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Free Security Operations Analyst Associate SC-200 practice questions

10 free sample questions for the Security Operations Analyst Associate SC-200 exam, each with an explanation that starts with why a wrong answer is wrong. No account needed. Try the first one now.

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A compliance officer asks for the maximum retention Microsoft Sentinel supports in the analytics tier and in total, including the data lake. Which answer is correct?

Why that one is wrong. Ninety days is the free Sentinel retention for solution tables, not the maximum, and total retention goes beyond seven years.

Why that one is wrong. This reverses the two limits; total retention cannot be shorter than analytics retention.

Why that one is wrong. Thirty days is the Defender XDR default, and total retention has a 12-year limit.

Why A is right. Analytics retention extends to two years at a prorated charge, and total retention in the lake extends to 12 years.

Sentinel retention limits: analytics tier up to two years, total retention (mirrored to the lake) up to 12 years.

What the exam covers

  • Manage a security operations environment (42%)
  • Respond to security incidents (37%)
  • Perform threat hunting (21%)

A few more sample questions

Sample question 1. An incident tagged Attack Disruption shows that a finance user was contained automatically. The investigation is complete, the user’s device has been cleaned, and the password reset. How should the analyst restore the user’s access?

  1. Wait: contained users are released automatically after 24 hours.
  2. Create a new account for the user.
  3. Undo the Contain user action.
  4. Exclude the user from all Conditional Access policies.

Sample question 2. After a phishing compromise, a hunter wants to see whether the victim’s workstation ran LDAP queries against domain controllers to enumerate Domain Admins group membership. Which table records this activity?

  1. IdentityQueryEvents
  2. IdentityLogonEvents
  3. DeviceNetworkEvents on port 389 only
  4. IdentityDirectoryEvents

Sample question 3. After an incident at a partner company, the SOC receives a one-off CSV file with 400 IP addresses, domains, and file hashes to import into Microsoft Sentinel threat intelligence today. No platform or feed is involved. What is the simplest supported method?

  1. Configure the Threat Intelligence – TAXII connector pointed at the CSV file.
  2. Upload the CSV as a watchlist, which Sentinel treats as threat indicators.
  3. Use the threat intelligence bulk import from a CSV or JSON file.
  4. Build an app that calls the upload API once for each indicator.

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