Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals SC-900 Practice Question
Your development team is building an Azure web API that must call Microsoft Graph on its own, without any user signed in. To represent the API in Microsoft Entra ID and assign it permissions, which identity type should you create?
A user identity
A service principal (application/workload identity)
When an application or background service needs to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID without user interaction, it is represented by a service principal. The service principal (also called an application or workload identity) enables the API to sign in, receive tokens, and be granted least-privilege permissions. User identities and guest accounts are intended for people, while device identities are used for Windows, iOS, or Android devices joining the tenant. None of those satisfy the requirement for an autonomous application.
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