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A global organization has Azure subscriptions organized under a single management group. The security team wants to ensure that the Azure Security Benchmark initiative is assigned once to cover all current and future subscriptions within that management group, without needing to assign it individually. They also want to see compliance results aggregated at the management group level. In Microsoft Defender for Cloud, what is the correct approach to achieve this?
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A
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Assign the Azure Security Benchmark initiative directly to the management group via Azure Policy, and use the Defender for Cloud's Regulatory Compliance dashboard.
Assigning the initiative at the management group scope applies it to all subscriptions within, and the Regulatory Compliance dashboard shows aggregated results for that scope.
B
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Enable Defender for Cloud's enhanced security features on each subscription, and the benchmark will be automatically applied.
Enabling enhanced security features does not automatically assign the Azure Security Benchmark initiative; you must assign it separately.
C
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Create a custom assessment in Defender for Cloud that queries the management group scope.
Defender for Cloud does not have a feature to create custom assessments that aggregate across a management group for compliance tracking.
D
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Assign the initiative to the root management group using Azure Policy, then configure Defender for Cloud to ignore individual subscription assignments.
Assigning to the root management group would apply to all subscriptions, but there is no need to configure Defender for Cloud to ignore subscription assignments; this is not a valid configuration step.
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KKey Concepts to Remember
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TExam Day Tips
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- Review why wrong options are wrong, not only why the correct option is correct.
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What does this SC-200 question test?
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Assign the Azure Security Benchmark initiative directly to the management group via Azure Policy, and use the Defender for Cloud's Regulatory Compliance dashboard. — You can assign Azure Policy initiatives (such as Azure Security Benchmark) directly to a management group via Azure Policy. Defender for Cloud's Regulatory Compliance dashboard can then display aggregated compliance for that management group. This covers all current and future subscriptions under the management group.
What should I do if I get this SC-200 question wrong?
Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.
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