microsoft sc-200 practice test

Exam Title: microsoft security operations analyst

Last update: Dec 21 ,2025
Question 1

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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 meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements for collecting Windows Security event logs.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Answer:

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Question 2

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

You are investigating an attacker that is known to use the Microsoft Graph API as an attack vector. The attacker performs the tactics shown the following table.



You need to search for malicious activities in your organization.

Which tactics can you analyze by using the MicrosoftGraphActivityLogs table?

  • A. Tactic2 only
  • B. Tactic1 and Tactic2 only
  • C. Tactic2 and Tactic3 only
  • D. Tactic1, Tactic2, and Tactic3
Answer:

b

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Question 3

You have an Azure Sentinel deployment in the East US Azure region.
You create a Log Analytics workspace named LogsWest in the West US Azure region.
You need to ensure that you can use scheduled analytics rules in the existing Azure Sentinel deployment to generate alerts based on queries to LogsWest.
What should you do first?

  • A. Deploy Azure Data Catalog to the West US Azure region.
  • B. Modify the workspace settings of the existing Azure Sentinel deployment.
  • C. Add Azure Sentinel to a workspace.
  • D. Create a data connector in Azure Sentinel.
Answer:

c


Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/extend-sentinel-across-workspaces-tenants

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Question 4

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that uses Microsoft SharePoint Online.
You delete users from the subscription.
You need to be notified if the deleted users downloaded numerous documents from SharePoint Online sites during the month before their accounts were deleted.
What should you use?

  • A. a file policy in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • B. an access review policy
  • C. an alert policy in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • D. an insider risk policy
Answer:

c


Alert policies let you categorize the alerts that are triggered by a policy, apply the policy to all users in your organization, set a threshold level for when an alert is triggered, and decide whether to receive email notifications when alerts are triggered.
Default alert policies include:
Unusual external user file activity - Generates an alert when an unusually large number of activities are performed on files in SharePoint or OneDrive by users outside of your organization. This includes activities such as accessing files, downloading files, and deleting files. This policy has a High severity setting.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/alert-policies

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Question 5

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

You need to add threat indicators for all the IP addresses in a range of 171.23.34.32-171.23.34.63. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you do in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal?

  • A. Create an import file that contains the individual IP addresses in the range. Select Import and import the file.
  • B. Create an import file that contains the IP address of 171.23.34.32/27. Select Import and import the file.
  • C. Select Add indicator and set the IP address to 171.23.34.32-171.23.34.63.
  • D. Select Add indicator and set the IP address to 171.23.34.32/27.
Answer:

a

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Question 6

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
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 identify which mean time metrics to use to meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

Which workbook should you use?

  • A. Event Analyzer
  • B. Investigation Insights
  • C. Security Operations Efficiency
  • D. Analytics Efficiency
Answer:

c

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Question 7

You have an Azure subscription that has Azure Defender enabled for all supported resource types.
You need to configure the continuous export of high-severity alerts to enable their retrieval from a third-party security information and event management (SIEM) solution.
To which service should you export the alerts?

  • A. Azure Cosmos DB
  • B. Azure Event Grid
  • C. Azure Event Hubs
  • D. Azure Data Lake
Answer:

c


Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security-center/continuous-export?tabs=azure-portal

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Question 8

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

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain that syncs with Azure AD.

You need to identify LDAP requests by AD DS users to enumerate AD DS objects.

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

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Answer:

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Question 9

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 ensure that the Group1 members can meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

Which role should you assign to Group1?

  • A. Microsoft Sentinel Playbook Operator
  • B. Logic App Contributor
  • C. Automation Operator
  • D. Microsoft Sentinel Automation Contributor
Answer:

b

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Question 10

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 ensure that the processing of incidents generated by rulequery1 meets the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

What should you create first?

  • A. a playbook with an incident trigger
  • B. a playbook with an alert trigger
  • C. an Azure Automation rule
  • D. a playbook with an entity trigger
Answer:

b

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