Microsoft 365 Administrator MS-102 (MS-102) — Questions 676–750

A security analyst wants to create a custom detection rule in Microsoft Defender XDR that triggers when a user receives a phishing email and clicks a link to a known malicious domain. Which advanced hunting table should the analyst query to track the clicked URL?

An organization wants to prevent users from running executable files from the Windows Temp folder. Which Microsoft Defender for Endpoint capability should be configured?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (Plan 2) and Microsoft Defender for Identity. A user reports that their device is running slowly and exhibiting unusual network traffic. You investigate in Microsoft Defender XDR and see a high number of alerts for the device. You need to determine if the device is compromised and, if so, initiate an automated investigation. What should you do first?

Refer to the exhibit. You run the KQL query and see that a device named 'WORKSTATION42' has made 1500 connections to a public IP address 203.0.113.55 in the last day. You suspect the device may be compromised. What should you do next to gain the most context?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You need to generate alerts when a user downloads more than 100 files from SharePoint Online within 10 minutes. What should you configure?

Your organization needs to implement a Conditional Access policy that blocks access from countries where the company has no business operations. Which TWO conditions should you configure?

A security administrator wants to block executable files from running from writable system directories such as %TEMP% and %APPDATA% on Windows devices. Which attack surface reduction (ASR) rule should be enabled?

A company is deploying Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to protect against advanced threats. Which two features are available only in Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 and not in Plan 1? (Choose two.)

Your company has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. You need to prevent users from sharing files containing credit card numbers with external users. What should you configure?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR. You need to configure automated actions for high-confidence phishing emails. Which TWO actions can be automatically taken by Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

A security analyst needs to create a custom detection rule in Microsoft 365 Defender that triggers when a suspicious PowerShell process (e.g., using -EncodedCommand) is detected on a device, and within 5 minutes, an outbound network connection to a known malicious IP address occurs. Which two advanced hunting tables must be joined?

Your organization is using Microsoft 365 Business Premium. You need to ensure that devices are automatically enrolled in Microsoft Intune when users sign in with their work account. Which TWO configurations are required?

You are the Microsoft 365 administrator for Contoso, a company with 5,000 users. The company recently acquired a subsidiary, Fabrikam, which has 2,000 users currently using on-premises Exchange and Active Directory. The goal is to migrate Fabrikam users to Microsoft 365 and merge their identities into the existing Contoso tenant. The migration must minimize user password changes and preserve existing email addresses. You need to plan the identity migration. What should you do first?

You manage a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment. A device onboarded to Defender for Endpoint is not reporting alerts. You run the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint client analyzer and see that the service is running. Which log should you review to troubleshoot the issue?

A company uses Azure AD Conditional Access to enforce MFA for all cloud apps. They have some users who are physically located in countries that are considered high-risk by the security team. The team wants to require device compliance (as defined by Intune) for sign-ins from those specific countries, while still requiring MFA from all other locations. How should the administrator configure the Conditional Access policy?

You need to ensure that guest users who are invited to your Microsoft Entra ID tenant can access resources without needing to accept an invitation. What should you configure?

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing a KQL query in Microsoft Defender XDR Advanced Hunting. The query returns a list of devices where PowerShell or cmd.exe with encoded commands executed more than 5 times in the last 7 days. The security team suspects that one of the devices is compromised due to excessive use of encoded commands. However, a legitimate administrative script uses encoded commands regularly. How can you refine the query to reduce false positives while still detecting potentially malicious activity?

A security analyst is investigating a potential lateral movement attack. They need to identify which processes were created on a compromised device and then which network connections were made by those processes. Which two advanced hunting tables should the analyst join in a KQL query?

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You need to ensure that when a user applies a sensitivity label to a document in SharePoint, the label is automatically applied to the document when it is downloaded. What should you configure?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You need to generate a report of all external users who have shared sensitive files from SharePoint Online. Which feature should you use?

