SC-900 Practice Exam 60 — 20 Questions

Question 1

A company must retain all customer service emails in Exchange Online for 7 years for regulatory purposes. After 7 years, the emails must be automatically deleted. Additionally, employees must not be able to permanently delete these emails before the retention period ends. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Data Lifecycle Management (retention policies and labels). Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) via retention policies and labels in Microsoft Purview is the correct solution because it allows you to define a retention period of 7 years for Exchange Online emails and then automatically delete them. Additionally, DLM retention policies prevent users from permanently deleting emails before the retention period ends by locking the items in a 'preservation hold' state, ensuring regulatory compliance.

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Communication Compliance

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eDiscovery (Premium)

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Question 2

A company uses Microsoft 365 and must comply with a regulation that requires all business records, including emails and documents, to be retained for exactly 5 years. They need to automatically apply a retention label to any item that contains the keyword 'Contract' when the item is created or modified. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use to configure this automatic labeling?

Accepted Answer

Data Lifecycle Management. Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) in Microsoft Purview enables automatic retention labeling based on sensitive content, such as keywords like 'Contract'. It uses auto-labeling policies to apply retention labels at the time of creation or modification, ensuring compliance with the 5-year retention requirement without manual intervention.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Audit

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Compliance Manager

Question 3

A company uses Microsoft Purview to manage data lifecycle. They configure a retention label that marks content as a regulatory record and apply it to sensitive documents. A user with edit permissions attempts to modify a document that has this label applied. What will be the outcome?

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The user cannot edit or delete the document.. When a retention label is configured as a regulatory record, it enforces the strictest retention and disposition controls. Regulatory records are immutable by design; once applied, no user—regardless of permissions—can edit or delete the content. This is because the label locks the document to prevent any modification or deletion until the retention period expires and a disposition review is completed.

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The user can edit the document but cannot delete it.

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The user can edit the document if they have edit permissions, and any changes are recorded in the audit log.

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The user can edit the document only after obtaining a legal hold.

Question 4

A financial institution uses Microsoft 365 and needs to prevent employees from accidentally sharing sensitive financial data (e.g., account numbers) via email. They also need to inform the sender with a policy tip if they attempt to send such data and block the email if it's shared externally. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?

Accepted Answer

Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is the correct solution because it is specifically designed to detect, warn, and block the accidental sharing of sensitive data—such as financial account numbers—via email. DLP policies can be configured with conditions that trigger a policy tip to inform the sender and automatically block the email if it is sent externally, meeting both requirements.

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Information Protection (Sensitivity labels)

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Communication Compliance

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Records Management

Question 5

A financial services company is required by regulation to prevent sensitive customer financial information from being shared externally via email. The compliance team wants to automatically scan all outgoing emails for patterns that match credit card numbers or account numbers. If a match is found, the email should be blocked and the sender should receive a policy tip. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is the correct solution because it is specifically designed to detect and block sensitive information—such as credit card numbers and account numbers—in outgoing emails. DLP policies can scan email content and attachments for predefined sensitive information types, and when a match is found, the email can be blocked and a policy tip sent to the sender, meeting the compliance requirement.

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Microsoft Purview Audit

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Question 6

A financial services firm must monitor employee communications (email and Microsoft Teams) for potential insider trading. The compliance team wants to automatically detect messages containing specific financial keywords (e.g., 'non-public material information') and flag them for review. They also need to be able to remove violating messages from recipients' inboxes. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Communication Compliance. Communication Compliance is the correct solution because it is specifically designed to detect and remediate inappropriate communications, including insider trading signals. It can automatically scan emails and Microsoft Teams messages for configurable sensitive information types (e.g., 'non-public material information') and enforce actions like removing violating messages from recipients' inboxes.

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Data Lifecycle Management

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Insider Risk Management

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Audit

Question 7

An organization uses Microsoft Purview to manage data compliance. They need to automatically detect and protect credit card numbers stored in SharePoint Online. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they implement?

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies can identify sensitive data like credit card numbers and apply protection actions such as blocking access. Information Protection (sensitivity labels) classifies data but does not automatically detect and protect specific patterns like credit card numbers without DLP integration.

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Microsoft Purview Audit

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

Question 8

A law firm uses Microsoft 365 and has two legal teams working on opposing sides of the same lawsuit. The compliance officer needs to prevent any communication (email, Teams chat, file sharing) between the two teams. Additionally, the firm must block emails containing the case name from being sent outside the organization. Which two Microsoft Purview solutions should be configured to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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Microsoft Purview Information Barriers. Microsoft Purview Information Barriers (A) is correct because it is specifically designed to prevent communication and collaboration between two groups within an organization, such as legal teams on opposing sides of a lawsuit. It enforces policies that block email, Teams chat, and file sharing between the defined segments, directly meeting the first requirement.

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

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Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard)

Question 9

A healthcare organization uses Microsoft 365 and wants to prevent users from sending emails that contain patient health information (PHI) to external recipients. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they implement?

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is the correct solution because it is specifically designed to detect and prevent the unauthorized sharing of sensitive data, such as patient health information (PHI), via email and other channels. DLP policies can be configured with sensitive information types (e.g., HIPAA-defined PHI patterns) to automatically block or warn users when they attempt to send such data to external recipients.

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Data Lifecycle Management

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Insider Risk Management

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eDiscovery

Question 10

A legal team is preparing for litigation and needs to collect relevant data from Microsoft Teams chats, email, and SharePoint documents. They need to place a hold on the data to prevent deletion, review it, and then use advanced analytics such as relevance ranking and email threading to reduce the review set. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use to perform these tasks?

