SC-200 : Microsoft Security Operations Analyst : Part 01

SC-200 : Microsoft Security Operations Analyst : Part 01

1. 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

   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 phishing 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

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

      • executive
      • sales
      • marketing

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

      • executive
      • marketing
      • security
      • sales

2. 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 – 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.

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

      What should you configure first?

      • Device health and compliance reports settings in Microsoft Defender Security Center
      • scanner clusters in Azure Information Protection from the Azure portal
      • content scan jobs in Azure Information Protection from the Azure portal
      • Advanced features from Settings in Microsoft Defender Security Center

   2. You need to modify the anomaly detection policy settings to meet the Cloud App Security requirements and resolve the reported problem.

      Which policy should you modify?

      • Activity from suspicious IP addresses
      • Activity from anonymous IP addresses
      • Impossible travel
      • Risky sign-in

   3. 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.

      

      

      Explanation:

      Step 1: log in to https://portal.atp.azure.com as a global admin
      Step 2: Create the instance
      Step 3. Connect the instance to Active Directory
      Step 4. Download and install the sensor.

3. 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.

   

   

4. You need to receive a security alert when a user attempts to sign in from a location that was never used by the other users in your organization to sign in.

   Which anomaly detection policy should you use?

   • Impossible travel
   • Activity from anonymous IP addresses
   • Activity from infrequent country
   • Malware detection

5. 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?

   • SharePoint search
   • a hunting query in Microsoft 365 Defender
   • Azure Information Protection
   • RegEx pattern matching

6. Your company uses line-of-business apps that contain Microsoft Office VBA macros.

   You need to prevent users from downloading and running additional payloads from the Office VBA macros as additional child processes.

   Which two commands can you run to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

   NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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7. 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.

   • Resolve the alert automatically.
   • Hide the alert.
   • Create a suppression rule scoped to any device.
   • Create a suppression rule scoped to a device group.
   • Generate the alert.

8. DRAG DROP

   You open the Cloud App Security portal as shown in the following exhibit.

   

   Your environment does NOT have Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enabled.

   You need to remediate the risk for the Launchpad app.

   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.

   

   

9. HOTSPOT

   You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

   You plan to perform cross-domain investigations by using Microsoft 365 Defender.

   You need to create an advanced hunting query to identify devices affected by a malicious email attachment.

   How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

   NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

   

   

10. 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.

    •  Create a detection rule.
    • Create a suppression rule.
    • Add | order by Timestamp to the query.
    • Replace DeviceProcessEvents with DeviceNetworkEvents.
    • Add DeviceId and ReportId to the output of the query.

11. You are investigating a potential attack that deploys a new ransomware strain.

    You have three custom device groups. The groups contain devices that store highly sensitive information.

    You plan to perform automated actions on all devices.

    You need to be able to temporarily group the machines to perform actions on the devices.

    Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    • Assign a tag to the device group.
    • Add the device users to the admin role.
    • Add a tag to the machines.
    • Create a new device group that has a rank of 1.
    • Create a new admin role.
    • Create a new device group that has a rank of 4.

12. 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?

    • Yes
    • No

13. 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 Azure AD Identity Protection, you configure the sign-in risk policy.

    Does this meet the goal?

    • Yes
    • No

14. 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?

    • Yes
    • No

15. You implement Safe Attachments policies in Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

    Users report that email messages containing attachments take longer than expected to be received.

    You need to reduce the amount of time it takes to deliver messages that contain attachments without compromising security. The attachments must be scanned for malware, and any messages that contain malware must be blocked.

    What should you configure in the Safe Attachments policies?

    • Dynamic Delivery
    • Replace
    • Block and Enable redirect
    • Monitor and Enable redirect

16. 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.

    

    

17. You receive a security bulletin about a potential attack that uses an image file.

    You need to create an indicator of compromise (IoC) in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to prevent the attack.

    Which indicator type should you use?

    • a URL/domain indicator that has Action set to Alert only
    • a URL/domain indicator that has Action set to Alert and block
    • a file hash indicator that has Action set to Alert and block
    • a certificate indicator that has Action set to Alert and block

18. Your company deploys the following services:

    – Microsoft Defender for Identity
    – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    – Microsoft Defender for Office 365

    You need to provide a security analyst with the ability to use the Microsoft 365 security center. The analyst must be able to approve and reject pending actions generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The solution must use the principle of least privilege.

    Which two roles should assign to the analyst? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    • the Compliance Data Administrator in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
    • the Active remediation actions role in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • the Security Administrator role in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
    • the Security Reader role in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

19. HOTSPOT

    You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that uses Microsoft Defender and an Azure subscription that uses Azure Sentinel.

    You need to identify all the devices that contain files in emails sent by a known malicious email sender. The query will be based on the match of the SHA256 hash.

    How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

20. You need to configure Microsoft Cloud App Security to generate alerts and trigger remediation actions in response to external sharing of confidential files.

    Which two actions should you perform in the Cloud App Security portal? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    • From Settings, select Information Protection, select Azure Information Protection, and then select Only scan files for Azure Information Protection classification labels and content inspection warnings from this tenant.
    • Select Investigate files, and then filter App to Office 365.
    • Select Investigate files, and then select New policy from search.
    • From Settings, select Information Protection, select Azure Information Protection, and then select Automatically scan new files for Azure Information Protection classification labels and content inspection warnings.
    • From Settings, select Information Protection, select Files, and then enable file monitoring.
    • Select Investigate files, and then filter File Type to Document.