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You need to identify which roles to use for managing role assignments. The solution must meet the delegation requirements. What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer…

The correct answer is Azure AD Connect settings to modify:: Directory Extensions; Assign Azure AD licenses to:: An Azure Active Directory group that has the Dynamic User membership type. Hotspot Explanation: Role Assignment Management The key constraints are: use PIM to delegate privileged role management and apply least privilege. --- Dropdown 1: To manage Azure AD built-in role assignments Correct Answer: Privileged Role Administrator Why Privileged Role…

Submitted by ahmad_uae· Mar 6, 2026Plan and implement identity governance
Case Study ScenarioShared context for this question
Case Study 2 - Litware, Inc Overview Litware, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that has a subsidiary named Fabrikam, Inc. Litware has offices in Boston and Seattle, but has employees located across the United States. Employees connect remotely to either office by using a VPN connection. Existing Environment. Identify Environment The network contains an Active Directory forest named litware.com that is linked to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named litware.com. Azure AD Connect uses pass-through authentication and has password hash synchronization disabled. Litware.com contains a user named User1 who oversees all application development. Litware implements Azure AD Application Proxy. Fabrikam has an Azure AD tenant named fabrikam.com. The users at Fabrikam access the resources in litware.com by using guest accounts in the litware.com tenant. Existing Environment. Cloud Environment All the users at Litware have Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5 licenses. All the built-in anomaly detection policies in Microsoft Cloud App Security are enabled. Litware has an Azure subscription associated to the litware.com Azure AD tenant. The subscription contains an Azure Sentinel instance that uses the Azure Active Directory connector and the Office 365 connector. Azure Sentinel currently collects the Azure AD sign-ins logs and audit logs. Existing Environment. On-premises Environment The on-premises network contains the servers shown in the following table. Both Litware offices connect directly to the internet. Both offices connect to virtual networks in the Azure subscription by using a site-to-site VPN connection. All on-premises domain controllers are prevented from accessing the internet. Requirements. Delegation Requirements Litware identifies the following delegation requirements: Delegate the management of privileged roles by using Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Prevent nonprivileged users from registering applications in the litware.com Azure AD tenant. Use custom catalogs and custom programs for Identity Governance. Ensure that User1 can create enterprise applications in Azure AD. Use the principle of least privilege. Requirements. Licensing Requirements Litware recently added a custom user attribute named LWLicenses to the litware.com Active Directory forest. 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 a Microsoft 365 group that has the appropriate licenses assigned. Requirements. Management Requirements Litware wants to create a group named LWGroup1 that will contain all the Azure AD user accounts for Litware but exclude all the Azure AD guest accounts. Requirements. Authentication Requirements Litware identifies the following authentication requirements: Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Litware users. Exempt users from using MFA to authenticate to Azure AD from the Boston office of Litware. Implement a banned password list for the litware.com forest. Enforce MFA when accessing on-premises applications. Automatically detect and remediate externally leaked credentials. Requirements. Access Requirements Litware identifies the following access requirements: Control all access to all Azure resources and Azure AD applications by using conditional access policies. Implement a conditional access policy that has session controls for Microsoft SharePoint Online. Control privileged access to applications by using access reviews in Azure AD. Requirements. Monitoring Requirements Litware wants to use the Fusion rule in Azure Sentinel to detect multi-staged attacks that include a combination of suspicious Azure AD sign-ins followed by anomalous Microsoft Office 365 activity.

Question

You need to identify which roles to use for managing role assignments. The solution must meet the delegation requirements. What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. Answer:

Answer Area

  • Azure AD Connect settings to modify:Directory Extensions
    Directory ExtensionsDomain FilteringOptional Features
  • Assign Azure AD licenses to:An Azure Active Directory group that has the Dynamic User membership type
    An Azure Active Directory group that has only nested groupsAn Azure Active Directory group that has the Assigned membership typeAn Azure Active Directory group that has the Dynamic User membership type

Explanation

Hotspot Explanation: Role Assignment Management

The key constraints are: use PIM to delegate privileged role management and apply least privilege.

Dropdown 1: To manage Azure AD built-in role assignments

Correct Answer: Privileged Role Administrator

Why Privileged Role Administrator is correct: This role is purpose-built for exactly this scenario. It grants the ability to manage Azure AD role assignments - including activating, assigning, and configuring roles within Azure AD PIM - without granting the full power of a Global Admin. It directly satisfies the requirement to "delegate management of privileged roles using PIM" at least privilege.

Why the others are wrong:

RoleWhy Wrong
Global AdministratorCan manage Azure AD role assignments, but violates least privilege - it's the most powerful role in Azure AD
Security AdministratorManages security policies (MCAS, Defender, etc.) - cannot manage role assignments
User Access AdministratorAn Azure RBAC role for Azure resources, not an Azure AD role - wrong scope entirely

Dropdown 2: To manage Azure built-in role assignments (Azure RBAC)

Correct Answer: User Access Administrator

Why User Access Administrator is correct: This is the dedicated Azure RBAC role for managing access to Azure resources (subscriptions, resource groups, resources). It grants only the ability to assign/remove roles on Azure resources - nothing more. This satisfies least privilege for Azure resource role management.

Why the others are wrong:

RoleWhy Wrong
Global AdministratorCan elevate to User Access Administrator but has far broader scope - violates least privilege
Privileged Role AdministratorScoped to Azure AD role management via PIM, not Azure resource RBAC assignments
Security AdministratorManages security posture (policies, alerts) - no authority over Azure RBAC assignments

Core Technical Concept

The critical distinction is scope:

  • Azure AD roles (like Global Admin, User Admin) -> managed by Privileged Role Administrator via PIM
  • Azure RBAC roles (like Owner, Contributor) -> managed by User Access Administrator via Azure IAM

These are two separate role systems. Conflating them is the most common mistake on this question.

Topics

#Azure AD Roles#Azure RBAC#Privileged Identity Management (PIM)#Least Privilege

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