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Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities

This domain covers designing Microsoft Sentinel deployments, analytics rules, automation, and integration with Defender XDR workloads, plus identity protection and compliance capabilities in Microsoft Purview. Questions present operational scenarios—missing detections, automated response, data loss prevention, risk-based signals—and ask you to select the correct configuration or diagnose why a control fails.

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You must be able to map a security operations requirement to the right Microsoft tool—Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud Apps, or Purview—and explain the configuration that makes it work. The most important thing: verify the data source and connector before trusting any detection or automated response.

Configuring Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, KQL query logic, and incident creation from Defender XDR signals

Designing automation with Sentinel playbooks, automation rules, and Logic Apps for incident response

Applying Defender for Cloud Apps policies, session controls, and DLP to block sensitive uploads

Using Microsoft Purview compliance, sensitivity labels, and Insider Risk Management for data governance

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Common Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities exam traps

  • ▸Assuming a Sentinel analytics rule fires without checking entity mapping, data connector health, or whether the required table actually receives logs.
  • ▸Confusing Defender for Cloud Apps file policies with Purview DLP policies; each applies at different layers and requires different licensing.
  • ▸Believing automation rules and playbooks are interchangeable; automation rules orchestrate, while playbooks contain the actual response logic.

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All Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities questions (155)

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1

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?

Medium
2

Your company uses Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). You need to ensure that credit card numbers are not shared externally via email. What should you configure?

Easy
3

Your organization is deploying Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Which THREE capabilities are included in Defender for Cloud Apps? (Select three.)

Medium
4

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to improve threat hunting efficiency. Which THREE actions should you take?

Hard
5

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel as a SIEM. You need to design a solution to detect advanced persistent threats (APTs) by correlating data from multiple sources, including network logs, endpoint data, and threat intelligence feeds. The solution must use machine learning to identify anomalies and reduce false positives. Which analytics rule type should you configure?

Hard
6

Which TWO of the following are components of Microsoft Defender XDR (Extended Detection and Response)?

Easy
7

A company uses Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management. They need to retain financial records for 7 years and then delete them. Which TWO actions should they configure?

Medium
8

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. You need to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. What should you configure?

Easy
9

Your 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?

Hard
10

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to manage data governance. You need to create a unified data catalog that automatically classifies and labels data across Azure SQL Database, Amazon S3, and on-premises SQL Server. What should you configure?

Medium
11

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview and needs to prevent users from copying sensitive data to USB drives. Which solution should you implement?

Medium
12

You need to audit user activities in Microsoft 365, including who accessed a specific file in SharePoint Online. Which Microsoft Purview solution should you use?

Easy
13

A software company uses Microsoft 365 E5 and wants to ensure that when an employee is terminated, their access to all Microsoft Entra ID integrated applications is removed immediately and their manager is notified to reassign their files. The company wants to automate this without manual intervention from the IT help desk. Which Microsoft Entra ID Governance feature should you design into the solution?

Easy
14

You are a security architect for a global financial services company that uses Microsoft 365 E5 and Azure. The company has 50,000 users across 10 regions. The security team needs to detect and respond to identity-based threats in real-time, automate remediation for compromised accounts, and meet regulatory requirements for audit logging. The following requirements must be met: (1) Detect risky sign-ins and user anomalies, (2) Automatically block sign-ins when risk level is high, (3) Provide a centralized dashboard for security analysts to investigate incidents, (4) Retain logs for at least one year for compliance, (5) Minimize false positives by using machine learning. You have the following services available: Microsoft Entra ID P2, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Intune. Which combination of services should you use to meet all requirements?

Hard
15

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune. You need to design a solution that allows corporate users to access a sensitive internal application only from managed devices that are compliant with company security policies. The solution should block access from personal devices. Which two components should you use? (Choose TWO.)

Hard
16

Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel to manage security incidents. You need to design a solution that automatically triages low-severity incidents and enriches them with threat intelligence. Which THREE capabilities would you include? (Choose three.)

Hard
17

Your organization needs to monitor and respond to threats across email, endpoints, and identities. Which Microsoft solution provides a unified incident response experience?

Easy
18

A company uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. They need to ensure that only devices with a minimum OS version can access corporate email. Which policy type should they implement?

Medium
19

Your 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?

Easy
20

You are designing identity security for a hybrid organization using Microsoft Entra ID. You need to enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users accessing sensitive applications. What is the recommended approach?

Easy
21

Which TWO actions should you take to implement a zero-trust identity strategy in Microsoft Entra ID?

Medium
22

Refer to the exhibit. You are deploying this Bicep template to enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud's VM protection. After deployment, you notice that Agentless VM scanning is not enabled for existing VMs. What is the most likely reason?

