SC-900 Practice Question: Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity
Your organization is deploying Microsoft Entra ID Governance. You need to automate the process of removing user access to a critical application when the user leaves the company. Which feature should you configure?
⚠ Common exam trap
Watch out — candidates often confuse Lifecycle Workflows (which handle user lifecycle tasks like account disablement) with Entitlement Management (which governs resource-specific access removal), leading them to pick D instead of B.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Entitlement Management
Entitlement Management in Microsoft Entra ID Governance allows you to create access packages that govern access to resources like critical applications. By configuring an access package with a 'Remove access when user leaves' policy, you can automatically revoke the user's assignments when their lifecycle state changes to 'leaving', ensuring access is removed without manual intervention.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Privileged Identity Management
Why it's wrong here
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is primarily designed to manage, control, and monitor access to important organizational resources by providing just-in-time and just-enough access for privileged roles. While PIM can revoke access, its core function is to elevate permissions temporarily and enforce approval workflows for sensitive roles, not to automatically manage the lifecycle of standard user access to applications or to trigger access removal upon a user's departure from the organization.
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Entitlement Management
Why this is correct
Entitlement Management is a robust capability within Microsoft Entra ID Governance that enables organizations to manage identity and access lifecycle at scale through access packages. It allows for automatic access removal based on various lifecycle events, such as a user's employment status change or removal from a connected organization. This makes it ideal for ensuring access to groups, applications, and SharePoint sites is revoked promptly and automatically when no longer needed, aligning perfectly with the need for automated access removal.
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Access Reviews
Why it's wrong here
Access Reviews are a governance feature used for periodically re-certifying access rights to ensure that users still require the access they have been granted. They help maintain a least-privilege posture over time by prompting reviewers to confirm or deny access. However, Access Reviews are typically scheduled or manually initiated processes, not an automated, event-driven mechanism for immediate access revocation upon a user's departure from the organization, thus lacking the real-time removal capability required.
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Lifecycle Workflows
Why it's wrong here
Lifecycle Workflows automate common identity lifecycle tasks for joiners, movers, and leavers, such as creating accounts, assigning licenses, or disabling user accounts. While they can automate some leaver tasks like disabling accounts or removing group memberships, their primary purpose is not granular access removal from specific applications or resources defined within access packages. They orchestrate broader identity state changes rather than managing the intricate access lifecycle to individual applications or resources.
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Microsoft Entra ID
Key term
Entitlement management
Entitlement management is the process of controlling who has access to what resources in an organization through automated policies, approvals, and lifecycle management.
Key term
Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based identity and access management service that lets employees sign in and access resources both inside and outside of your organization.
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