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You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. You need to apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to the following: - Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes - Microsoft SharePoint Online sites…
The correct answer is B. 2. Two DLP policies are the minimum required because on-premises repositories must use a separate scanner-based policy, while all four cloud locations can be covered by a single policy.
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You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription. You need to apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to the following:
- Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes
- Microsoft SharePoint Online sites
- Microsoft Power BI workspaces
- Microsoft OneDrive accounts
- On-premises repositories
What is the minimum number of DLP policies required to achieve the goal?
Options
- A1
- B2
- C3
- D4
- E5
How the community answered
(42 responses)- A2% (1)
- B76% (32)
- C7% (3)
- D2% (1)
- E12% (5)
Why each option
Two DLP policies are the minimum required because on-premises repositories must use a separate scanner-based policy, while all four cloud locations can be covered by a single policy.
A single policy cannot span both cloud services and on-premises repositories simultaneously, as on-premises scanning is a separate policy type with its own scanner dependency.
Microsoft Purview DLP supports combining Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Power BI workspaces as locations within a single cloud DLP policy. On-premises repositories cannot be included in a cloud DLP policy - they require a separate policy that works in conjunction with the Microsoft Purview Information Protection on-premises scanner, making it a distinct policy type. This yields the minimum count of 2 policies.
Three policies are not the minimum - Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Power BI can all reside in one cloud policy, not three separate ones.
Four policies are not required because multiple cloud workloads share a single policy and on-premises needs only one additional policy.
Five policies would mean one per location, which far exceeds the minimum since cloud locations are combinable.
Concept tested: DLP policy scope across cloud and on-premises locations
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/dlp-learn-about-dlp
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