SC-900 Practice Test 36 — 15 Questions

Question 1

An organization uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to automatically detect when a user's sign-in shows a high risk of compromise (e.g., impossible travel, anonymous IP address) and immediately require the user to reset their password. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they use?

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

Accepted Answer

Identity Protection. B is correct because Microsoft Entra ID Identity Protection uses machine learning to detect risk signals such as impossible travel and anonymous IP addresses. When a user's sign-in is flagged as high risk, Identity Protection can be configured to automatically trigger a password reset as a remediation action, enforcing the principle of least privilege and reducing the window of compromise.

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Conditional Access

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Question 2

A company has a Microsoft Entra ID tenant and an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest. They need to synchronize user accounts, groups, and passwords from AD DS to Microsoft Entra ID. Due to network restrictions, they prefer a lightweight agent that can be deployed on-premises and supports staging mode for testing. Which identity synchronization tool should they use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra Connect Sync. Microsoft Entra Connect Sync is the correct choice because it is the full-featured synchronization tool that supports staging mode for testing and can be deployed as a lightweight agent on-premises. It synchronizes user accounts, groups, and passwords from AD DS to Microsoft Entra ID, including password hash synchronization, pass-through authentication, and federation integration, making it ideal for complex on-premises environments with network restrictions.

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Microsoft Entra Connect Health

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Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync

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Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM)

Question 3

A financial organization is required by regulation to keep all customer transaction records for 10 years. After 10 years, the records must be permanently deleted. In addition, during the retention period, records must not be modifiable or deletable by any user, including administrators. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Records Management. Records Management in Microsoft Purview is designed to meet regulatory requirements by allowing organizations to declare records or regulatory records. When a record is declared, it becomes immutable—no user, including administrators, can modify or delete it during the retention period. The 10-year retention and mandatory deletion after that period are enforced through a retention label configured as a record, which locks the item and triggers permanent deletion upon expiration.

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Retention labels (unlocked)

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Information Protection with sensitivity labels

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Data Lifecycle Management

Question 4

A company implements regular data backups and a disaster recovery plan to restore critical systems after an outage. Which security principle is primarily being addressed by these measures?

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Availability. Regular data backups and a disaster recovery plan directly ensure that critical systems and data can be restored and remain accessible after an outage. This aligns with the Availability principle of the CIA triad, which guarantees that authorized users have reliable access to resources when needed. In Azure, this is supported by services like Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, which provide automated backup and failover capabilities to maintain uptime.

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Confidentiality

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Integrity

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Non-repudiation

Question 5

A large enterprise uses a variety of cloud applications, including sanctioned apps like Microsoft 365 and unsanctioned apps that employees adopted without IT approval. The security team wants to discover all cloud applications in use, assess each app's risk score based on more than 80 risk factors, and control data sharing within sanctioned apps to prevent data leakage. Additionally, they need to identify which users are using a new, unknown file-sharing service. Which Microsoft security solution should be deployed to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that provides visibility into both sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud apps through its Cloud Discovery feature. It assesses risk scores based on over 80 risk factors (e.g., encryption standards, data residency, and compliance certifications) and enables data sharing controls via session policies (e.g., Conditional Access App Control) to prevent data leakage. It also supports anomaly detection to identify users of new, unknown file-sharing services by analyzing traffic logs from network appliances or endpoints.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Question 6

A company has a SharePoint Online site that stores project documents. Due to legal requirements, all documents in this site must be retained for exactly 5 years from the date they were created, and then automatically deleted. No user should be able to permanently delete a document before the retention period ends. Which Microsoft Purview solution should the administrator configure?

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Retention policy. A retention policy in Microsoft Purview can be configured to retain documents for exactly 5 years from creation and then automatically delete them. This policy enforces a mandatory retention period that prevents users from permanently deleting documents before the period ends, meeting the legal requirement.

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Sensitivity label

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Data loss prevention (DLP) policy

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Audit policy

Question 7

A company wants to reduce the attack surface on its Windows devices by blocking common techniques used by malware, such as preventing Office applications from creating child processes or blocking executable files from running from the %TEMP% folder. Which Microsoft Defender for Endpoint feature should be configured?

Accepted Answer

Attack surface reduction rules. Attack surface reduction (ASR) rules are a feature of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that specifically target common malware behaviors, such as blocking Office applications from creating child processes and preventing executable files from running from the %TEMP% folder. These rules are designed to reduce the attack surface by enforcing policies that stop suspicious or malicious actions at the process level, without relying solely on signature-based detection.

