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SC-900 Practice Question: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

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{
  "RetentionCompliancePolicy": {
    "Name": "LegalHold",
    "Locations": ["SharePoint", "OneDrive"],
    "RetentionDuration": 365,
    "RetentionType": "Retain",
    "RetentionAction": "KeepAndDelete"
  }
}

Refer to the exhibit. A legal team needs to preserve all documents in SharePoint and OneDrive for 5 years. The current policy retains for 1 year. What should the administrator do to meet the requirement?

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Change the retention duration to 1825 days.

The policy retains for 365 days (1 year), but the requirement is 5 years. Changing the retention duration to 1825 days (5 years) meets the requirement. Option A is wrong because the policy already includes both locations. Option B is wrong because changing to Delete would delete content. Option D is wrong because changing to KeepAndDelete would still delete after retention, but the duration is the issue.

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For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

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Add Exchange Online to the locations.
Why it's wrong here
Adding Exchange Online as a location for a retention policy would include email messages, calendar items, and other mailbox content. However, the requirement specifically states the legal team needs to preserve "all documents," which primarily reside in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Including Exchange Online would unnecessarily broaden the scope of the retention policy beyond the stated requirement, potentially increasing the volume of data under preservation and the complexity of eDiscovery efforts without addressing the core need for document preservation.
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Change the retention type to Delete.
Why it's wrong here
Changing the retention type to "Delete" would configure the policy to permanently remove content after a specified period, or immediately if no period is set. This action directly contradicts the legal team's requirement to "preserve" all documents. Retention policies are designed to ensure data immutability and availability for legal or regulatory purposes, whereas a "Delete" action serves to dispose of content, making it unsuitable for a preservation mandate.
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Change the retention duration to 1825 days.
Why this is correct
The legal team requires documents to be preserved for five years. To meet this specific duration, the retention policy's duration setting must be adjusted. Calculating five years into days (5 years * 365 days/year) yields 1825 days. Therefore, setting the retention duration to 1825 days precisely aligns the policy with the legal preservation requirement, ensuring the content remains immutable and discoverable for the mandated period.
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Change the retention action to KeepAndDelete.
Why it's wrong here
The "KeepAndDelete" retention action is designed to preserve content for a specified duration and then automatically delete it. If the existing retention policy already has this action configured, changing *to* KeepAndDelete would be redundant and would not resolve the underlying issue. The problem statement implies a need to adjust the *length* of preservation, not the fundamental action of preserving and then deleting, making the duration the critical parameter to modify.

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SC-900 Practice Question: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

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