Term 541
Phishing
Phishing is a type of cyber attack where criminals impersonate legitimate organizations or individuals to trick victims into revealing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or personal data.
Acronym study
Terms 541–570 of 863 SC-900 acronyms and key terms. Each entry includes a plain-English definition and a link to the full 800-word glossary page with exam context and practice questions.
Term 541
Phishing is a type of cyber attack where criminals impersonate legitimate organizations or individuals to trick victims into revealing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or personal data.
Term 542
Physical controls are tangible security measures like locks, fences, and biometric scanners used to protect buildings, hardware, and sensitive data from unauthorized physical access or harm.
Term 543
Privileged Identity Management, a Microsoft Azure Active Directory tool that manages, monitors, and controls access to privileged roles on a just-in-time basis.
Term 544
Planner is a Microsoft 365 tool for teams to create, assign, track, and manage tasks visually using boards and charts.
Term 545
A policy is a set of rules or guidelines that defines how an organization manages, secures, and operates its IT systems and services.
Term 546
Policy as code is the practice of representing and managing security, compliance, and governance rules as executable code, enabling automated validation and enforcement across infrastructure and software development workflows.
Term 547
Policy assignment is the process of attaching a set of rules or permissions to a specific resource, user, or group so that those rules are enforced in a cloud or IT environment.
Term 548
A policy definition is a formal rule or set of rules that specifies allowed or denied actions on resources within an IT environment, often used for governance, compliance, and security control.
Term 549
Policy enforcement is the process of implementing and ensuring compliance with defined security rules and configurations across an IT environment.
Term 550
Policy inheritance is the mechanism by which policies applied to a parent container in a hierarchical system automatically apply to all child objects within that container, unless explicitly blocked or overridden.
Term 551
Port mirroring is a network monitoring technique that sends a copy of all packets seen on one switch port (or VLAN) to another port for analysis.
Term 552
Port security is a network switch feature that restricts which devices can connect to a port based on the device's MAC address, preventing unauthorized access.
Term 553
A Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) is software that you did not intend to install and that can cause unwanted behavior on your system, such as showing excessive ads or slowing down performance.
Term 554
Power Apps is a low-code platform from Microsoft that allows users to build custom business applications without needing traditional programming skills.
Term 555
Power Automate is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that lets you create automated workflows between apps and services without writing code.
Term 556
Power BI is a Microsoft business analytics tool that transforms raw data into interactive visual reports and dashboards for informed decision-making.
Term 557
Microsoft Power Platform is a set of low-code tools that let you build apps, automate workflows, analyze data, and create virtual agents without writing traditional code.
Term 558
Power Virtual Agents is a Microsoft cloud service that lets you create intelligent chatbots using a no-code graphical interface, without needing to write software code.
Term 559
PowerShell script deployment is the process of automating the distribution and execution of PowerShell scripts across multiple computers in an IT environment to perform configuration, software installation, or security tasks.
Term 560
PPTP is an outdated VPN protocol that encapsulates PPP frames in IP packets for secure remote access, but is now considered insecure.
Term 561
A secret password or passphrase that two devices share beforehand to prove they are allowed to connect and communicate securely.
Term 562
A preventive control is a security measure designed to stop unauthorized access, attacks, or errors before they can occur.
Term 563
A Pricing Calculator is a tool that lets you estimate the cost of cloud services before you start using them.
Term 564
Privacy in IT is the control over how personal data is collected, stored, used, and shared by systems and organizations.
Term 565
Privacy and security refer to the practices and technologies used to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access while ensuring individuals' rights over their personal information are respected.
Term 566
Privacy risk management is the ongoing process of identifying, assessing, and responding to risks that could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of personal data.
Term 567
Private Google Access lets virtual machines in a Google Cloud VPC reach Google APIs and services using private IP addresses, without needing public internet access.
Term 568
A private subnet is a segmented portion of a cloud or on-premises network that is not directly accessible from the public internet, used to host internal resources securely.
Term 569
AWS PrivateLink is a service that lets you securely access services hosted on AWS VPCs as if they were on your own private network, without exposing traffic to the public internet.
Term 570
Privileged access is a special level of permission that allows a user or system to perform high-impact actions like installing software, changing system settings, or accessing sensitive data across an IT environment.