Exam SC-500 Topic 1 Question 30 Discussion

Actual exam question for Microsoft's SC-500 exam
Question #: 30
Topic #: 1
You have a Microsoft Entra tenant that has user consent for applications disabled.
You register an application named App1 that requests the following Microsoft Graph delegated permissions:
*user.Read
*Mail.Read
You need to configure tenant permissions to meet the following requirements:
*Enable users to grant consent for low-risk permissions without administrator interaction.
*Ensure that applications requesting higher-privilege permissions require administrator approval.
What should you do?

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An app consent policy allows the tenant to define which delegated permissions are considered low risk and may be consented to by users. Higher-privilege permissions can remain subject to admin consent. Tenant- wide admin consent would approve App1 broadly rather than creating an ongoing policy boundary.
Application assignments and PIM role assignments control user access or privileged roles, not delegated permission consent behavior. This domain is tested through precise scope control: tenant, subscription, resource, application, and data-plane authorization are not interchangeable. The correct choice applies the smallest identity or governance control that enforces the stated requirement. Options that only add users, create registrations, or provide broad administrator access fail because they do not directly enforce the requested access behavior. The result is a direct exam-style implementation choice: it changes the required security behavior without relying on unrelated monitoring, manual cleanup, or excessive privilege. Official Microsoft source/topic: SC-500 Study Guide > app consent settings; Microsoft Learn > app consent policies.

by Kerr at Aug 24, 2026, 10:47 AM

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