Microsoft SC-400 Exam Questions
Microsoft Information Protection Administrator

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Testlet 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
Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and six branch offices in New York, Seattle, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

Existing Environment

Cloud Environment
Fabrikam has a Microsoft 365 tenant that contains the following resources:

-An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs to an on-premises Active Directory domain named corp.fabrikam.com
-Microsoft Cloud App Security connectors configured for all supported cloud applications used by the company

Some users have company Dropbox accounts.

Compliance Configuration
Fabrikam has the following in the Microsoft 365 compliance center:

-A data loss prevention (DLP) policy is configured. The policy displays a tooltip to users. Users can provide a business justification to override a DLP policy violation.
-The Azure Information Protection unified labeling scanner is installed and configured.
-A sensitivity label named Fabrikam Confidential is configured.

An existing third-party records management system is managed by the compliance department.

Human Resources (HR) Management System
The HR department has an Azure SQL database that contains employee information. Each employee has a unique 12-character alphanumeric ID. The database contains confidential employee attributes including payroll information, date of birth, and personal contact details.

On-Premises Environment
You have an on-premises file server that runs Windows Server 2019 and stores Microsoft Office documents in a shared folder named Data.

All end-user computers are joined to the corp.fabrikam.com domain and run a third-party antimalware application.

Business Processes

Sales Contracts
Users in the sales department receive draft sales contracts from customers by email. The sales contracts are written by the customers and are not in a standard format.

Employment Applications
Employment applications and resumes are received by HR department managers and stored in either mailboxes, Microsoft SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive for Business folders, or Microsoft Teams channels.

The employment application form is downloaded from SharePoint Online and a serial number is assigned to each application.

The resumes are written by the applicants and are in any format.

Requirements

HR Requirements
You need to create a DLP policy that will notify the HR department of a DLP policy violation if a document that contains confidential employee attributes is shared externally. The DLP policy must use an Exact Data Match (EDM) classification derived from a CSV export of the HR department database.

The HR department identifies the following requirements for handling employment applications:

-Resumes must be identified automatically based on similarities to other resumes received in the past.
-Employment applications and resumes must be deleted automatically two years after the applications are received.
-Documents and emails that contain an application serial number must be identified automatically and marked as an employment application.

Sales Requirements
A sensitivity label named Sales Contract must be applied automatically to all draft and finalized sales contracts.

Compliance Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following compliance requirements:

-All DLP policies must be applied to computers that run Windows 10, with the least possible changes to the computers.
-Users in the compliance department must view the justification provided when a user receives a tooltip notification for a DLP violation.
-If a document that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied is uploaded to Dropbox, the file must be deleted automatically.
-The Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label must be applied to existing Microsoft Word documents in the Data shared folder that have a document footer containing the following string: Company use only.
-Users must be able to manually select that email messages are sent encrypted. The encryption will use Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) v2. Any email containing an attachment that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied must be encrypted automatically by using OME.
-Existing policies configured in the third-party records management system must be replaced by using Records management in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. The compliance department plans to export the existing policies, and then produce a CSV file that contains matching labels and policies that are compatible with records management in Microsoft 365. The CSV file must be used to configure records management in Microsoft 365.

Executive Requirements
You must be able to restore all email received by Fabrikam executives for up to three years after an email is received, even if the email was deleted permanently.

Testlet 3

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
Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and three branch offices in Seattle, Boston, and Johannesburg.

Existing Environment

Microsoft 365 Environment
Contoso has a Microsoft 365 E5 tenant. The tenant contains the administrative user accounts shown in the following table.


Users store data in the following locations:

-SharePoint sites
-OneDrive accounts
-Exchange email
-Exchange public folders
-Teams chats
-Teams channel messages

When users in the research department create documents, they must add a 10-digit project code to each document. Project codes that start with the digits 999 are confidential.

SharePoint Online Environment
Contoso has four Microsoft SharePoint Online sites named Site1, Site2, Site3, and Site4.

Site2 contains the files shown in the following table.


