MS-900 · domain
Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Use this page to practise Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions for this certification. Focus on how the exam tests describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in microsoft 365 in scenario format — understanding the why behind each answer builds more durable knowledge than memorising options.
Focused practice
Practice Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions
Scored sessions drawing only from this domain — pick a length below.
Start 20-question practice test →What this domain covers
What to know about Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in microsoft 365 concepts in scenario-based situations.
Core Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 concepts and how they apply in real-world cloud scenarios.
How to deploy describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in microsoft 365 correctly and verify the outcome.
Troubleshooting describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in microsoft 365 issues by interpreting error output and system state.
Cloud best practices and Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 design trade-offs tested by this certification.
Watch out for
Common Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 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.
Question index
All Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions (57)
Click any question to see the full explanation, or start a practice session above.
A compliance officer needs to automatically detect documents stored in SharePoint Online that contain sensitive data types (e.g., credit card numbers) and apply a sensitivity label that restricts access to only certain users. The classification should occur without user intervention and the label must be applied to the document. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Medium2A security team needs to ensure that all Microsoft 365 administrative actions—such as creating user accounts or resetting passwords—are logged and searchable for at least 90 days. They also need to create custom alert rules for suspicious admin activity. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?
Hard3A compliance officer needs to automatically encrypt any outgoing email that contains a customer's credit card number. The solution should work without requiring the sender to take any manual action. Which Microsoft Purview feature should be configured?
Medium4You are the compliance officer for Fabrikam, a medium-sized company with 500 users on Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Fabrikam must comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The legal team has identified that they need to be able to respond to consumer requests to delete personal data within 45 days. They also need to ensure that personal data is not retained longer than necessary. You have been asked to configure Microsoft Purview to meet these requirements. Specifically, you need to search for and delete personal data when a deletion request is received, and set up a data retention policy to automatically delete personal data after 2 years. What should you do?
Medium5A legal team is preparing for litigation. They need to place a hold on all content (emails, documents, Teams messages) related to a specific project across the entire organization. The hold must prevent any deletion or modification of the content. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?
Hard6A multinational corporation needs to ensure that all emails containing a customer's passport number are automatically blocked from being sent externally. Additionally, the sending user should receive a policy tip explaining the block. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Hard7A tenant administrator is advising a department that wants to grant temporary, approved privileged administrator access. Microsoft security, identity, or compliance capability should it use?
Medium8A multinational corporation must comply with GDPR. They need to ensure that personal data of EU residents is retained for a specific period and then securely deleted. Additionally, they must be able to respond to data subject access requests (DSARs) within 30 days by finding and exporting relevant data. Which two Microsoft Purview solutions should they use together? (Choose two.)
Hard9A compliance team needs to prevent employees from copying sensitive data (such as financial records or customer PII) to USB drives and other removable media from their Windows 10/11 devices. When a user attempts to copy data to an unapproved USB device, the action should be blocked and an alert should be generated. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Medium10A company uses Microsoft 365 (a SaaS offering). A security incident occurs where an employee's account is compromised because the employee reused their corporate password on a personal website. According to the shared responsibility model, who is primarily responsible for this security failure?
Hard11A compliance officer wants to proactively prevent users from sending emails that contain sensitive personal data (e.g., credit card numbers) to external recipients. When a user attempts to send such an email, they should see a policy tip explaining the restriction and be blocked from sending. Which Microsoft Purview feature should be configured?
Hard12A company is preparing for a merger and wants to prevent communication between the Human Resources and Research departments regarding sensitive salary data during the due diligence period. They need a Microsoft Purview solution that can block all email and chat between users in these two groups, as well as prevent file sharing in Teams and SharePoint. Which solution should they configure?
Medium13A compliance administrator needs to retain mailbox content for legal investigation. Which Microsoft 365 capability is the best fit?
Medium14A compliance officer needs to automatically detect when an employee attempts to send an email containing a social security number (SSN) to an external recipient. The solution should block the email from being sent and notify the employee with a policy tip. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Medium15A legal firm needs to send a confidential document to a client via email. The firm requires that the client cannot forward or print the email and that the email expires after seven days. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?
Medium16A compliance administrator needs to apply encryption and usage restrictions to confidential documents. Which Microsoft 365 capability is the best fit?