Hard
23

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to automatically respond to high-severity incidents. Which feature should you configure?

Easy
24

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to discover and control cloud apps. They want to receive alerts when a user accesses a sanctioned app from an unusual location. Which feature should they configure?

Medium
25

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR. You need to design a solution that investigates and responds to a ransomware incident. Which three actions should you take? (Choose THREE.)

Hard
26

Which TWO components are required to enable Microsoft Sentinel to ingest data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) CloudTrail?

Hard
27

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. You need to design a compliance policy that requires devices to have a minimum OS version and be encrypted. Which policy type should you use?

Easy
28

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and wants to implement automated investigation and response (AIR) for ransomware. You need to ensure that when a suspicious file is detected, the investigation is automatically started and the file is contained. What should you configure?

Medium
29

Your 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?

Hard
30

Refer to the exhibit. You are analyzing a Microsoft Sentinel analytics rule. What does this rule detect?

Medium
31

Your 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?

Hard
32

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage Windows 10 devices. You need to ensure that only devices with a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) version 2.0 can access corporate resources. What should you configure?

Medium
33

Which THREE capabilities does Microsoft Purview provide for compliance management?

Hard
34

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID for identity management and wants to implement a least-privilege access model for administrators. You need to reduce standing privileges and ensure that admin roles are activated only when needed with approval workflow. Requirements: (1) Require approval for activation of Global Administrator role, (2) Set activation duration to 4 hours maximum, (3) Require Azure MFA for activation, (4) Receive notifications when roles are activated, (5) Audit all activations for compliance. Which Microsoft Entra ID capability should you use?

Medium
35

An organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. They need to ensure that only devices compliant with security baselines can access corporate email via Microsoft Outlook. The solution should use existing Microsoft 365 security features. What should they implement?

Medium
36

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to manage data governance. The compliance team needs to be able to search for and investigate whether any sensitive data (e.g., credit card numbers) is stored in Microsoft Teams messages. They also need to place a legal hold on specific user's Teams messages for eDiscovery. You need to design the solution. What should you configure?

Easy
37

Your company needs to automatically classify and label sensitive documents in Microsoft 365 based on their content. Which Microsoft Purview solution should you implement?

Easy
38

You need to design a solution to synchronize on-premises Active Directory users to Microsoft Entra ID for hybrid identity. Which tool should you use?

Easy
39

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a conditional access policy JSON in Microsoft Entra ID. What does this policy accomplish?

Medium
40

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) to monitor on-premises Active Directory. They want to integrate MDI alerts into Microsoft Sentinel. Which data connector should they use?

Easy
41

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to automatically respond to high-severity incidents without human intervention. Which feature should you configure?

Easy
42

Refer to the exhibit. You run this KQL query in Microsoft Sentinel. What is the primary purpose?

Hard
43

Your company uses Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to track compliance with regulatory standards. You need to generate a report that shows the percentage of controls that are not yet implemented for the PCI DSS standard. What should you do?

Hard
44

Your 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?

Hard
45

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview. You need to design a solution that automatically detects and classifies sensitive data such as passport numbers stored in Microsoft OneDrive. The solution should apply a 'Highly Confidential' sensitivity label without user intervention. What should you configure?

Medium
46

A 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.)

Hard
47

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID with external identities. You need to design a solution that allows partners to self-service sign up using their existing Azure AD or Microsoft account credentials, while preventing them from accessing other resources. What should you use?

Hard
48

Refer 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?

Hard
49

A company wants to implement a Zero Trust security model. Which TWO principles are fundamental to Zero Trust? (Choose two.)

Easy
50

Your 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.)

Medium
51

Your organization is designing a privileged access strategy using Microsoft Entra ID. Which TWO configurations should be part of the design to protect privileged accounts?

Medium
52

You need to design a security operations strategy for a hybrid environment using Microsoft Sentinel. Your environment includes on-premises servers and Azure VMs. Which data connector should you use to collect security events from both sources?

Easy
53

The exhibit shows a conditional access policy from Microsoft Entra ID Identity Protection. When will this policy require MFA?

Easy
54

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. You need to ensure that all incidents are automatically assigned to the appropriate analyst team based on the type of threat. What should you configure?

Easy
55

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune to manage devices. You need to ensure that corporate data on personally owned devices is removed when a user leaves the company, but personal data remains intact. What should you use?

Hard
56

Your 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?

Easy
57

A 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?

Easy
58

Your 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?

Hard
59

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune for mobile device management. You need to ensure that only compliant devices can access corporate email. What should you configure?

