Conditional Access concepts

Skills you'll practise

• Describe the signals and decisions in an access policy.
• Explain report-only mode and why to use it first.
• Explain why emergency accounts are excluded.
• Read a sign-in failure and tell whether a policy blocked it.

Course outline

1. 1.Conditional Access conceptsVideo · 4 min
2. 2.Signals, decisions and safe rolloutLesson · 8 min
3. 3.Reading sign-in logs for policy resultsLesson · 8 min
4. 4.Exclusions, emergency accounts and named locationsLesson · 8 min
5. 5.Conditional Access concepts: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 18 questions
6. 6.Microsoft 365 user can't sign inScenario
7. 7.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft Learn: What is Conditional Access?
• Microsoft Learn: Conditional Access report-only mode
• Microsoft Learn: Manage emergency access accounts in Microsoft Entra ID