Microsoft 365 Security Administration Exam (MS-500) Exam Practice Questions & Study Guide 2026

Question 1

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.You need to enable auditing for all Microsoft Exchange Online users.What should you do?

A. From the Exchange admin center, create a journal rule
B. Run the Set-MailboxDatabase cmdlet 
C. Run the Set-Mailbox cmdlet 
D. From the Exchange admin center, create a mail flow message trace rule. 

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Question 2

Your company plans to merge with another company.A user named Debra Berger is an executive at your company.You need to provide Debra Berger with all the email content of a user named Alex Wilberthat contains the word merger.To complete this task, sign in to the Microsoft 365 portal.

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Question 3

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.A security manager receives an email message every time a data loss prevention (DLP)policy match occurs.You need to limit alert notifications to actionable DLP events.What should you do?

A. From the Security & Compliance admin center, modify the Policy Tips of a DLP policy. 
B. From the Cloud App Security admin center, apply a filter to the alerts. 
C. From the Security & Compliance admin center, modify the User overrides settings of aDLP policy. 
D. From the Security & Compliance admin center, modify the matched activities thresholdof an alert policy. 

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Question 4

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.Some users access Microsoft SharePoint Online from unmanaged devices.You need to prevent the users from downloading, printing, and syncing files.What should you do?

A. Run the Set-SPOTenant cmdlet and specify the -ConditionalAccessPolicy parameter. 
B. From the Security & Compliance admin center, create a data loss prevention (DLP)policy. 
C. From the Microsoft Azure portal, create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) IdentityProtection sign-in risk policy 
D. From the Microsoft Azure portal, create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)conditional access policy 

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Question 5

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription named contofco.comYou need to configure Microsoft OneDrive for Business external sharing to meet thefollowing requirements:• Enable flic sharing for users that rave a Microsoft account• Block file sharing for anonymous users.What should you do?

A. From Advanced settings tor external sharing, select Allow or Nock sharing with peopleon specific domains and add contoso.com. 
B. From the External sharing settings for OneDrive. select Existing external users. 
C. From the External sharing settings for OneDrive, select New and existing external users.
D. From the External sharing settings for OneDrive. select Only people in yourorganization. 

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Question 6

Your network contains an on-premises Active Directory domain. The domain containsservers that run Windows Server and have advanced auditing enabled.The security logs of the servers are collected by using a third-party SIEM solution.You purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription and plan to deploy Azure Advanced ThreatProtection (ATP) by using standalone sensors.You need to ensure that you can detect when sensitive groups are modified and whenmalicious services are created.What should you do?

A. Configure Azure ATP notifications 
B. Configure Event Forwarding on the domain controllers 
C. Configure auditing in the Office 365 Security & Compliance center 
D. Modify the Domain synchronizer candidate settings on the Azure ATP sensors 

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Question 7

Von haw a Microsoft 365 subscription.You need to ensure that users on manually designate which content will be subject to datatoss prevention (DIP) polices?What should you create first?

A. a retention label 
B. a custom sensitive information type 
C. a safe attachments policy 
D. a Data Subject Request (OSR) 

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Question 8

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Eachquestion in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Somequestions sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have acorrect solution.After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result,these questions will not appear in the review screen.You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that contains 1,000 user mailboxes.An administrator named Admin1 must be able to search for the name of a competingcompany in the mailbox of a user named User5.You need to ensure that Admin1 can search the mailbox of User5 successfully. Thesolution must prevent Admin1 from sending email messages as User5.Solution: You modify the permissions of the mailbox of User5, and then create aneDiscovery case.Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes 
B. No 

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Question 9

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription without a Microsoft Azure subscription.Some users are required to use an authenticator app to access Microsoft SharePointOnline.You need to view which users have used an authenticator app to access SharePointOnline. The solution must minimize costs.What should you do?

A. From the Enterprise applications blade of the Azure Active Directory admin center, viewthe audit logs 
B. From Azure Log Analytics, query the logs 
C. From the Azure Active Directory admin center, view the audit logs 
D. From the Enterprise applications blade of the Azure Active Directory admin center, viewthe sign-ins 

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Question 10

Your company has a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes a user named User1.You suspect that User1 sent email messages to a competitor detailing company secrets.You need to recommend a solution to ensure that you can review any email messages sentby User1 to the competitor, including sent items that were deleted.What should you include in the recommendation?

A. Enable In-Place Archiving for the mailbox of User1 
B. From the Security & Compliance, perform a content search of the mailbox of User1 
C. Place a Litigation Hold on the mailbox of User1 
D. Configure message delivery restrictions for the mailbox of User1 

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