Easy
60

Your company uses Microsoft 365 E5 licenses and has deployed Microsoft Defender for Office 365. The security team wants to be alerted when a user reports a phishing email using the built-in report message button in Outlook. The alert should be sent to the security team's email address. You need to configure this in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. What should you do?

Easy
61

You 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?

Easy
62

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID. You need to design a solution that requires users to perform multifactor authentication when accessing a critical application from an untrusted network. The solution should not require additional licensing beyond Microsoft Entra ID P1. What should you use?

Medium
63

Your 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?

Hard
64

A financial services company uses Microsoft Sentinel as its SIEM. The security operations team wants to reduce the number of low-fidelity alerts that reach analysts by correlating related alerts into incidents and automatically closing incidents that match known benign patterns. The team also wants to preserve an audit trail of every automated closure. Which Microsoft Sentinel capability should you design into the solution?

Medium
65

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. You need to design a solution that automatically creates an incident in Sentinel when a high-severity alert is generated in Defender for Cloud. What should you configure?

Hard
66

Which TWO actions should you take to implement a Zero Trust security strategy for identity and access? (Choose two.)

Medium
67

Refer to the exhibit. You create this conditional access policy in Microsoft Entra ID. What is the result?

Medium
68

A 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?

Hard
69

Refer to the exhibit. You receive an alert from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You need to investigate this alert in Microsoft Sentinel. Which Microsoft Sentinel feature should you use to visualize the relationship between the user account and the IP address?

Medium
70

Your 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?

Medium
71

An organization uses Microsoft Purview to classify and protect sensitive data. Which THREE capabilities can be used to discover sensitive data? (Choose three.)

Medium
72

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel with the Microsoft 365 Defender connector. You need to create an analytics rule that generates an incident when a user is reported as compromised by Microsoft Defender for Identity. The rule should use the most efficient method to get this data. What should you use as the data source?

Hard
73

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure a multi-cloud environment including Azure, AWS, and GCP. You need to design a solution that centralizes security alerts and automates remediation across all clouds. Which security operations capability should you prioritize?

Medium
74

Which THREE capabilities are provided by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) when integrated with Microsoft Defender XDR?

Medium
75

Your 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?

Hard
76

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and wants to block malicious links in email messages in real time. Which policy should you configure?

Easy
77

A 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?

Medium
78

You are designing a security operations strategy for a multinational organization. The SOC team needs to correlate alerts from multiple sources including Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, and third-party firewalls. Which solution should you use as the primary platform for correlation?

Easy
79

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel to aggregate logs from on-premises and cloud sources. You need to reduce the cost of data ingestion while ensuring security-critical logs are retained for at least one year. What should you do?

Hard
80

A company uses Microsoft Intune and wants to ensure that devices are compliant before accessing corporate resources. They create a Conditional Access policy that requires devices to be marked as compliant. However, some users report that they are blocked even though their device shows as compliant in Intune. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
81

A company uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. The SOC team needs to automatically respond to a specific type of incident involving a known malicious IP address. They want to create an automated response that blocks the IP at the firewall and creates a Teams notification. Which feature should they use?

Medium
82

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. You need to ensure that incident investigations automatically enrich alerts with relevant user and device information from Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Entra ID. What should you configure?

Medium
83

A company wants to monitor and respond to threats across their entire digital estate, including on-premises servers, cloud workloads, and identities. Which Microsoft solution should they use as a central security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) platform?

Easy
84

The exhibit shows a conditional access policy in Microsoft Entra ID. What will be the effect of this policy?

Hard
85

Your company uses Microsoft Intune to manage corporate devices. You need to design a compliance policy that requires devices to have a minimum OS version, be encrypted, and not be jailbroken or rooted. Additionally, you want to automatically block non-compliant devices from accessing corporate email. What should you configure?

Medium
86

Your 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?

Hard
87

A company wants to implement hybrid identity with Microsoft Entra ID. Which TWO components are required for password hash synchronization? (Choose two.)

Hard
88

A multinational company uses Microsoft Purview for data governance. They need to automatically classify sensitive data in Microsoft 365 and apply retention labels. The solution must use pattern-based detection for credit card numbers and support custom keywords. What should they configure?

Hard
89

A company uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to use a built-in connector to ingest logs from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Which connector should they use?

Easy
90

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR. You need to design a unified security operations platform. Which THREE capabilities should you enable?

Hard
91

Your organization wants to use Microsoft Defender XDR to automatically investigate and respond to alerts. You need to ensure that the solution can autonomously remediate confirmed threats on endpoints, such as quarantining files and isolating devices. What should you enable?

