Question

Difficulty: EasyEntra ID Governance and Privileged Access

You are designing an identity governance solution for a company's Azure environment. You need to grant support staff temporary, time-bound access to administrative roles. The solution must prevent permanent standing access and follow administrative best practices for identity delegation. Which configuration should you recommend?

  1. Configure eligible role assignments for a Microsoft Entra security group containing the support staff.Answer
  2. B
    Configure active role assignments for the individual support staff user accounts in Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
  3. C
    Assign the administrative roles directly to the individual support staff user accounts.
  4. D
    Configure eligible role assignments and apply a Conditional Access policy enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) that does not exclude the emergency access accounts.

Answer

Configure eligible role assignments for a Microsoft Entra security group containing the support staff.
Configuring eligible role assignments ensures that users do not have standing privileges and must request activation to use the role, which provides just-in-time (JIT) access. Assigning the role to a security group containing the support staff aligns with governance best practices by avoiding direct assignments to individual user accounts.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the requirement for temporary, time-bound administrative access.
This requires Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) with eligible assignments, enabling just-in-time (JIT) role activation.
Eligible assignments require users to explicitly perform activation steps to acquire the role, whereas active assignments grant standing access.
2
Apply identity governance best practices for role assignments.
Assign the eligible roles to a Microsoft Entra security group rather than individual user accounts.
Group-based assignment reduces administrative overhead and ensures scalable management of role eligibility.

Key Concept

Just-In-Time (JIT) access using Privileged Identity Management (PIM) eligible assignments mapped to security groups.
Estimated Time:1m 0s
Rate this question