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Connect identity, security and compliance foundations. Selected foundations; check coverage for the full scope.

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CARD 01 · Security, Compliance, and Identity Concepts

Which responsibility remains with a customer when moving from IaaS to provider-managed PaaS: its reader-access decisions or the platform OS?

Reveal answer & explanation

The customer retains its data/identity/access decisions; the stated PaaS provider manages the operating system. Compare responsibility rows, rather than transferring the whole security program.

Learn: Security models and data-protection goals
CARD 02 · Microsoft Entra

Which identity category represents an independently acting software service?

Reveal answer & explanation

A workload identity. Its human owner and host device are different identity subjects.

Learn: Entra identity types and hybrid identity
CARD 03 · Microsoft Security Solutions

Which rule fields identify the basic NSG filtering model?

Reveal answer & explanation

Source/destination IP addresses, source/destination ports and protocol: the 5-tuple used for basic stateful packet filtering.

Learn: Infrastructure security by protection purpose
CARD 04 · Microsoft Compliance Solutions

Where can a reviewer seek Microsoft cloud-service external audit/compliance material?

Reveal answer & explanation

The Service Trust Portal, within the material’s scope and access/agreement requirements. It is provider evidence, not the customer’s own implementation record.

Learn: Provider trust evidence and privacy principles
CARD 05 · Security, Compliance, and Identity Concepts

What does authentication establish?

Reveal answer & explanation

Evidence of the identity of a user, device or software subject; it does not by itself establish every action/resource permission.

Learn: Identity proof, permissions, and federation
CARD 06 · Microsoft Entra

Do a password and a second memorized PIN establish different MFA categories?

Reveal answer & explanation

No. Both are knowledge evidence; count verified factor categories rather than secret strings or prompts.

Learn: Authentication methods and multifactor evidence
CARD 07 · Microsoft Security Solutions

Which Defender for Cloud capability focuses on configuration posture?

Reveal answer & explanation

CSPM: cloud-resource posture assessment and improvement. Distinguish it from running-workload threat protection.

Learn: Cloud posture and workload protection
CARD 08 · Microsoft Compliance Solutions

What does a Compliance Manager assessment group?

Reveal answer & explanation

Controls from a regulation, standard or policy within an applicable service scope. It is different from an incident’s related alerts or a query’s activity records.

Learn: Purview Compliance Manager and score limits
CARD 09 · Microsoft Entra

What does a Conditional Access rule use to decide whether an additional sign-in requirement applies?

Reveal answer & explanation

Relevant signals and an if-then policy condition; for example, a stated request condition can require MFA. This is separate from listing a resource role’s allowed actions.

Learn: Conditional Access and role scope
CARD 10 · Microsoft Security Solutions

Which Sentinel component brings a supported event source into the analysis environment?

Reveal answer & explanation

A data connector. Ingestion is distinct from correlating the resulting alerts into incidents.

Learn: Sentinel detection, investigation, and response
CARD 11 · Microsoft Compliance Solutions

Which requirement concerns sensitivity labels rather than retention?

Reveal answer & explanation

Classification and configured information protection. Not every sensitivity label applies encryption; inspect the actual configuration.

Learn: Classification, protection, and retention
CARD 12 · Microsoft Entra

Which governance task asks whether existing collaboration membership is still needed?

Reveal answer & explanation

An access review, potentially recurring with appropriate owners/reviewers. It evaluates continued need rather than the safety of a particular sign-in.

Learn: Identity governance and risk decisions

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