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Case Study 4 - Litware Inc Overview Adatum Corporation is a United States-based financial services company that has regional offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Existing Environment…

The correct answer is D. Owner. Owner is the only role among the choices that satisfies both requirements: enabling Defender for Cloud plans and applying regulatory compliance initiatives. Applying a regulatory compliance initiative in Defender for Cloud means assigning an Azure Policy initiative at the…

Submitted by rania.sa· Apr 18, 2026Manage threat mitigation using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Case Study 4 - Litware Inc Overview Adatum Corporation is a United States-based financial services company that has regional offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Existing Environment Identity Environment The on-premises network contains an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest named corp.adatum.com that syncs with an Azure AD tenant named adatum.com. All user and group management tasks are performed in corp.adatum.com. The corp.adatum.com domain contains a group named Group1 that syncs with adatum.com. Licensing Status All the users at Adatum are assigned a Microsoft 365 ES license and an Azure Active Directory Premium P2 license. Cloud Environment The cloud environment contains a Microsoft 365 subscription, an Azure subscription linked to the adatum.com tenant, and the resources shown in the following table. On-premises Environment The on-premises network contains the resources shown in the following table. Requirements Planned changes Adatum plans to perform the following changes:

  • Implement a query named rulequery1 that will include the following KQL query.
  • Implement a Microsoft Sentinel scheduled rule that generates incidents based on rulequery1.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Requirements Adatum identifies the following Microsoft Defender for Cloud requirements:

  • The members of Group1 must be able to enable Defender for Cloud plans and apply regulatory

compliance initiatives.

  • Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2 must be enabled on all the Azure virtual machines.
  • Server2 must be excluded from agentless scanning.

Microsoft Sentinel Requirements Adatum identifies the following Microsoft Sentinel requirements:

  • Implement an Advanced Security Information Model (ASIM) query that will return a count of

DNS requests that results in an NXDOMAIN response from Infoblox1.

  • Ensure that multiple alerts generated by rulequery1 in response to a single user launching

Azure Cloud Shell multiple times are consolidated as a single incident.

  • Implement the Windows Security Events via AMA connector for Microsoft Sentinel and configure

it to monitor the Security event log of Server1.

  • Ensure that incidents generated by rulequery1 are closed automatically if Azure Cloud Shell is

launched by the company’s SecOps team.

  • Implement a custom Microsoft Sentinel workbook named Workbook1 that will include a query to

dynamically retrieve data from Webapp1.

  • Implement a Microsoft Sentinel near-real-time (NRT) analytics rule that detects sign-ins to a

designated break glass account.

  • Ensure that HuntingQuery1 runs automatically when the Hunting page of Microsoft Sentinel in

the Azure portal is accessed.

  • Ensure that higher than normal volumes of password resets for corp.adatum.com user accounts

are detected.

  • Minimize the overhead associated with queries that use ASIM parsers.
  • Ensure that the Group1 members can create and edit playbooks.
  • Use built-in ASIM parsers whenever possible.

Business Requirements Adatum identifies the following business requirements:

  • Follow the principle of least privilege whenever possible.
  • Minimize administrative effort whenever possible.

You need to implement the Defender for Cloud requirements. Which subscription-level role should you assign to Group1?

Options

  • ASecurity Assessment Contributor
  • BContributor
  • CSecurity Admin
  • DOwner

How the community answered

(30 responses)
  • A
    7% (2)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    83% (25)

Explanation

Owner is the only role among the choices that satisfies both requirements: enabling Defender for Cloud plans and applying regulatory compliance initiatives. Applying a regulatory compliance initiative in Defender for Cloud means assigning an Azure Policy initiative at the subscription scope, which requires Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write - a permission exclusive to Owner among these options.

Why the distractors fail:

  • C (Security Admin) can view/edit security policies and enable Defender plans, but lacks Microsoft.Authorization/policyAssignments/write, so it cannot assign regulatory compliance initiatives.
  • B (Contributor) can manage resources but is explicitly excluded from authorization operations, so it also cannot create policy assignments.
  • A (Security Assessment Contributor) is a narrow role for pushing custom assessments to Defender for Cloud - far too limited for either requirement here.

Memory tip: Whenever a Defender for Cloud requirement mentions regulatory compliance initiatives, think "Azure Policy assignment = Owner territory." Security Admin is the intuitive guess, but compliance initiative assignment lives in the authorization layer, not the security layer - that extra step always requires Owner.

Topics

#Azure RBAC#Microsoft Defender for Cloud#Regulatory Compliance#Security Roles

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