Free Microsoft SC-900 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 7

In Microsoft’s shared responsibility model for Azure, responsibilities are divided between Microsoft and the customer. Microsoft Learn explains that Microsoft is responsible for security of the cloud, while customers are responsible for security in the cloud. The platform owner’s scope includes the underlying facilities and infrastructure. As the documentation states: “Microsoft is responsible for the security OF the cloud, which includes protecting the infrastructure that runs all of the services offered in Microsoft Azure,” and this encompasses “physical datacenters, physical hosts, and the physical network.” The customer, by contrast, is responsible for items within their tenant and workloads, including “data, endpoints, accounts, and access management,” as well as configuration of services, identities, and devices.

Applied to the options given: managing mobile devices (A), setting permissions for user data (B), and creating/managing user accounts (C) fall under the customer’s responsibility because they relate to identity, access, data, and endpoint management within the tenant. The one item that Microsoft solely manages is the physical layer—the “physical hardware and facilities” that host Azure services. Therefore, the correct answer is D. the management of the physical hardware.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint includes Automated investigation and remediation (AIR) and Attack surface reduction (ASR) as core capabilities. Microsoft’s guidance states that AIR “uses inspection algorithms and playbooks to examine alerts, determine if they are malicious, and then take remediation actions such as stopping processes, quarantining files, and rolling back changes.” It is designed to “reduce the volume of alerts that require analyst attention and to remediate threats at machine speed across your estate,” helping security teams contain and fix issues without manual intervention.

Defender for Endpoint also provides attack surface reduction features to proactively limit exposure. The Microsoft learn materials describe that ASR “helps organizations minimize areas that attackers can exploit,” and includes “attack surface reduction rules, network protection, web protection, application control (Windows Defender Application Control), and controlled folder access.” These controls “block or constrain risky behaviors and common attacker techniques,” thereby preventing many initial compromise and lateral-movement attempts before they generate incidents.

By contrast, transport encryption is a general platform/security baseline capability rather than a specific Defender for Endpoint feature, and shadow IT detection is addressed through Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (App discovery), which can use Defender for Endpoint network signals but is not itself a native MDE capability. Therefore, the two correct capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint are Automated investigation and remediation and Attack surface reduction.

Endpoint data loss prevention (Endpoint DLP), a feature in Microsoft Purview, supports Windows 10 and 11 and now also supports macOS for core DLP capabilities. It allows organizations to monitor and restrict actions like copying sensitive files to USBs, printing, or uploading to unapproved cloud services.

SCI Extract: " Endpoint DLP extends Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to Windows 10, Windows 11, and macOS devices, allowing for monitoring and control of sensitive data usage at the endpoint. "

Other platforms like Linux, iOS, and Android are not currently supported for Endpoint DLP