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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Practice Test

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A company is designing a security operations strategy. They want to use Microsoft Sentinel to detect and respond to threats across their hybrid environment. They need to ensure that logs from all sources are collected cost-effectively and that analysts can easily query data. Which data ingestion strategy should they recommend?

ASend all logs to the Basic logs table to reduce costs.
BSend only Windows Security Events to Sentinel.
CSend all logs to the Analytics logs table for full query capabilities.
Use Analytics logs for high-value security logs and Basic logs for verbose logs with low security value.Correct

It balances cost and query performance by routing high-value security logs (e.g., Windows Security Events, network logs) to the Analytics logs table for full KQL query capabilities and retention, while sending verbose, low-security-value logs (e.g., DNS debug, firewall flow logs)…Read full explanation

A company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess the security posture of their Azure subscriptions. They want to ensure that critical recommendations are automatically remediated. They create a workflow automation that triggers a Logic App for specific recommendations. However, the Logic App fails to run. What is the most likely cause?

The managed identity of the Logic App lacks permissions on the target resources.Correct
BThe subscription is not onboarded to Defender for Cloud.
CDefender for Cloud is disabled for the resource group.
DThe recommendation is disabled in the security policy.

The most likely cause is that the Logic App's managed identity lacks the necessary permissions on the target Azure resources. Workflow automations in Defender for Cloud use a Logic App that executes remediation actions; if the Logic App's identity (either system-assigned or user-…Read full explanation

A company uses Microsoft 365 Defender to protect their endpoints, email, and identities. They want to create a custom detection for a specific behavior that is not covered by built-in detections. Which tool should they use?

AMicrosoft Sentinel analytics rules
BAzure AD Identity Protection user risk policies
Custom detection rules in Microsoft 365 DefenderCorrect
DMicrosoft Defender for Cloud Apps policies

Microsoft 365 Defender provides a 'Custom detection' feature under the 'Advanced hunting' section that allows security teams to create custom detection rules based on Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries. This is the correct tool because the question specifies creating a detection …Read full explanation

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