SC-900 Practice Exam 64 — 20 Questions

Question 1

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT help desk team needs to be able to reset passwords and manage user account properties, but only for users located in the United Kingdom. The organization has created a dynamic group that contains all UK users. Which Microsoft Entra feature should an administrator use to delegate these administrative permissions specifically to the help desk team, limited to the UK user scope?

Accepted Answer

Administrative Units. Administrative Units (AUs) in Microsoft Entra ID allow an administrator to delegate administrative permissions over a subset of users, groups, or devices, scoped to a specific organizational boundary. By creating an AU that contains the dynamic group of UK users, the administrator can assign the Helpdesk Administrator role scoped to that AU, granting the help desk team the ability to reset passwords and manage user account properties only for those UK users. This directly meets the requirement of delegating permissions limited to the UK user scope.

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Conditional Access

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Access Packages

Question 2

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They frequently collaborate with an external partner organization. The IT team wants to allow the partner's users to access the company's internal SharePoint site using their existing corporate credentials from their own Microsoft Entra tenant. The partner users should not have to create separate guest accounts or remember another password. Which Microsoft Entra feature should the IT team configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration. Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration is the correct feature because it enables external users from a partner organization to access the company's internal SharePoint site using their own corporate credentials from their Microsoft Entra tenant. B2B collaboration creates a guest user object in the resource tenant without requiring separate guest accounts or additional passwords, leveraging cross-tenant trust and SAML/WS-Federation for authentication.

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Microsoft Entra B2C

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Microsoft Entra Domain Services

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Microsoft Entra Application Proxy

Question 3

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to provide just-in-time (JIT) administrative access to Azure resources. They require that administrators must request approval before gaining elevated privileges, and that the elevated access automatically expires after the task is completed. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is the correct choice because it provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access to Azure resources with time-bound activation, approval workflows, and automatic expiration. PIM allows administrators to request elevation for a specific role, which must be approved by designated approvers, and the elevated access automatically expires after the configured duration (e.g., 1–8 hours). This directly meets the security team's requirements for approval-based, time-limited administrative access.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

Question 4

Which TWO of the following are purposes of the 'Zero Trust' security model?

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Explicitly verify every access request. Zero Trust assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an open network. It explicitly verifies every access request, regardless of source. It does not assume a trusted internal network; that is the traditional perimeter model. It does not rely solely on a single perimeter firewall.

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Rely on a single perimeter firewall

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Trust internal traffic implicitly

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Assume that the network is always safe

Question 5

A company wants to reduce help desk calls by allowing users to reset their own passwords. The security team requires that users verify their identity using a registered mobile phone or alternative email before resetting. Additionally, the company policy states that passwords cannot be reused until at least five new passwords have been used. Which Microsoft Entra ID features should they configure to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) and password protection policies (password history enforcement). Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) allows users to reset their own passwords, reducing help desk calls. The security requirement for identity verification via registered mobile phone or alternative email is met by SSPR's authentication methods. The password history enforcement (preventing reuse until at least five new passwords have been used) is configured through password protection policies, specifically the 'password history' setting that enforces a minimum of 5 unique passwords before reuse.

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Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) and Conditional Access policies

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Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and password protection policies

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Identity Protection and Authentication Strengths

Question 6

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage elevated access to Microsoft Entra ID roles. They want to ensure that a user who activates a privileged role must provide a justification and receive approval from their manager before activation is complete. Which PIM configuration should be used?

Accepted Answer

Configure role settings to require approval on activation. Option B is correct because Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) allows administrators to configure role settings that require approval before a role is activated. By enabling the 'Require approval to activate' setting, a designated approver (such as the user's manager) must review and approve the activation request, ensuring that the justification is validated before access is granted.

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Configure role settings to require multi-factor authentication on activation

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Configure role settings to assign the user as permanently active

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Configure role settings to require an Microsoft Entra ID compliant device

Question 7

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT department needs to ensure that membership in the 'Global Administrator' role is regularly reviewed. Every quarter, the designated reviewers (e.g., senior managers) receive an email asking them to confirm whether each user in the role should keep their assignment. After the review deadline, any member not approved is automatically removed. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Access Reviews. Access Reviews in Microsoft Entra ID are specifically designed for periodic attestation of group memberships, application access, and role assignments. The scenario describes a quarterly review where designated reviewers receive email notifications and unapproved members are automatically removed after the deadline, which is the exact workflow that Access Reviews automate. This feature ensures compliance by requiring explicit confirmation for each user in the Global Administrator role.

