What is Microsoft Entra?
Microsoft Entra is a family of identity and network access products that implements a Zero Trust security strategy and creates a trust fabric.
What are the four maturity stages of secure end-to-end access in Microsoft Entra?
- Establishing Zero Trust access controls
- Securing access for employees
- Securing access for customers
- Securing access in any cloud
What is Microsoft Entra ID?
Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based identity and access management service that secures users, devices, apps, and resources.
What services does Microsoft Entra Domain Services provide?
- Group policy
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Kerberos/NTLM authentication
What is the purpose of Microsoft Entra Private Access?
Microsoft Entra Private Access secures access to private apps and resources, allowing remote users to connect without a VPN.
What does Microsoft Entra Internet Access secure?
Microsoft Entra Internet Access secures access to internet resources, including SaaS apps and Microsoft 365 apps.
What is Microsoft Entra ID Governance?
Microsoft Entra ID Governance automates access requests, assignments, and reviews, protecting critical assets through identity lifecycle management.
What does Microsoft Entra ID Protection do?
Microsoft Entra ID Protection detects and reports identity-based risks and enables risk-based Conditional Access policies.
What is Microsoft Entra Verified ID?
Microsoft Entra Verified ID is a credential verification service based on decentralized identities (DIDs) for information verification.
What is the function of Microsoft Entra External ID?
Microsoft Entra External ID allows external identities to safely access business resources and manage customer identity and access management.
What is Microsoft Entra Workload ID?
Microsoft Entra Workload ID is the identity and access management solution for workload identities such as applications and services.
What is the Microsoft Entra admin center?
The Microsoft Entra admin center is a web-based portal for administrators to configure and manage Microsoft Entra products.
What is the Microsoft Graph API?
The Microsoft Graph API is used to automate administrative tasks in Microsoft Entra, including license deployments and user lifecycle management.
What is the primary replica in Microsoft Entra architecture?
The primary replica receives all writes for its partition and ensures geo-redundant durability of writes by replicating to secondary replicas.
What is the role of secondary replicas in Microsoft Entra?
Secondary replicas service all directory reads and are located in geographically distributed datacenters.
What is scalability in the context of Microsoft Entra?
Scalability is the ability of a service to expand to meet increasing performance demands, achieved through partitioning and replication.
What defines availability in Microsoft Entra ID?
Availability defines the ability of a system to perform uninterrupted, with services quickly shifting traffic across multiple datacenters.
True or False: Each directory partition in Microsoft Entra ID has a highly available primary replica.
True
What is data durability in Microsoft Entra ID?
Data durability ensures a write is durably committed to at least two datacenters before acknowledgment, preventing data loss.
What is the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for Microsoft Entra ID?
Zero Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for token issuance and directory reads, with about 5 minutes RTO for directory writes.
What does Microsoft Entra ID use for backup?
Microsoft Entra ID implements daily backups and soft deletes to restore data if there’s a service-wide issue.
What is the target time for detecting customer issues in Microsoft Entra ID?
The target time for detecting customer issues is less than 5 minutes.
What is multifactor authentication (MFA) in Microsoft Entra?
MFA uses admin-approved methods to safeguard access to data and applications.
What is Conditional Access in Microsoft Entra?
Conditional Access implements automated access-control decisions based on user conditions for cloud apps.
