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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A multinational company is implementing a Zero Trust security model. The security team needs to ensure that all access requests to critical applications are evaluated based on user identity, device health, and real-time risk signals. Which Microsoft solution should they use to centralize policy enforcement?

Question 2hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 3easymultiple choice
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A company's security team wants to automate response to common incidents like malware detected on endpoints. They have Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Sentinel. Which feature should they use to create automated playbooks?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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A company is evaluating their incident response (IR) process. They use Microsoft Sentinel as their SIEM. During a security incident, the IR team struggles to quickly find related alerts and entities. Which improvement should they implement to enhance investigation efficiency?

Question 6easymultiple choice
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A company wants to implement a governance strategy for their Azure environment. They need to enforce tagging standards and restrict deployment to approved regions. Which combination of Azure services should they use?

Question 7mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 8hardmultiple choice
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A company is planning their cloud governance strategy. They have multiple business units with varying compliance requirements. They need to enforce policies consistently across subscriptions while allowing some flexibility. Which Azure governance structure should they recommend?

Question 9mediummulti select
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A company is designing a security operations center (SOC) using Microsoft Sentinel. Which TWO of the following are best practices for managing incident response in Sentinel?

Question 10hardmulti select
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A company is implementing a Zero Trust security model using Microsoft 365 Defender. Which THREE of the following are key principles they should follow?

Question 11easymulti select
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A company wants to improve their security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Which TWO of the following are features of Defender for Cloud that help with governance and compliance?

Question 12mediummulti select
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A company uses Microsoft Sentinel for threat detection. They want to use User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) to detect anomalies. Which THREE of the following are key components of UEBA in Sentinel?

Question 13hardmultiple choice
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You are the security architect for a large financial services company. The company has a hybrid environment with on-premises Active Directory, Azure AD, and multiple Azure subscriptions. They use Microsoft Sentinel as their SIEM and have deployed Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess their cloud security posture. Recently, the security team discovered that a critical Azure SQL database was exposed to the internet with a firewall rule allowing 'AllowAllWindowsAzureIps'. This misconfiguration was not flagged by Defender for Cloud because the corresponding recommendation was disabled in the security policy. The company wants to prevent such misconfigurations in the future and ensure that all critical resources are covered by security recommendations. They also need to ensure that any changes to security policies are reviewed and approved. Which of the following actions should you recommend as the most comprehensive solution?

Question 14hardmultiple choice
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A global organization uses Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM and Microsoft Defender for Cloud for cloud security posture management. The security team notices that critical alerts from Azure Active Directory Identity Protection are not triggering automated response playbooks in Sentinel. The team needs to ensure that all high-severity Identity Protection risk detections automatically create incidents in Sentinel and trigger a playbook to block the user. What should the team configure?

Question 15easymultiple choice
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A company is designing a security operations strategy using Microsoft Sentinel. They want to prioritize triage of incidents that involve critical assets. The SOC manager suggests using the entity behavior analytics feature. Which capability of entity behavior analytics helps achieve this goal?

Question 16mediummultiple choice
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A SOC team uses Microsoft Sentinel for incident management. They need to ensure that when a high-severity incident is created, a Teams message is sent to the security team and an email is sent to the IT manager. What is the most efficient way to achieve this?

Question 17hardmultiple choice
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A company has a hybrid identity infrastructure with on-premises Active Directory synchronized to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect. The security team wants to use Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) to detect on-premises attacks. They have installed the MDI sensor on all domain controllers. However, they notice that some alerts are missing. What is the most likely cause?

Question 18easymultiple choice
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A SOC analyst needs to investigate a potential privilege escalation using Azure AD roles. Which Microsoft 365 Defender data source would be most useful to review?

Question 19mediummultiple choice
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An organization is planning to use Microsoft Defender for Cloud's regulatory compliance dashboard to track adherence to PCI DSS. The security team wants to ensure that all Azure resources are covered by the compliance assessment. What is the first step?

Question 20hardmulti select
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A company has a Microsoft Sentinel workspace that ingests data from multiple sources. The SOC team wants to improve the efficiency of investigating incidents by using UEBA capabilities. Which two actions should the team take to enable and configure UEBA in Sentinel?

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