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Manage identity and access

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Manage identity and access questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage manage identity and access concepts in scenario-based situations.

Core Manage identity and access concepts and how they apply in real-world cloud scenarios.

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Troubleshooting manage identity and access issues by interpreting error output and system state.

Cloud best practices and Manage identity and access design trade-offs tested by this certification.

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Common Manage identity and access exam traps

  • Selecting the most expensive service when a simpler managed option meets the requirement.
  • Forgetting that cloud resources must be explicitly secured — defaults are rarely secure.
  • Choosing a global service fix when the issue is region-specific.
  • Overlooking cost implications of cross-region data transfer in architecture questions.

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1

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The security team wants to receive a weekly email digest that includes the current Secure Score, the number of healthy and unhealthy resources, and a list of top recommendations. Which Defender for Cloud feature should they configure?

Medium
2

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage the 'Security Administrator' role. They want to require that activation of this role must be approved by a designated group of security engineers before it becomes active. Which PIM role setting should they configure?

Medium
3

A company uses Azure AD B2B collaboration to invite external partner users. The security policy requires that guest users who have not signed in for more than 90 days should have their access automatically reviewed and, if not approved, removed. The company has Azure AD Premium P2 licenses. Which Azure AD feature should they configure to meet this requirement?

Medium
4

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for the Security Administrator role. The security policy requires that when a user activates the Security Administrator role, they must: 1) Provide a justification, 2) Get approval from a designated security group, and 3) The activation must last a maximum of 4 hours. Which combination of PIM settings should they configure?

Hard
5

A security team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a custom analytics rule that generates an incident whenever a user from a list of known malicious IP addresses attempts to sign in to any Azure AD app. They have imported the IP list into Sentinel using Threat Intelligence. Which rule type should they use?

Medium
6

A security analyst uses Microsoft Sentinel. They have created a playbook that tags Azure VMs as 'isolated' when a high-severity malware alert is triggered. They want this playbook to run automatically whenever a related alert is generated. Which feature should they configure?

Medium
7

An organization is deploying Microsoft Sentinel to centrally collect and analyze security events. They need to ingest logs from multiple on-premises Windows servers located behind a firewall. Which agent should they deploy on those servers?

Medium
8

A company wants Defender for Cloud to recommend fixes for container image vulnerabilities stored in Azure Container Registry. Which capability is most relevant?

Medium
9

A security analyst uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. They need to view the current compliance status of their Azure subscription against the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Which feature in Defender for Cloud should they use?

Easy
10

A security team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to detect a potential privilege escalation scenario: when a user is added to the Global Administrator role in Azure AD (audit log) and within 10 minutes that user signs in from a suspicious location (sign-in log). Which type of analytics rule should they create to correlate these two different log sources?

Medium
11

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a rule that generates an incident when an Azure virtual machine is deployed with a public IP address that is not in a predefined approved list. The rule should run every hour and query Azure Activity logs. Which type of analytics rule should they create?

Medium
12

Drag and drop the steps to configure Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for a role into the correct order.

Medium
13

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage access to critical roles. They want to require that users who are eligible for the 'Security Administrator' role must provide a support ticket number in the justification when activating the role. Additionally, they want to set a maximum activation duration of 4 hours. Which PIM role setting should they configure?

Hard
14

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage the 'Global Administrator' role. The security team wants to ensure that when a user activates the role, they must provide a justification, and the activation request must be approved by a specific group of security administrators. They have already configured the role for activation with a maximum duration of 8 hours. Which additional PIM settings should they configure?

Medium
15

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud's Just-In-Time (JIT) VM access to manage RDP connections to a critical jump-box virtual machine. The company has a CI/CD pipeline running on Azure DevOps agent pools that needs to periodically RDP into this VM to deploy software. The agent pool's source IP addresses are dynamic and change frequently. They want the pipeline to automatically request JIT access before each deployment without manual intervention. Which approach should they implement?

