SC-900 Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra Practice Test 5 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A company wants to allow its employees to reset forgotten passwords or unlock their accounts without contacting the help desk. The solution must verify the user's identity using a phone call or mobile app notification before allowing the action. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should be enabled?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR). B is correct because Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) enables users to reset forgotten passwords or unlock accounts without help desk intervention. It supports identity verification via phone call or mobile app notification (Microsoft Authenticator), meeting the stated requirement exactly.

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection

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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Conditional Access

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

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 3

A company has several on-premises web-based applications that need to be securely accessed by remote employees without requiring a VPN. The IT team wants to provide single sign-on (SSO) using Microsoft Entra ID. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they implement?

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Microsoft Entra Application Proxy. Microsoft Entra Application Proxy enables secure remote access to on-premises web applications without a VPN by acting as a reverse proxy. It integrates with Microsoft Entra ID to provide single sign-on (SSO) for users, leveraging pre-authentication and conditional access policies. This directly meets the requirement for VPN-less, SSO-enabled access.

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Microsoft Entra Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)

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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

Question 4

A company wants to allow external business partners to access its internal applications using their own corporate credentials (e.g., their Microsoft Entra ID or Google account), without creating separate user accounts in the company's directory. Which Microsoft Entra ID feature should they use?

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B2B collaboration. B2B collaboration allows the company to grant external business partners access to its internal applications using their own corporate identities (such as Microsoft Entra ID or Google accounts) without creating separate user accounts in the company's directory. It leverages federation trust and cross-tenant authentication, enabling partners to authenticate with their home organizations while accessing resources in the host tenant.

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Azure AD B2C (Business-to-Consumer)

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Microsoft Entra Domain Services

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Conditional Access

Question 5

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?

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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 6

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?

Accepted Answer

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 7

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 8

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?

Accepted Answer

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 9

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 Microsoft Entra ID 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 10

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?

Accepted Answer

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 11

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 Registered (formerly Azure AD Registered) provides a device identity for personal (BYOD) devices without requiring organizational domain join or full management. It links the user's work account to the device, enabling access to corporate resources via conditional access and Intune app protection policies. This matches the requirement of a simple identity for personal smartphones without full management.

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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 12

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?

Accepted Answer

Configure a Conditional Access policy with Sign-in risk as a condition and MFA as a grant control. 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 13

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 14

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 15

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