those cloud accounts to Defender for Cloud and then use Azure Policy to enforce standards like Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark. Option A is wrong because the CSPM plan assesses posture but does not use a single baseline across clouds. Option C is wrong because regulatory compliance standards apply to specific regulations, not custom baselines. Option D is wrong because AWS Config and GCP Security Command Center are separate tools, not integrated into a single baseline.
Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. You need to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. What should you configure?
Explanation: Option A is correct because a Conditional Access policy in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) can enforce the requirement that only devices marked as compliant by Intune can access corporate email. This policy evaluates the device compliance status at authentication time and blocks or grants access based on that signal, ensuring that only managed and compliant devices can connect to services like Exchange Online.
Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to implement a passwordless authentication strategy. Users have smartphones. Which method should you recommend as the primary authentication method?
Explanation: The Microsoft Authenticator app with passwordless sign-in is the correct primary method because it leverages the user's smartphone to provide a seamless, phishing-resistant authentication experience using public/private key cryptography (FIDO2/WebAuthn). This method aligns with the organization's goal of eliminating passwords while utilizing existing smartphone hardware, and it supports a simple user experience by requiring only a biometric or PIN verification on the phone.
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