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Identity Protection

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Conditional Access

Question 8

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to enforce a policy that prevents users from choosing commonly used weak passwords like 'Winter2024!' or 'Password@123', and also blocks customized variants based on organizational context (e.g., company name). Users must create passwords that meet standard complexity requirements. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra ID Password Protection. Microsoft Entra ID Password Protection (B) is the correct feature because it specifically enforces custom banned password lists that block weak passwords like 'Winter2024!' and organizational variants such as the company name. It works alongside standard password complexity requirements to prevent users from choosing passwords that appear on a global banned list or a tenant-specific custom list. This directly addresses the security team's need to block commonly used weak passwords and context-based variants.

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Password hash synchronization

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Self-Service Password Reset

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Conditional Access

Question 9

A company wants to automatically detect and alert the security team when a user sign-in appears to originate from a known compromised credential or from an anonymizing VPN service. The company wants to receive a risk score for each sign-in and be able to trigger automated remediation actions. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they enable?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra ID Protection. Microsoft Entra ID Protection is the correct feature because it is specifically designed to detect and respond to identity-based risks, including sign-ins from compromised credentials and anonymizing VPN services (e.g., Tor). It assigns a risk score (low, medium, high) to each sign-in and user, and supports automated remediation actions such as requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) or blocking sign-in via Conditional Access policies integrated with the risk detection.

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Microsoft Entra Identity Governance

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

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Microsoft Entra External Identities

Question 10

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. Their sales team wants to use a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) application that requires the 'Sign in and read user profile' permission and also a high-risk permission to 'Read all users' full profiles'. The security team wants to allow users to request access to this application, but they want to require an administrator to review and approve the high-risk permission request before consent is granted. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

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Admin consent workflow. The admin consent workflow in Microsoft Entra ID allows end users to request consent for applications that require permissions, while requiring administrator approval for high-risk permissions. In this scenario, the CRM app requests both a low-risk permission ('Sign in and read user profile') and a high-risk permission ('Read all users' full profiles'), and the security team wants admin review for the high-risk one. The admin consent workflow enables this by letting users initiate the request, then routing it to designated administrators for approval or denial, ensuring that high-risk permissions are not granted without oversight.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Question 11

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to implement two security baseline requirements: (1) Users must register for multifactor authentication (MFA) before they can use self-service password reset (SSPR). (2) Administrators must have just-in-time (JIT) access to Azure resources with approval required. Which two Microsoft Entra features should they use? (Choose two.)

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is the correct feature for requirement (2) because it provides just-in-time (JIT) access to Azure resources, requiring approval for role activation. PIM allows administrators to request time-bound, approved elevation of privileges, meeting the JIT and approval requirement exactly.

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Identity Protection

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Conditional Access

Question 12

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR. The security team wants a central dashboard showing the overall security posture and recommended actions. Which tool should they use?

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Microsoft Secure Score. Option D is correct because Microsoft Secure Score provides a dashboard with security recommendations and posture assessment. Option A is incorrect because Microsoft Entra ID is identity management. Option B is incorrect because Microsoft Sentinel is a SIEM. Option C is incorrect because Microsoft Purview is for data governance.

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Microsoft Purview

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Microsoft Entra ID

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Microsoft Sentinel

Question 13

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to require users to perform multifactor authentication (MFA) every 30 days on devices that are marked as compliant, but require MFA for every sign-in attempt on non-compliant devices. Which Conditional Access control should they configure to meet this requirement?

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Session control: Sign-in frequency. The requirement specifies different MFA frequency based on device compliance: every 30 days for compliant devices and every sign-in for non-compliant devices. This is achieved by configuring a Session control called 'Sign-in frequency' in a Conditional Access policy, which allows administrators to set the reauthentication interval (e.g., 30 days) and can be scoped to specific conditions like device state (compliant vs. non-compliant). Grant controls like 'Require MFA' enforce MFA but do not control the frequency of re-prompting.