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium). Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) is the correct solution because it provides the full lifecycle of legal hold, collection, review, and advanced analytics such as relevance ranking, email threading, and predictive coding. These capabilities are specifically designed for complex litigation scenarios, whereas the Standard edition lacks the advanced analytics features needed to reduce the review set.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard)

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Microsoft Purview Copilot

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Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Question 11

An organization is subject to regulatory requirements that mandate retention of employee records for 5 years after termination. After the retention period, the records must be permanently deleted. The compliance team wants to automatically enforce this process across all Microsoft 365 locations (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams). Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management. Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management (formerly Microsoft 365 Retention) is the correct solution because it allows organizations to define retention and deletion policies that apply automatically across Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams. This solution enforces the 5-year retention period after termination and then permanently deletes the records, meeting the regulatory requirement without manual intervention.

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

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Microsoft Purview Records Management

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

Question 12

A multinational corporation stores highly sensitive intellectual property in SharePoint Online. To meet regulatory requirements, they need an additional layer of encryption beyond Microsoft's baseline encryption. The company wants to manage their own encryption keys using Azure Key Vault, so that if they remove the key from the service, the data becomes unreadable. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they implement?

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Customer Key. Customer Key (Option B) is the correct solution because it provides the ability to control and manage the encryption keys used to encrypt data at rest in Microsoft 365, including SharePoint Online. By using Azure Key Vault to store the keys, the organization can revoke access at any time, rendering the data unreadable—a key requirement for meeting regulatory obligations. This goes beyond Microsoft's baseline encryption by adding a customer-controlled layer of encryption.

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Double Key Encryption

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Information Rights Management

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Customer Lockbox

Question 13

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 14

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?

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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 15

A company runs a consumer-facing e-commerce website and wants to allow customers to sign in using their existing social media accounts such as Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Which Microsoft Entra ID solution should they implement?

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Microsoft Entra External ID (B2C). Microsoft Entra External ID (B2C) is the correct solution because it is specifically designed for consumer-facing applications, allowing customers to sign in using social identity providers (IdPs) like Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols. It provides a customizable authentication experience for external users, distinct from B2B which targets organizational collaboration.

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Microsoft Entra External ID (B2B)

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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

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Microsoft Entra Conditional Access

Question 16

A company has an on-premises Active Directory domain and uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for cloud applications. They purchase new Windows 10 laptops that are not yet joined to any domain. The IT admin wants users to be able to sign in with their existing on-premises credentials and automatically have the laptops joined to both the on-premises AD domain and Microsoft Entra ID. Which device identity option should the admin configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra hybrid joined. Option C is correct because Microsoft Entra hybrid join allows devices to be joined to both an on-premises Active Directory domain and Microsoft Entra ID simultaneously. This enables users to sign in with their existing on-premises credentials and automatically have the laptops registered in both directories, meeting the requirement for a seamless single sign-on experience.

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Microsoft Entra registered

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Microsoft Entra joined

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On-premises domain join only

Question 17

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They have a financial application that should only be accessible from Windows devices. The security team wants to create a Conditional Access policy to block access from other operating systems such as macOS or Linux. Which assignment condition should they configure?

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Device platforms. The Device platforms condition in a Conditional Access policy allows administrators to target specific operating systems (e.g., Windows, iOS, Android, macOS) or block others. By configuring this condition to only include Windows devices, the policy will block access from macOS, Linux, or any other non-Windows platform. This directly addresses the security team's requirement to restrict the financial application to Windows devices only.

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Locations

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Client apps

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Sign-in risk

Question 18

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and needs to regularly review membership of a group that grants access to a sensitive HR application. The identity team wants to automate quarterly reviews and automatically remove users who fail to respond or are denied by the reviewer. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

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Access Reviews. Option D is correct because Microsoft Entra Access Reviews are specifically designed to automate periodic attestation of group memberships, including the ability to automatically remove users who do not respond or are denied by the reviewer. This feature supports quarterly recurring reviews and integrates directly with Entra ID groups to enforce access governance for sensitive applications.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Question 19

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and Intune for mobile device management. They want to enforce different access requirements for their finance application: when users access from an unmanaged personal device, they must perform multi-factor authentication (MFA). When they access from a corporate-managed device that is marked as compliant (e.g., joined to Azure AD, antivirus up-to-date, encryption enabled), MFA should not be required. Device compliance is reported by Intune. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use to define these rules?

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Conditional Access policies. Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra ID allow administrators to define granular access rules based on signals such as user, device, location, and application. In this scenario, the policy can be configured to require MFA when the device is not marked as compliant (e.g., unmanaged personal device) and to allow access without MFA when the device is reported as compliant by Intune. This is the correct feature because it directly evaluates device compliance status from Intune and enforces the specified access requirements.

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Identity Protection risk policies

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Intune device compliance policies

Question 20

You run the PowerShell command shown in the exhibit. What is the purpose of this command?

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Applies a sensitivity label to a document. Option A is correct. The command assigns a sensitivity label to a document. Option B is wrong because it does not remove a label. Option C is wrong because it does not encrypt the file; labeling may include encryption but the command itself only assigns the label. Option D is wrong because it does not export audit logs.

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Encrypts a document using Azure Information Protection

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Removes a sensitivity label from a document

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Exports audit logs for labeled documents