Microsoft 365 Exam MS-500 Study Guide

1. Testlet 1

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is manufacturing company that sells products through partner retail stores. Fabrikam has 5,000 employees located in offices throughout Europe.

Existing Environment

Network Infrastructure

The network contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. Fabrikam has a hybrid Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

The company maintains some on-premises servers for specific applications, but most end-user applications are provided by a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

Problem Statements

Fabrikam identifies the following issues:

– Since last Friday, the IT team has been receiving automated email messages that contain "Unhealthy Identity Synchronization Notification" in the subject line.

– Several users recently opened email attachments that contained malware. The process to remove the malware was time consuming.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes:

– Fabrikam plans to monitor and investigate suspicious sign-ins to Active Directory

– Fabrikam plans to provide partners with access to some of the data stored in Microsoft 365

Application Administration

Fabrikam identifies the following application requirements for managing workload applications:

– User administrators will work from different countries

– User administrators will use the Azure Active Directory admin center

– Two new administrators named Admin1 and Admin2 will be responsible for managing Microsoft Exchange Online only

Security Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

– Access to the Azure Active Directory admin center by the user administrators must be reviewed every seven days. If an administrator fails to respond to an access request within three days, access must be removed

– Users who manage Microsoft 365 workloads must only be allowed to perform administrative tasks for up to three hours at a time. Global administrators must be exempt from this requirement

– Users must be prevented from inviting external users to view company data. Only global administrators and a user named User1 must be able to send invitations

– Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) must capture security group modifications for sensitive groups, such as Domain Admins in Active Directory

– Workload administrators must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing in from an anonymous or an unfamiliar location

– The location of the user administrators must be audited when the administrators authenticate to Azure AD

– Email messages that include attachments containing malware must be delivered without the attachment

– The principle of least privilege must be used whenever possible

An administrator configures Azure AD Privileged Identity Management as shown in the following exhibit.

What should you do to meet the security requirements?

2. You need to recommend a solution for the user administrators that meets the security requirements for auditing.

Which blade should you recommend using from the Azure Active Directory admin center?

3. HOTSPOT

You plan to configure an access review to meet the security requirements for the workload administrators. You create an access review policy and specify the scope and a group.

Which other settings should you configure? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Hot Area:

4. You need to recommend a solution to protect the sign-ins of Admin1 and Admin2.

What should you include in the recommendation?

5. Testlet 2

Overview

Litware, Inc. is a financial company that has 1,000 users in its main office in Chicago and 100 users in a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment

Internal Network Infrastructure

The network contains a single domain forest. The forest functional level is Windows Server 2016.

Users are subject to sign-in hour restrictions as defined in Active Directory.

The network has the IP address range shown in the following table.

The offices connect by using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).

The following operating systems are used on the network:

– Windows Server 2016

– Windows 10 Enterprise

– Windows 8.1 Enterprise

The internal network contains the systems shown in the following table.

Litware uses a third-party email system.

Cloud Infrastructure

Litware recently purchased Microsoft 365 subscription licenses for all users.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect is installed and uses the default authentication settings. User accounts are not yet synced to Azure AD.

You have the Microsoft 365 users and groups shown in the following table.

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

– Migrate the email system to Microsoft Exchange Online

– Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Security Requirements

Litware identities the following security requirements:

– Create a group named Group2 that will include all the Azure AD user accounts. Group2 will be used to provide limited access to Windows Analytics

– Create a group named Group3 that will be used to apply Azure Information Protection policies to pilot users. Group3 must only contain user accounts

– Use Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to detect any security threats that target the forest

– Prevent users locked out of Active Directory from signing in to Azure AD and Active Directory

– Implement a permanent eligible assignment of the Compliance administrator role for User1

– Integrate Windows Defender and Windows Defender ATP on domain-joined servers

– Prevent access to Azure resources for the guest user accounts by default

– Ensure that all domain-joined computers are registered to Azure AD

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) Requirements

Security features of Microsoft Office 365 and Azure will be tested by using pilot Azure user accounts.

You identify the following requirements for testing MFA.

– Pilot users must use MFA unless they are signing in from the internal network of the Chicago office. MFA must NOT be used on the Chicago office internal network.

– If an authentication attempt is suspicious, MFA must be used, regardless of the user location

– Any disruption of legitimate authentication attempts must be minimized

General Requirements

Litware want to minimize the deployment of additional servers and services in the Active Directory forest.