Medium17A legal team needs to preserve all data belonging to a former employee who is involved in litigation. The preservation must cover Exchange Online email, SharePoint sites, Teams messages, and OneDrive files. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use to enforce the preservation?
Hard18An organization wants to retain mailbox content for legal investigation. Which two statements are accurate about the Microsoft 365 capability involved?
Medium19A financial services company must prevent users from accidentally sharing sensitive customer data externally. They want to block sharing of any document containing a credit card number via email or SharePoint. What combination of Microsoft 365 compliance solutions should they use?
Hard20A compliance team needs to ensure that any email sent from the Finance department that contains a bank account number is automatically encrypted. External recipients must be able to reply securely without needing to sign up for any service. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Medium21A security administrator needs to audit all activities related to a specific user in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Entra ID for the past 90 days. They also need to export the audit log as a CSV file. Which Microsoft Purview solution provides this capability without additional licensing beyond Microsoft 365 E3?
Hard22A company uses Microsoft Purview to monitor for potential data security incidents. They want to automatically detect and remediate activities like downloading large amounts of data to a personal device. Which solution should they configure?
Medium23An organization needs to prevent users from sharing documents that contain credit card numbers via email and Microsoft Teams. When a user attempts to share such a document, they should see a policy tip explaining the restriction. Which Microsoft Purview solution should the compliance team configure?
Hard24A healthcare provider must ensure that patient health information (PHI) is not accidentally shared outside the organization. They want to automatically detect if an email contains PHI (such as diagnosis codes) and block it from being sent externally. Additionally, the sender should receive a notification explaining the block. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Hard25A company wants to ensure that sensitive documents classified as 'Confidential' are automatically encrypted and have restricted access permissions applied when they are shared via email. The protection must persist even if the email is forwarded to external parties. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be used?
Medium26A compliance officer needs to identify users who are at risk of leaking sensitive data based on their activities such as copying files to USB drives or emailing content outside the organization. The solution must also allow reviewing the activities in a case-based workflow. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?
Medium27An administrator needs to monitor and investigate potential data breaches by reviewing detailed records of file access and sharing activities across Microsoft 365. They require a centralized report showing who accessed what, from where, and any unusual patterns. Which tool should they use?
Medium28A company wants to ensure that all Microsoft 365 users authenticate using multi-factor authentication (MFA). Which Microsoft 365 security feature should they configure?
Easy29A compliance officer needs to automatically classify documents stored in SharePoint Online that contain personally identifiable information (PII) such as social security numbers. The classification must apply a sensitivity label that encrypts the document and restricts access to only employees in the Legal department. The process should run without any user interaction. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Medium30A compliance officer wants to automatically encrypt outgoing emails containing credit card numbers and also prevent recipients from forwarding or copying the content. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be applied?
Hard31A compliance administrator needs to ensure that any document containing a patient's health information (e.g., medical record number) is automatically encrypted and restricted to authorized users. The encryption should be enforced regardless of where the document is saved (SharePoint, OneDrive, or email). Which Microsoft Purview feature should they configure?
Hard32A security administrator needs to automatically restrict access to documents that contain 'PII' (personally identifiable information) so that only employees in the 'Data Privacy' security group can view them. Additionally, editing and printing of these documents must be disabled. Which combination of Microsoft Purview features should be used?
Hard33A security administrator needs to automatically restrict access to documents labeled as 'Highly Confidential' when accessed from devices that are not joined to the domain. The restriction should block editing and printing, and apply encryption. Which combination of Microsoft 365 solutions should the administrator use?
Hard34A company wants to prevent users from sharing documents that contain credit card numbers via email. When a user attempts to share such a document, they should see a policy tip explaining the restriction and the share should be blocked. Which Microsoft Purview solution should the compliance team configure?
Medium35A compliance officer needs to set up a policy that automatically monitors and detects activities related to accessing sensitive data from outside the corporate network. When a user from a foreign country accesses a confidential file, the policy should trigger an alert and require additional authentication. Which combination of Microsoft 365 solutions achieves this?
Hard36A company must comply with a regulation that requires all data stored in Microsoft 365 to remain within the European Union. Which Microsoft 365 feature should an administrator configure to enforce this geographic restriction?
