Exam objective

SC-300

Plan, implement, and monitor the integration of enterprise applications

This objective sits in Plan and implement workload identities, which carries 22% of the Identity and Access Admin exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Microsoft Azure page it rests on.

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Plan and implement workload identities

An administrator registers an application in Microsoft Entra ID so it can automate deployments to an Azure resource group. Which type of security principal should receive an Azure RBAC role assignment to grant this access?

Group object containing the application's administratorsA group represents a collection of users or other principals, not the application itself.
Service principal object created for the registered applicationCorrect · your answerCorrect: registering an application creates a service principal object that represents it as a security principal.
User account provisioned specifically for the applicationA user account represents an individual human identity, not an application requesting access.
Managed identity that Azure creates and manages automaticallyA managed identity is created and managed automatically by Azure for a resource, not something produced by registering an application.

Correct.

Checked against learn.microsoft.com, July 2026

Concept

A role assignment requires a security principal, which can be a user, group, service principal, or managed identity, attached to a role definition at a scope.

Why B

When an application is registered in the directory, it is represented as a service principal, so the RBAC role assignment for that application's access must target its service principal object.

Source

A security principal is an object that represents a user, group, service principal, or managed identity that is requesting access to Azure resources. You can assign a role to any of these security principals.

Azure RBAC overview, checked July 2026
#workload identity#service principal#azure rbac#role assignment

Now you: practice questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

Plan and implement workload identities

A CI/CD pipeline running in GitHub Actions needs to authenticate to Azure subscriptions to automate software deployment workflows. Which Microsoft Entra product secures this type of nonhuman identity?

Sample question 2 of 3

Plan and implement workload identities

A DevOps team configures a GitHub Actions workflow that must authenticate to an Azure subscription to automate a deployment pipeline, without storing a long-lived secret in the workflow. Which Microsoft Entra product supplies the identity for this automated workflow?

Sample question 3 of 3

Plan and implement workload identities

An independent software vendor adds single sign-on support to its product. Which benefit does the documentation attribute to that?

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