Microsoft SC-300 - Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator Study Guide and the Microsoft Learn module “Publish on-premises apps for remote access using Azure AD Application Proxy”, Azure AD Application Proxy enables secure remote access to internal, on-premises web applications without requiring VPN access.

In the scenario, App1 is an on-premises application hosted within the Litware network, and the technical requirements specify that it must be securely accessible to both internal and external users — including Fabrikam guest accounts — through Azure AD authentication.

Microsoft’s official documentation states:

“Azure AD Application Proxy provides secure remote access to on-premises web applications, integrating with Azure AD for single sign-on (SSO) and conditional access policies.”

Given that the environment already includes a server (SERVER1) running the Azure AD Application Proxy connector, and that Litware wants to enforce Azure AD Conditional Access and MFA for App1, Azure AD Application Proxy is the correct implementation.

The other options are not suitable:

A. Policy set in Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Used for device compliance and app management, not for publishing on-premises apps.

B. App configuration policy in Endpoint Manager: Used for mobile app configuration (e.g., MAM policies), not for access publishing.

C. App registration in Azure AD: Used for modern cloud or SaaS apps integration, but App1 is on-premises and needs proxy access.

Correct Answer: D. Azure AD Application Proxy

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator official study guide and Microsoft Learn modules on Azure AD Identity Governance, the correct way to manage user access—especially for scenarios involving both internal and external users—is through Entitlement Management in Azure AD Identity Governance.

Entitlement Management uses access packages to define and automate how users obtain access to resources such as groups, SharePoint sites, and applications. Access packages contain policies that specify who can request access (internal users, external users, or both) and how that access is approved and periodically reviewed. The guide clearly states:

“Access packages provide a structured method to configure and automate access for users, ensuring that access assignments follow the organization’s policy and compliance requirements.”

To enable external collaboration with another organization (such as fabrikam.com), Microsoft documentation emphasizes that you must create a connected organization. A connected organization represents an external directory or domain whose users can be invited to request access packages or participate in identity governance workflows. The connected organization defines trust boundaries for cross-tenant collaboration, without requiring domain federation or acceptance.

In summary:

Access packages configure and automate user access.

To meet auditing and monitoring requirements, Azure AD must send sign-in logs and audit logs to an external location such as a Log Analytics workspace, Azure Storage account, or Event Hub. This is configured using Diagnostics settings in Azure AD.

According to Microsoft documentation in “Monitor Azure Active Directory activity logs in Azure Monitor” and the SC-300 learning objective “Implement and monitor identity governance”, you must enable diagnostic settings to stream directory logs to a Log Analytics workspace.

The scenario specifies:

“You create a Log Analytics workspace. You need to implement the technical requirements for auditing.”

By configuring Azure AD’s Diagnostics settings, you can:

Send Sign-in logs, Audit logs, and Provisioning logs to Log Analytics.

Correlate identity events with security insights in Azure Sentinel or Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Microsoft documentation confirms:

“To collect and analyze Azure AD sign-in and audit data, configure diagnostic settings to send logs to Log Analytics.”

Other options do not meet the requirement:

A. Company branding: Only affects login pages, not logging or auditing.

C. External Identities: Controls guest access, not logging.

D. App registrations: Used for app integration, not auditing.

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator official study guide and the Microsoft Learn module “Manage user and group licenses in Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)”, when you need to automatically assign licenses to users based on specific attributes (such as department, location, or a custom attribute like LWLicenses), you should use a Dynamic User Security Group in Azure Active Directory (Entra ID).

In the scenario, Litware wants to:

“Manage the assignment of Azure AD licenses by modifying the value of the LWLicenses attribute. Users who have the appropriate value for LWLicenses must be added automatically to the Microsoft 365 group that has the appropriate license assigned.”

This requirement directly maps to a Dynamic User security group, which supports dynamic membership rules that automatically include users when their attributes meet defined conditions (for example, user.extensionAttribute15 -eq "E5"). When a license is assigned to this dynamic group, Azure AD automatically provisions or removes licenses for members based on their attribute values — eliminating manual license management.

Per Microsoft documentation:

“You can assign licenses to a group that has dynamic membership. When a user’s attributes change, Azure AD automatically adds or removes them from the group, which updates their license assignments accordingly.”

Now, analyzing the other options:

B. An OU (Organizational Unit): Used in on-premises Active Directory, not Azure AD. It cannot manage cloud-based license assignments.

C. A Distribution Group: Used for email distribution in Exchange Online; cannot be used for license assignment.

D. An Administrative Unit: Used for scoping administrative permissions, not for license assignment.

Therefore, the only object type that satisfies both the technical and automation requirements is a Dynamic User Security Group.

