This SC-900 practice question tests your understanding of describe the capabilities of microsoft entra. 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.
A company wants to enable employees to securely access on-premises applications without needing a VPN. Which Microsoft Entra feature should they implement?
Identity Protection
Why wrong: Identity Protection detects identity-based risks.
B2B Collaboration
Why wrong: B2B is for collaborating with external users.
Application Proxy
Application Proxy publishes on-premises apps securely without VPN.
Privileged Identity Management
Why wrong: PIM is for managing privileged identities.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Application Proxy
Microsoft Entra Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications by acting as a reverse proxy. It eliminates the need for a VPN by routing user traffic through the Entra ID service, which authenticates the user and then establishes a secure outbound connection to the on-premises application connector. This allows employees to access internal apps from anywhere using the same credentials and conditional access policies.
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.
Identity Protection
Why it's wrong here
Identity Protection detects identity-based risks.
B2B Collaboration
Why it's wrong here
B2B is for collaborating with external users.
Application Proxy
Why this is correct
Application Proxy publishes on-premises apps securely without VPN.
Related concept
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Privileged Identity Management
Why it's wrong here
PIM is for managing privileged identities.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse Application Proxy with a VPN or assume that B2B Collaboration is needed for remote access, but the key differentiator is that Application Proxy is specifically designed for secure, VPN-less access to on-premises web apps through a reverse proxy architecture.
Detailed technical explanation
Under the hood, Application Proxy uses a connector service installed on-premises that maintains a persistent outbound connection to the Entra ID cloud service, avoiding the need to open inbound firewall ports. The connector receives requests from the cloud proxy, forwards them to the on-premises application, and returns the response—all while enforcing pre-authentication via Entra ID and conditional access policies. In a real-world scenario, an organization can expose an internal SharePoint site or a legacy ERP system without exposing the internal network, and can even integrate with application-specific SSO protocols like Kerberos constrained delegation.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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The correct answer is: Application Proxy — Microsoft Entra Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications by acting as a reverse proxy. It eliminates the need for a VPN by routing user traffic through the Entra ID service, which authenticates the user and then establishes a secure outbound connection to the on-premises application connector. This allows employees to access internal apps from anywhere using the same credentials and conditional access policies.
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