Get Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate Certification with Updated SC-200 Exam Dumps

1. Topic 1, Contoso Ltd

Case study

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Overview

A company named Contoso Ltd. has a main office and five branch offices located throughout North America. The main office is in Seattle. The branch offices are in Toronto, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

Contoso has a subsidiary named Fabrikam, Ltd. that has offices in New York and San Francisco.

Existing Environment

End-User Environment

All users at Contoso use Windows 10 devices. Each user is licensed for Microsoft 365. In addition, iOS devices are distributed to the members of the sales team at Contoso.

Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure

All Contoso applications are deployed to Azure.

You enable Microsoft Cloud App Security.

Contoso and Fabrikam have different Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenants. Fabrikam recently purchased an Azure subscription and enabled Azure Defender for all supported resource types.

Current Problems

The security team at Contoso receives a large number of cybersecurity alerts. The security team spends too much time identifying which cybersecurity alerts are legitimate threats, and which are not.

The Contoso sales team uses only iOS devices. The sales team members exchange files with customers by using a variety of third-party tools. In the past, the sales team experienced various attacks on their devices.

The marketing team at Contoso has several Microsoft SharePoint Online sites for collaborating with external vendors. The marketing team has had several incidents in which vendors uploaded files that contain malware.

The executive team at Contoso suspects a security breach. The executive team requests that you identify which files had more than five activities during the past 48 hours, including data access, download, or deletion for Microsoft Cloud App Security-protected applications.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Contoso plans to integrate the security operations of both companies and manage all security operations centrally.

Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

✑ Receive alerts if an Azure virtual machine is under brute force attack.

✑ Use Azure Sentinel to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks on the environment.

✑ Implement Azure Sentinel queries that correlate data across the Azure AD tenants of Contoso and Fabrikam.

✑ Develop a procedure to remediate Azure Defender for Key Vault alerts for Fabrikam in case of external attackers and a potential compromise of its own Azure AD applications.

✑ Identify all cases of users who failed to sign in to an Azure resource for the first time from a given country. A junior security administrator provides you with the following incomplete query.

BehaviorAnalytics

| where ActivityType == "FailedLogOn"

| where ________ == True

You need to complete the query for failed sign-ins to meet the technical requirements.

Where can you find the column name to complete the where clause?

2. You need to recommend a solution to meet the technical requirements for the Azure virtual machines.

What should you include in the recommendation?

3. HOTSPOT

You need to implement Azure Sentinel queries for Contoso and Fabrikam to meet the technical requirements.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

4. HOTSPOT

You need to create an advanced hunting query to investigate the executive team issue.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

5. The issue for which team can be resolved by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?

6. The issue for which team can be resolved by using Microsoft Defender for Office 365?

7. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend remediation actions for the Azure Defender alerts for Fabrikam.

What should you recommend for each threat? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

8. You need to remediate active attacks to meet the technical requirements.

What should you include in the solution?

9. Topic 2, Litware inc.

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

Litware Inc. is a renewable company.

Litware has offices in Boston and Seattle. Litware also has remote users located across the United States. To access Litware resources, including cloud resources, the remote users establish a VPN connection to either office.

Existing Environment

Identity Environment

The network contains an Active Directory forest named litware.com that syncs to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named litware.com.

Microsoft 365 Environment

Litware has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription linked to the litware.com Azure AD tenant. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is deployed to all computers that run Windows 10. All Microsoft Cloud App Security built-in anomaly detection policies are enabled.

Azure Environment

Litware has an Azure subscription linked to the litware.com Azure AD tenant.

The subscription contains resources in the East US Azure region as shown in the following table.

Network Environment

Each Litware office connects directly to the internet and has a site-to-site VPN connection to the virtual networks in the Azure subscription.

On-premises Environment

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

Current problems

Cloud App Security frequently generates false positive alerts when users connect to both offices simultaneously.

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

✑ Create and configure Azure Sentinel in the Azure subscription.

✑ Validate Azure Sentinel functionality by using Azure AD test user accounts.

Business Requirements

Litware identifies the following business requirements:

- The principle of least privilege must be used whenever possible.

-Costs must be minimized, as long as all other requirements are met.

-Logs collected by Log Analytics must provide a full audit trail of user activities.