✅ Correct Answer: A. A Dynamic User security group

To ensure that all users can consent to apps that require permission to read their user profile and prevent them from consenting to apps that require any other permissions, you can configure the user consent settings in the Microsoft Entra admin center. Here’s how you can do it:

Sign in as a Global Administrator:

Access the Microsoft Entra admin center with Global Administrator privileges.

Navigate to user consent settings:

Go toIdentity>Applications>Enterprise applications>Consent and permissions>User consent settings1.

Configure the consent settings:

Under User consent for applications, select the option that allows users to consent to apps that only require permission to read their user profile.

Ensure that all other permissions are set to require administrator consent, thus preventing users from consenting to apps that require additional permissions1.

Save the settings:

After configuring the consent settings, select Save to apply the changes.

By following these steps, you will have configured the system to allow user consent for apps that need to read the user profile while blocking consent for apps that require additional permissions. This setup helps maintain user autonomy where appropriate while safeguarding against unauthorized access to broader permissions.

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator Study Guide and the Microsoft Learn module “Implement and manage synchronization for Azure AD”, Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync is the preferred solution when you need to synchronize objects from multiple Active Directory (AD DS) forests without establishing forest trusts.

The scenario specifies that trust relationships must NOT be established between adatum.com and litware.com, but A. Datum must still sync the AD DS users and groups of litware.com to their existing Azure AD tenant (adatum.com).

The SC-300 training materials clarify:

“Azure AD Connect cloud sync enables syncing from multiple AD forests to a single Azure AD tenant without the need for forest trusts or a full Azure AD Connect installation in each forest.”

Unlike staging mode (which provides a standby sync server for failover) or extending the same Azure AD Connect instance to another domain (which requires trust relationships and network connectivity between forests), Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync uses lightweight agents and does not depend on forest trust.

Therefore, to meet the requirement of syncing Litware’s AD DS to A. Datum’s Azure AD tenant without creating a trust, the correct choice is to configure Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync between the Azure AD tenant and the litware.com domain.

In Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM), the SC-300 materials explain that role assignment type determines how a user obtains permissions. An eligible assignment means the user requests activation when needed; an active assignment grants continuous permissions. As the guide states, “Eligible assignments require the user to activate the role for just-in-time access, while active assignments grant standing access.” To allow users of the User administrator role to request the role when needed, you must set assignments to Eligible rather than active.

The same objective also calls for ensuring this capability is available “for up to one year.” In PIM role configuration, the duration of an eligibility is controlled by the Expire eligible assignments after policy. The documentation describes that administrators can “configure the maximum duration for eligible assignments by setting ‘Expire eligible assignments after’ to a specific period (for example, months up to one year).” Therefore, you must modify the “Expire eligible assignments after” setting to the required period.

No requirement mentions activation justification or ticket metadata; those are optional controls used to add context to activations. Consequently, the two actions that directly satisfy the stated technical requirement are: set all assignments to Eligible (C) and configure “Expire eligible assignments after” (D).

Azure AD External collaboration settings govern who can bring guests into the tenant. The SC-300 content specifies: “External collaboration settings let you control who can invite guests (Anyone, Members, Guests, or Only admins and users in the Guest Inviter role) and whether guests can invite.” It also highlights: “To restrict guest invitations to administrators or designated inviters, configure External collaboration to ‘Only admins and users in the Guest Inviter role’ and disable guest-to-guest invitations if required.” Because the problem states that “Anyone in the organization can invite guest users, including other guests and non-administrators,” the remediation is to tighten External collaboration settings so only approved roles (e.g., Global admins, Guest Inviter, or specific administrators) can invite. Access reviews address periodic entitlement verification, Conditional Access enforces sign-in/session policies, and Continuous Access Evaluation relates to token lifetime/signal-based revocation; none of these change who can send guest invitations. Adjusting External collaboration settings directly resolves the issue and aligns with the requirement that “only users that are assigned specific admin roles can invite guest users.”

In Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), the per-user device cap is controlled in Devices > Device settings. The SC-300 materials describe that administrators can configure “Users may join devices to Azure AD” and the “Maximum number of devices per user”. The guide notes that this limit defaults to five and is used to “control how many devices a user can join or register in Azure AD”; when users reach the limit, “they cannot add additional devices until the limit is increased or an existing device is removed.” For scenarios like field or sales staff who use multiple devices, the study content recommends adjusting this value to meet business needs. Because A. Datum’s sales users hit the current cap and a requirement states “Increase the maximum number of devices that can be joined or registered to Azure AD to 10,” the fix is to change the tenant’s Device settings—not User settings, Access reviews, or Security defaults. This aligns with the exam objective to configure device settings for Azure AD join and registration and addresses the precise symptom reported by users.