Pass the Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate SC-300 Questions and answers with Dumpstech

To assign a Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 license to the Sg-Retail group, you can follow these steps:

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center:

Make sure you have the role of Global Administrator or License Administrator.

Navigate to the licensing page:

Go toBilling>Licenses1.

Find the Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 license:

Look for the Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 license in the list of available products.

Assign licenses to the group:

Select the license and then choose Assign licenses.

Search for and select the Sg-Retail group.

Confirm the assignment and make sure that the correct number of licenses is available for the group.

Review and confirm the assignment:

Ensure that the licenses have been properly assigned to the Sg-Retail group without affecting other groups or users.

Monitor the license status:

Check the license usage and status to ensure that the Sg-Retail group members can utilize the Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 features.

By following these steps, the Sg-Retail group should now have the Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 licenses assigned to them.

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Study Guide and Microsoft Learn module “Plan and implement Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-On (SSO)”, Azure AD Seamless SSO allows domain-joined Windows devices (that are not necessarily Azure AD-joined) to automatically sign in to Azure AD without requiring users to re-enter their credentials.

When a user tries to access an Azure AD-integrated application (like Microsoft 365, Teams, or SharePoint Online), Azure AD redirects the authentication request to the on-premises Active Directory. The Seamless SSO feature uses a computer account (AZUREADSSOACC) created in Active Directory to authenticate users through Kerberos tickets automatically.

For the Kerberos-based SSO to work properly in a browser or client, the service principal name (SPN) used by Azure AD must be treated as a trusted intranet site. This ensures that Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) can pass the user’s Kerberos ticket automatically — without prompting for credentials.

To enable automatic SSO without credential prompts, you must:

Add the following URLs to the Intranet Zone in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge (and by extension, Windows Authentication settings):

https://autologon.microsoftazuread-sso.com

https://aadg.windows.net.nsatc.net

Ensure Automatic logon with current user name and password is enabled for the Intranet Zone.

“For Azure AD Seamless SSO to work, the client machines must be on the corporate network and the URLs ‘https://autologon.microsoftazuread-sso.com’ and ‘https://aadg.windows.net.nsatc.net’ must be added to the users ' Intranet zone settings.”

Other options are not correct because:

A. Enable Enterprise State Roaming — Manages user settings across devices, unrelated to SSO.

B. Configure Sign-in options — User-level authentication preferences, not required for Seamless SSO.

C. Install Azure AD Connect Authentication Agent — Used for Pass-through Authentication (PTA), not for Seamless SSO.

According to Microsoft Identity Governance documentation and the SC-300 study guide, entitlement management in Azure AD allows you to manage access to resources like SharePoint Online sites, Teams, groups, and applications through access packages. However, before an access package can be created, the administrator must first define a catalog.

A catalog is the logical container that holds all the resources (such as groups, Teams, and SharePoint sites) that can be made available in access packages. The process for entitlement management begins with catalog creation, followed by adding resources, then creating access packages that assign roles for those resources. Therefore, the first step to managing Site1 (SharePoint site) and Team1 (Microsoft Teams team) within entitlement management is to create a catalog and add those resources to it.

This aligns with Microsoft documentation, which states:

“Before creating an access package, you must have a catalog that contains the resources to be made available for assignment.”

As outlined in the Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) Official Study Guide and Microsoft Learn – Monitor and Analyze Sign-ins in Azure AD, the Azure AD Sign-ins log retains sign-in events for a limited duration depending on the tenant’s licensing tier.

For the default Azure AD Free, Office 365, and Azure AD Premium P1/P2 tiers, the standard retention period for sign-in logs is 14 days. This means that administrators can query, review, or export sign-in data only for sign-ins that occurred within the past 14 days using the Azure portal, Microsoft Graph API, or Azure AD PowerShell.

The documentation specifies:

“Azure AD stores audit and sign-in events for up to 14 days in the Azure portal. For longer retention, you must integrate with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or export to a SIEM solution.”

This information is reinforced in the SC-300 training under the “Implement and monitor identity governance” and “Monitor and troubleshoot Azure AD” modules, which highlight that organizations requiring extended historical data must configure diagnostic settings to forward logs to Azure Log Analytics, Azure Storage, or Event Hubs.

Hence, without additional configuration, Azure AD keeps sign-in logs for 14 days by default — after which they are automatically purged.

✅ Correct Answer: A. 14 days

 Identify all the accounts that are assigned the Global Administrator role permanently: Microsoft Entra Insights

 Review the PCI of User1: Analytics

In Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, the Microsoft Entra Insights tab provides role-focused visibility into directory privileges. The SC-300 materials describe it as the place to surface “standing privileges for Microsoft Entra roles” and to identify accounts with high-risk assignments such as Global Administrator. The insights view surfaces who has those roles and whether they’re permanent (standing) versus eligible or time-bound, enabling you to quickly “identify high-impact directory roles and users with persistent assignments.”

The Analytics tab is centered on identities, resources, and actions, featuring risk and usage metrics, including the Permission Creep Index (PCI). The study content explains that Analytics lets you “drill into an identity’s effective permissions and risk score (PCI) to compare granted vs. used permissions.” For a specific user (e.g., User1), you navigate to Analytics → Identities, search/select the user, and view the PCI card and detailed breakdown of unused vs. used permissions.

Accordingly: to find permanent Global Administrator assignments, use Microsoft Entra Insights; to review User1’s PCI, use Analytics.

SC-300 teaches that group-based licensing supports security groups and Microsoft 365 groups, with assigned or dynamic user membership. The guide states: “Licenses can be assigned to groups whose members are users; nested groups aren’t processed and devices cannot be licensed.” Applying this to the table: Group1 (Security-Assigned) and Group2 (Security-Dynamic User) are valid; Group4 (Microsoft 365-Assigned) and Group5 (Microsoft 365-Dynamic User) are also valid. Group3 is a Security-Dynamic Device group and therefore ineligible because “device objects do not receive user licenses.” Consequently, the Office 365 E5 license can be assigned directly to Group1, Group2, Group4, and Group5 only.

In Microsoft 365, Basic authentication is an outdated protocol that sends credentials in plain text and does not support MFA. To enforce Modern authentication (OAuth 2.0), which is required for stronger identity protection and token-based access, administrators must block legacy authentication using Conditional Access policies in Azure AD.

According to the SC-300 study guide and Microsoft Learn module “Implement Conditional Access policies”, this can be achieved by:

Creating a Conditional Access policy in Azure AD.

Targeting the Exchange Online cloud app.

Setting the condition Client apps → Other clients (legacy authentication) to block access.

Modern authentication clients (like Outlook 2016+, Outlook on the web, and Outlook mobile) use secure OAuth tokens that comply with Conditional Access requirements (such as MFA, device compliance, or trusted location).

Compliance policies or application control profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager do not manage authentication protocols, and Microsoft Cloud App Security OAuth policies govern third-party app permissions, not Exchange connectivity.

Therefore, the correct approach to ensure only Modern authentication clients can connect is to enforce this through a Conditional Access policy in Azure AD.

User1 is eligible for the Application Administrator role and needs to configure an Application Proxy connector group. Application Proxy is an Azure AD feature used to publish on-premises applications securely.

To activate the eligible role, User1 must perform a Privileged Identity Management (PIM) activation within the Azure AD admin center.

From Microsoft Documentation:

“Privileged Identity Management (PIM) role activations are performed in the Azure AD admin center under Azure AD → Privileged Identity Management → My roles.”

Activation steps are not available through Microsoft 365 or Defender portals.