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Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities
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Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and wants to prevent users from uploading sensitive files to personal cloud storage apps. What should you configure?
Medium2Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. You need to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. What should you configure?
Easy3Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure multi-cloud workloads. You need to ensure that Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources are assessed against the same security baseline. What should you do?
Hard4Your organization uses Microsoft Purview and needs to prevent users from copying sensitive data to USB drives. Which solution should you implement?
Medium5Which TWO of the following are valid methods to protect privileged accounts in Microsoft Entra ID?
Medium6Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Information Protection to label sensitive emails. You need to ensure that labels are applied automatically based on content. Which THREE methods can you use?
Easy7Which TWO actions should you take to implement a zero-trust identity strategy in Microsoft Entra ID?
Medium8Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to automatically respond to high-severity incidents. Which feature should you configure?
Easy9Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You need to detect and block data exfiltration from sanctioned cloud apps to personal devices. What should you configure?
Hard10Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices and wants to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. Which conditional access policy setting should you configure?
Hard11Which THREE capabilities does Microsoft Purview provide for compliance management?
Hard12Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to classify sensitive data. You need to automatically apply a sensitivity label to documents that contain personally identifiable information (PII). Which TWO components should you configure?
Medium13You need to design a solution to synchronize on-premises Active Directory users to Microsoft Entra ID for hybrid identity. Which tool should you use?
Easy14Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel. You need to design a solution to detect and automatically respond to a potential brute-force attack against an on-premises application that is published via Azure AD Application Proxy. The solution should block the attacker's IP address in Azure AD Conditional Access for one hour after detecting more than 10 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. What should you implement?
Hard15A company wants to automate incident response in Microsoft 365 Defender. Which THREE actions can be automated using automated investigation and response (AIR) capabilities? (Choose three.)
Hard16Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a Conditional Access policy in Microsoft Entra ID. The policy is enabled but users who are detected as high risk are still able to sign in. What is the most likely reason?
Hard17Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune. You need to design a solution that allows only hybrid Azure AD joined devices to access a sensitive application. The solution must also require that the device is compliant with company policies. Which two components should you configure? (Choose TWO.)
Medium18Your organization is implementing a zero-trust security model and needs to ensure that all access to cloud resources is verified in real-time. You plan to use Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access. Which policy component enforces real-time verification of user identity and device compliance before granting access?
Easy19A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to discover and control Shadow IT. They want to block the use of a newly discovered unsanctioned app. What should they do?
Easy20Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel as a SIEM. The security team wants to use Microsoft Copilot for Security to assist in incident investigation. You need to ensure that Copilot can access Sentinel data while meeting compliance requirements. Which integration should you configure?
Hard21You are designing an incident response plan for a company using Microsoft Defender XDR. The team needs to automatically notify the SOC via email when an incident of high severity is created. What should you use?
Easy22You are a security architect for a global financial services company. The company is adopting Microsoft Sentinel as its primary SIEM and Microsoft Defender XDR for endpoint, email, and identity protection. The company has a hybrid environment with on-premises Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. The SOC team needs to be able to investigate incidents that involve lateral movement between on-premises and cloud resources. Additionally, the company must comply with GDPR, requiring that personal data be protected and that data residency requirements are met: all security logs for EU users must remain within the EU. The company already has a Microsoft Sentinel workspace in the West Europe region. You need to design a solution that meets these requirements while minimizing administrative overhead. What should you do?
Hard23Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR for detection and response. You need to create a custom detection rule that alerts when a user performs more than 10 failed sign-ins from different countries within 5 minutes. Which component should you use?
Hard24A global enterprise uses Microsoft Entra ID with Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and Conditional Access. They need to ensure that all privileged role activations require an approval workflow, and that the approval process is documented for compliance. What configuration should they implement?
Hard25Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA). You need to create a policy that automatically suspends a user's access to a cloud app if the user is confirmed as compromised by Microsoft Entra ID Protection. Which policy type should you use?
Hard26Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. You need to ensure that an attacker cannot disable data collection by deleting the diagnostic settings on the Sentinel workspace. What should you configure?
Medium27Which THREE capabilities are provided by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) when integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR?
Medium28Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR to correlate alerts across endpoints, email, and identities. You need to create a custom detection rule that triggers when a user receives a phishing email and then attempts to log in from a new location. Which approach should you use?
Hard29A company uses Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to protect sensitive data. They want to prevent users from sharing credit card numbers in email but allow sharing via encrypted email. What should they configure?
Medium30Which TWO configurations are required to enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to monitor cloud app usage?
Easy31Your company is deploying a new line-of-business application in Azure that must comply with PCI DSS. The application uses Azure SQL Database. You need to design a solution to encrypt sensitive data at rest and in transit, and to audit access to sensitive columns. Which combination of Microsoft security capabilities should you recommend?
Hard32Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You need to design a solution that automatically applies a 'Confidential' sensitivity label to documents that contain credit card numbers and are shared externally. The solution should also generate an alert when this occurs. Which two configurations should you implement? (Choose TWO.)
