This SC-900 practice question tests your understanding of describe the capabilities of microsoft entra. The scenario asks you to isolate a root cause — eliminate options that address a different problem before choosing. 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.
You need to provide external partners with access to your organization's SharePoint site. The partners must use their own credentials. Which Microsoft Entra feature should you use?
Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration
B2B allows external users to sign in with their own identities.
Microsoft Entra Identity Governance
Why wrong: Identity Governance includes access reviews and entitlement management, not direct external access.
Privileged Identity Management
Why wrong: PIM manages privileged access, not guest access.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Why wrong: ID Protection is for risk-based policies.
Answer choices
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration
Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration is the correct feature because it enables external users (partners) to access your organization's resources using their own identities (e.g., work, social, or other Azure AD accounts). It leverages the existing Azure AD tenant to issue guest user objects and supports SAML/WS-Federation or OIDC for authentication, allowing partners to authenticate with their own credentials without requiring a separate account or password in your tenant.
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.
Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration
Why this is correct
B2B allows external users to sign in with their own identities.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Microsoft Entra Identity Governance
Why it's wrong here
Identity Governance includes access reviews and entitlement management, not direct external access.
Privileged Identity Management
Why it's wrong here
PIM manages privileged access, not guest access.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Why it's wrong here
ID Protection is for risk-based policies.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration with Microsoft Entra B2C (not listed), or mistakenly think Identity Governance or PIM can handle external authentication, when in fact B2B collaboration is the only feature that allows external users to bring their own credentials for resource access.
Detailed technical explanation
Under the hood, Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration works by creating a guest user object in the resource tenant with a UserType of 'Guest' and an external issuer (e.g., the partner's Azure AD or a Microsoft account). When the partner signs in, Azure AD redirects authentication to their home tenant or identity provider via the SAML/WS-Federation protocol, and a token is issued that includes the partner's claims. A subtle behavior is that if the partner's tenant is also Azure AD, the resource tenant can enforce conditional access policies (e.g., MFA) on the guest user, but the MFA challenge is handled by the partner's home tenant, not the resource tenant.
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 capabilities of Microsoft Entra — This question tests Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra — Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer..
The correct answer is: Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration — Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration is the correct feature because it enables external users (partners) to access your organization's resources using their own identities (e.g., work, social, or other Azure AD accounts). It leverages the existing Azure AD tenant to issue guest user objects and supports SAML/WS-Federation or OIDC for authentication, allowing partners to authenticate with their own credentials without requiring a separate account or password in your tenant.
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