Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert MS-102 Practice Question
Contoso currently uses Microsoft Entra Connect Sync with password hash synchronization (PHS) to synchronize an on-premises Active Directory forest that contains 25,000 users. Self-service password reset (SSPR) with writeback to Active Directory is enabled.
The company plans to retire the existing Entra Connect server and instead deploy Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync agents on two member servers to reduce maintenance overhead.
You must ensure that all existing functionality continues to work after the change.
Which statement accurately describes the impact of replacing Entra Connect Sync with Entra Cloud Sync in this scenario?
Pass-through authentication would be required because Cloud Sync does not support password hash synchronization.
You must retain the Microsoft Entra Connect Sync metaverse SQL database to store synchronization metadata.
Self-service password reset would no longer write passwords back to on-premises Active Directory.
Hybrid Azure AD join for Windows clients would continue to work because Cloud Sync can register devices.
Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync can synchronize users and groups by using lightweight agents, but it does not provide any on-premises writeback capabilities. Because SSPR writeback relies on the Microsoft Entra Connect Sync engine, switching to Cloud Sync would remove the endpoint that processes password changes and forwards them to Active Directory. As a result, users could still reset their passwords in the cloud, but those changes would no longer be written back to the on-premises directory.
The other statements are incorrect:
Cloud Sync cannot register device objects, so it does not maintain Hybrid Azure AD join.
Cloud Sync fully supports password hash synchronization and does not require you to switch to pass-through authentication.
Cloud Sync stores synchronization metadata in the cloud service and therefore does not need the legacy Entra Connect Sync metaverse SQL database.
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