SC-200 Respond to security incidents Practice Question
Which THREE data sources should be included in a Microsoft Sentinel workspace to comprehensively monitor for lateral movement within an Azure environment?
⚠ Common exam trap
SC-200 often tests whether candidates can distinguish Azure runtime telemetry (sign-in, NSG flow, Activity logs) from SaaS/productivity audit logs (Power BI, DevOps) that do not reflect Azure infrastructure lateral movement.
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs
Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs (A) are correct because they record authentication events, including risky sign-ins, IP addresses, and conditional access results, which are essential for detecting credential-based lateral movement across Azure resources. Azure Network Security Group flow logs (C) are correct because they capture allowed and denied IP traffic flows through NSGs, enabling detection of east-west movement between subnets and VMs. Azure Activity logs (E) are correct because they record control-plane operations such as role assignments, resource creation, and management actions that attackers use to pivot and escalate privileges. Power BI audit logs (B) and Azure DevOps audit logs (D) are not included because they focus on BI and DevOps activities, not on authentication, network, or Azure control-plane events relevant to lateral movement monitoring.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs
Why this is correct
Microsoft Entra ID sign-in logs record authentication events, including the originating IP, device and conditional access outcome. They satisfy the lateral movement requirement by exposing credential reuse or anomalous sign-ins from compromised accounts moving between Azure resources.
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Power BI audit logs
Why it's wrong here
Power BI audit logs capture report views, dataset refreshes and workspace sharing, exposing no authentication or connection events between Azure workloads, so lateral movement remains invisible. They belong in a Sentinel workspace when the requirement is monitoring Power BI usage, sharing and data-exfiltration activity.
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Azure Network Security Group flow logs
Why this is correct
NSG flow logs record allowed and denied IP traffic traversing Azure subnets and network interfaces, exposing east-west connection attempts between workloads. This satisfies the requirement to detect lateral movement, since internal reconnaissance and pivoting appear as anomalous flows between virtual machines.
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Azure DevOps audit logs
Why it's wrong here
Azure DevOps audit logs record source-control, pipeline and work-item activity, none of which traverses Azure resource planes, so they cannot reveal host-to-host lateral movement. They are ingested for DevOps governance and insider-threat detection around code repositories, which is a separate monitoring scenario.
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Azure Activity logs
Why this is correct
Azure Activity logs capture control-plane operations such as role assignments, virtual machine creation and network configuration changes. These satisfy the lateral movement requirement by revealing attacker actions that establish new compute or modify access, which data-plane-only sources would miss.
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