You need to create Group2.

What are two possible ways to create the group?

6. Which IP address space should you include in the MFA configuration?

7. Testlet 3

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and three branch offices in Seattle, and New York.

The company has the offices shown in the following table.

Contoso has IT, human resources (HR), legal, marketing, and finance departments. Contoso uses Microsoft 365.

Existing Environment

Infrastructure

The network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com that is synced to a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. Password writeback is enabled.

The domain contains servers that run Windows Server 2016. The domain contains laptops and desktop computers that run Windows 10 Enterprise.

Each client computer has a single volume.

Each office connects to the Internet by using a NAT device.

The offices have the IP addresses shown in the following table.

Named locations are defined in Azure AD as shown in the following table.

From the Multi-Factor Authentication page, an address space of 198.35.3.0/24 is defined in the trusted IPs list.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled for the users in the finance department.

The tenant contains the users shown in the following table.

The tenant contains the groups shown in the following table.

Customer Lockbox is enabled in Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Intune Configuration

The devices enrolled in Intune are configured as shown in the following table.

The device compliance policies in Intune are configured as shown in the following table.

The device compliance policies have the assignments shown in the following table.

The Mark devices with no compliance policy assigned as setting is set to Compliant.

Requirements

Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

– Use the principle of least privilege

– Enable User1 to assign the Reports reader role to users

– Ensure that User6 approves Customer Lockbox requests as quickly as possible

– Ensure that User9 can implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

HOTSPOT

Which users are members of ADGroup1 and ADGroup2? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Hot Area:

8. HOTSPOT

You are evaluating which finance department users will be prompted for Azure MFA credentials.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

9. Which user passwords will User2 be prevented from resetting?

10. You need to meet the technical requirements for User9.

What should you do?

11. Which role should you assign to User1?

12. Question Set 4

Note: This question is part of 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 a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that is associated to a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com.

You use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to federate on-premises Active Directory and the tenant.

Azure AD Connect has the following settings:

– Source Anchor: objectGUID

– Password Hash Synchronization: Disabled

– Password writeback: Disabled

– Directory extension attribute sync: Disabled

– Azure AD app and attribute filtering: Disabled

– Exchange hybrid deployment: Disabled

– User writeback: Disabled

You need to ensure that you can use leaked credentials detection in Azure AD Identity Protection.

Solution: You modify the Azure AD app and attribute filtering settings.

Does that meet the goal?

13. Note: This question is part of 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 a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that is associated to a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com.

You use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to federate on-premises Active Directory and the tenant.

Azure AD Connect has the following settings:

– Source Anchor: objectGUID

– Password Hash Synchronization: Disabled

– Password writeback: Disabled

– Directory extension attribute sync: Disabled

– Azure AD app and attribute filtering: Disabled

– Exchange hybrid deployment: Disabled

– User writeback: Disabled

You need to ensure that you can use leaked credentials detection in Azure AD Identity Protection.

Solution: You modify the Password Hash Synchronization settings.

Does that meet the goal?

14. Note: This question is part of 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 a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that is associated to a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com.

You use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to federate on-premises Active Directory and the tenant.

Azure AD Connect has the following settings:

– Source Anchor: objectGUID

– Password Hash Synchronization: Disabled

– Password writeback: Disabled

– Directory extension attribute sync: Disabled

– Azure AD app and attribute filtering: Disabled

– Exchange hybrid deployment: Disabled

– User writeback: Disabled

You need to ensure that you can use leaked credentials detection in Azure AD Identity Protection.

Solution: You modify the Source Anchor settings.

Does that meet the goal?

15. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that uses a default domain name of contoso.com.

The multi-factor authentication (MFA) service settings are configured as shown in the exhibit. (Click the Exhibit tab.)

In contoso.com, you create the users shown in the following table.

What is the effect of the configuration? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

16. HOTSPOT

You configure Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect as shown in the following exhibit.

Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that completes each statement based on the information presented in the graphic. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Hot Area:

17. You have a hybrid Microsoft 365 environment. All computers run Windows 10 and are managed by using Microsoft Intune.

You need to create a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) conditional access policy that will allow only Windows 10 computers marked as compliant to establish a VPN connection to the on-premises network.

What should you do first?

18. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription. From the Microsoft 365 admin center, you create a new user. You plan to assign the Reports reader role to the user. You need to see the permissions of the Reports reader role.

Which admin center should you use?

