Exam SC-400 topic 3 question 1 discussion

'Retention' wins over 'deletion'. The longest configured retention period is 10 years and its corresponding action is 'Do nothing', which means the file needs to be deleted manually. Hence, the answer is C.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-flowchart?view=o365-worldwide <- follow this decision tree and you will end up deleting it after 10 years as another policy/label was defined with a deletion request.

Outcome: The item is retained for ten years because retention takes precedence over deletion and ten years is the longest retention period for the item. At the end of this retention period, the item is permanently deleted because of the delete action from the retention policies.

It's the longest retention period + the strictest action. so D, retained for 10 years then deleted automatically.

Ideal answer option should be "File 1 will be retained for 10 or more years till it is deleted manually" . But the closest one to an ideal answer is C

It's C: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/retention?view=o365-worldwide&tabs=table-overriden#the-principles-of-retention-or-what-takes-precedence:~:text=At%20a%20high%20level%2C%20you%20can%20be%20assured%20that%20retention%20always%20takes%20precedence%20over%20permanent%20deletion%2C%20and%20the%20longest%20retention%20period%20wins.%20These%20two%20simple%20rules%20always%20decide%20how%20long%20an%20item%20will%20be%20retained.

This question was on exam November 2023. The correct answer is D, as explained here: An item has the following retention settings applied to it: An org-wide retention policy that deletes-only after ten years A retention policy scoped with specific instances that retains for five years and then deletes A retention label that retains for three years and then deletes Outcome: The item is retained for five years because that's the longest retention period for the item. At the end of that retention period, the item is permanently deleted because of the delete action of three years from the retention label. Deletion from retention labels takes precedence over deletion from all retention policies. In this example, all conflicts are resolved by the third level.

Hello all, please read the question)) it says how long File1 will be retained? - not deleted Retain for 1o yrs~ + manual deletion :)

what does it mean Do nothing ? I think it will not automatically deleted the file so It should be C

File will be RETAINED for 10 YEARS then it will get deleted. In other words C is NOT correct since the file wont be able to get deleted until 10 years has passed. Check this if you dont understand how retention policies works, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-flowchart?view=o365-worldwide

Must be C.

C is the least wrong

As other have stated, retention over deletion so the file is kept for 10 years. The following link discusses order of precedence when mixing delete and retain actions: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide#principles-of-retention-examples-that-combine-retain-and-delete-actions Which confirms that the delete would happen at the end of the longest retention period.

Correct. This clears it all up: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide#the-principles-of-retention-or-what-takes-precedence Example for this first principle: An email message is subject to a retention policy for Exchange that is configured to delete items three years after they are created, and it also has a retention label applied that is configured to retain items five years after they are created. The email message is retained for five years because this retention action takes precedence over deletion. The email message is permanently deleted at the end of the five years because of the delete action that was suspended while the retention action was in effect.

D is correct. Deletion will be suspended until 10 years have passed.

C is also not correct as "File1 will be retained until the file is deleted manually" means also that it could be deleted after 1 or so years which is not true...

C should be the answer