This SC-900 practice question tests your understanding of describe the capabilities of microsoft entra. 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.
Your organization uses Microsoft Entra ID Governance. You need to ensure that when a user leaves the company, all their access to critical applications is automatically removed. Which feature should you use?
Access Reviews with automatic removal
Access Reviews can automatically remove access when a user leaves.
Privileged Identity Management
Why wrong: PIM manages roles, not general app access.
Identity Protection
Why wrong: Identity Protection detects risks, not removal.
Entitlement Management
Why wrong: Entitlement Management manages access packages, not automatic removal.
Answer choices
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Correct answer & explanation
Access Reviews with automatic removal
Access Reviews with automatic removal is the correct feature because it allows administrators to define recurring reviews of user access to critical applications and, upon completion, automatically remove access for users who are no longer approved. This directly addresses the requirement of removing all access when a user leaves the company, as the review process can be triggered by the user's departure or scheduled to run regularly, ensuring that stale access is revoked without manual intervention.
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.
Access Reviews with automatic removal
Why this is correct
Access Reviews can automatically remove access when a user leaves.
Related concept
Read the scenario before looking for a memorised answer.
Privileged Identity Management
Why it's wrong here
PIM manages roles, not general app access.
Identity Protection
Why it's wrong here
Identity Protection detects risks, not removal.
Entitlement Management
Why it's wrong here
Entitlement Management manages access packages, not automatic removal.
Common exam traps
The trap here is that candidates often confuse Entitlement Management (which handles access packages and provisioning) with the actual removal mechanism, forgetting that Access Reviews provide the specific 'automatic removal' trigger based on reviewer decisions, while Entitlement Management alone does not enforce removal without a review or lifecycle workflow.
Detailed technical explanation
Access Reviews in Microsoft Entra ID Governance leverage the Microsoft Graph API to evaluate group memberships, application assignments, and role memberships against reviewer decisions. When a reviewer marks a user as 'not approved,' the system automatically removes the user from the underlying Azure AD security group, application role assignment, or directory role, using the same provisioning engine that grants access. A subtle behavior is that automatic removal can be configured to occur immediately after the review ends or after a specified grace period, and it respects the 'disable' vs. 'delete' user state to avoid accidental removal of active users.
Key takeaway
Answer the scenario, not the keyword: identify the specific constraint before choosing the most familiar-sounding option.
Real-world example
A company's IT admin needs to give a contractor read-only access to production logs without sharing account credentials. Using role-based access control (RBAC) and temporary scoped permissions — not a permanent shared password — is the correct pattern. Questions like this test whether you can apply least-privilege access across cloud identity services.
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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: Access Reviews with automatic removal — Access Reviews with automatic removal is the correct feature because it allows administrators to define recurring reviews of user access to critical applications and, upon completion, automatically remove access for users who are no longer approved. This directly addresses the requirement of removing all access when a user leaves the company, as the review process can be triggered by the user's departure or scheduled to run regularly, ensuring that stale access is revoked without manual intervention.
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