SC-900 Practice Exam 65 — 20 Questions

Question 1

A multinational organization uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management. External contractors need temporary elevated access to Azure resources for a critical project. The access must be time-bound (expires after 8 hours), require manager approval, and enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) when contractors activate the role. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they configure?

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 (e.g., 8-hour expiry), requires approval workflows (manager approval), and enforces multifactor authentication (MFA) during role activation. PIM is specifically designed to manage, control, and monitor access to critical resources through time-limited, approved, and MFA-protected role assignments.

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Identity Protection

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Conditional Access

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Access Reviews

Question 2

Your organization is implementing Microsoft Purview to manage data compliance. They need to automatically detect and protect credit card numbers in emails and documents. Which Microsoft Purview feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies in Microsoft Purview can automatically detect sensitive information like credit card numbers and apply protective actions, such as blocking or encrypting the content. Information Protection refers to sensitivity labels and encryption, but DLP is the feature that uses policies to detect and protect data in transit and at rest. Data Lifecycle Management handles retention and deletion. Insider Risk Management focuses on user behavior.

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Data Lifecycle Management

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Insider Risk Management

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Information Protection

Question 3

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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Access Reviews

Question 4

A company needs to provide a developer with temporary, time-bound administrative access to Azure resources to debug a production issue. The access must require approval from the manager and automatically expire after 4 hours. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access to Azure resources with time-bound activation, approval workflows, and automatic expiration. This directly matches the requirement for temporary, manager-approved administrative access that expires after 4 hours.

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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 and a third-party SaaS application. They want to prevent users from downloading sensitive documents from the SaaS app when accessing from unmanaged personal devices, while still allowing read-only access. Which Conditional Access control should they apply to achieve this?

Accepted Answer

Use app control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps session policy. Option C is correct because Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDCA) session policies enable granular control over user actions within a SaaS app, such as blocking downloads while allowing read-only access. This is achieved through reverse proxy architecture that intercepts and enforces policies on HTTP/HTTPS traffic in real time, regardless of device compliance or identity provider status. Conditional Access with MDCA session control is the only option that provides app-level data protection without requiring device management or blocking access entirely.

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Require multifactor authentication (MFA)

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Require compliant device (Intune compliance policy)

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Block access

Question 6

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and Intune for device management. They want to ensure that only devices marked as compliant (e.g., updated, encrypted) can access the corporate HR portal. Which Conditional Access assignment condition should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Device state. The 'Device state' condition in Conditional Access allows administrators to require that only devices marked as compliant (via Intune compliance policies) can access resources. By configuring this condition, the HR portal will block access from non-compliant devices, enforcing security requirements like encryption and updates before granting access.

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Locations

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Client apps

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Sign-in risk

Question 7

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). The IT team has created a security group named 'SalesTeam' that contains all sales department users. They want to ensure that only members of this group can access the company's CRM application, which is registered as an enterprise application in Entra ID. What should the IT team configure?

Accepted Answer

Enterprise application user and group assignment. Enterprise applications in Microsoft Entra ID can be configured to require user or group assignment, which restricts access to only assigned users or groups. By assigning the 'SalesTeam' security group to the CRM enterprise application, the IT team ensures that only members of that group can authenticate and access the application. This is the standard method for controlling access to gallery or custom enterprise applications in Entra ID.

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A Conditional Access policy that requires group membership

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Self-service group management settings

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Application registration settings

Question 8

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to configure a policy so that when a user signs in from an unfamiliar location (not on the company's trusted IP ranges) or from an unfamiliar device, they are prompted for additional verification (e.g., MFA). However, if the sign-in is from a trusted location (e.g., office IP range) and a known device, no additional verification is required. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. Microsoft Entra Conditional Access is the correct feature because it allows administrators to define policies that evaluate sign-in context—such as user location (via named locations with trusted IP ranges) and device state (compliant or hybrid Azure AD joined)—and then enforce actions like requiring MFA only when conditions are not met. This directly matches the requirement to prompt for additional verification from unfamiliar locations or devices while skipping it for trusted ones.

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Microsoft Entra Access Reviews

Question 9

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to automatically detect and remediate over-privileged roles in their Azure subscriptions and AWS accounts. They need to get a unified view of permissions across multiple clouds. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is a Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) solution that provides visibility into permissions across multi-cloud environments, including Azure and AWS. It automatically detects over-privileged roles and can remediate them by enforcing least-privilege access policies, making it the correct choice for the described requirement.

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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

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Microsoft Entra Verified ID

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Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Question 10

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to configure a Conditional Access policy that requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) when a sign-in is assessed as medium or high risk by Microsoft's identity protection signals. For sign-ins with no detected risk, MFA should not be required. Which feature or service provides the risk assessment signals that can be consumed by Conditional Access policies?

Accepted Answer

Identity Protection. Identity Protection is the Microsoft Entra service that analyzes billions of sign-in signals using machine learning to assign a risk level (low, medium, high) for each authentication attempt. Conditional Access policies can then consume these risk assessments directly as a condition, enabling granular MFA enforcement only when the sign-in risk is medium or high, while allowing low-risk sign-ins to proceed without MFA.

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Entitlement Management

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Identity Governance

Question 11

A company wants to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing a financial application, but only when they sign in from outside the corporate network. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should be used?

