Microsoft SC-300 Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

In Azure AD Identity Governance, application access granted through Entitlement management is organized around catalogs and access packages. The SC-300 study materials explain that “a catalog is a container for resources and access packages” and that you must add your enterprise applications (or the groups tied to those apps) to a catalog before you can build access packages that users can request. Creating the catalog first enables you to place only the required resources in scope and to delegate day-to-day ownership: “catalog owners can manage the resources and access packages within their catalog without being tenant-wide admins,” satisfying the delegation requirement to use custom catalogs and least privilege. After the catalog exists, you create one or more access packages that include the application (or groups) and policies that control who can request, how they are approved, and for how long. Identity Governance then lets you track access package assignments and review who has the app over time. By contrast, programs are used to group and report on governance initiatives (for example, collections of access reviews) rather than to onboard application resources; and modifying user/admin consent settings affects app consent behavior, not the lifecycle tracking of assignments. Therefore, the correct first step to track application access assignments while meeting the delegation requirements is to create a catalog.

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Study Guide and Microsoft Learn documentation on Azure AD group assignments for enterprise applications, only specific group types in Azure AD can be assigned to enterprise applications (service principals).

Azure AD allows group-based assignment for enterprise applications only when the group is a Security group or a Mail-enabled security group. This is because Azure AD uses security groups for authorization purposes.

Let’s analyze the groups from the table:

Group

Type

Assignable to App1?

Reason

Group1

Security

✅ Yes

Security groups are used for managing access permissions and can be assigned to apps.

Group2

Distribution

❌ No

Distribution groups are used for email distribution lists and cannot be used for access management.

Group3

Microsoft 365

❌ No

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) groups manage collaboration resources like Teams and SharePoint but are not supported for enterprise app assignments.

Group4

Mail-enabled security

✅ Yes

Mail-enabled security groups combine mailing capabilities with security functionality and can be used to assign permissions to applications.

The Microsoft documentation states:

“You can assign access to enterprise applications in Azure AD to users, security groups, and mail-enabled security groups. Distribution lists and Microsoft 365 groups are not supported for app assignments.”

Thus, for App1, which is an enterprise application, you can assign only Group1 (Security) and Group4 (Mail-enabled Security).

The exhibit shows Password Hash Synchronization (PHS) enabled and Pass-through Authentication (PTA) enabled. The SC-300 materials clarify that when both PTA and PHS are enabled, Azure AD can fall back to PHS if PTA agents become unavailable. The guidance states that PHS can serve as a backup sign-in method to ensure continuity during on-premises connectivity failures. In this scenario, on-premises connectivity to the internet is lost, so PTA agents cannot process sign-ins. Because PHS is enabled, synchronized users can still authenticate in Azure AD using their synced password hashes.

User1 is a cloud-only user and authenticates directly in Azure AD—unaffected by on-premises outages.

User2 is directory-synced; with PTA down, sign-in falls back to PHS, allowing access as long as the hash is present.

User3 is a guest; guests authenticate in their home directory/IdP, independent of your on-premises environment, so they can still sign in.Therefore, during the outage, all three users (User1, User2, and User3) can sign in to Azure AD, satisfying the behavior described in the SC-300 documentation regarding PHS backup for PTA and guest sign-in independence.