Two users named User1 and User2 are assigned roles for Site2 as shown in the following table.


Site3 stores documents related to the company's projects. The documents are organized in a folder hierarchy based on the project.

Site4 has the following two retention policies applied:

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Delete items older than: 2 years
-Delete content based on: When items were created

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy2
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Retain items for a specific period: 4 years
-Start the retention period based on: When items were created
-At the end of the retention period: Do nothing

Problem Statements
Management at Contoso is concerned about data leaks. On several occasions, confidential research department documents were leaked.

Requirements

Planned Changes
Contoso plans to create the following data loss prevention (DLP) policy:

-Name: DLPpolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site2
-Conditions:
-Content contains any of these sensitive info types: SWIFT Code
-Instance count: 2 to any
-Actions: Restrict access to the content

Technical Requirements
Contoso must meet the following technical requirements:

-All administrative users must be able to review DLP reports.
-Whenever possible, the principle of least privilege must be used.
-For all users, all Microsoft 365 data must be retained for at least one year.
-Confidential documents must be detected and protected by using Microsoft 365.
-Site1 documents that include credit card numbers must be labeled automatically.
-All administrative users must be able to create Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels.
-After a project is complete, the documents in Site3 that relate to the project must be retained for 10 years.
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This Exam Topic does not have a case study.

Testlet 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
Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and six branch offices in New York, Seattle, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

Existing Environment

Cloud Environment
Fabrikam has a Microsoft 365 tenant that contains the following resources:

-An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs to an on-premises Active Directory domain named corp.fabrikam.com
-Microsoft Cloud App Security connectors configured for all supported cloud applications used by the company

Some users have company Dropbox accounts.

Compliance Configuration
Fabrikam has the following in the Microsoft 365 compliance center:

-A data loss prevention (DLP) policy is configured. The policy displays a tooltip to users. Users can provide a business justification to override a DLP policy violation.
-The Azure Information Protection unified labeling scanner is installed and configured.
-A sensitivity label named Fabrikam Confidential is configured.

An existing third-party records management system is managed by the compliance department.

Human Resources (HR) Management System
The HR department has an Azure SQL database that contains employee information. Each employee has a unique 12-character alphanumeric ID. The database contains confidential employee attributes including payroll information, date of birth, and personal contact details.

On-Premises Environment
You have an on-premises file server that runs Windows Server 2019 and stores Microsoft Office documents in a shared folder named Data.

All end-user computers are joined to the corp.fabrikam.com domain and run a third-party antimalware application.

Business Processes

Sales Contracts
Users in the sales department receive draft sales contracts from customers by email. The sales contracts are written by the customers and are not in a standard format.

Employment Applications
Employment applications and resumes are received by HR department managers and stored in either mailboxes, Microsoft SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive for Business folders, or Microsoft Teams channels.

The employment application form is downloaded from SharePoint Online and a serial number is assigned to each application.

The resumes are written by the applicants and are in any format.

Requirements

HR Requirements
You need to create a DLP policy that will notify the HR department of a DLP policy violation if a document that contains confidential employee attributes is shared externally. The DLP policy must use an Exact Data Match (EDM) classification derived from a CSV export of the HR department database.

The HR department identifies the following requirements for handling employment applications:

-Resumes must be identified automatically based on similarities to other resumes received in the past.
-Employment applications and resumes must be deleted automatically two years after the applications are received.
-Documents and emails that contain an application serial number must be identified automatically and marked as an employment application.

Sales Requirements
A sensitivity label named Sales Contract must be applied automatically to all draft and finalized sales contracts.