Accepted Answer

Conditional Access. Conditional Access is the correct choice because it allows administrators to define policies that enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) based on specific conditions, such as network location. In this scenario, a Conditional Access policy can be configured to require MFA only when users access the financial application from outside the corporate network, using the 'Locations' condition to distinguish trusted IP ranges from external sign-ins. This granular control directly addresses the requirement without affecting internal access.

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

Question 12

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to enforce a policy that requires members of the 'Finance' group to use multi-factor authentication and sign in from a compliant device when accessing the financial reporting application. However, they want to exclude members of the 'Finance Admins' group from these requirements. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Conditional Access. Conditional Access is the correct feature because it allows administrators to define policies that enforce specific access requirements, such as multi-factor authentication and compliant device usage, based on conditions like group membership. In this scenario, the policy targets the 'Finance' group while excluding the 'Finance Admins' group, which is a core capability of Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra ID.

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Identity Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Entitlement Management

Question 13

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to grant temporary, time-limited administrative access to Azure subscriptions only when needed, with an approval workflow. 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 AD and Azure resources, including Azure subscriptions. PIM supports time-bound role activation with an approval workflow, allowing the security team to grant temporary administrative access only when needed, which directly matches the requirement.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Entra ID Governance

Question 14

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They have a critical application that requires additional security. The security team wants to enforce multifactor authentication (MFA) for every access to the application, but they also want users to reauthenticate with MFA if a session lasts longer than 60 minutes, regardless of device compliance. Which Conditional Access control should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Session control: Sign-in frequency. The requirement to force reauthentication with MFA after a specific time period (60 minutes) is a session-level control, not a grant control. The 'Sign-in frequency' session control in Conditional Access allows administrators to define how often a user must reauthenticate, including re-prompting for MFA, regardless of device compliance. This directly meets the scenario's need for a time-based reauthentication policy.

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Grant control: Require multifactor authentication

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Session control: Application enforced restrictions

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Grant control: Require device to be marked as compliant

Question 15

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. They want to ensure that when users access the HR portal from an unmanaged personal device, they are prompted to sign a terms of use agreement and also required to perform multifactor authentication (MFA). Which Conditional Access control should they configure to enforce both requirements?

Accepted Answer

Grant - Require MFA and Require terms of use. The Grant control in Conditional Access allows you to require multiple conditions to be satisfied before granting access. By selecting both 'Require MFA' and 'Require terms of use' under Grant, the policy enforces that the user must complete both MFA and accept the terms of use when accessing the HR portal from an unmanaged device. This directly meets the requirement for both authentication and consent.

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Session control - Use app enforced restrictions

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Grant - Require approved client app

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Session control - Sign-in frequency

Question 16

A company wants to allow external customers to sign in to their custom web application using their own social identities, such as Google or Facebook. They also need to support self-service registration and custom branding for the sign-in pages. Which Microsoft Entra External ID solution should they use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra ID B2C. Microsoft Entra ID B2C (Business-to-Consumer) is the correct solution because it is specifically designed for external customer identity and access management, supporting social identity providers (Google, Facebook, etc.) via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, self-service registration, and full customization of sign-in pages (branding, HTML, CSS). This aligns exactly with the requirements for a customer-facing web application with social sign-in and custom branding.

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Microsoft Entra ID B2B collaboration

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Microsoft Entra ID guest accounts

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Managed identities

Question 17

A company wants to allow external business partners to access a specific SharePoint Online site using their own corporate identities (such as Google or Facebook accounts). The company also needs to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for these external users. Which Microsoft Entra capability should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra External Identities (B2B collaboration). Microsoft Entra External Identities (B2B collaboration) allows you to invite external users (including those with social identities like Google or Facebook) to access your organization's resources using their own identities. It supports conditional access policies, including the enforcement of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for guest users, which meets both requirements.

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Microsoft Entra Connect

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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Question 18

A company wants to prevent users from using common passwords like 'Password123' and custom banned passwords such as 'Contoso2024' during sign-up or password change. They also need to apply a common list of banned passwords across tenant-wide. Which Microsoft Entra feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra ID Password Protection. Microsoft Entra ID Password Protection allows administrators to enforce both a global banned password list (Microsoft-managed) and a custom banned password list (tenant-specific). This feature blocks weak passwords like 'Password123' and custom entries like 'Contoso2024' during sign-up or password change operations, making it the correct choice for tenant-wide password policy enforcement.

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Conditional Access

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Identity Protection

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Multifactor Authentication (MFA)

Question 19

An organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. They want to ensure that only devices that are compliant with security policies (e.g., encryption enabled, latest patches) can access corporate email. Which Microsoft Entra feature should they use to enforce this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID. Conditional Access policies can require that devices be marked as compliant by Intune before granting access. Option A is wrong because device compliance policies in Intune set the compliance state but do not enforce access. Option C is wrong because Azure AD Join is a device identity, not an access enforcement mechanism. Option D is wrong because Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides threat detection, not access control.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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Device compliance policies in Microsoft Intune

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Azure AD Join

Question 20

A company wants to reduce the risk of privileged account misuse. They need to provide temporary, time-bound access to administrative roles in Microsoft Entra ID (Microsoft Entra ID) and require approval from a manager before granting the access. Which Microsoft Entra capability should they use?

Accepted Answer

Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides just-in-time (JIT) privileged access by allowing administrators to activate roles for a limited, time-bound duration. It also supports approval workflows, requiring a manager's approval before role activation is granted, directly addressing the need for temporary, approved access to administrative roles.

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Conditional Access policies

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Identity Protection

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Entra ID Governance (Access Reviews)