Question 190
At the Riverbrook professional services partnership, old application service principals remain active after the applications are decommissioned. Which explanation best accounts for the concern?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The strongest explanation is that inactive workload identities can retain permissions even after their original business purpose ends. This accounts for the outcome and supports the action to inventory and retire unused Microsoft Entra enterprise applications and their service principals. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Riverbrook professional services partnership.
Incorrect Answers
Although cloud and on-premises directories need an explicit synchronization approach rather than assuming identical user objects exist automatically, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that inactive workload identities can retain permissions even after their original business purpose ends. For the Riverbrook professional services partnership, the direct corrective action is to inventory and retire unused Microsoft Entra enterprise applications and their service principals.
This explanation belongs to a different security or compliance situation. In this case, the observable gap is that inactive workload identities can retain permissions even after their original business purpose ends. For the Riverbrook professional services partnership, the direct corrective action is to inventory and retire unused Microsoft Entra enterprise applications and their service principals.
Properly configured self-service recovery can reduce helpdesk workload while verifying the user's recovery identity. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Riverbrook professional services partnership instead points to the fact that inactive workload identities can retain permissions even after their original business purpose ends.