Compliance Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following compliance requirements:

-All DLP policies must be applied to computers that run Windows 10, with the least possible changes to the computers.
-Users in the compliance department must view the justification provided when a user receives a tooltip notification for a DLP violation.
-If a document that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied is uploaded to Dropbox, the file must be deleted automatically.
-The Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label must be applied to existing Microsoft Word documents in the Data shared folder that have a document footer containing the following string: Company use only.
-Users must be able to manually select that email messages are sent encrypted. The encryption will use Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) v2. Any email containing an attachment that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied must be encrypted automatically by using OME.
-Existing policies configured in the third-party records management system must be replaced by using Records management in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. The compliance department plans to export the existing policies, and then produce a CSV file that contains matching labels and policies that are compatible with records management in Microsoft 365. The CSV file must be used to configure records management in Microsoft 365.

Executive Requirements
You must be able to restore all email received by Fabrikam executives for up to three years after an email is received, even if the email was deleted permanently.

Testlet 3

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
Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and three branch offices in Seattle, Boston, and Johannesburg.

Existing Environment

Microsoft 365 Environment
Contoso has a Microsoft 365 E5 tenant. The tenant contains the administrative user accounts shown in the following table.


Users store data in the following locations:

-SharePoint sites
-OneDrive accounts
-Exchange email
-Exchange public folders
-Teams chats
-Teams channel messages

When users in the research department create documents, they must add a 10-digit project code to each document. Project codes that start with the digits 999 are confidential.

SharePoint Online Environment
Contoso has four Microsoft SharePoint Online sites named Site1, Site2, Site3, and Site4.

Site2 contains the files shown in the following table.


Two users named User1 and User2 are assigned roles for Site2 as shown in the following table.


Site3 stores documents related to the company's projects. The documents are organized in a folder hierarchy based on the project.

Site4 has the following two retention policies applied:

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Delete items older than: 2 years
-Delete content based on: When items were created

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy2
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Retain items for a specific period: 4 years
-Start the retention period based on: When items were created
-At the end of the retention period: Do nothing

Problem Statements
Management at Contoso is concerned about data leaks. On several occasions, confidential research department documents were leaked.

Requirements

Planned Changes
Contoso plans to create the following data loss prevention (DLP) policy:

-Name: DLPpolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site2
-Conditions:
-Content contains any of these sensitive info types: SWIFT Code
-Instance count: 2 to any
-Actions: Restrict access to the content

Technical Requirements
Contoso must meet the following technical requirements:

-All administrative users must be able to review DLP reports.
-Whenever possible, the principle of least privilege must be used.
-For all users, all Microsoft 365 data must be retained for at least one year.
-Confidential documents must be detected and protected by using Microsoft 365.
-Site1 documents that include credit card numbers must be labeled automatically.
-All administrative users must be able to create Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels.
-After a project is complete, the documents in Site3 that relate to the project must be retained for 10 years.
-

This Exam Topic does not have a case study.

Testlet 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
Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and three branch offices in Seattle, Boston, and Johannesburg.

Existing Environment

Microsoft 365 Environment
Contoso has a Microsoft 365 E5 tenant. The tenant contains the administrative user accounts shown in the following table.


Users store data in the following locations:

-SharePoint sites
-OneDrive accounts
-Exchange email
-Exchange public folders
-Teams chats
-Teams channel messages

When users in the research department create documents, they must add a 10-digit project code to each document. Project codes that start with the digits 999 are confidential.

SharePoint Online Environment
Contoso has four Microsoft SharePoint Online sites named Site1, Site2, Site3, and Site4.

Site2 contains the files shown in the following table.


Two users named User1 and User2 are assigned roles for Site2 as shown in the following table.


Site3 stores documents related to the company's projects. The documents are organized in a folder hierarchy based on the project.

Site4 has the following two retention policies applied:

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Delete items older than: 2 years
-Delete content based on: When items were created

-Name: Site4RetentionPolicy2
-Locations to apply the policy: Site4
-Retain items for a specific period: 4 years
-Start the retention period based on: When items were created
-At the end of the retention period: Do nothing

Problem Statements
Management at Contoso is concerned about data leaks. On several occasions, confidential research department documents were leaked.

