SC-100 Practice Question: Recommend security best practices and priorities
This SC-100 practice question tests your understanding of recommend security best practices and priorities. 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.
A large enterprise is implementing Microsoft Defender for Cloud to improve their security posture. Which TWO actions should they take to prioritize and remediate security recommendations effectively? (Choose two.)
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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Enable automatic remediation for high-priority recommendations
Option B is correct because Microsoft Defender for Cloud allows you to enable automatic remediation for high-priority recommendations, which automatically applies the necessary configuration changes (e.g., enabling encryption or installing endpoint protection) when a recommendation is triggered. This reduces manual effort and ensures critical security gaps are closed quickly. Option C is correct because the Secure Score aggregates all recommendations into a numerical score, and focusing on recommendations that provide the highest score improvement directly correlates to the most significant risk reduction, aligning with Microsoft's guidance for prioritization.
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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Assign each recommendation to a specific team member manually
Why it's wrong here
Manual assignment is less efficient than automated prioritization.
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Enable automatic remediation for high-priority recommendations
Why this is correct
Automation ensures quick fixes for critical issues.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Review Secure Score and focus on recommendations that improve it most
Why this is correct
Secure Score directly reflects risk reduction.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
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Ignore recommendations with low severity to save time
Why it's wrong here
Ignoring low severity can lead to risk accumulation.
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Disable recommendations that generate security alerts
Why it's wrong here
Disabling recommendations hides potential issues.
Common exam traps
Common exam trap: answer the scenario, not the keyword
The trap here is that candidates often confuse 'automatic remediation' with 'manual assignment' (Option A) or incorrectly assume that low-severity recommendations can be safely ignored (Option D), when in fact Defender for Cloud's Secure Score treats all recommendations as contributing to the overall score, and ignoring them can lead to compliance failures and gradual score degradation.
Detailed technical explanation
How to think about this question
Under the hood, Defender for Cloud's Secure Score is calculated using a weighted formula where each recommendation contributes a specific number of points based on its severity and the number of healthy resources; focusing on recommendations with the highest potential score gain ensures maximum risk reduction per effort. Automatic remediation leverages Azure Policy's 'deployIfNotExists' effect, which can automatically deploy configurations (e.g., enabling Azure Disk Encryption) without manual intervention, but it requires careful testing to avoid unintended changes in production. In a real-world scenario, a large enterprise might use Secure Score trends to track progress over time and combine automatic remediation with manual approval workflows for critical resources.
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 cloud solutions architect for a retail company is evaluating services for a new workload. The correct answer here reflects best practice for the specific scenario described — not a general cloud recommendation. Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option. Cloud exam questions reward reading the constraint carefully: the same technology can be right or wrong depending on the use case.
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Concepts from this question explained
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Recommend security best practices and priorities — This question tests Recommend security best practices and priorities — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Enable automatic remediation for high-priority recommendations — Option B is correct because Microsoft Defender for Cloud allows you to enable automatic remediation for high-priority recommendations, which automatically applies the necessary configuration changes (e.g., enabling encryption or installing endpoint protection) when a recommendation is triggered. This reduces manual effort and ensures critical security gaps are closed quickly. Option C is correct because the Secure Score aggregates all recommendations into a numerical score, and focusing on recommendations that provide the highest score improvement directly correlates to the most significant risk reduction, aligning with Microsoft's guidance for prioritization.
What should I do if I get this SC-100 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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