Easy
92

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview Information Protection to label sensitive documents. You need to ensure that documents containing personally identifiable information (PII) are automatically labeled when saved in SharePoint Online. What should you configure?

Medium
93

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview and needs to automatically apply a retention label to all documents containing personally identifiable information (PII) in SharePoint Online. What should you configure?

Hard
94

The exhibit shows a KQL query in Microsoft Sentinel. What is the primary purpose of this query?

Medium
95

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to protect sensitive data. You need to create a sensitivity label that automatically encrypts documents containing credit card numbers when they are shared externally. Which configuration should you use?

Medium
96

Your organization uses Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. You need to design a solution that automatically remediates non-compliant devices by running a remediation script. Which Intune component should you use?

Medium
97

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to govern sensitive data. You need to design a solution that automatically detects and protects credit card numbers in emails and documents stored in Microsoft 365. The solution should also provide data loss prevention (DLP) policy tips to users when they try to share such data externally. What should you configure?

Medium
98

Your company is deploying Microsoft Defender XDR. You need to design a solution that uses advanced hunting to proactively search for threats. Which THREE data sources should be included in the advanced hunting schema to enable comprehensive threat hunting across endpoints, identities, and cloud apps?

Hard
99

Your 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?

Hard
100

Your 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?

Medium
101

Your 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?

Hard
102

A 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?

Medium
103

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst runs this KQL query in Microsoft Sentinel. What is the primary purpose of this query?

Medium
104

Refer 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?

Hard
105

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to correlate security events from multiple sources to detect multi-stage attacks. What should you create?

Medium
106

Your organization, Fabrikam Inc., uses Microsoft Intune for device management and Microsoft Entra ID for identity. You need to design a solution to ensure that only compliant and healthy devices can access corporate resources. The solution must require that devices are either enrolled in Intune and compliant, or joined to Azure AD with a health attestation. Additionally, you need to block access from devices that are rooted or jailbroken. You have the following requirements: 1) Enforce conditional access policies to check device compliance and health. 2) Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint integration for device health signals. 3) Provide a fallback option for unmanaged devices to access only web apps via browser with app protection policies. Which combination of actions should you take?

Medium
107

Refer to the exhibit. A security analyst runs this KQL query in Microsoft Sentinel. The query returns a list of users and IP addresses with failed sign-ins due to 'User Account Disabled' (ResultType 50057). The analyst wants to create a scheduled analytics rule that generates an incident when a user exceeds 5 such failures from the same IP in an hour. Which setting is missing from the query to meet the requirement?

Hard
108

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel. You need to design a solution that automatically responds to a detected ransomware incident by isolating the affected device in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Which tool should you use to create the automated response?

Easy
109

Your organization needs to comply with GDPR. You need to design a data protection strategy using Microsoft Purview. Which THREE capabilities should you include?

Easy
110

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and needs to ensure that external partners can access only specific applications for 30 days. What should you configure?

Medium
111

Your 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?

Medium
112

Refer to the exhibit. You are reviewing a Conditional Access policy in Microsoft Entra ID. Based on the JSON snippet, what is the most likely outcome when a user with high user risk attempts to sign in?

Hard
113

Your organization needs to comply with regulatory requirements for data retention and deletion. Which TWO Microsoft Purview features should you use?

Easy
114

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. You need to ensure that all incidents related to a specific critical asset are automatically assigned to the senior SOC analyst. The assignment should occur as soon as the incident is created. What should you configure?

Medium
115

Your 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?

Easy
116

Your 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?

Hard
117

Your 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?

Easy
118

Which THREE are valid sources for ingesting data into Microsoft Sentinel? (Choose three.)

Medium
119

Your company is deploying Microsoft Intune for mobile device management. You need to ensure that corporate data on personally owned devices is protected without affecting the user's personal data. Which Intune feature should you use?

Medium
120

A retail company is designing a security operations model in Microsoft Sentinel. The security team wants to detect suspicious activity in Microsoft Entra ID, including sign-ins from unfamiliar locations and changes to privileged roles, and they want the detections to be based on Microsoft's continuously updated threat intelligence rather than custom queries. Which Microsoft Sentinel feature should you recommend?

Medium
121

You 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?

Easy
122

Your 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.)

Hard
123

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and wants to reduce alert fatigue by grouping related alerts into incidents. Which configuration should you use?

Hard
124

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview to comply with regulatory requirements. Which TWO features should you use to manage data retention and deletion?

Medium
125

You are analyzing a custom detection rule in Microsoft 365 Defender. Based on the exhibit, what is a potential operational issue with this rule?

Hard
126

Your organization is implementing Microsoft Entra ID governance. Which THREE capabilities should you include to manage the identity lifecycle and access reviews?