You are implementing Microsoft Entra Verified ID. Which technology does it use to create decentralized digital identities?

You are investigating an incident in Microsoft Defender XDR. The incident involves multiple alerts from different sources. Which THREE actions should you take during the investigation?

Your organization is deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot for 200 users. You need to ensure that Copilot can access user data from Microsoft Graph to provide personalized responses. Which THREE permissions must be granted?

A security administrator wants to monitor and control user downloads from a third-party SaaS application (e.g., Box) in real time. The administrator needs to apply session-level policies to block downloads based on risk. Which Microsoft 365 Defender feature should be used?

Your organization is planning to migrate from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online. You need to choose a migration strategy. Which TWO statements about migration methods are correct?

You are configuring Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to protect against business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Which policy setting should you enable to analyze email sender behavior and detect impersonation attempts?

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID Governance to automate the lifecycle of user access. They want to automatically remove a user's group membership for a critical application 30 days after the user's employment end date is captured from the HR system. Which feature should be configured to meet this requirement?

You need to provide external partners with access to specific SharePoint Online sites without creating user objects in your Microsoft Entra ID. What should you use?

Your organization is a financial services company with 5,000 users. You use Microsoft Defender XDR, including Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, and Defender for Cloud Apps. You have recently deployed Microsoft Copilot for Security to assist your security operations center (SOC) analysts. A high-severity incident is generated: 'A user named jdoe accessed a malicious IP address from their device, and then logged into Azure Portal from an anonymous IP address. Defender for Identity detected a suspicious Kerberos ticket request from the same user's domain controller. The SOC analysts are overwhelmed with alerts and need to quickly understand the full scope of the incident, including related alerts, impacted assets, and recommended actions. They also want to use natural language to ask questions about the incident. What should you do to enable the analysts to efficiently investigate this incident?

A compliance officer needs to automatically detect and apply a sensitivity label to documents in SharePoint Online that contain personally identifiable information (PII) such as social security numbers. The label should be applied automatically, and users must be able to override the label with a justification. Which two Microsoft Purview components must be configured to achieve this?

Which THREE components are required to implement auto-labeling for sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365?

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management. You need to review the disposition of content that has reached the end of its retention period. What should you configure?

Your organization, Wingtip Toys, has a Microsoft 365 E3 tenant. You are implementing Microsoft Entra ID Governance. You need to create an access review for all guest users who have access to the company's HR application. The review must be performed by the application owner, and any denied access should be automatically removed after the review completes. You also need to ensure that if the reviewer does not respond, their access is automatically revoked. You have the following options: A. Create an access review with scope: All guest users, reviewers: Application owner, auto-apply results: Yes, action to apply if reviewers don't respond: Remove access. B. Create an access review with scope: All users, reviewers: Resource owners, auto-apply results: No, action to apply if reviewers don't respond: Keep access. C. Create an access review with scope: Group members, reviewers: Group owner, auto-apply results: Yes, action to apply if reviewers don't respond: Keep access. D. Create an access review with scope: All guest users, reviewers: Resource owner, auto-apply results: No, action to apply if reviewers don't respond: Remove access. Which option should you choose?

Your organization has Microsoft 365 E5 licenses and uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365. You need to ensure that users are warned before clicking on malicious URLs in email messages, even if the URL is clicked after the email is delivered. Which policy should you configure?

You are the compliance administrator for Contoso Ltd., a multinational corporation with 10,000 users. The company uses Microsoft 365 E5 licenses and has deployed Microsoft Purview. The legal department requires that all email communications related to ongoing litigation be preserved for the duration of the case. You have identified the custodians and relevant keywords. You need to ensure that all relevant emails are preserved, regardless of whether users delete them. Additionally, you need to allow authorized reviewers to search and export the preserved emails without affecting the original data. Finally, you must ensure that the preservation is lifted automatically when the case is closed. What should you do?