-All domain controllers must be protected by using Microsoft Defender for Identity.

Azure Information Protection Requirements

All files that have security labels and are stored on the Windows 10 computers must be available from the Azure Information Protection C Data discovery dashboard.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint requirements

All Cloud App Security unsanctioned apps must be blocked on the Windows 10 computers by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Microsoft Cloud App Security requirements

Cloud App Security must identify whether a user connection is anomalous based on tenant-level data.

Azure Defender Requirements

All servers must send logs to the same Log Analytics workspace.

Azure Sentinel Requirements

Litware must meet the following Azure Sentinel requirements:

✑ Integrate Azure Sentinel and Cloud App Security.

✑ Ensure that a user named admin1 can configure Azure Sentinel playbooks.

✑ Create an Azure Sentinel analytics rule based on a custom query. The rule must automatically initiate the execution of a playbook.

✑ Add notes to events that represent data access from a specific IP address to provide the ability to reference the IP address when navigating through an investigation graph while hunting.

✑ Create a test rule that generates alerts when inbound access to Microsoft Office 365 by the Azure AD test user accounts is detected. Alerts generated by the rule must be grouped into individual incidents, with one incident per test user account.

You need to restrict cloud apps running on CUENT1 to meet the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint requirements.

Which two configurations should you modify? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

10. You need to restrict cloud apps running on CLIENT1 to meet the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint requirements.

Which two configurations should you modify? Each correct answer present part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

11. DRAG DROP

You need to configure DC1 to meet the business requirements.

Which four 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.

12. HOTSPOT

You need to implement Azure Defender to meet the Azure Defender requirements and the business requirements.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

13. 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.

14. HOTSPOT

You need to create the analytics rule 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.

15. HOTSPOT

You need to configure the Microsoft Sentinel integration to meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

16. You need to modify the anomaly detection policy settings to meet the Cloud App Security requirements.

Which policy should you modify?

17. DRAG DROP

You need to add notes to the events to meet the Azure Sentinel requirements.

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

18. You need to implement the Azure Information Protection requirements.

What should you configure first?

19. HOTSPOT

You need to implement Microsoft Defender for Cloud to meet the Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements and the business requirements.

What should you include in the solution? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

20. You need to create the test rule to meet the Azure Sentinel requirements.

What should you do when you create the rule?

21. You need to assign a role-based access control (RBAC) role to admin1 to meet the Azure Sentinel requirements and the business requirements.

Which role should you assign?

22. Topic 3, Misc. Questions

You are configuring Azure Sentinel.

You need to send a Microsoft Teams message to a channel whenever an incident representing a sign-in risk event is activated in Azure Sentinel.

Which two actions should you perform in Azure Sentinel? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

23. You have the following advanced hunting query in Microsoft 365 Defender.

You need to receive an alert when any process disables System Restore on a device managed by Microsoft Defender during the last 24 hours.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

24. HOTSPOT

You are informed of an increase in malicious email being received by users.

You need to create an advanced hunting query in Microsoft 365 Defender to identify whether the accounts of the email recipients were compromised. The query must return the most recent 20 sign-ins performed by the recipients within an hour of receiving the known malicious email.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

25. HOTSPOT

You have the following KQL query.

26. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that uses Azure Defender. You have 100 virtual machines in a resource group named RG1.

You assign the Security Admin roles to a new user named SecAdmin1.

You need to ensure that SecAdmin1 can apply quick fixes to the virtual machines by using Azure Defender. The solution must use the principle of least privilege.

Which role should you assign to SecAdmin1?

27. Your company has an on-premises network that uses Microsoft Defender for Identity.

The Microsoft Secure Score for the company includes a security assessment associated with unsecure Kerberos delegation.

You need remediate the security risk.

What should you do?

28. You have the following environment:

✑ Azure Sentinel

✑ A Microsoft 365 subscription

✑ Microsoft Defender for Identity

✑ An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant

You configure Azure Sentinel to collect security logs from all the Active Directory member servers and domain controllers.

You deploy Microsoft Defender for Identity by using standalone sensors.

You need to ensure that you can detect when sensitive groups are modified in Active Directory.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

29. 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?

