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 organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and requires that all external users invited via B2B collaboration must authenticate using multi-factor authentication (MFA). You need to enforce this for all guest users. What 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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Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy
Option D is correct because Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra ID allow you to enforce MFA for guest users by targeting the 'Guest or external users' identity type and requiring MFA as a grant control. This provides granular control over authentication requirements for B2B collaboration users, unlike the other options which either lack enforcement capability or apply to different scenarios.
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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Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration settings
Why it's wrong here
These settings control invitation and redemption, not authentication requirements.
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Microsoft Entra Identity Protection user risk policy
Why it's wrong here
User risk policy reacts to risky behavior, does not enforce MFA for all guests.
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Microsoft Entra ID MFA registration policy
Why it's wrong here
This policy requires users to register MFA methods but does not enforce MFA at sign-in.
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Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy
Why this is correct
Conditional Access policy can target guest users and require MFA as a grant control.
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 confusing MFA registration (a prerequisite) with MFA enforcement (a runtime control), leading candidates to select Option C, which only ensures users have registered for MFA but does not require them to actually use it during sign-in.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Conditional Access policies evaluate signals such as user identity, device state, location, and application to enforce controls like MFA via the 'Require multi-factor authentication' grant. For guest users, the policy must explicitly include 'Guest or external users' in the 'Users and groups' assignment, and the 'Require MFA' grant is applied at authentication time via the Microsoft Entra authentication stack, which integrates with the MFA service. In a real-world scenario, this ensures that even if a guest user's home tenant has weak security, the resource tenant enforces MFA independently.
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.
Related glossary terms
Concepts from this question explained
These glossary pages explain the core terms tested in this AZ-305 question in full detail.
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: Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy — Option D is correct because Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra ID allow you to enforce MFA for guest users by targeting the 'Guest or external users' identity type and requiring MFA as a grant control. This provides granular control over authentication requirements for B2B collaboration users, unlike the other options which either lack enforcement capability or apply to different scenarios.
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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