SC-900 Practice Exam 63 — 20 Questions

Question 1

A company has a hybrid identity environment with Active Directory synchronizing to Microsoft Entra ID. They want users to be able to reset their own on-premises passwords via the cloud SSPR portal. What is the minimum license required for this capability?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra ID P1. Microsoft Entra ID P1 is the minimum license required for password writeback, which enables users to reset their on-premises Active Directory passwords via the cloud SSPR portal. This feature requires Microsoft Entra ID P1 or higher because it involves synchronizing password changes back to on-premises AD using Microsoft Entra Connect.

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Microsoft Entra ID Free

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Microsoft Entra ID P2

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Microsoft 365 Business Basic

Question 2

A company has an on-premises web-based expense report application. The IT team wants to make this application accessible to remote employees over the internet without requiring a VPN. They need to use Microsoft Entra ID for authentication and apply Conditional Access policies such as requiring multi-factor authentication. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

Accepted Answer

Azure AD Application Proxy. Azure AD Application Proxy allows on-premises web applications to be published for remote access without a VPN. It integrates with Microsoft Entra ID for authentication and supports Conditional Access policies, including multi-factor authentication, by acting as a reverse proxy that forwards authenticated requests to the internal application.

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Self-service password reset (SSPR)

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Azure AD B2B collaboration

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Azure AD Domain Services

Question 3

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 4

A company needs to grant IT administrators temporary and time-limited access to privileged roles in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). The access must require approval from a manager and be automatically revoked after the task is completed. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should be used?

Accepted Answer

Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access by allowing administrators to activate eligible role assignments for a limited duration. It supports approval workflows (e.g., manager approval) and automatically deactivates the role when the activation time expires or the task is completed, meeting the requirement for temporary, time-limited, approved, and auto-revoked access.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Entitlement Management

Question 5

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. A junior administrator needs to occasionally reset passwords for the IT department. The security team wants to grant this permission only for a limited time and require an approval from a senior administrator before the permission becomes active. All password reset actions must be audited. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access, allowing the junior administrator to request a time-limited role for password reset that requires approval from a senior administrator. PIM also enables auditing of all role activations and actions, meeting the security team's requirements for limited duration, approval workflow, and auditability.

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Entra ID Identity Protection

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Entra ID Conditional Access

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Entra ID Terms of Use

Question 6

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for users who sign in from locations with a high risk score, as determined by Microsoft's analysis of the sign-in's IP address and other behavioral signals. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Identity Protection. Identity Protection is the correct feature because it provides risk-based detection and remediation, including the ability to automatically enforce MFA when a sign-in is flagged with a high risk score. It uses machine learning models to analyze signals such as anonymized IP addresses, atypical travel, and leaked credentials to assign a risk level. This directly matches the requirement to require MFA based on Microsoft's analysis of the sign-in's IP address and behavioral signals.

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Conditional Access

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Privileged Identity Management

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Entitlement Management

Question 7

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team needs to ensure that when users sign in to a critical financial application from an untrusted network, they must first complete multi-factor authentication (MFA). Additionally, the team wants to block the sign-in if the device is not marked as compliant by Microsoft Intune. Which conditional access grant control should they configure to meet both requirements?

Accepted Answer

Require multi-factor authentication AND Require device to be marked as compliant. Option A is correct because Conditional Access grant controls allow you to require multiple conditions to be met simultaneously. By selecting 'Require multi-factor authentication' AND 'Require device to be marked as compliant', the policy ensures that both MFA and device compliance are enforced for the sign-in, meeting the security team's requirements.

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Require multi-factor authentication only

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Require one of the selected controls

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Require device to be marked as compliant only

Question 8

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). The security team wants to create a Conditional Access policy that meets the following requirements: - Require multi-factor authentication (MFA) when users access a sensitive financial application from an untrusted network. - Additionally, require that the device accessing the app is compliant with company policies (e.g., encryption enabled). Which two conditions should the team configure in the Conditional Access policy? (Choose two.)

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Location. Option A (Location) is correct because the policy requires MFA when users access the sensitive financial application from an untrusted network. In Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access, the Location condition uses named locations (such as trusted IP ranges or countries) to determine whether a network is trusted or untrusted, enabling the policy to trigger MFA only when access originates from an untrusted location.

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Sign-in risk

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Application

Question 9

A Microsoft 365 organization needs to classify and protect sensitive documents based on their content, such as passport numbers. They want the classification to be applied automatically without user intervention. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?

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Auto-labeling with sensitivity labels. Auto-labeling in Microsoft Purview Information Protection uses policy rules to automatically apply sensitivity labels to documents containing sensitive info like passport numbers. Trainable classifiers are used for more complex patterns but require training. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) can detect and protect but does not label documents by default. Unified labeling is a client-side feature requiring user action.

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Unified labeling client

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies

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Trainable classifiers

Question 10

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to enforce that users accessing the payroll application from outside the corporate network must use multifactor authentication and must access the app only from devices that are marked as compliant by Intune. Which Conditional Access component should they use to combine these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Grant controls. B is correct because Grant controls in a Conditional Access policy allow administrators to specify the access requirements that must be satisfied before a user can access a resource. In this scenario, the requirement to enforce both multifactor authentication and device compliance (from Intune) is achieved by configuring the Grant control to 'Require multifactor authentication' and 'Require device to be marked as compliant', combined with the 'Require all the selected controls' option. This ensures that both conditions must be met simultaneously for access to the payroll application from outside the corporate network.

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Conditions

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Sign-in risk policy

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Session controls

Question 11

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT department has three teams: Helpdesk, Global Administrators, and Security Administrators. The company wants to allow the Helpdesk team to manage password resets and group memberships, but only for users who belong to the 'Sales' organizational unit. Which Microsoft Entra feature should the administrator use to define this delegated administrative scope?

