Quick Answer
The answer is SignInLogs. This diagnostic setting is the correct choice because it captures all user sign-in activities from Microsoft Entra ID, including interactive, non-interactive, and service principal sign-ins, and streams them in real time to your Log Analytics workspace for Microsoft Sentinel. On the AZ-305 exam, this tests your understanding of how to configure diagnostic settings for identity-based monitoring, often appearing in scenario-based questions where you must distinguish between SignInLogs, AuditLogs, and ProvisioningLogs—a common trap is selecting AuditLogs, which only track changes to directory objects, not authentication events. Remember that sign-in logs are the direct pipeline for security monitoring, while audit logs are for administrative changes. A useful memory tip: “Sign-ins for security, audits for activity.”
This AZ-305 practice question tests your understanding of design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions. This is a configuration task: choose the command set that satisfies every stated requirement. Small differences — like 'secret' vs 'password' or 'transport input ssh' vs 'all' — change whether the answer is correct. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security monitoring. You need to ensure that all sign-in logs from Microsoft Entra ID are ingested into a Log Analytics workspace in real time. Which diagnostic setting should you configure?
NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs
Why wrong: NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs cover non-interactive sign-ins, but the requirement is for all sign-in logs.
AuditLogs
Why wrong: AuditLogs contain directory changes, not sign-in events.
SignInLogs
SignInLogs include all interactive sign-in events from Entra ID.
ServicePrincipalSignInLogs
Why wrong: ServicePrincipalSignInLogs cover only service principal sign-ins, not user sign-ins.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
SignInLogs
The SignInLogs diagnostic setting captures all user sign-in activities, including interactive and non-interactive sign-ins, which is required for real-time ingestion of all sign-in logs from Microsoft Entra ID into a Log Analytics workspace. This setting ensures that every authentication event is streamed to Sentinel for security monitoring without delay.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs
Why it's wrong here
NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs cover non-interactive sign-ins, but the requirement is for all sign-in logs.
AuditLogs
Why it's wrong here
AuditLogs contain directory changes, not sign-in events.
SignInLogs
Why this is correct
SignInLogs include all interactive sign-in events from Entra ID.
Related concept
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ServicePrincipalSignInLogs
Why it's wrong here
ServicePrincipalSignInLogs cover only service principal sign-ins, not user sign-ins.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse the SignInLogs category with the more specific subcategories like NonInteractiveUserSignInLogs or ServicePrincipalSignInLogs, mistakenly thinking they need to select multiple options or that a single subcategory covers all sign-in events, when in fact SignInLogs is the umbrella category that includes all sign-in types.
Detailed technical explanation
Microsoft Entra ID diagnostic settings stream logs to Log Analytics via the Azure Monitor pipeline, where the SignInLogs category includes both interactive and non-interactive sign-ins, as well as managed identity sign-ins, providing a complete audit trail. Under the hood, these logs are emitted in near real-time with a latency of typically less than 15 minutes, but for true real-time ingestion, you must also enable streaming to Event Hubs or use the Log Analytics ingestion API. A real-world scenario is a security operations center (SOC) that needs to detect brute-force attacks across all user sign-in types; relying only on InteractiveUserSignInLogs would miss automated credential stuffing attempts using non-interactive flows.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — This question tests Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: SignInLogs — The SignInLogs diagnostic setting captures all user sign-in activities, including interactive and non-interactive sign-ins, which is required for real-time ingestion of all sign-in logs from Microsoft Entra ID into a Log Analytics workspace. This setting ensures that every authentication event is streamed to Sentinel for security monitoring without delay.
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