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The correct answer is compliance score, automated testing of controls, and improvement actions. These three capabilities form the core of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, which functions as a centralized dashboard for assessing and managing your organization’s compliance posture against regulatory frameworks. The compliance score quantifies your progress, automated testing continuously validates control effectiveness without manual effort, and improvement actions provide step-by-step guidance to remediate gaps. On the SC-900 exam, this question tests your ability to distinguish Compliance Manager’s specific features from broader Microsoft Purview tools—a common trap is confusing it with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy creation or user identity management, which belong to other solutions like Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and Microsoft Entra ID. To remember, think of Compliance Manager as the “scorekeeper and taskmaster” that measures, tests, and guides, but never creates policies or manages identities.
This SC-900 practice question tests your understanding of describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity. 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.
Which THREE of the following are capabilities of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager? (Choose three.)
Automated testing of controls
Controls can be tested automatically.
Manage user identities
Why wrong: User identities are managed in Microsoft Entra ID.
Improvement actions
Provides recommendations to improve compliance.
Create data loss prevention policies
Why wrong: DLP policies are created in Microsoft Purview DLP.
Compliance score
Compliance Manager calculates a compliance score.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
Automated testing of controls
Correct answers are A, C, and E: Compliance Manager provides a compliance score, automated testing of controls, and improvement actions. Option B is incorrect because creating DLP policies is not a Compliance Manager capability. Option D is incorrect because managing user identities is in Microsoft Entra ID.
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.
Automated testing of controls
Why this is correct
Controls can be tested automatically.
Related concept
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Manage user identities
Why it's wrong here
User identities are managed in Microsoft Entra ID.
Improvement actions
Why this is correct
Provides recommendations to improve compliance.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Create data loss prevention policies
Why it's wrong here
DLP policies are created in Microsoft Purview DLP.
Compliance score
Why this is correct
Compliance Manager calculates a compliance score.
Related concept
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Common exam traps
Many certification questions include familiar terms but test a specific constraint. Read the exact wording before choosing an answer that is generally true but wrong for this case.
Detailed technical explanation
This question should be treated as a scenario, not a definition check. Identify the problem, the constraint and the best action. Then compare each option against those facts.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
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Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity — This question tests Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Automated testing of controls — Correct answers are A, C, and E: Compliance Manager provides a compliance score, automated testing of controls, and improvement actions. Option B is incorrect because creating DLP policies is not a Compliance Manager capability. Option D is incorrect because managing user identities is in Microsoft Entra ID.
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