What is the purpose of eDiscovery holds in Microsoft 365?

To automatically classify content for retention

To preserve content from deletion or modification for legal investigations

To permanently delete content from all locations

To apply sensitivity labels to content

A company wants to automatically retain all documents in a specific OneDrive folder that contain the word 'Contract' for 5 years. They have created a retention label 'Contract-5Y' and an adaptive scope that targets the folder. What should they configure to apply the label automatically?

Create a retention policy that retains all content in the folder for 5 years.

Create an auto-apply retention label policy that uses a KQL query for 'Contract' and targets the adaptive scope.

Create a retention label policy that publishes the label to the adaptive scope.

Create a sensitivity label with auto-labeling for the folder.

Which locations can be included in a retention label policy that publishes labels?

Windows Event Logs and System Center

Exchange email, SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Microsoft 365 Groups

Power BI datasets and Azure SQL databases

Azure Active Directory and Intune

Which statement best describes how retention labels support information retention planning?

They allow administrators to define retention rules that can be applied to content manually or automatically

They are applied only to emails and never to documents

They are used only for legal hold purposes

They permanently delete content immediately upon creation

A company wants to allow employees to manually apply a 'Project Archive' retention label to project files in SharePoint and OneDrive. The label should be visible to all users, but only in the SharePoint and OneDrive locations, not in Exchange. What should you configure?

Create an auto-apply policy for the label that targets SharePoint and OneDrive content.

Publish the label to all users and include all locations including Exchange.

Create a retention policy for SharePoint and OneDrive with the label as a default.

Publish the retention label to all users and include SharePoint and OneDrive locations in the policy.

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Domain 2Objective 3

Implement and Manage Retention SC-401 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the Implement data loss prevention and retention domain, which accounts for 30–35% of the SC-401 exam. Microsoft does not publish an official question count, but from its 100-minute exam (~40–65 total, ~12–23 in this domain), expect 4–8 from this objective — we provide 30 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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What is the purpose of eDiscovery holds in Microsoft 365?
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A company wants to automatically retain all documents in a specific OneDrive folder that contain the word 'Contract' for 5 years. They have created a retention label 'Contract-5Y' and an adaptive scope that targets the folder. What should they configure to apply the label automatically?
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Which locations can be included in a retention label policy that publishes labels?
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Which statement best describes how retention labels support information retention planning?
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A company wants to allow employees to manually apply a 'Project Archive' retention label to project files in SharePoint and OneDrive. The label should be visible to all users, but only in the SharePoint and OneDrive locations, not in Exchange. What should you configure?
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