A local art school is considering a new Dynamics 365 Finance cloud implementation. The school needs to select a system authentication type. Which two setup options does the implementation require? Eac

Question

Options

• AUse a valid Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) account.
• BUse a valid Active Directory account
• CUseOAuth.
• DUse assigned roles.
• EUse an enabled Dynamics 365 Finance user.

• A
  92% (60)
• B
  2% (1)
• D
  5% (3)
• E
  2% (1)

Explanation

Dynamics 365 Finance is a cloud application built on Microsoft Azure and uses Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as its identity provider. Therefore, every user must have a valid Azure AD account (Option A) for authentication. The system uses OAuth 2.0 (Option C) as the authorization protocol to securely issue tokens and manage access between the client application and the Dynamics 365 service. Option B (on-premises Active Directory) is not directly supported for cloud D365 - on-premises AD accounts must be synchronized to Azure AD first. Option D (assigned roles) is an authorization/permission concept within D365 after authentication, not a setup requirement for the authentication mechanism itself. Option E (an enabled D365 Finance user) is a prerequisite step that follows authentication setup, not part of configuring the authentication type.

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