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Grant control: Require MFA

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Conditions: Device state

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Session control: Application restrictions

Question 14

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to enforce that users accessing the finance app from outside the corporate network must use multifactor authentication (MFA) and access from a device marked as compliant. Additionally, if the user's sign-in risk is medium or higher, access must be blocked. Which component of a Conditional Access policy should the administrator configure to specify the 'Block access' action for high-risk sign-ins?

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Grant controls. The 'Block access' action is specified within the Grant controls section of a Conditional Access policy. Grant controls allow administrators to either require specific conditions (like MFA or compliant device) to be met for access to be granted, or to explicitly block access entirely. By selecting 'Block access' in the Grant controls, the policy enforces that any user meeting the policy's conditions (such as high sign-in risk) is denied access.

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Conditions

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Assignments

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Session controls

Question 15

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT department wants to automatically assign a Microsoft 365 E5 license to all users in the Sales department based on their department attribute. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

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Dynamic Groups. Dynamic Groups in Microsoft Entra ID allow automatic user membership based on user attributes, such as the department attribute. By creating a dynamic group rule like `user.department -eq "Sales"`, the system automatically assigns the group membership and can then apply a Microsoft 365 E5 license via group-based licensing.

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Administrative Units

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Identity Protection

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Access Reviews

Question 16

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID to manage identities. They want to enforce access policies based on user location, device compliance, and application sensitivity. Which Microsoft Entra ID capability should they use?

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Conditional Access. Conditional Access is the correct capability because it allows administrators to create policies that enforce access controls based on conditions such as user location, device compliance, and application sensitivity. These policies evaluate signals at sign-in time and can require multi-factor authentication, block access, or grant limited access based on the defined conditions.

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Microsoft Entra Connect Sync

Question 17

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to classify sensitive data. You need to create a custom sensitive information type that detects employee IDs matching the pattern 'EMP-XXXXX' (where X is a digit). Which rule pack element must you define?

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Regular expression. Option D is correct because a regex pattern is used to define custom patterns in sensitive information types. Option A is incorrect because a keyword list is for exact keywords. Option B is incorrect because a function is for built-in functions. Option C is incorrect because a data store reference is for external data sources.

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Keyword list

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Data store reference

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Function

Question 18

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to grant temporary, time-bound administrative access to the Microsoft 365 user management role for IT support staff. The access should require an approval from a senior administrator, and all actions should be audited. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Entra ID provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access with time-bound role activation, approval workflows, and full auditing. This directly matches the requirement for temporary, approved administrative access to the Microsoft 365 user management role with audit trails.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Identity Governance

Question 19

A company wants to provide secure external access to a partner application without creating user accounts manually. They need to allow partners to authenticate using their existing corporate identities (e.g., from other organizations) and configure policies for access. Which Microsoft Entra feature should they use?

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Microsoft Entra External ID (B2B collaboration). Microsoft Entra External ID (B2B collaboration) allows organizations to securely share applications and resources with external partners by letting them authenticate using their own corporate identities (e.g., from other Azure AD tenants, Microsoft accounts, or social identity providers). It eliminates the need to manually create and manage user accounts for partners, while enabling you to apply conditional access policies for granular control over external access.

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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

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Microsoft Entra Domain Services

Question 20

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT department wants to ensure that users are prompted to change their password only when there is a high likelihood that their credentials have been compromised, rather than forcing periodic password changes. They also want to block users from using common passwords from a custom list of banned passwords. Which Microsoft Entra features should they use?

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Identity Protection and Password Protection. Identity Protection uses machine learning to detect leaked credentials and risky sign-in behaviors, triggering a password change prompt only when compromise is likely, not on a fixed schedule. Password Protection enforces custom banned password lists (e.g., common passwords or company-specific terms) at the time of password change or reset, blocking weak passwords in real time.

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Conditional Access and Multi-Factor Authentication

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Privileged Identity Management and Identity Governance

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Access Reviews and Entitlement Management