Refer to the exhibit. You search the unified audit log and find an entry where the SecureScore changed from 75 to 80. Which Microsoft Purview feature is most likely responsible for this change?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365. You need to ensure that malicious links in email messages are blocked at the time of click by checking the link reputation in real time. What should you enable?

Your organization uses Microsoft 365 E5 licenses. You need to ensure that all external sharing links for SharePoint Online expire after 30 days by default. You configure this in the SharePoint admin center. However, users report that links created before the change still do not have an expiration. What should you do?

Your company, Fabrikam Inc., uses Microsoft Entra ID with hybrid identity. You have an on-premises Active Directory and use Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to synchronize users. You need to configure Microsoft Entra ID Protection to detect leaked credentials and risky sign-ins. Additionally, you must ensure that when a user is detected as high risk, their access is automatically blocked and they are required to change their password. You also need to enable password writeback so that password changes are written back to on-premises AD. You have the following options: A. Enable Identity Protection, configure user risk policy to require password change, and enable password writeback in Microsoft Entra Connect. B. Enable Identity Protection, configure sign-in risk policy to block access, and enable password hash sync. C. Configure Conditional Access policy to require MFA for all users, and enable seamless SSO. D. Deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity and configure automatic remediation. Which option should you choose?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. A user reports that their device is not receiving security updates. You need to ensure that the device is properly onboarded to Defender for Endpoint. Which log should you check first?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You discover that a user is downloading large amounts of data from SharePoint Online to an unmanaged device. You need to automatically block the download and alert the security team. What should you configure?

You are a Microsoft 365 administrator for a medium-sized company with 500 users. The company uses Microsoft 365 E3 licenses. Recently, the company acquired a small subsidiary with 50 users who already have their own Microsoft 365 tenant with E3 licenses. You need to migrate the subsidiary's users to the main tenant while minimizing downtime and ensuring that users retain their existing email and OneDrive data. You plan to use cross-tenant migration. However, after setting up the migration, you notice that the subsidiary's users cannot access the main tenant's SharePoint Online sites. They receive an access denied error. You verify that the users have been added to the main tenant's Azure AD and are assigned licenses. What should you do to resolve the issue?

Refer to the exhibit. You are a compliance administrator. You need to ensure that documents in the Project X site are retained for 365 days after the last modification and then deleted. The current configuration is shown. What is the outcome?

A company is using Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) and wants to receive alerts when a user account is involved in a suspicious network connection. The security team has enabled MDI alerts but is not receiving any alerts for a specific account that is showing anomalous behavior. What should the team check first?

An administrator who is not a Global Administrator needs to manage just-in-time privileged access to Azure resources using Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Which built-in role must be assigned to the administrator to allow PIM management for Azure resources?

Your company is migrating from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online. You have configured a hybrid deployment. During testing, you notice that free/busy information is not being shared between on-premises and cloud users. All other hybrid features work. What is the most likely cause?

An admin needs to provide a vendor with temporary access to a SharePoint site. What should the admin create?

Which THREE features are part of Microsoft Defender XDR? (Select THREE.)

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to manage data retention. You need to retain all documents in a SharePoint site for 5 years and then allow users to delete them manually. Which THREE settings must be configured?

An administrator needs to add a custom domain 'contoso.org' to their Microsoft 365 tenant. They have already purchased the domain and have access to the DNS registrar. What is the first step the administrator should perform in the Microsoft 365 admin center?

Your organization is planning to migrate from on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID using Azure AD Connect. You need to ensure that password synchronization is enabled. Which TWO components are required for password synchronization to work?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. You need to configure a rule that automatically isolates a device from the network when a specific threat is detected, but only if the device is in a specific device group. Which approach should you use?

Your company recently deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot. Users report that Copilot occasionally generates responses based on sensitive internal documents that should not be shared broadly. What should you configure to restrict Copilot's access?

