microsoft sc-200 practice test

microsoft security operations analyst

Last exam update: Dec 06 ,2024
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Question 1

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You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that uses Microsoft Defender XDR.

You need to create a custom detection rule that will identify devices that had more than five antivirus detections within the last 24 hours.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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Question 2

You have an Azure subscription that uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud and contains a resource group named RG1. RG1 contains 20 virtual machines that run Windows Server 2019.

You need to configure just-in-time (JIT) access for the virtual machines in RG1. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Limit the maximum request time to two hours.
Limit protocols access to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) only.
Minimize administrative effort.

What should you use?

  • A. Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
  • B. Azure Policy
  • C. Azure Bastion
  • D. Azure Front Door
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Question 3

DRAG DROP

You have 50 on-premises servers.

You have an Azure subscription that uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The Defender for Cloud deployment has Microsoft Defender for Servers and automatic provisioning enabled.

You need to configure Defender for Cloud to support the on-premises servers. The solution must meet the following requirements:

Provide threat and vulnerability management.
Support data collection rules.

Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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Question 4

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Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might conta`in exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.


To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.


Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is a financial services company.

The company has branch offices in New York, London, and Singapore. Fabrikam has remote users located across the globe. The remote users access company resources, including cloud resources, by using a VPN connection to a branch office.


Existing Environment


Identity Environment

The network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest named fabrikam.com that syncs with an Azure AD tenant named fabrikam.com. To sync the forest, Fabrikam uses Azure AD Connect with pass-through authentication enabled and password hash synchronization disabled.

The fabrikam.com forest contains two global groups named Group1 and Group2.


Microsoft 365 Environment

All the users at Fabrikam are assigned a Microsoft 365 E5 license and an Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 license.

Fabrikam implements Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and enables log collectors.


Azure Environment

Fabrikam has an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table.



Amazon Web Services (AWS) Environment

Fabrikam has an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account named Account1. Account1 contains 100 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that run a custom Windows Server 2022. The image includes Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and does NOT have any agents installed.


Current Issues

When the users use the VPN connections, Microsoft 365 Defender raises a high volume of impossible travel alerts that are false positives.

Defender for Identity raises a high volume of Suspected DCSync attack alerts that are false positives.


Requirements


Planned changes

Fabrikam plans to implement the following services:

Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Sentinel


Business Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following business requirements:

Use the principle of least privilege, whenever possible.
Minimize administrative effort.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps requirements:

Ensure that impossible travel alert policies are based on the previous activities of each user.
Reduce the amount of impossible travel alerts that are false positives.

Microsoft Defender for Identity Requirements

Minimize the administrative effort required to investigate the false positive alerts.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements:

Ensure that the members of Group2 can modify security policies.
Ensure that the members of Group1 can assign regulatory compliance policy initiatives at the Azure subscription level.
Automate the deployment of the Azure Connected Machine agent for Azure Arc-enabled servers to the existing and future resources of Account1.
Minimize the administrative effort required to investigate the false positive alerts.

Microsoft Sentinel Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following Microsoft Sentinel requirements:

Query for NXDOMAIN DNS requests from the last seven days by using built-in Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) unifying parsers.
From AWS EC2 instances, collect Windows Security event log entries that include local group membership changes.
Identify anomalous activities of Azure AD users by using User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).
Evaluate the potential impact of compromised Azure AD user credentials by using UEBA.
Ensure that App1 is available for use in Microsoft Sentinel automation rules.
Identify the mean time to triage for incidents generated during the last 30 days.
Identify the mean time to close incidents generated during the last 30 days.
Ensure that the members of Group1 can create and run playbooks.
Ensure that the members of Group1 can manage analytics rules.
Run hunting queries on Pool1 by using Jupyter notebooks.
Ensure that the members of Group2 can manage incidents.
Maximize the performance of data queries.
Minimize the amount of collected data.


You need to assign role-based access control (RBAC) roles to Group1 and Group2 to meet the Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements and the business requirements.

Which role should you assign to each group? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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Question 5

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that uses Microsoft Defender XDR and contains a user named User1.

You need to ensure that User1 can manage Microsoft Defender XDR custom detection rules and Endpoint security policies. The solution must follow the principle of least privilege.

Which role should you assign to User1?

  • A. Security Administrator
  • B. Security Operator
  • C. Cloud Device Administrator
  • D. Desktop Analytics Administrator
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Question 6

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Case study

This is a case study. Case studies are not timed separately. You can use as much exam time as you would like to complete each case. However, there may be additional case studies and sections on this exam. You must manage your time to ensure that you are able to complete all questions included on this exam in the time provided.

To answer the questions included in a case study, you will need to reference information that is provided in the case study. Case studies might contain exhibits and other resources that provide more information about the scenario that is described in the case study. Each question is independent of the other questions in this case study.

At the end of this case study, a review screen will appear. This screen allows you to review your answers and to make changes before you move to the next section of the exam. After you begin a new section, you cannot return to this section.


