Question 740
After enabling directory sync, an admin directly edits a mastered account's displayName in Entra ID and finds it reverted the next day. What should the administrator do FIRST to correct the problem?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The deciding issue is source-authoritative attributes can overwrite or prevent cloud-side manual changes. The action 'Change synchronized attributes at their authoritative AD DS source and let the supported sync flow replicate them.' targets that issue rather than a neighboring Microsoft 365 workload. Confirm it by checking: The user attribute remains correct after several synchronization cycles.
Incorrect Answers
Password propagation and object sync can degrade without an obvious user-visible service crash. The problem described here is that source-authoritative attributes can overwrite or prevent cloud-side manual changes.
Object synchronization scope may differ for groups and their member user objects. The problem described here is that source-authoritative attributes can overwrite or prevent cloud-side manual changes.
Export cannot safely assign one proxy address to multiple different recipients. That concern does not account for the stated failure: Source-authoritative attributes can overwrite or prevent cloud-side manual changes. The relevant design change is: Change synchronized attributes at their authoritative AD DS source and let the supported sync flow replicate them.