SC-200 Manage a security operations environment Practice Question
Your organization uses Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to monitor cloud application usage. You have a custom analytics rule that detects multiple failed login attempts from different IP addresses for the same user within 5 minutes. This rule generates an incident. The security team wants to automatically suspend the user in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) when such an incident is created, but only if the user is not a member of the 'Emergency Access' group. You need to implement this automation. You have already created the analytics rule. What should you do next?
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 playbook that uses the Microsoft Entra ID connector to check if the user is a member of the 'Emergency Access' group. If not, suspend the user. Then create an automation rule that runs this playbook on incident creation.
A playbook can check group membership and take action. Option A is wrong because automation rules cannot conditionally run playbooks based on group membership. Option B is wrong because modifying the analytics rule is not the way to add automation. Option C is wrong because automation rules cannot directly suspend users.
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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Modify the analytics rule to include a condition that checks the user's group membership using KQL.
Why it's wrong here
Analytics rules query log data; they cannot check current group membership in Entra ID directly.
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Create an automation rule that suspends the user directly using a condition on the incident.
Why it's wrong here
Automation rules cannot suspend users directly; they can only trigger playbooks.
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Create an automation rule that triggers on incident creation and runs a playbook that suspends the user.
Why it's wrong here
An automation rule can trigger a playbook, but the playbook must be designed to check group membership; the rule itself cannot check groups.
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Create a playbook that uses the Microsoft Entra ID connector to check if the user is a member of the 'Emergency Access' group. If not, suspend the user. Then create an automation rule that runs this playbook on incident creation.
Why this is correct
A playbook can use conditional logic to check group membership and then take action. The automation rule triggers the playbook.
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