Hard
16

A security team uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to monitor the security posture of a hybrid environment that includes on-premises servers connected via Azure Arc. They want to enable a vulnerability assessment solution that automatically scans all servers (both Azure VMs and on-premises Arc-enabled servers) for OS vulnerabilities. Which solution should they enable directly from Defender for Cloud?

Medium
17

A security team wants to receive a weekly email summary of the security posture of all their Azure subscriptions, including the Secure Score, top recommendations, and the number of healthy resources. Which Microsoft Defender for Cloud feature should they configure?

Easy
18

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create an automation that automatically changes the severity of an incident from 'Medium' to 'High' when a specific indicator of compromise (IOC) is observed in the incident's entities. The playbook should run immediately when the incident is created. Which type of automation rule trigger should they configure?

Medium
19

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a custom analytics rule that detects when an Azure virtual machine is created with a public IP address that is not in an approved list. Which type of rule should they use?

Medium
20

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to manage its security posture. The compliance team wants to monitor the subscription's compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). They need to view a detailed compliance report and track progress over time. What should they do in Defender for Cloud?

Medium
21

An organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. They want to implement just-in-time (JIT) VM access for a set of production VMs. However, the security team needs to ensure that JIT access requests are always approved by a manager before opening ports. Which configuration should they use?

Hard
22

A company uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and has a conditional access policy that requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all external users accessing SharePoint Online. However, the security team wants to enforce that external users must re-authenticate every 30 minutes when accessing SharePoint. Which control should they configure in a new conditional access policy targeting SharePoint Online?

Medium
23

A security team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a custom analytics rule that detects when a user account is created in Azure AD and then within 5 minutes attempts to access a sensitive SharePoint site. What should they use to correlate these two events?

Medium
24

A security team uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to monitor the security posture of their Azure environment. They want to ensure that the Log Analytics agent is automatically installed on all new Azure virtual machines as soon as they are provisioned, to collect security logs. Which feature should they enable in Defender for Cloud?

Medium
25

A company has Azure AD Identity Protection enabled. The security team wants to automatically block sign-ins that are detected as coming from a known malicious IP address. They have created a Conditional Access policy and assigned it to all users. Which configuration should they add to the policy to trigger the block based on Identity Protection risk?

Medium
26

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage the 'Security Administrator' role. They want to require that when a user activates this role, they must provide a support ticket number and a brief justification. Additionally, the activation should have a maximum duration of 4 hours. Which PIM role setting should they configure?

Medium
27

A company uses Azure AD Identity Protection. They want to automatically block sign-ins that have a high user risk level, but only for users in the 'Finance' department. They also want to require MFA for medium user risk level for all users (including Finance) when sign-in risk is not blocked. They have already created a Conditional Access policy for the Finance department that has a condition of 'User risk level: High' and a grant control of 'Block access'. What additional configuration is needed to also require MFA for all users with medium user risk?

Hard
28

A company wants to use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to continuously assess their Azure resources against the Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB). They need to view the current compliance score and specific recommendations for failing controls. Which feature in Defender for Cloud should they use?

Medium
29

An analyst investigates a Defender for Cloud alert for suspicious process execution on a VM. Which next step best preserves evidence while enabling deeper endpoint investigation?

Hard
30

Drag and drop the steps to configure Azure Disk Encryption for a Windows VM using Azure Key Vault into the correct order.

Medium
31

A company uses Azure AD B2B collaboration to invite external partner users to collaborate on a project. The security team wants to ensure that when a partner user's account is disabled in their home Azure AD tenant, the user should immediately lose access to the company's resources, even if the user had a valid session token. Which configuration should they implement in cross-tenant access settings?

Medium
32

A security analyst uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a scheduled analytics rule that runs every hour and queries Azure Activity logs to detect deployment of VMs in non-approved regions. They want to generate an incident automatically when suspicious activity is found. Which configuration is required to automatically create an incident?

