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1. Topic 1, Fabrikam, Inc Case Study 1

OverView

Fabrikam, Inc. is an insurance company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in Paris.

On-premises Environment

The on-premises network contains a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named corp.fabrikam.com.

Azure Environment

Fabrikam has the following Azure resources:

• An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named fabrikam.onmicrosoft.com that syncs with corp.fabnkam.com

• A single Azure subscription named Sub1

• A virtual network named Vnetl in the East US Azure region

• A virtual network named Vnet2 in the West Europe Azure region

• An instance of Azure Front Door named FD1 that has Azure Web Application Firewall (WAR enabled

• A Microsoft Sentinel workspace

• An Azure SQL database named ClaimsDB that contains a table named ClaimDetails

• 20 virtual machines that are configured as application servers and are NOT onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• A resource group named TestRG that is used for testing purposes only

• An Azure Virtual Desktop host pool that contains personal assigned session hosts

All the resources in Sub1 are in either the East US or the West Europe region.

Partners

Fabrikam has contracted a company named Contoso, Ltd. to develop applications.

Contoso has the following infrastructure-.

• An Azure AD tenant named contoso.onmicrosoft.com

• An Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementation named ContosoAWS1 that contains AWS EC2 instances used to host test workloads for the applications of Fabrikam Developers at Contoso will connect to the resources of Fabrikam to test or update applications. The developers will be added to a security Group named Contoso Developers in fabrikam.onmicrosoft.com that will be assigned to roles in Sub1.

The ContosoDevelopers group is assigned the db.owner role for the ClaimsDB database.

Compliance Event

Fabrikam deploys the following compliance environment:

• Defender for Cloud is configured to assess all the resources in Sub1 for compliance to the HIPAA HITRUST standard.

• Currently, resources that are noncompliant with the HIPAA HITRUST standard are remediated manually.

• Qualys is used as the standard vulnerability assessment tool for servers.

Problem Statements

The secure score in Defender for Cloud shows that all the virtual machines generate the following recommendation-. Machines should have a vulnerability assessment solution. All the virtual machines must be compliant in Defender for Cloud.

ClaimApp Deployment

Fabrikam plans to implement an internet-accessible application named ClaimsApp that will have the following specification

• ClaimsApp will be deployed to Azure App Service instances that connect to Vnetl and Vnet2.

• Users will connect to ClaimsApp by using a URL of https://claims.fabrikam.com.

• ClaimsApp will access data in ClaimsDB.

• ClaimsDB must be accessible only from Azure virtual networks.

• The app services permission for ClaimsApp must be assigned to ClaimsDB.

Application Development Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for application development:

• Azure DevTest labs will be used by developers for testing.

• All the application code must be stored in GitHub Enterprise.

• Azure Pipelines will be used to manage application deployments.

• All application code changes must be scanned for security vulnerabilities, including application code or configuration files that contain secrets in clear text. Scanning must be done at the time the code is pushed to a repository.

Security Requirement

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:

• Internet-accessible applications must prevent connections that originate in North Korea.

• Only members of a group named InfraSec must be allowed to configure network security groups (NSGs} and instances of Azure Firewall, VJM. And Front Door in Sub1.

• Administrators must connect to a secure host to perform any remote administration of the virtual machines. The secure host must be provisioned from a custom operating system image.

AWS Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements for the data hosted in ContosoAWSV.

• Notify security administrators at Fabrikam if any AWS EC2 instances are noncompliant with secure score recommendations.

• Ensure that the security administrators can query AWS service logs directly from the Azure environment.

Contoso Developer Requirements

Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for the Contoso developers;

• Every month, the membership of the ContosoDevelopers group must be verified.

• The Contoso developers must use their existing contoso.onmicrosoft.com credentials to access the resources in Sub1.

• The Comoro developers must be prevented from viewing the data in a column named MedicalHistory in the ClaimDetails table.

Compliance Requirement

Fabrikam wants to automatically remediate the virtual machines in Sub1 to be compliant with the HIPPA HITRUST standard. The virtual machines in TestRG must be excluded from the compliance assessment.

HOTSPOT

You are evaluating the security of ClaimsApp.

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

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

What should you include in the recommendation?

3. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution to meet the requirements for connections to ClaimsDB.

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

4. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution to meet the compliance requirements.

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

5. You need to recommend a solution to secure the MedicalHistory data in the ClaimsDetail table. The solution must meet the Contoso developer requirements.

What should you include in the recommendation?

6. You need to recommend a solution to meet the security requirements for the InfraSec group.

What should you use to delegate the access?

7. You need to recommend a solution to resolve the virtual machine issue.

What should you include in the recommendation? (Choose Two)

8. You need to recommend a solution to scan the application code. The solution must meet the application development requirements.

What should you include in the recommendation?

9. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution to meet the AWS 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.

10. HOTSPOT

What should you create in Azure AD to meet the Contoso developer requirements?

11. Topic 2, Litware, inc. Case Study 2

Overview

Litware, inc. is a financial services company that has main offices in New York and San Francisco. litware has 30 branch offices and remote employees across the United States. The remote employees connect to the main offices by using a VPN.

