This SC-200 practice question tests your understanding of respond to security incidents. Read the scenario carefully and evaluate each option against the stated constraints before committing to an answer. After answering, compare your reasoning against the explanation and wrong-answer breakdown below. Once you have made your selection, read the full explanation to reinforce the concept and understand why each distractor is designed to mislead on exam day.
During an incident investigation in Microsoft Sentinel, you need to gather related events from multiple data sources into a single view for analysis. Which feature should you use?
Workbooks
Why wrong: For dashboards, not ad-hoc investigation.
Investigation graph
Provides a visual map of entities and related data.
Watchlists
Why wrong: For data enrichment, not visualization.
Logs blade
Why wrong: Raw query interface, not a correlated view.
Analytics rules
Why wrong: For creating alerts, not investigation.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Investigation graph
The Investigation graph in Microsoft Sentinel is specifically designed to visually correlate and explore related entities and events across multiple data sources within a single investigation. It allows you to pivot from an alert or entity to see connected users, hosts, IP addresses, and other events, providing a unified view for analysis. This feature directly addresses the need to gather related events from disparate sources into one cohesive view during incident response.
Key principle: Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Answer analysis
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
Workbooks
Why it's wrong here
For dashboards, not ad-hoc investigation.
Investigation graph
Why this is correct
Provides a visual map of entities and related data.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Watchlists
Why it's wrong here
For data enrichment, not visualization.
Logs blade
Why it's wrong here
Raw query interface, not a correlated view.
Analytics rules
Why it's wrong here
For creating alerts, not investigation.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse the Investigation graph with Workbooks or the Logs blade, mistakenly thinking that any visualization or query tool can serve the same purpose, but the Investigation graph is the only feature purpose-built for interactive, entity-centric incident exploration in Sentinel.
Detailed technical explanation
The Investigation graph leverages entity extraction and mapping from the Microsoft Sentinel Common Event Format (CEF) and Syslog connectors, as well as native Microsoft 365 data sources, to build a graph of relationships. It uses the entity schema (e.g., Account, Host, IP, URL) to automatically link events based on shared identifiers, such as matching IP addresses or user principal names. In a real-world scenario, if an alert fires for a suspicious login from an IP, the Investigation graph can instantly show all other events involving that IP, the user account, and the target host across Azure AD, Windows Event Logs, and firewall logs without manual querying.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
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Respond to security incidents — This question tests Respond to security incidents — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Investigation graph — The Investigation graph in Microsoft Sentinel is specifically designed to visually correlate and explore related entities and events across multiple data sources within a single investigation. It allows you to pivot from an alert or entity to see connected users, hosts, IP addresses, and other events, providing a unified view for analysis. This feature directly addresses the need to gather related events from disparate sources into one cohesive view during incident response.
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Last reviewed: Jun 25, 2026
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