Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert MS-102 Practice Question
Contoso has a multi-forest Active Directory environment. Only the 3,000 users who are members of an on-premises security group named SyncToCloud must be provisioned to Microsoft Entra ID. The users are distributed across many organizational units, and the company wants to avoid redesigning its OU structure or adding custom attribute tags. You must recommend a directory-synchronization approach that satisfies the requirement while keeping additional on-premises infrastructure and ongoing maintenance to a minimum. Which synchronization solution should you recommend and why?
Deploy Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync because group-based filtering is available only for cloud-only Microsoft 365 groups.
Deploy Microsoft Entra Connect Sync because the installation wizard supports group-based filtering that can restrict synchronization to the SyncToCloud group.
Deploy Microsoft Entra Connect Sync in staging mode and configure OU filtering for the containers that hold the group's members.
Deploy Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync because its built-in group-based filtering lets you scope synchronization to the SyncToCloud group without adding full on-premises servers.
Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync is the best fit because it offers native group-based filtering and is managed entirely in the cloud. Administrators can simply select the SyncToCloud security group during the Cloud Sync configuration wizard, and only the group's members will be synchronized. Although Microsoft Entra Connect Sync also supports group-based filtering, it requires deploying and maintaining a full Connect Sync server and its SQL components on-premises, which introduces more administrative overhead than the lightweight Cloud Sync agent model. Options that rely on OU filtering or that claim group filtering is limited to cloud-only groups do not satisfy the requirement or are incorrect.
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