MS-102 - Manage Compliance by Using Microsoft Purview (16% of the exam) - Section 4.1

Implement Microsoft Purview information protection and data lifecycle management.

Create and publish sensitivity labels and label policies to classify and protect content across Microsoft 365 workloads. Distinguish retention labels from retention policies and recognise when to declare content as a record under records management.

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Practice question for this objective

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A compliance investigator needs to see which sensitivity labels and retention labels are currently applied to specific files across your tenant, and to preview a sample file. Which Microsoft Purview explorer should you grant access to, and which role group is required to preview file content?

AActivity explorer, with membership in Content Explorer Content viewer
BContent explorer, with membership in Content Explorer List viewer only
CContent explorer, with membership in Content Explorer Content viewer Correct
DActivity explorer, with membership in Information Protection Reader

Apply the documented Microsoft 365 / Microsoft Entra ID behaviour to the scenario. Content explorer shows current labelled items and supports preview. Two independent role groups exist: Content Explorer List viewer (locations and list view) and Content Explorer Content viewer (file content preview, plus file names that may contain sensitive data).

Why A is wrong: Activity explorer shows historical activities, not the current set of labelled items; its access model is different.

Why B is wrong: List viewer shows the item and its location in list view but cannot preview content; you also need Content viewer to view item names that may contain sensitive data.

Why C is correct: Correct. Content explorer shows current labelled items and supports preview.

Why D is wrong: Reader can view Activity explorer but Activity explorer does not provide the current label inventory or file preview.

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Exam traps in Manage Compliance by Using Microsoft Purview

Answers that look right on this material and are not. Each one is a distractor from a different question in the MS-102 bank for this domain.

General, because the lowest order number is the most authoritative
Why it is wrong: This reverses the rule; lowest order number = lowest priority for sensitivity label policies.
No
Why it is wrong: No would be incorrect because publishing policies for sensitivity labels explicitly support those four assignment targets, and Microsoft 365 groups can use dynamic membership for label policy assignment.
No
Why it is wrong: No would be incorrect because Activity explorer's documented retention is up to 30 days of historical data sourced from the Microsoft 365 unified audit logs, and the activity types it surfaces include sensitivity-label, retention-label, and DLP policy match events.

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