To start the case study
To display the first question in this case study, click the Next button. Use the buttons in the left pane to explore the content of the case study before you answer the questions. Clicking these buttons displays information such as business requirements, existing environment, and problem statements. If the case study has an All Information tab, note that the information displayed is identical to the information displayed on the subsequent tabs. When you are ready to answer a question, click the Question button to return to the question.


Overview

Adatum Corporation is a United States-based financial services company that has regional offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.


Existing Environment


Identity Environment

The on-premises network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest named corp.adatum.com that syncs with an Azure AD tenant named adatum.com. All user and group management tasks are performed in corp.adatum.com. The corp.adatum.com domain contains a group named Group1 that syncs with adatum.com.


Licensing Status

All the users at Adatum are assigned a Microsoft 365 ES license and an Azure Active Directory Premium P2 license.


Cloud Environment

The cloud environment contains a Microsoft 365 subscription, an Azure subscription linked to the adatum.com tenant, and the resources shown in the following table.




On-premises Environment

The on-premises network contains the resources shown in the following table.




Requirements


Planned changes

Adatum plans to perform the following changes:

Implement a query named rulequery1 that will include the following KQL query.



Implement a Microsoft Sentinel scheduled rule that generates incidents based on rulequery1.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Requirements

Adatum identifies the following Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements:

The members of Group1 must be able to enable Defender for Cloud plans and apply regulatory compliance initiatives.
Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2 must be enabled on all the Azure virtual machines.
Server2 must be excluded from agentless scanning.

Microsoft Sentinel Requirements

Adatum identifies the following Microsoft Sentinel requirements:

Implement an Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) query that will return a count of DNS requests that results in an NXDOMAIN response from Infoblox1.
Ensure that multiple alerts generated by rulequery1 in response to a single user launching Azure Cloud Shell multiple times are consolidated as a single incident.
Implement the Windows Security Events via AMA connector for Microsoft Sentinel and configure it to monitor the Security event log of Server1.
Ensure that incidents generated by rulequery1 are closed automatically if Azure Cloud Shell is launched by the companys SecOps team.
Implement a custom Microsoft Sentinel workbook named Workbook1 that will include a query to dynamically retrieve data from Webapp1.
Implement a Microsoft Sentinel near-real-time (NRT) analytics rule that detects sign-ins to a designated break glass account.
Ensure that HuntingQuery1 runs automatically when the Hunting page of Microsoft Sentinel in the Azure portal is accessed.
Ensure that higher than normal volumes of password resets for corp.adatum.com user accounts are detected.
Minimize the overhead associated with queries that use ASIM parsers.
Ensure that the Group1 members can create and edit playbooks.
Use built-in ASIM parsers whenever possible.


Business Requirements

Adatum identifies the following business requirements:

Follow the principle of least privilege whenever possible.
Minimize administrative effort whenever possible.


You need to implement the ASIM query for DNS requests. The solution must meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

How should you configure the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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Question 7

DRAG DROP You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace named workspace1 and an Azure virtual machine named VM1.
You receive an alert for suspicious use of PowerShell on VM1.
You need to investigate the incident, identify which event triggered the alert, and identify whether the following actions occurred on VM1 after the alert:
The modification of local group memberships

The purging of event logs
Which three actions should you perform in sequence in the Azure portal? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.
Select and Place:

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Step 1: From the Investigation blade, select Insights
The Investigation Insights Workbook is designed to assist in investigations of Azure Sentinel Incidents or individual IP/Account/Host/URL entities.
Step 2: From the Investigation blade, select the entity that represents VM1.
The Investigation Insights workbook is broken up into 2 main sections, Incident Insights and Entity Insights.

Incident Insights -
The Incident Insights gives the analyst a view of ongoing Sentinel Incidents and allows for quick access to their associated metadata including alerts and entity information.

Entity Insights -
The Entity Insights allows the analyst to take entity data either from an incident or through manual entry and explore related information about that entity. This workbook presently provides view of the following entity types:

IP Address -

Account -

Host -

URL -
Step 3: From the details pane of the incident, select Investigate.
Choose a single incident and click View full details or Investigate.
Reference:
https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/wiki/Investigation-Insights---Overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/investigate-cases

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Question 8

A security administrator receives email alerts from Azure Defender for activities such as potential malware uploaded to a storage account and potential successful brute force attacks.
The security administrator does NOT receive email alerts for activities such as antimalware action failed and suspicious network activity. The alerts appear in
Azure Security Center.
You need to ensure that the security administrator receives email alerts for all the activities.
What should you configure in the Security Center settings?

  • A. the severity level of email notifications
  • B. a cloud connector
  • C. the Azure Defender plans
  • D. the integration settings for Threat detection
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Reference:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-defender/get-email-notifications-on-new-incidents-from-microsoft-365/ba-p/2012518

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Question 9

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You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

You need to create a detection rule that meets the following requirements:

Is triggered when a device that has critical software vulnerabilities was active during the last hour
Limits the number of duplicate results

How should you complete the KQL query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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Question 10

HOTSPOT You need to configure the Azure Sentinel integration to meet the Azure Sentinel requirements.
What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/siem-sentinel

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