Tools / Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool (TMT) Interview questions
Explain the execution flow when TMT generates a threat report?
Report generation is a purely local, one-way pipeline - there's no server round trip involved.
flowchart TD
A[Diagram on canvas] --> B[Analysis view aggregates generated threats]
B --> C[User filters/sorts and finalizes triage: state, priority, justification]
C --> D[Create Report action]
D --> E[Tool serializes each threat plus a diagram snapshot]
E --> F[Renders as a self-contained HTML file]
F --> G[Opens in the default browser]
Everything from the diagram data to the final rendering happens on the local machine using data already stored in the open .tm7 model; the report is a snapshot of the Analysis view's current contents at the exact moment you click Create Report, which is another reason to finish triaging before generating the version you intend to share.
The threat report is rendered:
The report reflects:
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