A company is planning to deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to its Windows 10 devices. The devices are managed by Microsoft Intune. The security team wants to ensure that the MDE sensor is installed automatically on new devices that are enrolled in Intune. Which method should the team use?

A company has an existing Microsoft 365 tenant with the verified custom domain 'contoso.com'. The administrator now wants to add a second custom domain, 'contoso-europe.com', to the same tenant. What is the first step the administrator should take?

A compliance officer needs to ensure that all documents in a SharePoint Online site library are declared as permanent records, preventing any edits or deletions. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be used?

A company uses Microsoft Entra ID P2 licenses. The security team wants to automatically require a password change for users with medium sign-in risk, but only when the sign-in originates from outside the corporate network. Users with high sign-in risk should be blocked entirely. A group of break-glass accounts must be excluded from all policies. Which feature should the administrator implement?

A company uses dynamic groups based on department attribute. A user moved from Sales to Marketing but the group membership did not update after 48 hours. What should the admin do first?

Which TWO actions can you perform using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies?

An organization uses Microsoft Entra ID P2 licenses. They want to implement a policy that forces users to perform multi-factor authentication (MFA) only when they sign in from an untrusted location. The trusted locations include the corporate office IP range. Which type of policy should they create?

You are configuring Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Which TWO actions should you take to protect users from phishing attacks that use impersonation?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. You need to ensure that when a device with a high-risk vulnerability is detected, it is automatically isolated from the network. What should you configure?

Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Intune. You have a group of remote users who connect to the corporate network via VPN. Recently, several of these devices were compromised due to unpatched vulnerabilities. You need to ensure that devices that are missing critical security updates are automatically blocked from accessing corporate resources. The solution must integrate with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's threat and vulnerability management (TVM) data. What should you configure?

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft 365 E5 licenses. You are a security administrator. The security team wants to receive email notifications for high-severity incidents only. You need to configure the notification settings. What should you do?

Match each Microsoft 365 role to its administrative scope.

Your organization has a Microsoft 365 E5 tenant with 10,000 users. You need to ensure that when a user is detected as high-risk by Microsoft Entra ID Protection, the user is automatically blocked from accessing sensitive SharePoint sites. The solution should minimize administrative overhead. What should you do?

Which TWO actions can you perform using Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)? (Choose two.)

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You discover that a user's credentials were compromised and used to access sensitive data in SharePoint Online from an unusual location. You need to automatically suspend the user and prevent further access to cloud apps. What should you configure?

You are a Microsoft 365 Administrator for a company that is implementing a hybrid identity solution with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) for single sign-on (SSO). The company has recently acquired a subsidiary with its own on-premises Active Directory domain. You need to ensure that the identity lifecycle for users from the subsidiary is managed effectively through Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and that licensing is assigned efficiently. Which three of the following actions should you take? (Choose three.)

A security administrator is configuring Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to protect against data exfiltration from SaaS apps. The administrator wants to create a policy that alerts when a user attempts to download more than 50 files from SharePoint Online within 5 minutes. Which two components must be configured to achieve this? (Choose two.)

Contoso uses Microsoft Entra ID P2. Users report that password reset self-service does not work. You verify that the users have the required license. What should you check next?

The exhibit shows a DLP policy configuration. A user reports that they cannot share a document containing a credit card number from OneDrive for Business. However, the document was shared successfully last week. What is the most likely reason for the change?

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance to detect inappropriate messages in Microsoft Teams. You need to configure a policy that monitors for potential harassment based on a built-in classifier. The policy should alert designated reviewers when a match is found. What is the minimum configuration required?

A security analyst wants to create a custom detection rule in Microsoft Defender XDR that triggers when a user receives a phishing email and later clicks a link to a known malicious domain from their device. The rule will use advanced hunting queries. Which two tables should be joined to detect the click event from the device?

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) for a legal investigation. You need to collect data from Microsoft Teams chat messages and channel conversations. The case manager wants to search for specific keywords and exclude irrelevant content. What should you do?