Hard33Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure multi-cloud resources. You need to ensure that security recommendations are automatically remediated for non-compliant resources without manual intervention. What should you configure?
Hard34Your organization is implementing a zero-trust security model. You need to design a solution that continuously verifies user identity, device compliance, and access context before granting access to corporate resources. The solution should also support risk-based policies. Which Microsoft security capability should be at the core of this design?
Hard35Your organization uses Microsoft Intune for mobile device management and Microsoft Entra ID for identity. You are designing a solution to ensure that only devices that are compliant with security policies can access corporate resources. The requirements are: 1) Devices must have a minimum OS version. 2) Devices must have encryption enabled. 3) Devices must not be jailbroken or rooted. 4) Access to corporate apps must be blocked if the device is non-compliant. 5) The solution should automatically remediate non-compliant devices when possible. You need to recommend the minimum configuration. What should you do?
Medium36Your organization is implementing a data loss prevention (DLP) strategy using Microsoft Purview. The compliance team needs to automatically classify and label sensitive data in Microsoft 365, Azure SQL Database, and Amazon S3. Which Purview feature should you use?
Hard37A company uses Microsoft Purview to classify data and enforce retention policies. They need to automatically apply a retention label to all documents containing credit card numbers. Which approach should they use?
Medium38Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a Microsoft Defender for Cloud automation resource. You want the automation to trigger a playbook in Microsoft Sentinel when a high-severity security assessment is found. Based on the exhibit, what is the missing configuration?
Hard39Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to correlate security events from multiple sources to detect multi-stage attacks. What should you create?
Medium40Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and needs to ensure that external partners can access only specific applications for 30 days. What should you configure?
Medium41Your organization needs to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing sensitive applications. You plan to use Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access. Which grant control should you configure?
Easy42Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to implement a passwordless authentication strategy. Users have smartphones. Which method should you recommend as the primary authentication method?
Medium43Your organization needs to comply with regulatory requirements for data retention and deletion. Which TWO Microsoft Purview features should you use?
Easy44Your organization is required to retain all Microsoft Teams chat messages for 7 years due to regulatory compliance. You need to design a solution that automatically retains and, if needed, e-discovery searches these messages. What should you configure?
Easy45Your organization is a multi-national corporation that uses Microsoft 365 E5 and Azure. You need to design a security operations center (SOC) to detect and respond to threats across identities, endpoints, and cloud apps. The SOC team will use a single pane of glass for incident management. Requirements: (1) Centralize alerts from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, and Defender for Cloud Apps, (2) Automate incident response playbooks, (3) Use advanced hunting across all data sources, (4) Integrate with external threat intelligence feeds, (5) Provide role-based access control for SOC analysts. Which Microsoft solution should you implement?
Hard46Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and has enabled User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). The security team receives an alert for a user who has failed authentication 10 times in 5 minutes. What should you configure to reduce false positives while ensuring legitimate brute-force attacks are still detected?
Easy47You are designing a compliance solution for your organization that must enforce retention policies for documents stored in SharePoint Online. Which Microsoft Purview solution should you use?
Easy48Your organization uses Microsoft Intune for mobile device management. You need to configure a compliance policy for iOS devices that requires the device to be jailbreak-detected and have a minimum OS version. Which two settings should you configure in the compliance policy? (Choose two.)
Hard49Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to reduce alert fatigue by grouping related alerts into incidents. Which configuration should you use?
Hard50Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel as its SIEM. You receive a large number of low-severity alerts from various sources, overwhelming the security operations team. You need to design a solution to reduce alert fatigue while ensuring that critical incidents are not missed. The solution should also automatically collect feedback from analysts when they close an incident. What should you implement?
Hard51Your organization has Microsoft Sentinel. You need to create an analytics rule that detects when a user account is created outside of business hours (9 AM to 5 PM, Monday-Friday). Which KQL query should you use as the rule query?
Hard52Your organization has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription and wants to detect insider data exfiltration attempts. You need to design a solution that can identify users copying sensitive data to personal cloud storage services. Which Microsoft Purview capability should you use?
Easy53Your company uses Microsoft Purview to protect sensitive data. You need to automatically apply a retention label to documents containing credit card numbers detected in SharePoint Online. What should you configure?
Easy54A company plans to implement Microsoft Purview to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies. They need to prevent users from sharing credit card numbers via email. What should they configure?
Medium55Your organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR to detect and respond to threats. The SOC team wants to automatically isolate a device when a high-severity incident is confirmed. Which automation feature should you configure?
Easy56Your organization needs to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing Microsoft Entra ID integrated applications. However, users in the finance department should be exempted from MFA when accessing a specific legacy financial app that does not support modern authentication. What should you design?
Easy57A company uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. They need to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. They plan to use Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra ID. Which THREE components must be configured?
Hard58Refer to the exhibit. You configure this mail flow rule in Exchange Online. What happens to emails with 'FREE' in the subject?
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