Service Principals — Microsoft Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500) Practice Questions

Service principals are security identities created in Azure Active Directory to represent applications, services, and automation tools that need to access Azure resources. The AZ-500 exam emphasizes how service principals are created alongside app registrations, how they authenticate using client secrets or certificates, and how their permissions are governed through role assignments and API permissions. A key security concern tested on the exam is managing service principal credential hygiene, limiting granted permissions to least privilege, and detecting over-permissioned principals that could be exploited if credentials are compromised.

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