Hard
127

Your organization is implementing Microsoft Entra ID Governance. You need to design a solution that automates user access reviews for cloud applications. Which TWO capabilities should you include?

Medium
128

Your organization needs to meet compliance requirements for GDPR. You need to design a solution that uses Microsoft Purview to classify and protect personal data. Which TWO capabilities should you include?

Easy
129

Which THREE are valid methods to secure privileged access in Microsoft Entra ID? (Choose three.)

Easy
130

You are designing a security operations solution for a multinational organization using Microsoft Sentinel. The organization has multiple Azure subscriptions, each with its own Log Analytics workspace. You need to centralize incident management while minimizing data egress costs. What should you recommend?

Hard
131

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365. You need to protect users from malicious links in emails. What should you configure?

Easy
132

Refer to the exhibit. You are troubleshooting a KQL query in Microsoft Sentinel that is supposed to return alerts for ransomware detections in the last day. The query returns no results, but you know there were ransomware alerts. What is the most likely cause?

Medium
133

Your company uses Microsoft Sentinel for security operations. You need to design a solution to automatically respond to a confirmed ransomware incident by isolating affected devices and blocking malicious IPs. What should you use?

Medium
134

Your 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?

Hard
135

Your 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?

Hard
136

Your 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?

Easy
137

A company is implementing a zero-trust security model. They need to enforce conditional access policies that require device compliance from Microsoft Intune. However, some users report being blocked when using personal devices that are not enrolled. What is the best approach to allow access while maintaining security?

Medium
138

Your organization uses Microsoft 365 and wants to implement a data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. You need to ensure that sensitive data is protected both at rest and in transit, and that incidents are automatically reported to the security team. Which THREE actions should you take?

Hard
139

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID with Privileged Identity Management (PIM). You need to design a role activation policy that requires approval from a security group for global administrator roles, but allows self-activation for other roles. What is the correct configuration?

Hard
140

Your 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?

Easy
141

You are designing a Microsoft Purview solution for a healthcare organization that must retain electronic protected health information for seven years and ensure that when a custodian leaves the company, their mailbox content remains discoverable. The organization also wants to prevent users from permanently deleting content that is under retention. Which Microsoft Purview feature should you use?

Hard
142

A 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?

Medium
143

A company uses Microsoft Purview to classify and label sensitive data. They want to automatically apply a sensitivity label to documents containing a specific custom sensitive information type. Which TWO components are required for this?

Medium
144

Your organization is designing a Zero Trust architecture using Microsoft 365 security features. You need to ensure that all access requests are verified and least-privilege principles are applied. Which TWO capabilities should you implement?

Hard
145

You are designing a privileged access strategy for a company that uses Microsoft Entra ID. The company requires that administrators must activate their privileged roles only after providing a justification and obtaining approval from a designated approver. The activation must be limited to a maximum of 4 hours. You need to configure the solution. What should you use?

Hard
146

Your organization uses Microsoft Purview. You need to design a solution that discovers and classifies sensitive data across Microsoft 365 services. Which two services should you include in your data map? (Choose TWO.)

Easy
147

Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel to centralize security events. You need to ensure that alerts from Microsoft Defender for Cloud are automatically ingested into Sentinel. Which data connector should you enable?

Easy
148

An organization uses Microsoft Defender XDR to detect and respond to threats. Which THREE data sources does Defender XDR ingest? (Choose three.)

Medium
149

Your 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?

Easy
150

Your organization deploys Microsoft Sentinel and wants to automatically respond to phishing emails reported by users. You need to recommend a solution that creates an incident in Sentinel and blocks the email sender in Exchange Online. What should you configure?

Medium
151

Refer to the exhibit. A KQL query is used in Microsoft Sentinel to detect brute-force attacks. The query returns no results despite known brute-force attempts. What is the most likely issue?

Medium
152

Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) and Microsoft Sentinel. You need to create an analytics rule in Sentinel that triggers an incident when a device is reported as 'high risk' by MDE. Which data source and rule type should you use?

Hard
153

A 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?

Hard
154

Refer to the exhibit. You configure this mail flow rule in Exchange Online. What happens to emails with 'FREE' in the subject?

Easy
155

Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and needs to implement a Zero Trust identity strategy. Which THREE principles should you apply?

Hard

Frequently asked questions

What does the Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities domain cover on the SC-100 exam?
You must be able to map a security operations requirement to the right Microsoft tool—Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud Apps, or Purview—and explain the configuration that makes it work. The most important thing: verify the data source and connector before trusting any detection or automated response.
How many questions are in this domain?
This page lists all 155 Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities questions in the SC-100 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.
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