19. You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.

You need to ensure that all users who are assigned the Exchange administrator role have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled by default.

What should you use to achieve the goal?

20. Your company has a Microsoft 365 subscription. The company forbids users to enroll personal devices in mobile device management (MDM). Users in the sales department have personal iOS devices. You need to ensure that the sales department users can use the Microsoft Power BI app from iOS devices

to access the Power BI data in your tenant. The users must be prevented from backing up the app’s data to iCloud.

What should you create?

21. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. Users and device objects are added and removed daily. Users in the sales department frequently change their device.

You need to create three following groups:

The solution must minimize administrative effort.

What is the minimum number of groups you should create for each type of membership? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

22. Your company has a main office and a Microsoft 365 subscription.

You need to enforce Microsoft Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) by using conditional access for all users who are NOT physically present in the office.

What should you include in the configuration?

23. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that contains the users shown in the following table.

You create and enforce an Azure AD Identity Protection user risk policy that has the following settings:

– Assignments: Include Group1, Exclude Group2

– Conditions: Sign in risk of Low and above

– Access: Allow access, Require password change

You need to identify how the policy affects User1 and User2.

What occurs when User1 and User2 sign in from an unfamiliar location? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

24. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com that contains the users shown in the following table.

You create and enforce an Azure AD Identity Protection sign-in risk policy that has the following settings:

– Assignments: Include Group1, Exclude Group2

– Conditions: Sign in risk of Low and above

– Access: Allow access, Require password multi-factor authentication

You need to identify how the policy affects User1 and User2.

What occurs when each user signs in from an anonymous IP address? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Hot Area:

25. Testlet 1

Overview

Fabrikam, Inc. is manufacturing company that sells products through partner retail stores. Fabrikam has 5,000 employees located in offices throughout Europe.

Existing Environment

Network Infrastructure

The network contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. Fabrikam has a hybrid Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment.

The company maintains some on-premises servers for specific applications, but most end-user applications are provided by a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

Problem Statements

Fabrikam identifies the following issues:

– Since last Friday, the IT team has been receiving automated email messages that contain "Unhealthy Identity Synchronization Notification" in the subject line.

– Several users recently opened email attachments that contained malware. The process to remove the malware was time consuming.

Requirements

Planned Changes

Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes:

– Fabrikam plans to monitor and investigate suspicious sign-ins to Active Directory

– Fabrikam plans to provide partners with access to some of the data stored in Microsoft 365

Application Administration

Fabrikam identifies the following application requirements for managing workload applications:

– User administrators will work from different countries

– User administrators will use the Azure Active Directory admin center

– Two new administrators named Admin1 and Admin2 will be responsible for managing Microsoft Exchange Online only

Security Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

– Access to the Azure Active Directory admin center by the user administrators must be reviewed every seven days. If an administrator fails to respond to an access request within three days, access must be removed

– Users who manage Microsoft 365 workloads must only be allowed to perform administrative tasks for up to three hours at a time. Global administrators must be exempt from this requirement

– Users must be prevented from inviting external users to view company data. Only global administrators and a user named User1 must be able to send invitations

– Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) must capture security group modifications for sensitive groups, such as Domain Admins in Active Directory

– Workload administrators must use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing in from an anonymous or an unfamiliar location

– The location of the user administrators must be audited when the administrators authenticate to Azure AD

– Email messages that include attachments containing malware must be delivered without the attachment

– The principle of least privilege must be used whenever possible

HOTSPOT

You need to recommend an email malware solution that meets the security requirements.

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

26. HOTSPOT

You install Azure ATP sensors on domain controllers. You add a member to the Domain Admins group. You view the timeline in Azure ATP and discover that information regarding the membership change is missing. You need to meet the security requirements for Azure ATP reporting.

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

27. Testlet 2

Overview

Litware, Inc. is a financial company that has 1,000 users in its main office in Chicago and 100 users in a branch office in San Francisco.

Existing Environment

Internal Network Infrastructure

The network contains a single domain forest. The forest functional level is Windows Server 2016.

Users are subject to sign-in hour restrictions as defined in Active Directory.

The network has the IP address range shown in the following table.

The offices connect by using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS).

The following operating systems are used on the network:

– Windows Server 2016

– Windows 10 Enterprise

– Windows 8.1 Enterprise

The internal network contains the systems shown in the following table.

Litware uses a third-party email system.

