Question 120
During post-change review of the requirement “A tenant chooses pass-through authentication because its security policy requires on-premises validation at sign-in,” an auditor observes: Authentication requests fail even though cloud directory users remain synchronized. Which root-cause finding would explain that symptom?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Correct diagnosis. All pass-through authentication agents are unavailable or unhealthy. This fault explains the observed failure: Authentication requests fail even though cloud directory users remain synchronized. The intended configuration would instead be: Configure supported pass-through authentication agents with adequate redundancy and appropriate sign-in routing.
Incorrect Answers
The second forest's agent or provisioning configuration was never activated. The reported symptom instead has this cause: All pass-through authentication agents are unavailable or unhealthy. The corrective action is: Configure supported pass-through authentication agents with adequate redundancy and appropriate sign-in routing.
The connector service account lost permissions to read or replicate the required AD attributes. The reported symptom instead has this cause: All pass-through authentication agents are unavailable or unhealthy. The corrective action is: Configure supported pass-through authentication agents with adequate redundancy and appropriate sign-in routing.
Monitoring agents or health service registration are not configured for the selected component. The reported symptom instead has this cause: All pass-through authentication agents are unavailable or unhealthy. The corrective action is: Configure supported pass-through authentication agents with adequate redundancy and appropriate sign-in routing.