SC-200 Practice Test 10 — 10 Questions

Question 1

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel in a hybrid environment with on-premises servers and Azure VMs. You need to ensure that all Windows servers forward their security events to Sentinel. The security team wants to use Windows Security Events via AMA connector. Windows servers are not domain-joined and are managed by a third-party RMM tool. What is the most efficient way to deploy the AMA agent?

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

Accepted Answer

Onboard the servers to Azure Arc and deploy the AMA agent via policy or script.. Azure Arc provides a control plane for non-Azure and on-premises servers, enabling them to be managed like Azure resources. Once onboarded to Azure Arc, you can deploy the Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) via Azure Policy or custom scripts, which is the most efficient method for non-domain-joined servers managed by a third-party RMM tool, as it avoids manual intervention and leverages Azure's centralized management.

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Use Group Policy Objects (GPO) to push the agent installation.

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Use Microsoft Intune to deploy the AMA agent to all servers.

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Manually install the agent on each server using the setup wizard.

Question 2

A security team uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Defender for Servers enabled. They want to receive an alert whenever a new local user is added to the Administrators group on any Azure Windows virtual machine. Which data source must be configured in Defender for Cloud to capture this event?

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Windows Security Events (Event ID 4732). The addition of a user to the Administrators group on a Windows system generates Windows Security Event ID 4732. Defender for Cloud with Defender for Servers must have the 'Windows Security Events' data source configured to collect these audit events, which then triggers a security alert for the new local administrator.

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Windows Defender Antivirus logs

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Azure Activity Logs

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VM Insights

Question 3

A security analyst is investigating a phishing campaign targeting multiple users. The analyst has identified a malicious attachment with a known SHA256 hash. The analyst needs to find all email messages that were delivered to any user and contained this specific attachment. Which advanced hunting table should the analyst query in Microsoft 365 Defender to obtain the message IDs of emails containing the attachment?

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EmailAttachmentInfo. The EmailAttachmentInfo table in Microsoft 365 Defender advanced hunting contains metadata about attachments on email messages, including the SHA256 hash of each attachment. By querying this table with the known malicious SHA256 hash, the analyst can retrieve the NetworkMessageId values for all emails that contained that specific attachment, regardless of whether the email was delivered or blocked.

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EmailEvents

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EmailPostDeliveryEvents

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DeviceFileEvents

Question 4

A SOC analyst needs to create an automation rule that triggers only when an incident contains a specific custom tag (e.g., 'PII'). Which condition should the analyst use to filter incidents based on the presence of that tag?

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Incident tag contains. Microsoft Sentinel automation rules use the 'Incident tag contains' condition to filter incidents based on the presence of specific custom tags. When an incident is enriched with a tag like 'PII' via analytics rules or playbooks, this condition allows the automation rule to match and trigger actions only on incidents carrying that exact tag, ensuring precise targeting without affecting unrelated incidents.

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Incident severity

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Alert product name

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Entity type

Question 5

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel in a hybrid environment with on-premises servers and Azure VMs. You need to ensure that all Windows servers forward their security events to Sentinel. The security team wants to use Windows Security Events via AMA connector. Windows servers are not domain-joined and are managed by a third-party RMM tool. What is the most efficient way to deploy the AMA agent?

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

Accepted Answer

Modify the query to require at least 20 failed attempts from a single IP and include a condition that the attempts are against multiple user accounts.. The correct approach is to tune the analytics rule to be more specific: raising the threshold to 20 failed attempts and requiring attempts against multiple user accounts filters out single-user password mistypes while still catching brute-force attacks that spray across accounts. This directly reduces false positives without losing detection fidelity.

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Increase the query frequency to every 1 minute and reduce the threshold to 5.

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Disable the rule and create a new rule based on successful logons followed by failed attempts.

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Decrease the threshold to 5 and add a condition to exclude known good IP addresses.

Question 6

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to create a saved search in Microsoft Sentinel. However, the template does not create an analytics rule. What is missing to turn this saved search into a scheduled analytics rule?