Cloud Infrastructure

Litware recently purchased Microsoft 365 subscription licenses for all users.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect is installed and uses the default authentication settings. User accounts are not yet synced to Azure AD.

You have the Microsoft 365 users and groups shown in the following table.

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

– Migrate the email system to Microsoft Exchange Online

– Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Security Requirements

Litware identities the following security requirements:

– Create a group named Group2 that will include all the Azure AD user accounts. Group2 will be used to provide limited access to Windows Analytics

– Create a group named Group3 that will be used to apply Azure Information Protection policies to pilot users. Group3 must only contain user accounts

– Use Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to detect any security threats that target the forest

– Prevent users locked out of Active Directory from signing in to Azure AD and Active Directory

– Implement a permanent eligible assignment of the Compliance administrator role for User1

– Integrate Windows Defender and Windows Defender ATP on domain-joined servers

– Prevent access to Azure resources for the guest user accounts by default

– Ensure that all domain-joined computers are registered to Azure AD

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) Requirements

Security features of Microsoft Office 365 and Azure will be tested by using pilot Azure user accounts.

You identify the following requirements for testing MF

28. You need to implement Windows Defender ATP to meet the security requirements.

What should you do?

29. Testlet 3

Overview

Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and three branch offices in Seattle, and New York.

The company has the offices shown in the following table.

Contoso has IT, human resources (HR), legal, marketing, and finance departments. Contoso uses Microsoft 365.

Existing Environment

Infrastructure

The network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com that is synced to a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. Password writeback is enabled.

The domain contains servers that run Windows Server 2016. The domain contains laptops and desktop computers that run Windows 10 Enterprise.

Each client computer has a single volume.

Each office connects to the Internet by using a NAT device.

The offices have the IP addresses shown in the following table.

Named locations are defined in Azure AD as shown in the following table.

From the Multi-Factor Authentication page, an address space of 198.35.3.0/24 is defined in the trusted IPs list.

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled for the users in the finance department.

The tenant contains the users shown in the following table.

The tenant contains the groups shown in the following table.

Customer Lockbox is enabled in Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Intune Configuration

The devices enrolled in Intune are configured as shown in the following table.

The device compliance policies in Intune are configured as shown in the following table.

The device compliance policies have the assignments shown in the following table.

The Mark devices with no compliance policy assigned as setting is set to Compliant.

Requirements

Technical Requirements

Contoso identifies the following technical requirements:

– Use the principle of least privilege

– Enable User1 to assign the Reports reader role to users

– Ensure that User6 approves Customer Lockbox requests as quickly as possible

– Ensure that User9 can implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

HOTSPOT

You are evaluating which devices are compliant in Intune.

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

30. Question Set 4

You configure several Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) policies in a Microsoft 365 subscription. You need to allow a user named User1 to view ATP reports in the Threat management dashboard.

Which role provides User1 with the required role permissions?

31. You have a Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 subscription.

You use Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP). You plan to use Microsoft Office 365 Attack simulator.

What is a prerequisite for running Attack simulator?

32. You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription and a hybrid Microsoft Exchange Server organization.

Each member of a group named Executive has an on-premises mailbox. Only the Executive group members have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

Each member of a group named Research has a mailbox in Exchange Online. You need to use Microsoft Office 365 Attack simulator to model a spear-phishing attack that targets the Research group members. The email address that you intend to spoof belongs to the Executive group members.

What should you do first?

33. You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. You implement Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) safe attachments policies for all users. User reports that email messages containing attachments take longer than expected to be received. You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to receive email messages that contain attachments. The solution must ensure that all attachments are scanned for malware. Attachments that have malware must be blocked.

What should you do from ATP?

34. HOTSPOT

Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a VPN server named VPN1 that runs Windows Server 2016 and has the Remote Access server role installed. You have a Microsoft Azure subscription. You are deploying Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) You install an Azure ATP standalone sensor on a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2016. You need to integrate the VPN and Azure ATP.

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

35. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that uses a default domain name of contoso.com.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) contains the users shown in the following table.

Microsoft Intune has two devices enrolled as shown in the following table:

Both devices have three apps named App1, App2, and App3 installed.

You create an app protection policy named ProtectionPolicy1 that has the following settings:

– Protected apps: App1

– Exempt apps: App2

– Windows Information Protection mode: Block

You apply ProtectionPolicy1 to Group1 and Group3. You exclude Group2 from ProtectionPolicy1. For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.