Accepted Answer

Administrative Units. Administrative Units (AUs) in Microsoft Entra ID allow you to delegate administrative permissions scoped to specific organizational units, such as the 'Sales' OU. By placing Sales users into an AU and assigning the Helpdesk team roles like 'Helpdesk Administrator' or 'User Administrator' scoped to that AU, you precisely control which users they can manage for password resets and group memberships. This directly meets the requirement for delegated administrative scope without granting broader tenant-wide permissions.

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Conditional Access policies

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Identity Governance (Access Reviews)

Question 12

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) only for external guest users, while allowing internal employees to sign in without MFA. Which Conditional Access setting should be configured?

Accepted Answer

Target the 'Guest or external users' identity type. Option C is correct because Conditional Access allows targeting the 'Guest or external users' identity type, which enables MFA enforcement exclusively for external guest users without affecting internal employees. This setting leverages the user type attribute in Microsoft Entra ID to differentiate between internal and external identities, providing granular control over authentication requirements.

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Require MFA for all users

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Exclude internal users by group

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Use Identity Protection's user risk policy

Question 13

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) to manage access to internal applications for employees and guest users. The compliance team requires that all guest users' access to a sensitive application must be reviewed every 90 days by the application owner. If the owner does not respond to the review request, the guest's access must be automatically revoked. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should the company use?

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Access Reviews. Access Reviews in Microsoft Entra ID allow administrators to create recurring reviews of guest user access to applications, groups, or roles. The scenario requires a 90-day review cycle with automatic revocation if the owner does not respond, which is a built-in configuration option within an Access Review policy. This directly meets the compliance team's requirement for periodic attestation and automated removal of access.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Question 14

Your company is implementing a zero-trust security model. Which principle requires verifying every access request as though it originates from an untrusted network, even if the request comes from within the corporate network?

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Assume breach. Option C is correct because 'Assume breach' is the zero-trust principle that treats every access request as potentially compromised. Option A is incorrect because 'Explicit verification' is a different principle. Option B is incorrect because 'Least privilege' limits access rights. Option D is incorrect because 'Trust but verify' is not a zero-trust principle.

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Least privilege

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Trust but verify

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Explicit verification

Question 15

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and Intune for device management. The security team wants to create a Conditional Access policy for a sensitive research application. They require that: 1) The user must use a device that is marked as compliant by Intune, and 2) The user must accept the company's terms of use before accessing the app. Which grant control combination should they configure in the policy?

Accepted Answer

Select 'Require device to be marked as compliant' and 'Require terms of use' and choose 'Require all the selected controls'. Option C is correct because the policy requires both conditions—device compliance and terms of use—to be enforced simultaneously. In Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, when multiple grant controls are selected and set to 'Require all the selected controls', the user must satisfy every control to gain access. This matches the security team's requirement that the device must be compliant AND the terms of use must be accepted.

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Select 'Require device to be marked as compliant' and 'Require terms of use' and choose 'Require one of the selected controls'

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Select 'Require multi-factor authentication' and 'Require terms of use' and choose 'Require all the selected controls'

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Select only 'Require terms of use' and configure device compliance as a condition

Question 16

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing a sensitive customer relationship management (CRM) application, but only when the access request originates from outside the corporate network. Which component of a Conditional Access policy should the administrator configure to specify this location-based requirement?

Accepted Answer

Conditions. The 'Conditions' section of a Conditional Access policy allows administrators to define the circumstances under which the policy is applied, including the location from which an access request originates. By configuring a location condition, you can specify that MFA is enforced only when users access the CRM application from outside the corporate network, using named locations or IP ranges. This is the correct component to enforce the location-based requirement.

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Assignments

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Grant controls

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Session controls

Question 17

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team needs to block all sign-in attempts from a list of known malicious IP addresses. They also want to block sign-ins that originate from anonymous proxy services. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they configure to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Conditional Access. Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra ID allow administrators to define conditions under which sign-ins are blocked or allowed. By configuring a policy that includes 'Locations' as a condition, you can specify a list of known malicious IP addresses and also enable the 'Anonymous IP address' risk detection to block sign-ins from anonymous proxy services. This directly meets the requirement to block sign-ins from both specific IPs and anonymous proxies.

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management

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Access Reviews

Question 18

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to ensure that only users with a specific role can reset passwords for other users in their organization. Which feature should they use?

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Administrative Units. Administrative Units allow you to delegate administrative tasks, such as password resets, to users who have a specific role scoped to a subset of users. By assigning the Helpdesk Administrator role to an Administrative Unit, you ensure that only those users can reset passwords for members of that unit, meeting the requirement precisely.

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Privileged Identity Management

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

Question 19

Which TWO of the following are types of identity in Microsoft Entra ID? (Select two.)

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Synchronized identity. Options A and D are correct. Microsoft Entra ID supports cloud-only identities (A) and synchronized identities from on-premises (D). Option B is incorrect because 'Guest identity' is a type of external identity, but it is not a primary category. Option C is incorrect because 'Hybrid identity' is a scenario, not a type. Option E is incorrect because 'Managed identity' is a specific Azure resource identity.

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Guest identity

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Managed identity

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Hybrid identity

Question 20

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to allow users to reset their own passwords without help desk intervention. However, they want to ensure that only users who have already registered for multifactor authentication (MFA) can use self-service password reset (SSPR). Which Microsoft Entra feature should the administrator configure to enforce this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) settings. Option B is correct because Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) settings in Microsoft Entra ID include a configuration option to require users to register for multifactor authentication (MFA) before they can use SSPR. By enabling the 'Require users to register when they sign in' setting under SSPR, the administrator ensures that only MFA-registered users can reset their own passwords, meeting the requirement without additional policies.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management