30. You have an Azure subscription that has Microsoft Defender for Cloud enabled.

You have a virtual machine that runs Windows 10 and has the Log Analytics agent installed.

You need to simulate an attack on the virtual machine that will generate an alert.

What should you do first?

31. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are configuring Azure Sentinel.

You need to create an incident in Azure Sentinel when a sign-in to an Azure virtual machine from a malicious IP address is detected.

Solution: You create a Microsoft incident creation rule for a data connector.

Does this meet the goal?

32. You need to correlate data from the SecurityEvent Log Anarytks table to meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements for using UEBA.

Which Log Analytics table should you use?

33. You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace named Workspaces

You need to exclude a built-in. source-specific Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) parser from a built-in unified ASIM parser.

What should you create in Workspace1?

34. You have an Azure subscription that uses Microsoft Sentinel.

You need to minimize the administrative effort required to respond to the incidents and remediate the security threats detected by Microsoft Sentinel.

Which two features should you use? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

35. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

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You use Azure Security Center.

You receive a security alert in Security Center.

You need to view recommendations to resolve the alert in Security Center.

Solution: From Regulatory compliance, you download the report.

Does this meet the goal?

36. Your company stores the data for every project in a different Azure subscription. All the subscriptions use the same Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant.

Every project consists of multiple Azure virtual machines that run Windows Server. The Windows events of the virtual machines are stored in a Log Analytics workspace in each machine’s respective subscription.

You deploy Azure Sentinel to a new Azure subscription.

You need to perform hunting queries in Azure Sentinel to search across all the Log Analytics workspaces of all the subscriptions.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

37. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

You have Microsoft SharePoint Online sites that contain sensitive documents. The documents contain customer account numbers that each consists of 32 alphanumeric characters.

You need to create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to protect the sensitive documents.

What should you use to detect which documents are sensitive?

38. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace.

You need to create a KQL query that will identify successful sign-ins from multiple countries during the last three hours.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

39. HOTSPOT

You deploy Azure Sentinel.

You need to implement connectors in Azure Sentinel to monitor Microsoft Teams and Linux virtual machines in Azure. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

Which data connector type should you use for each workload? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

40. You use Microsoft Sentinel.

You need to receive an alert in near real-time whenever Azure Storage account keys are

enumerated.

Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point

41. You need to ensure that you can run hunting queries to meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

Which type of workspace should you create?

42. Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

The company has Microsoft Word documents that contain macros. The documents are used frequently on the devices of the company’s accounting team.

You need to hide false positive in the Alerts queue, while maintaining the existing security posture.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

43. You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace that contains the following incident.

Brute force attack against Azure Portal analytics rule has been triggered.

You need to identify the geolocation information that corresponds to the incident.

What should you do?

44. You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that is linked to a hybrid Azure AD tenant.

You need to identify all the changes made to Domain Admins group during the past 30 days.

What should you use?

45. You create an Azure subscription.

You enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud for the subscription.

You need to use Defender for Cloud to protect on-premises computers.

What should you do on the on-premises computers?

46. You have a third-party security information and event management (SIEM) solution.

You need to ensure that the SIEM solution can generate alerts for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-events in near real time.

What should you do to route events to the SIEM solution?

47. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace named Workspaces

You configure Workspace1 to collect DNS events and deploy the Advanced Security information Model (ASIM) unifying parser for the DNS schema.

You need to query the ASIM DNS schema to list all the DNS events from the last 24 hours that have a response code of 'NXDOMAIN' and were aggregated by the source IP address in 15-minute intervals. The solution must maximize query performance.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

48. You have an Azure subscription that uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

You need to filter the security alerts view to show the following alerts:

• Unusual user accessed a key vault

• Log on from an unusual location

• Impossible travel activity

Which severity should you use?

49. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are configuring Microsoft Defender for Identity integration with Active Directory.

From the Microsoft Defender for identity portal, you need to configure several accounts for attackers to exploit.

Solution: You add each account as a Sensitive account.

Does this meet the goal?

50. You have an Azure subscription that contains a virtual machine named VM1 and uses Azure Defender. Azure Defender has automatic provisioning enabled.

You need to create a custom alert suppression rule that will supress false positive alerts for suspicious use of PowerShell on VM1.

What should you do first?