Easy
33

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They have a scheduled analytics rule that generates an incident when a user signs in from an unusual location. They want to automatically assign the incident to the 'Security Engineering' team and set its severity to 'High' when it is created. Which feature should they use?

Hard
34

A company uses Azure AD Identity Protection. They have detected a user with a 'High' user risk level due to suspicious activity. The security team wants to automatically block sign-ins for this user only when the sign-in comes from a location that is not in the company's list of trusted IPs. They have created a Conditional Access policy. Which configuration should they use?

Medium
35

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to manage the Global Administrator role. They want to require that when a user activates the role, they must be using a device that is compliant with Intune policies (e.g., compliant device) and must provide a justification. The company already has Conditional Access policies in place for regular access. How should they enforce the device compliance requirement specifically during PIM activation?

Hard
36

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to automatically assign incidents to different tiers of analysts based on severity when incidents are created. Which feature should they configure?

Medium
37

A security operations team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They create a playbook that changes the severity of an incident from 'Medium' to 'High' when a specific indicator of compromise (IOC) is detected within the incident's entities. The team wants this playbook to run automatically as soon as the incident is created, without manual intervention. Which type of automation rule trigger should they configure to invoke the playbook?

Medium
38

A company has an on-premises web application that they want to expose to external users over the internet without requiring a VPN. External users must authenticate with Modern Authentication (e.g., using Azure Multi-Factor Authentication) and access policies must be enforced via Conditional Access. The application does not support SAML or OAuth. Which Azure service should they use to publish this application securely?

Medium
39

A company has a subscription with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). They want to enable a conditional access policy that requires all users to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when accessing the Azure portal. The policy should only apply to users who are members of a group called 'AllUsers'. Which assignment should they configure in the policy?

Easy
40

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to manage security posture. The security team wants to receive alerts when a virtual machine has a vulnerability rated as 'Critical' by the integrated vulnerability assessment solution. Which Defender for Cloud plan must be enabled for the subscription to receive these alerts?

Medium
41

A security analyst uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to monitor the security posture of their Azure subscription. They want to receive an email notification whenever a high-severity security alert is generated for any of their Azure resources. What should they configure in Defender for Cloud?

Easy
42

A security team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to automatically assign a severity level and an owner to every incident that is created from a specific analytics rule. The owner should be a specific security operations group. Which Microsoft Sentinel feature should they configure to achieve this automation?

Medium
43

A security team uses Microsoft Sentinel. They want to create a custom detection rule that identifies a potential data exfiltration scenario: when a user signs in from an unusual location and then, within 30 minutes, performs a large download from Azure Blob Storage. They need to correlate sign-in logs from Azure AD with storage diagnostic logs. Which type of analytics rule should they create in Microsoft Sentinel?

Medium
44

Drag and drop the steps to configure Azure Application Gateway with SSL termination using a Key Vault certificate into the correct order.

Medium
45

A security analyst uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. They need to continuously monitor the security posture of their Azure subscription against the Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB). They want to see the current compliance score and specific recommendations for failing controls. Which Defender for Cloud feature should they use?

Hard
46

Drag and drop the steps to assign an Azure RBAC role to a user at the resource group scope into the correct order.

Medium
47

A company uses Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access. A user is detected with a 'High' user risk level due to suspicious activity. The security team wants to automatically block sign-ins for this user, but only when the sign-in originates from a location that is not in the company's list of trusted IPs. They have created a Conditional Access policy targeting all users. Which configuration should they add to the policy to achieve this?

Medium
48

A company develops a web application that runs on Azure App Service. The application needs to access Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. The security team wants to avoid using service principals or connection strings. Which identity should they assign to the App Service to authenticate to Key Vault?

Easy
49

A custom Azure role should allow operators to restart virtual machines but not delete them or change networking. Which permission design is most appropriate?

Hard
50

A company uses Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for the Security Administrator role. They have configured the role activation to require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication and a support ticket number. However, users are reporting that they can activate the role without entering a ticket number. What is the most likely cause?

Hard

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