Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra — Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Official references for this objective

• Microsoft — Microsoft Entra ID - FastTrack – Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

  Microsoft Entra ID P1 FastTrack provides remote guidance to enable secure access to apps and to protect identities from security threats.

• Microsoft — Agent identities, service principals, and applications - Microsoft Entra Agent ID | Microsoft Learn

  Agent identities can be granted permissions directly and appear in sign-in logs when tokens are issued for agent operations.

• Microsoft — Cross-tenant access settings - Microsoft Entra External ID | Microsoft Learn

  Trust multifactor authentication from Microsoft Entra tenants : Select this checkbox to allow your Conditional Access policies to trust MFA claims from external organizations.

• Microsoft — Flexible federated identity credentials (preview) - Microsoft Entra Workload ID | Microsoft Learn

  When combined with the current limit of 20 federated identity credentials for a given application or user-assigned managed identity, scale limits can be hit quickly.

• Microsoft — Step 2 - Microsoft Entra ID access controls - M365 Education | Microsoft Learn

  Federated authentication : Supports federated SSO using protocols like SAML 2.0, WS-Federation, and OpenID Connect, enabling integration with a wide range of applications.

• Microsoft — Step 3 - Password considerations in Microsoft Entra ID P1 - M365 Education | Microsoft Learn

  Tools: Microsoft Entra Connect or Entra Connect Cloud Sync must be configured for password writeback.