Litware has grown significantly during the last two years due to mergers and acquisitions.

The acquisitions include several companies based in France.

Existing Environment

Litware has an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs with an Active Directory Domain Services (AD D%) forest named Utvvare.com and is linked to 20 Azure subscriptions. Azure AD Connect is used to implement pass-through authentication. Password hash synchronization is disabled, and password writeback is enabled. All Litware users have Microsoft 365 E5 licenses.

The environment also includes several AD DS forests, Azure AD tenants, and hundreds of Azure subscriptions that belong to the subsidiaries of Litware.

Planned Changes

Litware plans to implement the following changes:

• Create a management group hierarchy for each Azure AD tenant.

• Design a landing zone strategy to refactor the existing Azure environment of Litware and deploy all future Azure workloads.

• Implement Azure AD Application Proxy to provide secure access to internal applications that are currently accessed by using the VPN.

Business Requirements

Litware identifies the following business requirements:

• Minimize any additional on-premises infrastructure.

• Minimize the operational costs associated with administrative overhead.

Hybrid Requirements

Litware identifies the following hybrid cloud requirements:

• Enable the management of on-premises resources from Azure, including the following: •Use Azure Policy for enforcement and compliance evaluation.

• Provide change tracking and asset inventory.

• Implement patch management.

• Provide centralized, cross-tenant subscription management without the overhead of maintaining guest accounts.

Microsoft Sentinel Requirements

Litware plans to leverage the security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAK) capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel. The company wants to centralize Security Operations Center (SOQ by using Microsoft Sentinel.

Identity Requirements

Litware identifies the following identity requirements:

• Detect brute force attacks that directly target AD DS user accounts.

• Implement leaked credential detection in the Azure AD tenant of Litware.

• Prevent AD DS user accounts from being locked out by brute force attacks that target Azure AD user accounts.

• Implement delegated management of users and groups in the Azure AD tenant of Litware, including support for.

• The management of group properties, membership, and licensing « The management of user properties, passwords, and licensing

• The delegation of user management based on business units.

Regulatory Compliance Requirements

Litware identifies the following regulatory compliance requirements:

• insure data residency compliance when collecting logs, telemetry, and data owned by each United States- and France-based subsidiary.

• Leverage built-in Azure Policy definitions to evaluate regulatory compliance across the entire managed environment.

• Use the principle of least privilege.

Azure Landing Zone Requirements

Litware identifies the following landing zone requirements:

• Route all internet-bound traffic from landing zones through Azure Firewall in a dedicated Azure subscription.

• Provide a secure score scoped to the landing zone.

• Ensure that the Azure virtual machines in each landing zone communicate with Azure App Service web apps in the same zone over the Microsoft backbone network, rather than over public endpoints.

• Minimize the possibility of data exfiltration.

• Maximize network bandwidth.

The landing zone architecture will include the dedicated subscription, which will serve as the hub for internet and hybrid connectivity.

Each landing zone will have the following characteristics:

• Be created in a dedicated subscription.

• Use a DNS namespace of litware.com.

Application Security Requirements

Litware identifies the following application security requirements:

• Identify internal applications that will support single sign-on (SSO) by using Azure AD Application Proxy.

• Monitor and control access to Microsoft SharePoint Online and Exchange Online data in real time.

You need to design a strategy for securing the SharePoint Online and Exchange Online data. The solution must meet the application security requirements.

Which two services should you leverage in the strategy? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE; Each correct selection is worth one point.

12. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a solution to evaluate regulatory compliance across the entire managed environment. The solution must meet the regulatory compliance requirements and the business requirements.

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

13. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend an identity security solution for the Azure AD tenant of Litware. The solution must meet the identity requirements and the regulatory compliance requirements.

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

14. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a SIEM and SOAR strategy that meets the hybrid requirements, the Microsoft Sentinel requirements, and the regulatory compliance requirements.

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

15. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a strategy for App Service web app connectivity. The solution must meet the landing zone requirements.

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

16. You need to recommend a solution for securing the landing zones. The solution must meet the landing zone requirements and the business requirements.

What should you configure for each landing zone?

17. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a strategy for securing the litware.com forest. The solution must meet the identity 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.

18. To meet the application security requirements, which two authentication methods must the applications support? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

19. HOTSPOT

You need to recommend a multi-tenant and hybrid security solution that meets to the business requirements and the hybrid requirements.

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

20. A customer is deploying Docker images to 10 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resources across four Azure subscriptions. You are evaluating the security posture of the customer.

You discover that the AKS resources are excluded from the secure score recommendations. You need to produce accurate recommendations and update the secure score.

Which two actions should you recommend in Microsoft Defender for Cloud? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

21. You are creating an application lifecycle management process based on the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).

You need to recommend a security standard for onboarding applications to Azure. The standard will include recommendations for application design, development, and deployment

What should you include during the application design phase?

22. Your company is developing a serverless application in Azure that will have the architecture shown in the following exhibit.

You need to recommend a solution to isolate the compute components on an Azure virtual network.

What should you include in the recommendation?

