Microsoft Information Protection Administrator (SC-400) Exam Practice Questions & Study Guide 2026

Question 1

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.You have a user named User1. Several users have full access to the mailbox of User1.Some email messages sent to User1 appear to have been read and deleted before the user viewedthem.When you search the audit log in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to identify who signed into the mailbox of User1, the results are blank.You need to ensure that you can view future sign-ins to the mailbox of User1.YOU run the Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogEnabled $true -AdminiAuditLogCmdlets"Mailbox* command.Does that meet the goal? 

A. Yes  
B. No  

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Question 2

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription.You need to be notified by email whenever an administrator starts an eDiscovery search.What should you do from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal? 

A. From eDiscovery, create an eDiscovery case.
B. From Policies, create an alert policy.
C. From Records management, create event type.
D. From Content search, create a new search. 

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Question 3

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription. You create and run a content search from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. You need to download the results of the content search.What should you obtain first?

A. a certificate
B. a password
C. a pin
D. an export key

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Question 4

You have a Microsoft SharePoint Online site named Site1 that contains a document library. Thelibrary contains more than 1,000 documents. Some of the documents are job applicant resumes. Allthe documents are in the English language.You plan to apply a sensitivity label automatically to any document identified as a resume. Onlydocuments that contain work experience, education, and accomplishments must be labeledautomatically.You need to identify and categorize the resumes. The solution must minimize administrative effort.What should you include in the solution?

A. a trainable classifier
B. a keyword dictionary OC.
C. a function
D. an exact data match (EDM) classifier

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Question 5

You have a Microsoft 365 subscription that contains a Microsoft 365 group named Group1. Group 1contains 100 users and has dynamic user membership.All users have Windows 10 devices and use Microsoft SharePoint Online and Exchange Online.You create a sensitivity label named Label! and publish Label! as the default label for Group1.You need to ensure that the users in Group! must apply Label! to their email and documents.Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point. 

A. From the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, modify the settings of the Label! policy.
B. From the Azure Active Directory admin center, set Membership type for Group! to Assigned.
C. Install the Azure Information Protection unified labeling client on the Windows 10 devices.
D. Install the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) client on the Windows 10 devices.
E. From the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, create an auto-labeling policy.  

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Question 6

You create a label that encrypts email data.Users report that they cannot use the label in Outlook on the web to protect the email messagesthey send.You need to ensure that the users can use the new label to protect their email.What should you do?

A. Wait six hours and ask the users to try again.
B. Create a label policy.
C. Create a new sensitive information type.
D. Modify the priority order of label policies 

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Question 7

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription that uses Yammer.You need to create a Microsoft Purview communication compliance policy that will detect inappropriate images in Yammer conversations. What should you do first?

A. Configure Hybrid Mode for Yammer.
B. Configure the Yammer network admin settings.
C. Assign each user a Yammer license.
D. Configure Native Mode for Yammer.

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Question 8

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question inthe series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets mighthave more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, thesequestions will not appear in the review screen.You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.You need to identify resumes that are stored in the subscription by using a built-in trainable classifier.Solution: You create a data loss prevention (DLP) policy.Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

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Question 9

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question inthe series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets mighthave more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, thesequestions will not appear in the review screen.You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.You need to identify resumes that are stored in the subscription by using a built-in trainable classifier.Solution: You create an auto-labeling policy for a sensitivity label.Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. NO

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Question 10

QUESTION 211 Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct 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 E5 subscription. You need to identify resumes that are stored in the subscription by using a built-in trainable classifier. Solution: You create an auto-labeling policy for a retention label. Does this meet the goal? 

A. Yes
B. No

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