AZ-305 Practice Question: Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
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 company is deploying Microsoft Entra ID Governance and needs to ensure that guest users' access to internal applications expires after 90 days. Which feature should you configure?
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Entitlement management
Entitlement management in Microsoft Entra ID Governance allows you to create access packages that govern guest user access to internal applications. You can configure an access package with a specific expiration policy, such as setting the access to expire after 90 days, ensuring automatic removal of guest access without manual intervention.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Why it's wrong here
PIM is for managing just-in-time privileged roles, not for guest user access expiration.
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Access reviews
Why it's wrong here
Access reviews require manual or recurring recertification, not automatic expiration after a fixed period.
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Conditional Access policies
Why it's wrong here
Conditional Access controls sign-in conditions but does not enforce time-based expiration of assignments.
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Entitlement management
Why this is correct
Entitlement management allows creating access packages with a specified expiration duration for guest users.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often confuse Access reviews (which require manual attestation) with automatic expiration, but Entitlement management provides the automated, policy-driven expiration that the question explicitly requires.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Entitlement management uses access packages, which are bundles of resources (e.g., groups, apps, SharePoint sites) with policies for requesting, approving, and expiring access. The expiration policy can be set to a specific number of days (e.g., 90) or a fixed date, and upon expiration, the guest user's assignments are automatically removed, revoking access to all resources in the package. This leverages Azure AD's automated lifecycle management, which runs periodic background jobs to enforce expiration policies.
KKey Concepts to Remember
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Find the constraint that changes the correct option.
Eliminate answers that are true in general but not in this case.
TExam Day Tips
→Watch for words such as best, first, most likely and least administrative effort.
→Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
How this comes up in practice
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..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Entitlement management — Entitlement management in Microsoft Entra ID Governance allows you to create access packages that govern guest user access to internal applications. You can configure an access package with a specific expiration policy, such as setting the access to expire after 90 days, ensuring automatic removal of guest access without manual intervention.
What should I do if I get this AZ-305 question wrong?
Identify which exam domain this question belongs to, review the core concept, then practise similar questions from the same domain.
What is the key concept behind this question?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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