Exam SC-500 Topic 1 Question 47 Discussion

Actual exam question for Microsoft's SC-500 exam
Question #: 47
Topic #: 1
You have an Azure subscription that contains the following servers:
*200 virtual machines that run either Windows Server or Ubuntu Server
*50 Azure Arc enabled servers
You use Azure Policy to manage compliance across all the servers.
You need to enforce an organization-specific security baseline. The solution must meet the following requirements:
*Customize a built-in security baseline.
*Ensure that configuration changes to the servers are enforced automatically after the security baseline is deployed.
#Minimize administrative effort.
What should you do? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Suggested Answer:


Explanation:

To customize the baseline: Use Azure Machine Configuration; Set enforcement mode to: Apply and Autocorrect Azure Machine Configuration is the correct mechanism for applying and customizing guest configuration baselines across Azure VMs and Azure Arc-enabled servers. It integrates with Azure Policy and can enforce configuration through assignment modes such as Apply and Autocorrect. This provides centralized compliance and automatic correction without building a separate configuration-management pipeline for Windows and Linux servers. The compute domain tests whether protection is applied before deployment, during runtime, or through posture assessment. The selected answer matches the phase described in the requirement. Detection-only tools are not acceptable when the requirement says prevent, and local installation methods are inferior when Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, or Azure Machine Configuration can enforce the control centrally. 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 > Azure Machine Configuration; Microsoft Learn > assignment modes and remediation.

by Penelope at Aug 08, 2026, 05:18 PM

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