Microsoft Purview – Interview preparation – 4

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We have started preparing a set of basic interview questions. These cover topics like Azure, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Teams, Microsoft Purview, and more.

Please visit our interview guide for Microsoft 365 services. Guide to Microsoft 365: Certification & Interview Tips – https://knowledge-junction.in/interview-preparation-2/

This article focuses on interview preparation questions specifically related to Microsoft Purview.

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Q 1. What are the licensing requirement for Trainer Classifier in Microsoft Purview?

• Microsoft 365 E5
• Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance
• Microsoft 365 E3 with the Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Governance add-on

Q 2. What are Information Protection Reports in Microsoft Purview?

• The Information Protection Reports in Microsoft Purview provide a centralized view of
  • data classification,
  • protection policies,
  • encryption, and
  • security activities
• across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, on-premises storage, and Microsoft Fabric.

Q 3. What is Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview?

• Adaptive protection in Microsoft Purview uses machine learning to identify the most critical risks and proactively and dynamically apply protection controls from:
  • Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
  • Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management (preview)
  • Microsoft Entra Conditional Access (preview)

Q 4. What are Sensitive Information Types in Microsoft Purview?

• Sensitive Information Types are predefined patterns or custom configuration to protect the sensitive data / information in our organization.
• SIT uses patterns like
  • Regular expressions
  • Checksums
  • Keywords
• By using the above patterns SIT detects the sensitive information in
  • emails,
  • documents,
  • database
• which helps to prevent unauthorized access / sharing.

Q 5. When to use Built In Sensitive Information Types?

• When our organization deals with standard type of sensitive information such as
  • Payment Details
  • Government issues IDs
  • Health Records

Q 6. Compare the Built-in sensitive information types and Custom sensitive information types

Criteria	Built-in SITs	Custom SITs
Ease of use	Preconfigured and ready to use	Requires manual setup and configuration
Maintenance	Managed and updated by Microsoft	Must be managed and updated by the organization
Scope of coverage	Covers common data types (financial, healthcare, etc.)	Can cover organization-specific data (employee IDs, project codes)
Accuracy	High, but might result in some false positives	Can be precise using exact data match or document fingerprinting
Customization	Limited to built-in data types	Fully customizable for unique data sets
Regulatory compliance	Suitable for standard regulations	Can be customized to meet specific regulatory requirements in specific industries
Recommended use cases	General data protection and compliance needs	Protecting proprietary or organization-specific data

Q 7. What is EDM

• Exact data match (EDM)
• Exact data match (EDM) allows us to create a sensitive information type (SITs).
• EDM uses exact data values for identifying and protecting sensitive information.

Q 8. How to navigate to built-in SITs

• We have detailed article to navigate built-in SIT. Please have a look.
  • Microsoft Purview – How to navigate to built-in SITs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/09/10/mspurview-navigate-built-in-sits/

Q 9. To create SIT in Microsoft Purview portal which Role Group to use the principal of least privilege?

• Information Protection Admins – The least privileged built-in role group with the privileges to create sensitivity labels is Information Protection Admins.

Q 10. Which three types of content markings sensitivity labels define?

• Water Marking
• Header
• Footer

REFERENCES

• Microsoft Purview portal. https://purview.microsoft.com/home
• Getting Started with Microsoft Purview – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/06/28/getting-started-with-microsoft-purview/
• Microsoft Purview: Essential Interview Q&A – https://knowledge-junction.in/purview-essential-interview-preparation/
• How to navigate – https://knowledge-junction.in/2023/05/04/mspurview-portal-how-to-navigate/
• Microsoft Purview – How to navigate to built-in SITs – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/09/10/mspurview-navigate-built-in-sits/
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