Medium37A compliance officer needs to automatically retain all SharePoint documents that contain a specific project code for exactly 5 years. The retention must be applied automatically when the document is uploaded, without any user interaction. Which Microsoft Purview feature should they configure?
Medium38A healthcare organization stores patient records in SharePoint Online. They need to ensure that the data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Which statement is true regarding Microsoft 365 encryption?
Easy39A business stakeholder asks how Microsoft 365 can help them allow sign-in using biometrics or FIDO2 security keys. Microsoft security, identity, or compliance capability should it use?
Medium40An organization wants to prevent employees from sharing sensitive files with external users via SharePoint Online, but they need to allow sharing with a specific external partner for a single project. What is the most efficient configuration?
Hard41A global company needs to ensure that only employees in the 'HR' security group can access a specific set of HR documents stored in SharePoint. If a user outside the group attempts to view or copy the content, it must be blocked. The protection must persist even if someone downloads the files and shares them externally, or if the files are saved to a personal device. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be used?
Hard42A compliance officer needs to automatically detect when employees share customers' personal data (e.g., social security numbers) via email and block such sharing. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Medium43A compliance administrator needs to block sharing of documents containing credit card numbers. Which Microsoft 365 capability is the best fit?
Medium44A compliance officer needs to ensure that any document containing passport numbers automatically gets a 'Highly Confidential' label and is encrypted when saved in SharePoint. The labeling should occur without any user interaction. Which Microsoft Purview feature should they configure?
Hard45Your company wants to ensure that only managed and compliant devices can access Microsoft 365 resources. Which Microsoft 365 security feature enforces conditional access based on device compliance?
Easy46A legal team is involved in a court case and needs to identify all emails and documents related to a specific project across the entire organization. They need to place these items on hold to prevent deletion or modification. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they use?
Medium47A compliance administrator needs to assess compliance posture against standards and improvement actions. Which Microsoft 365 capability is the best fit?
Medium48A company wants to ensure that all outgoing emails containing sensitive financial data are encrypted automatically. The encryption should require the recipient to authenticate to read the message. Which Microsoft 365 solution should the administrator configure?
Easy49An organization wants to automatically detect when a user attempts to share a document containing a customer's credit card number via email. The system should block the sharing and display a warning to the user. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Medium50A compliance administrator needs to automatically detect when employees share documents containing a customer's credit card number via email and block such sharing before the email is sent. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Medium51Your company is deploying Microsoft Purview to manage data subject requests (DSRs) under GDPR. Users need to submit requests to access or delete their personal data. Which Microsoft Purview solution should you use?
Medium52A help desk lead is documenting the correct Microsoft 365 approach to preserve relevant mailboxes and SharePoint content during a legal case. Microsoft security, identity, or compliance capability should it use?
Medium53A compliance officer needs to automatically retain all emails in Exchange Online for exactly 7 years, and then permanently delete them. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
Easy54An organization wants to investigate emails that may be part of a phishing campaign. Which two statements are accurate about the Microsoft 365 capability involved?
Medium55A compliance officer needs to ensure that all outgoing emails containing a customer's credit card number are automatically encrypted before delivery. External recipients must be able to reply with the same level of encryption without a separate signing-up process. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be configured?
Hard56Drag and drop the steps to deploy Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise to a Windows device using the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center into the correct order.
Medium57A compliance officer needs to ensure that all emails and documents in Exchange Online and SharePoint are automatically retained for five years. After five years, the data should be automatically deleted. Which Microsoft Purview solution should they configure?
MediumOther domains
All MS-900 exam domains
Frequently asked questions
- What does the Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 domain cover on the MS-900 exam?
- Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions on this certification test your ability to deploy and manage describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in microsoft 365 concepts in scenario-based situations.
- How many questions are in this domain?
- This page lists all 57 Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions in the MS-900 question bank. The actual exam draws from this domain proportionally to its weighting in the official exam blueprint.
- What is the best way to practise this domain?
- Start with a short focused session (10 questions) to identify gaps, then work through explanations. Repeat with a longer session once the weak areas feel solid.
- Can I practise only Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365 questions?
- Yes — the session launcher on this page filters questions to this domain only. Choose any session length for inline explanations and scoring.