From the course: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900) Cert Prep: 2 Identity and Access Management
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Azure AD identity types
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- [Instructor] The exam may test your knowledge of the identity types available in Azure Active Directory. And for the exam, there are four different identity types that you'll want to be familiar with: the user, service principle, managed identity, and device. And you'll want to know the variations of each identity type, the use cases, and the benefits of each. We'll begin with the user, which is a representation of an entity that's managed by Azure AD. Both employees and guests are represented as users. Although a guest is external to the company, like a business partner or a vendor collaborating with employees. And that's where the Azure AD B2B, or business-to-business, collaboration feature comes into play. This is a feature with an external identities that includes the capability to add guest users quickly and easily, and allows organizations to securely share applications and services with guest users from…
