SC-100 Practice Question 3978
Exam: SC-100
Domain: Design security solutions for infrastructure
Difficulty: hard
What is the role of Agentless Vulnerability Scanning in Microsoft Defender for Cloud for virtual machines in Azure and AWS?
Answer Options
A
Takes out-of-band disk snapshots to detect CVEs without agents or compute load
B
Connects via Telnet to guess administrative passwords
C
Deletes virtual machines that fail compliance checks
D
Overclocks server processors during vulnerability analysis
Correct Answer
A: Takes out-of-band disk snapshots to detect CVEs without agents or compute load
Explanation
Agentless scanning takes point-in-time snapshots of VM OS disks, analyzes the disk contents for missing patches and vulnerabilities out-of-band, and requires zero software agents or compute overhead.