A financial services company uses Microsoft Purview to manage compliance. They need to automatically apply a 'Confidential' label to all documents containing financial data in SharePoint. What should they configure?
This policy type in Microsoft Purview is specifically designed to automatically apply sensitivity labels to content at scale, both at rest and in transit. It leverages conditions based on sensitive information types, keywords, or trainable classifiers to identify specific content patterns, ensuring consistent classification and protection without manual intervention. This directly fulfills the requirement for automatic data management.
Why this answer
Auto-labeling policies for sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview allow organizations to automatically apply labels to documents based on conditions such as sensitive information types (e.g., financial data patterns). This meets the requirement to label documents containing financial data in SharePoint without manual intervention, leveraging built-in or custom sensitive info types.
Exam trap
The trap here is that candidates confuse DLP policies with auto-labeling policies, as both involve content scanning and actions, but DLP does not apply sensitivity labels—it only enforces protection rules like blocking or encryption.
How to eliminate wrong answers
Option B is wrong because the Data Classification dashboard is a monitoring and reporting tool that shows where sensitive data resides, but it does not automatically apply labels. Option C is wrong because Trainable classifiers are used for pattern-based content classification and can be used in auto-labeling policies, but they are not a standalone labeling mechanism; the question asks what to configure, and the policy itself is the auto-labeling policy, not the classifier. Option D is wrong because Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies enforce actions like blocking or alerting on data sharing, but they do not apply sensitivity labels; labeling is a separate capability.