51. You have an Azure subscription that contains a user named User1.

User1 is assigned an Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 license

You need to identify whether the identity of User1 was compromised during the last 90 days.

What should you use?

52. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You have Linux virtual machines on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

You deploy Azure Defender and enable auto-provisioning.

You need to monitor the virtual machines by using Azure Defender.

Solution: You manually install the Log Analytics agent on the virtual machines.

Does this meet the goal?

53. You have two Azure subscriptions that use Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

You need to ensure that specific Defender for Cloud security alerts are suppressed at the root management group level. The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What should you do in the Azure portal?

54. HOTSPOT

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

You are notified that the account of User1 is compromised.

You need to review the alerts triggered on the devices to which User1 signed in.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

55. DRAG DROP

You plan to connect an external solution that will send Common Event Format (CEF) messages to Azure Sentinel.

You need to deploy the log forwarder.

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

56. You have a Microsoft Sentinel workspace.

You receive multiple alerts for failed sign in attempts to an account.

You identify that the alerts are false positives.

You need to prevent additional failed sign-in alerts from being generated for the account.

The solution must meet the following requirements.

• Ensure that failed sign-in alerts are generated for other accounts.

• Minimize administrative effort

What should do?

57. HOTSPOT

You have an Azure subscription that has Azure Defender enabled for all supported resource types.

You create an Azure logic app named LA1.

You plan to use LA1 to automatically remediate security risks detected in Azure Security Center.

You need to test LA1 in Security Center.

What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

58. A company uses Azure Sentinel.

You need to create an automated threat response.

What should you use?

59. DRAG DROP

You have the resources shown in the following table.

You need to prevent duplicate events from occurring in SW1.

What should you use for each action? To answer, drag the appropriate resources to the correct actions. Each resource may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

60. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result,

these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are configuring Microsoft Defender for Identity integration with Active Directory.

From the Microsoft Defender for identity portal, you need to configure several accounts for attackers to exploit.

Solution: From Entity tags, you add the accounts as Honeytoken accounts.

Does this meet the goal?

61. You need to deploy the native cloud connector to Account! to meet the Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements.

What should you do in Account! first?

62. You create a hunting query in Azure Sentinel.

You need to receive a notification in the Azure portal as soon as the hunting query detects a match on the query. The solution must minimize effort.

What should you use?

63. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that contains 1,000 Windows 10 devices. The devices have Microsoft Office 365 installed.

You need to mitigate the following device threats:

✑ Microsoft Excel macros that download scripts from untrusted websites

✑ Users that open executable attachments in Microsoft Outlook

✑ Outlook rules and forms exploits

What should you use?

64. You are investigating an incident in Azure Sentinel that contains more than 127 alerts.

You discover eight alerts in the incident that require further investigation.

You need to escalate the alerts to another Azure Sentinel administrator.

What should you do to provide the alerts to the administrator?

65. HOTSPOT

You purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription.

You plan to configure Microsoft Cloud App Security.

You need to create a custom template-based policy that detects connections to Microsoft 365 apps that originate from a botnet network.

What should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

66. HOTSPOT

You need to create a query to investigate DNS-related activity. The solution must meet the Microsoft Sentinel requirements.

How should you complete the Query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

67. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

You are configuring Microsoft Defender for Identity integration with Active Directory.

From the Microsoft Defender for identity portal, you need to configure several accounts for attackers to exploit.

Solution: You add the accounts to an Active Directory group and add the group as a Sensitive group.

Does this meet the goal?

68. You provision a Linux virtual machine in a new Azure subscription.

You enable Azure Defender and onboard the virtual machine to Azure Defender.

You need to verify that an attack on the virtual machine triggers an alert in Azure Defender.

Which two Bash commands should you run on the virtual machine? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

69. DRAG DROP

You are investigating an incident by using Microsoft 365 Defender.

You need to create an advanced hunting query to count failed sign-in authentications on three devices named CFOLaptop. CEOLaptop, and COOLaptop.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE Each correct selection is worth one point

70. You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure logic app named app1 and a Microsoft Sentinel workspace that has an Azure AD connector. You need to ensure that app1 launches when Microsoft Sentinel detects an Azure AD-generated alert.

What should you create first?