Requirements

Planned Changes
Contoso plans to create the following data loss prevention (DLP) policy:

-Name: DLPpolicy1
-Locations to apply the policy: Site2
-Conditions:
-Content contains any of these sensitive info types: SWIFT Code
-Instance count: 2 to any
-Actions: Restrict access to the content

Technical Requirements
Contoso must meet the following technical requirements:

-All administrative users must be able to review DLP reports.
-Whenever possible, the principle of least privilege must be used.
-For all users, all Microsoft 365 data must be retained for at least one year.
-Confidential documents must be detected and protected by using Microsoft 365.
-Site1 documents that include credit card numbers must be labeled automatically.
-All administrative users must be able to create Microsoft 365 sensitivity labels.
-After a project is complete, the documents in Site3 that relate to the project must be retained for 10 years.
-

Testlet3

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
Fabrikam, Inc. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and six branch offices in New York, Seattle, Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and Vancouver.

Existing Environment

Cloud Environment
Fabrikam has a Microsoft 365 tenant that contains the following resources:

-An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant that syncs to an on-premises Active Directory domain named corp.fabrikam.com
-Microsoft Cloud App Security connectors configured for all supported cloud applications used by the company

Some users have company Dropbox accounts.

Compliance Configuration
Fabrikam has the following in the Microsoft 365 compliance center:

-A data loss prevention (DLP) policy is configured. The policy displays a tooltip to users. Users can provide a business justification to override a DLP policy violation.
-The Azure Information Protection unified labeling scanner is installed and configured.
-A sensitivity label named Fabrikam Confidential is configured.

An existing third-party records management system is managed by the compliance department.

Human Resources (HR) Management System
The HR department has an Azure SQL database that contains employee information. Each employee has a unique 12-character alphanumeric ID. The database contains confidential employee attributes including payroll information, date of birth, and personal contact details.

On-Premises Environment
You have an on-premises file server that runs Windows Server 2019 and stores Microsoft Office documents in a shared folder named Data.

All end-user computers are joined to the corp.fabrikam.com domain and run a third-party antimalware application.

Business Processes

Sales Contracts
Users in the sales department receive draft sales contracts from customers by email. The sales contracts are written by the customers and are not in a standard format.

Employment Applications
Employment applications and resumes are received by HR department managers and stored in either mailboxes, Microsoft SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive for Business folders, or Microsoft Teams channels.

The employment application form is downloaded from SharePoint Online and a serial number is assigned to each application.

The resumes are written by the applicants and are in any format.

Requirements

HR Requirements
You need to create a DLP policy that will notify the HR department of a DLP policy violation if a document that contains confidential employee attributes is shared externally. The DLP policy must use an Exact Data Match (EDM) classification derived from a CSV export of the HR department database.

The HR department identifies the following requirements for handling employment applications:

-Resumes must be identified automatically based on similarities to other resumes received in the past.
-Employment applications and resumes must be deleted automatically two years after the applications are received.
-Documents and emails that contain an application serial number must be identified automatically and marked as an employment application.

Sales Requirements
A sensitivity label named Sales Contract must be applied automatically to all draft and finalized sales contracts.

Compliance Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following compliance requirements:

-All DLP policies must be applied to computers that run Windows 10, with the least possible changes to the computers.
-Users in the compliance department must view the justification provided when a user receives a tooltip notification for a DLP violation.
-If a document that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied is uploaded to Dropbox, the file must be deleted automatically.
-The Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label must be applied to existing Microsoft Word documents in the Data shared folder that have a document footer containing the following string: Company use only.
-Users must be able to manually select that email messages are sent encrypted. The encryption will use Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) v2. Any email containing an attachment that has the Fabrikam Confidential sensitivity label applied must be encrypted automatically by using OME.
-Existing policies configured in the third-party records management system must be replaced by using Records management in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. The compliance department plans to export the existing policies, and then produce a CSV file that contains matching labels and policies that are compatible with records management in Microsoft 365. The CSV file must be used to configure records management in Microsoft 365.

Executive Requirements
You must be able to restore all email received by Fabrikam executives for up to three years after an email is received, even if the email was deleted permanently.