23. HOTSPOT

Your company uses Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel.

The company is designing an application that will have the architecture shown in the following exhibit.

You are designing a logging and auditing solution for the proposed architecture.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Integrate Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs with Microsoft Sentinel.

• Use Defender for Cloud to review alerts from the virtual machines.

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.

24. Your company is developing a new Azure App Service web app. You are providing design assistance to verify the security of the web app.

You need to recommend a solution to test the web app for vulnerabilities such as insecure server configurations, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection.

What should you include in the recommendation?

25. You have a customer that has a Microsoft 365 subscription and an Azure subscription.

The customer has devices that run either Windows, iOS, Android, or macOS. The Windows devices are deployed on-premises and in Azure.

You need to design a security solution to assess whether all the devices meet the customer's compliance rules.

What should you include in the solution?

26. Your company has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

Users use Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for sharing and collaborating. The company identifies protected health information (PHI) within stored documents and communications.

What should you recommend using to prevent the PHI from being shared outside the company?

27. You have an Azure subscription that has Microsoft Defender for Cloud enabled. You need to enforce ISO 2700V2013 standards for the subscription. The solution must ensure that noncompliant resources are remediated automatically

What should you use?

28. HOTSPOT

You are designing security for a runbook in an Azure Automation account. The runbook will copy data to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

You need to recommend a solution to secure the components of the copy process.

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

29. Your company plans to move all on-premises virtual machines to Azure.

A network engineer proposes the Azure virtual network design shown in the following table.

You need to recommend an Azure Bastion deployment to provide secure remote access to all the virtual machines.

Based on the virtual network design, how many Azure Bastion subnets are required?

30. Your company has an on-premise network in Seattle and an Azure subscription. The on-premises network contains a Remote Desktop server.

The company contracts a third-party development firm from France to develop and deploy resources to the virtual machines hosted in the Azure subscription.

Currently, the firm establishes an RDP connection to the Remote Desktop server. From the Remote Desktop connection, the firm can access the virtual machines hosted in Azure by using custom administrative tools installed on the Remote Desktop server. All the traffic to the Remote Desktop server is captured by a firewall, and the firewall only allows specific connections from France to the server.

You need to recommend a modern security solution based on the Zero Trust model. The solution must minimize latency tor developers.

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

31. HOTSPOT

You use Azure Pipelines with Azure Repos to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CO) workflows.

You need to recommend best practices to secure the stages of the CI/CD workflows based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.

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

32. Your on-premises network contains an e-commerce web app that was developed in Angular and Node.js. The web app uses a MongoDB database. You plan to migrate the web app to Azure.

The solution architecture team proposes the following architecture as an Azure landing zone.

You need to provide recommendations to secure the connection between the web app and the database. The solution must follow the Zero Trust model.

Solution: You recommend implementing Azure Front Door with Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF).

Does this meet the goal?

33. Your company is moving a big data solution to Azure.

The company plans to use the following storage workloads:

• Azure Storage blob containers

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

• Azure Storage file shares

• Azure Disk Storage

Which two storage workloads support authentication by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

34. HOTSPOT

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription and an Azure subscripts.

You need to evaluate the existing environment to increase the overall security posture for the following components:

• Windows 11 devices managed by Microsoft Intune

• Azure Storage accounts

• Azure virtual machines

What should you use to evaluate the components? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

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.

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 an Azure subscription that has Microsoft Defender for Cloud enabled.

You are evaluating the Azure Security Benchmark V3 report.

In the Secure management ports controls, you discover that you have 0 out of a potential 8 points.

You need to recommend configurations to increase the score of the Secure management ports controls.

Solution: You recommend enabling the VMAccess extension on all virtual machines.

Does this meet the goal?

36. Your company has an office in Seattle.

The company has two Azure virtual machine scale sets hosted on different virtual networks.

The company plans to contract developers in India.

You need to recommend a solution provide the developers with the ability to connect to the virtual machines over SSL from the Azure portal.

The solution must meet the following requirements:

• Prevent exposing the public IP addresses of the virtual machines.

• Provide the ability to connect without using a VPN.

• Minimize costs.

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

37. Your on-premises network contains an e-commerce web app that was developed in Angular and Nodejs. The web app uses a MongoDB database. You plan to migrate the web app to Azure.

The solution architecture team proposes the following architecture as an Azure landing zone.

You need to provide recommendations to secure the connection between the web app and the database. The solution must follow the Zero Trust model.

Solution: You recommend implementing Azure Key Vault to store credentials.

38. You are designing a ransomware response plan that follows Microsoft Security Best Practices.

You need to recommend a solution to limit the scope of damage of ransomware attacks without being locked out.

What should you include in the recommendations?

39. You are designing the security standards for a new Azure environment.

You need to design a privileged identity strategy based on the Zero Trust model.

Which framework should you follow to create the design?

40. HOTSPOT

Your company wants to optimize using Azure to protect its resources from ransomware.

You need to recommend which capabilities of Azure Backup and Azure Storage provide the strongest protection against ransomware attacks. The solution must follow Microsoft Security Best Practices.

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