Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900 Practice Question

Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers continuous security posture management for Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments. It scans resources, compares their settings with best-practice security benchmarks, calculates a secure score, and surfaces actionable recommendations to close gaps. Azure Firewall focuses on network traffic filtering, Microsoft Sentinel is a SIEM/SOAR platform for threat detection and response, and Microsoft Defender for Identity targets identity-based threats in Active Directory; none of these options provide the broad posture assessment and recommendation capabilities delivered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud.