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A company uses Microsoft 365 and needs to comply with a regulatory requirement to retain all customer contracts for 5 years after the contract's end date, after which they must be automatically deleted. Additionally, the legal department needs the ability to preserve all documents related to an ongoing lawsuit, overriding any deletion timelines. Which Microsoft Purview solution should the company use?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Good practice is not just finding the correct option. The wrong answers often show the exact trap the exam wants you to fall into.
A
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Information Barriers
Information Barriers are used to restrict communication and collaboration between certain groups to avoid conflicts of interest, not to manage retention or legal holds.
B
Best answer
Data Lifecycle Management with retention labels and eDiscovery holds
Data Lifecycle Management provides retention labels to retain and then delete content, while eDiscovery holds preserve content during litigation, overriding any deletion policies. Together they meet both requirements.
C
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Communication Compliance
Communication Compliance is used to monitor communications for policy violations such as harassment or sensitive information sharing, not for retention or legal holds.
D
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Audit (Premium)
Audit (Premium) provides detailed logging and investigation of activities, but does not enforce retention or preservation of content.
Common exam trap
Common exam trap: NAT rules depend on direction and matching traffic
NAT is not only about the public address. The inside/outside interface roles and the ACL or rule that matches traffic are just as important.
Technical deep dive
How to think about this question
NAT questions usually test address translation, overload/PAT behaviour, static mappings and whether the right traffic is being translated. Read the interface direction and address terms carefully.
KKey Concepts to Remember
- Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
- PAT allows many inside hosts to share one public address using ports.
- Inside local and inside global describe the private and translated addresses.
- NAT ACLs identify traffic for translation, not always security filtering.
TExam Day Tips
- Identify inside and outside interfaces first.
- Check whether the scenario needs static NAT, dynamic NAT or PAT.
- Do not confuse NAT matching ACLs with normal packet-filtering intent.
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Question 1
A company must retain all customer contracts for 10 years to comply with industry regulations. After 10 years, the contracts must be permanently deleted. Which Microsoft Purview solution should be used to automate this process?
Question 2
A company uses a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) application for customer relationship management. According to the shared responsibility model, which security responsibility is primarily handled by the customer?
Question 3
A company runs a mix of on-premises servers and Azure virtual machines. They deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on all servers. The security team wants to create custom queries to hunt for a specific attack pattern that involves a sequence of events across multiple machines, such as a PowerShell script being downloaded and then executed on several servers. They need to write their own detection rules based on advanced hunting data. Which Microsoft 365 Defender capability should they use?
Question 4
A company runs a consumer-facing e-commerce website and wants to allow customers to sign in using their existing social media accounts such as Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Which Microsoft Entra ID solution should they implement?
Question 5
A company has a hybrid identity environment with Active Directory synchronizing to Microsoft Entra ID. They want users to be able to reset their own on-premises passwords via the cloud SSPR portal. What is the minimum license required for this capability?
Question 6
A company uses a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that is delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). According to the shared responsibility model, which security responsibility is primarily handled by the customer?
FAQ
Questions learners often ask
What does this SC-900 question test?
Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.
What is the correct answer to this question?
The correct answer is: Data Lifecycle Management with retention labels and eDiscovery holds — Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management allows you to apply retention labels to automatically retain and then delete content after a specified period. eDiscovery holds (or litigation holds) can be placed on content to preserve it even if a retention policy would otherwise delete it. The combination of retention labels with eDiscovery holds meets both the retention/deletion and litigation preservation requirements. Information Barriers restrict communication between groups, Communication Compliance monitors for policy violations, and Audit provides logging, but none of these directly manage retention and preservation together.
What should I do if I get this SC-900 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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