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Microsoft Defender Antivirus

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Network protection

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Controlled folder access

Question 8

An organization needs to grant its IT administrators temporary access to the Global Administrator role. The access should require a separate approval from a designated manager before activation, and the permissions should automatically expire after 4 hours. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access, allowing IT administrators to activate the Global Administrator role for a limited time (e.g., 4 hours) only after receiving approval from a designated manager. This directly meets the requirement for temporary, approval-based, and auto-expiring permissions.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Question 9

A user authenticates to a company's network by entering their password and then approving a push notification on their mobile phone. After authentication, the user attempts to access a shared folder containing financial reports. The access is denied because the user's account is not a member of the 'Finance' group. Which security concept is demonstrated when the user is denied access to the folder?

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Authorization. Authorization is the security concept that determines what resources a user is allowed to access after their identity has been verified. In this scenario, the user successfully authenticated but was denied access to the financial reports folder because their account lacked the necessary permissions—specifically, membership in the 'Finance' group. This access control decision is the essence of authorization, which enforces policies based on identity attributes like group membership.

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Authentication

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Non-repudiation

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Accounting

Question 10

A healthcare organization subject to HIPAA regulations stores patient health information (PHI) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. The compliance team needs to automatically detect and classify medical record numbers and other PHI when documents are uploaded. Detected sensitive content must be protected by encryption and restricted to authorized users only. Additionally, the team wants to prevent users from sharing such documents externally. Which TWO Microsoft Purview solutions should they combine to achieve these requirements? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Microsoft Purview Information Protection (B) enables automatic classification and labeling of sensitive data like medical record numbers and PHI based on sensitive info types or trainable classifiers. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (A) then enforces policies to apply encryption, restrict access to authorized users, and block external sharing of labeled documents. Together, they meet the requirements for detection, protection, and sharing prevention.

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

Question 11

A company's security operations team needs to centralize security log collection from multiple sources including on-premises firewalls, AWS CloudTrail, and Azure Active Directory sign-in logs. They want to use built-in analytics to detect threats across all data sources and create automated response playbooks, such as isolating a compromised user account when a specific attack pattern is detected. Which Microsoft security solution should they deploy?

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Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft Sentinel is the correct choice because it is a cloud-native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution that ingests logs from diverse sources (on-premises firewalls via Syslog, AWS CloudTrail via REST API, and Azure AD via diagnostic settings) and provides built-in analytics rules to detect threats across all data. It also integrates with Azure Logic Apps to create automated playbooks (e.g., isolating a compromised user account) triggered by detected attack patterns, fulfilling the requirement for centralized log collection and automated response.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Microsoft 365 Defender

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Question 12

A data analyst is planning to leave the company in two weeks and has access to a large volume of sensitive customer data. The compliance team wants to detect if the analyst starts downloading large amounts of files to a personal USB drive or sending sensitive content to an external email address. They need to set up a policy that alerts on such anomalous data exfiltration activities without blocking operations until a thorough investigation is completed. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is designed to detect, investigate, and act on risky user activities, including data exfiltration by departing employees. It uses predefined indicators such as downloading files to USB drives or sending emails to external addresses, and can generate alerts without automatically blocking operations, allowing for a thorough investigation first.

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard)

Question 13

Which THREE are features of Microsoft Entra ID Protection? (Choose THREE.)

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Sign-in risk detection. Sign-in risk detection is a core feature of Microsoft Entra ID Protection. It uses real-time and offline machine learning models to evaluate each sign-in attempt for anomalies such as impossible travel, anonymous IP addresses, or atypical locations, assigning a risk level (low, medium, high). This allows organizations to automatically respond to suspicious sign-ins before compromise occurs.

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Privileged role management

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Identity governance

Question 14

A company is involved in litigation. The legal team needs to preserve all relevant electronic documents that reside in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. They must prevent users from deleting or modifying these documents while the lawsuit is active. Additionally, they need to search across these locations for specific keywords and export the results for review. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard or Premium). Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard or Premium) is the correct solution because it provides end-to-end workflow for legal holds (preservation), content search across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business, and export of results. The legal hold feature prevents deletion or modification by locking the original content, while the search and export capabilities meet the keyword search and review requirements.

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Microsoft Purview Audit

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management (retention policies/labels)

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Question 15

A company wants to ensure that only authorized users can access sensitive financial data stored in Microsoft SharePoint Online. Which identity feature should they use to require a second form of verification?

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Multi-factor authentication. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the correct answer because it requires a second form of verification, such as a phone call or app notification, in addition to a password. Conditional Access is a policy engine that can enforce MFA but is not itself a verification method. Self-service password reset and Microsoft Authenticator are features that support MFA but are not the overarching concept.

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Microsoft Authenticator

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Self-service password reset

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Conditional Access