Accepted Answer

A Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/savedSearches/schedules resource. In Microsoft Sentinel, a saved search alone is just a stored KQL query; to turn it into a scheduled analytics rule that runs periodically and generates alerts, you must define a schedule resource under the saved search. The correct resource type is `Microsoft.OperationalInsights/workspaces/savedSearches/schedules`, which specifies the frequency and time period for the query execution. Without this schedule resource, the saved search remains static and never triggers alerts.

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A Schedule section with frequency and period

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An IncidentConfiguration section

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A Query property with a valid KQL

Question 7

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Sentinel. You discover that phishing emails are bypassing Defender for Office 365 and being reported by users. You need to ensure that user-reported emails are automatically analyzed and incidents are created in Sentinel for high-confidence phishing. What should you configure?

Accepted Answer

Enable the 'User reported messages' feature in Defender for Office 365 and ensure the Microsoft Defender XDR connector is enabled in Sentinel.. Enabling the 'User reported messages' feature in Defender for Office 365 allows user-reported phishing emails to be automatically submitted to Microsoft for analysis. When the Microsoft Defender XDR connector is enabled in Sentinel, high-confidence phishing verdicts from this analysis are ingested as incidents, creating a seamless automated pipeline without custom infrastructure.

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Set up a custom connector using Microsoft Graph API to ingest user-reported messages into Sentinel.

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Use the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to create a submission rule for user-reported messages.

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Configure a mail flow rule to forward user-reported messages to a dedicated mailbox monitored by Sentinel.

Question 8

A security administrator wants to enforce Just-in-Time (JIT) VM access for all Azure virtual machines in a management group to reduce the attack surface. The administrator wants to automatically enable JIT on any new VM and remediate existing non-compliant VMs. What should the administrator configure in Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

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Assign the built-in policy initiative 'Configure just-in-time network access on virtual machines' at the management group level.. The built-in policy initiative 'Configure just-in-time network access on virtual machines' can be assigned at the management group scope to automatically enable JIT on new VMs and remediate existing non-compliant VMs via a DeployIfNotExists effect. This ensures consistent enforcement across all subscriptions under that management group without manual per-subscription configuration.

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Manually enable JIT in Defender for Cloud's 'Just-in-time VM access' blade for each subscription.

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Configure Azure Policy Guest Configuration to require JIT on virtual machines.

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Create a custom Azure Policy definition to enforce JIT and assign it to each subscription.

Question 9

A SOC analyst suspects a user account is compromised based on anomalous sign-in activity detected by Microsoft Entra ID Protection. The analyst needs to confirm and contain the threat. What is the first action the analyst should take?

Accepted Answer

Review the user's risk level and sign-in logs in Microsoft Entra ID Protection. The first step when investigating a potential account compromise is to review the user's risk level and sign-in logs in Microsoft Entra ID Protection. This allows the analyst to confirm the threat by examining risk detections, sign-in patterns, and contextual details before taking any containment actions. Prematurely resetting passwords or disabling accounts could disrupt legitimate user activity or alert the attacker without a full understanding of the scope.

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Reset the user's password immediately

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Disable the user account in Microsoft Entra ID

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Block the user's sign-in from all locations

Question 10

A SOC analyst wants to ingest firewall logs from a Palo Alto Networks appliance into Microsoft Sentinel using the Common Event Format (CEF) connector. The analyst has already set up a Linux syslog forwarder. What is the next required step to complete the data ingestion?

Accepted Answer

Run the installation script provided by the Sentinel CEF connector page on the Linux forwarder.. The CEF connector for Palo Alto Networks in Microsoft Sentinel requires a Linux syslog forwarder to have the CEF agent installed and configured. The installation script provided on the Sentinel CEF connector page automates the setup of the Log Analytics agent (formerly OMS agent) with the correct syslog daemon configuration to parse and forward CEF-formatted logs. Since the forwarder is already deployed, running this script is the immediate next step to enable log ingestion.

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Install the Azure Monitor Agent on the Linux forwarder.

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Create a Syslog data connector in Sentinel and specify the Palo Alto facility.

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Enable Azure Arc on the firewall appliance.