SC-200 — Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
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Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200) Practice Questions

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June 11, 2026 updated
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Domain coverage

  • Manage a security operations environment (40–45%)
  • Respond to security incidents (35–40%)
  • Perform threat hunting (20–25%)

Sample Questions (8 of 80 shown)

Q1 Manage a security operations environment
Which Microsoft Defender for Endpoint advanced feature stops attackers from changing antivirus settings through apps, scripts, or registry edits?
  1. Tamper protection
  2. Live response
  3. Device discovery
  4. Endpoint detection and response in block mode
✓ Correct Answer: A
Tamper protection locks core Microsoft Defender Antivirus settings such as real-time protection, cloud-delivered protection, and IOAV scanning so they cannot be disabled by malicious tools, registry changes, or unauthorized PowerShell.
Q2 Manage a security operations environment
Which advanced feature must be enabled before an analyst can open a remote investigation shell on a managed device from the unified Defender portal?
  1. Device discovery
  2. Authenticated telemetry
  3. Live response
  4. Automatic attack disruption
✓ Correct Answer: C
Live response lets an authorized analyst connect to a device and run commands such as run, getfile, putfile, and remediate from security.microsoft.com. Requires the Live response feature enabled and the role permission.
Q3 Manage a security operations environment
Enabling the Microsoft Intune connection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint primarily allows you to do what?
  1. Share device risk scores with Intune so Conditional Access can require compliant or low-risk devices
  2. Stream Defender for Endpoint events to a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  3. Run Defender for Endpoint scans on Linux servers without an agent
  4. Replace Defender Antivirus with a third-party engine
✓ Correct Answer: A
The Intune connector publishes Defender for Endpoint device risk to Intune. Conditional Access can then evaluate the risk signal and block or restrict access from devices above a chosen risk threshold.
Q4 Manage a security operations environment
An analyst wants to receive an email whenever a new high-severity incident is created in the Microsoft Defender portal. Where is this configured?
  1. In Microsoft Sentinel automation rules only
  2. In Defender XDR settings under email notifications for incidents
  3. In Microsoft Entra ID risky sign-in settings
  4. In the Microsoft Purview alert policy for incidents
✓ Correct Answer: B
Defender XDR has dedicated email notification settings for incidents, actions, and threat analytics. You scope rules by severity, device group, and recipient.
Q5 Manage a security operations environment
Which automation level in Defender for Endpoint will remediate malicious files automatically without requiring analyst approval?
  1. No automated response
  2. Semi - require approval for any remediation
  3. Semi - require approval for non-temp folders
  4. Full - remediate threats automatically
✓ Correct Answer: D
Full - remediate threats automatically lets AIR take any remediation action without analyst approval. Semi options pause for approval depending on file location.
Q6 Manage a security operations environment
You want to block Office apps from creating child processes only on the finance device group, while keeping the rest of the org in audit mode. What is the best approach?
  1. Create one tenant-wide ASR rule in Block mode
  2. Use device group scoping with separate ASR policies set to Block for finance and Audit elsewhere
  3. Disable the rule globally and rely on tamper protection
  4. Create a Sentinel analytics rule to alert on Office child processes instead
✓ Correct Answer: B
Attack surface reduction rules can be assigned through device-group-scoped policies in Defender for Endpoint. This is the recommended way to roll out ASR safely without tenant-wide impact.
Q7 Manage a security operations environment
Which Microsoft Sentinel object should you use to run a Logic Apps workflow as a response to an alert or incident?
  1. Workbook
  2. Hunting query
  3. Playbook
  4. Watchlist
✓ Correct Answer: C
A Microsoft Sentinel playbook is a Logic Apps workflow with the Microsoft Sentinel connector. Automation rules call playbooks (or perform built-in actions) in response to alerts and incidents.
Q8 Manage a security operations environment
An automation rule should close incidents matching a known false-positive pattern. Which two configuration elements are required?
  1. Trigger When incident is created and an action Change status to Closed with a classification
  2. A scheduled analytics rule and a workbook tile
  3. A Logic App with HTTP trigger and a watchlist of users
  4. A custom log table and an ASIM parser
✓ Correct Answer: A
Automation rules run on triggers like When incident is created or When incident is updated. To auto-close benign matches set the action to Change status to Closed and provide a classification (e.g., False Positive).

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