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.
An organization wants to automatically revoke access to cloud apps when an employee leaves the company. Which Microsoft Entra feature should they use?
Conditional Access
Why wrong: Conditional Access policies control access but don't automatically revoke on termination.
Automated user provisioning
Automated provisioning can disable accounts and remove access upon termination.
Privileged Identity Management
Why wrong: PIM manages privileged identities, not general user offboarding.
Identity Protection
Why wrong: Identity Protection is for risk-based policies, not automatic offboarding.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Automated user provisioning
Automated user provisioning (B) is the correct answer because it can automatically disable or remove a user's access to cloud apps when the user is deleted or deactivated in the HR system or on-premises directory. This feature synchronizes identity lifecycle events (e.g., termination) to connected SaaS applications, ensuring revocation of access without manual intervention.
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.
Conditional Access
Why it's wrong here
Conditional Access policies control access but don't automatically revoke on termination.
Automated user provisioning
Why this is correct
Automated provisioning can disable accounts and remove access upon termination.
Related concept
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Privileged Identity Management
Why it's wrong here
PIM manages privileged identities, not general user offboarding.
Identity Protection
Why it's wrong here
Identity Protection is for risk-based policies, not automatic offboarding.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates confuse Conditional Access (which blocks new sign-ins) with full deprovisioning, not realizing that Conditional Access does not terminate existing sessions or remove the user account from the cloud app.
Detailed technical explanation
Automated user provisioning uses the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) 2.0 protocol to communicate with cloud apps, enabling create, update, and deactivate operations. When a user is deleted from Microsoft Entra ID, the provisioning service sends a PATCH or DELETE request to the target app's SCIM endpoint, effectively revoking access. In real-world scenarios, this ensures that terminated employees lose access to apps like Salesforce or ServiceNow within minutes, reducing the risk of data exfiltration.
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: Automated user provisioning — Automated user provisioning (B) is the correct answer because it can automatically disable or remove a user's access to cloud apps when the user is deleted or deactivated in the HR system or on-premises directory. This feature synchronizes identity lifecycle events (e.g., termination) to connected SaaS applications, ensuring revocation of access without manual intervention.
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