SC-200 Manage a security operations environment Practice Question
Your organization uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Sentinel. You discover that a user is performing unusual bulk downloads from SharePoint. You need to automatically create an incident in Sentinel and suspend the user in Microsoft Entra ID. What should you use?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often assume Defender for Cloud Apps governance actions alone can satisfy both requirements, but they forget that creating a Sentinel incident requires an analytics rule and automation rule orchestration, not just a cloud app policy.
Answer choices
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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Create a scheduled analytics rule in Sentinel and use automation rules to trigger a playbook that suspends the user.
A scheduled analytics rule in Sentinel can detect the unusual bulk download behavior from SharePoint (via ingested logs from Defender for Cloud Apps or Office 365 connector). An automation rule on that analytics rule triggers a playbook (Azure Logic App) that uses the Microsoft Graph API to suspend the user in Microsoft Entra ID, creating an incident automatically as part of the rule's configuration.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
- ✓
Create a scheduled analytics rule in Sentinel and use automation rules to trigger a playbook that suspends the user.
Why this is correct
Automation rules run playbooks, which can use Microsoft Graph to suspend the user.
- ✗
Configure a Microsoft Entra ID Protection policy to require password reset for risky users.
Why it's wrong here
This does not create Sentinel incidents nor suspend the user.
- ✗
Use a playbook triggered by an incident creation rule to suspend the user.
Why it's wrong here
Incident creation rules trigger on alert creation, but the playbook runs after the incident.
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Configure a policy in Defender for Cloud Apps with a governance action to suspend the user.
Why it's wrong here
Governance actions can suspend but don't create Sentinel incidents automatically.
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Variation 1. Your organization has Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Sentinel integrated. You need to create an automated playbook that, when a Microsoft Sentinel incident is created from a Defender for Cloud Apps alert, automatically suspends the user in Microsoft Entra ID and sends a notification to the security team. Which two connectors should you use in the playbook?
hard- A.Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Teams
- ✓ B.Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Teams
- C.Azure Automation and Microsoft Sentinel
- D.Microsoft Entra ID and Outlook.com
Why B: Microsoft Entra ID provides the identity management action to suspend a user account, and Microsoft Teams enables sending a notification to the security team via a Teams channel or chat. This combination directly fulfills the requirements of suspending the user in Entra ID and notifying the team when a Sentinel incident is triggered from a Defender for Cloud Apps alert.
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