SC-900 Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra Practice Test 2 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company requires that all users accessing a financial application from outside the corporate network must complete multi-factor authentication (MFA). The IT team is configuring a Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access policy to enforce this requirement. Which component of the policy should be configured to apply the MFA requirement?

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Grant controls. Grant controls are the component of a Conditional Access policy that enforce the actual access requirements, such as requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA). By configuring the 'Require multi-factor authentication' checkbox under Grant controls, the policy ensures that users must complete MFA before accessing the financial application. This is the correct setting to apply the MFA requirement.

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Conditions

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Assignments

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Session controls

Question 2

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT team wants to provide remote employees with secure, single sign-on (SSO) access to a critical on-premises web application that uses password-based authentication, without requiring a VPN connection. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

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Microsoft Entra Application Proxy. Microsoft Entra Application Proxy enables secure remote access to on-premises web applications by publishing them through an external endpoint, without requiring a VPN. It supports password-based SSO by securely storing and replaying credentials to the legacy application, allowing users to authenticate once via Entra ID. This makes it the correct choice for providing SSO to a password-based on-premises app without a VPN.

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Microsoft Entra Connect

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Microsoft Entra Domain Services

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Microsoft Entra ID P2 license

Question 3

A multinational corporation uses Microsoft Entra ID. The IT department wants to allow regional IT administrators in Europe to manage users and groups only for their own region, without granting them permissions to manage users in other regions. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

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B. Administrative Units. Administrative Units (AUs) in Microsoft Entra ID allow you to delegate administrative permissions scoped to a subset of users, groups, or devices. By creating an AU for the Europe region and assigning regional IT administrators to it, you restrict their management scope to only those objects within that AU, preventing them from managing users in other regions.

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A. Conditional Access

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C. Privileged Identity Management

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D. Identity Governance

Question 4

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?

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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 5

A security administrator at an organization using Microsoft Entra ID needs to automatically detect user sign-ins that exhibit risky behavior, such as signing in from a suspicious IP address or using leaked credentials. The administrator also wants the system to automatically calculate a risk level for each user and take actions like requiring a password reset when risk is high. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should the administrator use?

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Identity Protection. Microsoft Entra ID Protection is the correct feature because it automatically detects risky sign-in behaviors—such as sign-ins from suspicious IP addresses, anonymous IP addresses, or leaked credentials—and calculates a user risk level. It can then automatically trigger remediation actions like requiring a password reset when the risk level is high, directly matching the administrator's requirements.

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Conditional Access

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Identity Governance

Question 6

A company wants to allow employees to access corporate resources such as email and internal apps using their personal smartphones. The IT team does not want to fully manage or domain-join these devices but needs each device to have a simple identity that links the user's work account to the device. Which Microsoft Entra ID device identity option should they implement?

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Microsoft Entra ID Registered. Microsoft Entra ID supports three device identity options: Registered, Joined, and Hybrid Joined. Microsoft Entra ID Registered is designed for 'bring your own device' (BYOD) scenarios. A registered device is known to Azure AD but not fully managed; it simply links the user's work account to the device, often enabling single sign-on and conditional access. Microsoft Entra ID Joined is for corporate-owned devices that are managed by MDM. Hybrid Joined requires an on-premises Active Directory. Active Directory Joined is a traditional on-premises domain join, not a cloud identity option.

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Microsoft Entra ID Joined

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Hybrid Microsoft Entra ID Joined

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Active Directory Joined

Question 7

An organization uses Microsoft Entra ID. The security team wants to require multi-factor authentication (MFA) for users who sign in from sessions that Microsoft Entra ID Protection determines to have medium or high sign-in risk. Users signing in from low-risk sessions should not be prompted for MFA. Which feature should the security team configure?

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Configure a Conditional Access policy with Sign-in risk as a condition and MFA as a grant control. Option A is correct because a Conditional Access policy can use Sign-in risk (a condition from Microsoft Entra ID Protection) to require MFA as a grant control. This allows the security team to enforce MFA only for sessions with medium or high sign-in risk, while low-risk sessions are not prompted, exactly matching the requirement.

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Configure a user risk policy in Microsoft Entra ID Protection

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Assign the Global Administrator role with Privileged Identity Management (PIM) activation requiring MFA

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Create an access review in Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Question 8

A company uses Microsoft 365 and requires that users access corporate email and SharePoint from managed devices that meet security policy requirements, such as having encryption enabled and antivirus software running. The security team wants to enforce this access control within Microsoft Entra ID so that unmanaged devices are blocked. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

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Conditional Access. Conditional Access is the Microsoft Entra ID feature that enforces access control policies based on conditions such as device compliance, location, and user risk. By configuring a policy that requires devices to be marked as compliant (e.g., with encryption enabled and antivirus running) and blocking access from unmanaged devices, the security team can meet the stated requirement. This is the correct choice because Conditional Access directly integrates with Microsoft Intune device compliance policies to evaluate device health before granting access to corporate email and SharePoint.

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Identity Protection

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Access Reviews

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Privileged Identity Management

Question 9

An organization uses Microsoft Entra ID to manage user access. The security policy requires that membership in the 'Finance - Sensitive Data' group must be reviewed every quarter by the group owner to confirm that each member still requires access. The group owner must approve or deny each membership, and any denied memberships should be automatically removed. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should be configured to automate this process?

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Microsoft Entra ID Access Reviews. Microsoft Entra ID Access Reviews is the correct feature because it enables periodic review of group memberships, where the group owner can approve or deny each member's continued access. When a member is denied, Access Reviews can be configured to automatically remove that user from the group, satisfying the security policy's requirement for quarterly reviews and automatic removal of denied memberships.

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Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection

Question 10

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 11

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). They have a cloud-based HR system (e.g., Workday) that contains employee records. They want to automate the process of creating user accounts in Microsoft Entra ID for new hires and deactivating accounts for terminated employees based on information from the HR system. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they configure?

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Microsoft Entra Application Provisioning. Microsoft Entra Application Provisioning (specifically HR-driven provisioning) is the correct feature because it automates the creation, update, and deactivation of user accounts in Microsoft Entra ID based on changes in an external HR system like Workday. It uses SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) protocol to synchronize employee lifecycle events from the HR source to Entra ID, enabling fully automated user provisioning without manual intervention.

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Microsoft Entra Connect

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Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

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Microsoft Entra Access Reviews

Question 12

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 13

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID. A new IT support technician is hired and needs to be able to reset passwords for users but must not be allowed to delete user accounts or modify group memberships. Which built-in Microsoft Entra ID role should be assigned to this technician?

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Password Administrator. The Password Administrator role is the correct choice because it grants the specific permissions required to reset passwords for all users, including administrators, while explicitly excluding permissions to delete user accounts or modify group memberships. This role is designed for scenarios where a technician needs to perform password-related tasks without broader user management capabilities.

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User Administrator

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Helpdesk Administrator

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Global Administrator

Question 14

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?

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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 15

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?

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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