The four new security and compliance exams that were announced at Microsoft Ignite are no longer in beta, so it’s time to publish some exam guides. The first three exams in the list below cover both Microsoft 365 and Azure, rather than the somewhat more siloed approaches of the MS-500 and AZ-500 exams, so if you’ve done these exams previously you will already know a good portion of what is included in them. I’ll try to get all four guides published this month, schedule allowing
- Exam SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
- Exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
- Exam SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
- Exam SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator
What you will find is that these links have learning paths for you to get started if you want a more structured approach to learning the topics, versus those of you who already have some base knowledge, and want to focus on filling in some of those gaps with direct links to some relevant content in Microsoft Docs.
Describe the Concepts of Security, Compliance, and Identity (5-10%)
Describe security methodologies
- describe the Zero-Trust methodology
- describe the shared responsibility model
- define defense in depth
Describe security concepts
- describe common threats
- describe encryption
Describe Microsoft Security and compliance principles
- describe Microsoft’s privacy principles
- describe the offerings of the service trust portal
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solutions (25-30%)
Define identity principles/concepts
- define identity as the primary security perimeter
- define authentication
- define authorization
- describe what identity providers are
- describe what Active Directory is
- describe the concept of Federated services
- define common Identity Attacks
Describe the basic identity services and identity types of Azure AD
- describe what Azure Active Directory is
- describe Azure AD identities (users, devices, groups, service principals/applications)
- describe what hybrid identity is
- describe the different external identity types (Guest Users)
Describe the authentication capabilities of Azure AD
- describe the different authentication methods
- describe self-service password reset
- describe password protection and management capabilities
- describe Multi-factor Authentication
- describe Windows Hello for Business
Describe access management capabilities of Azure AD
- describe what conditional access is
- describe uses and benefits of conditional access
- describe the benefits of Azure AD roles
Describe the identity protection & governance capabilities of Azure AD
- describe what identity governance is
- describe what entitlement management and access reviews is
- describe the capabilities of PIM
- describe Azure AD Identity Protection
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Security Solutions (30-35%)
Describe basic security capabilities in Azure
- describe Azure Network Security groups
- describe Azure DDoS protection
- describe what Azure Firewall is
- describe what Azure Bastion is
- describe what Web Application Firewall is
- describe ways Azure encrypts data
Describe security management capabilities of Azure
- describe the Azure Security center
- describe Azure Secure score
- describe the benefit and use cases of Azure Defender – previously the cloud workload protection platform (CWPP)
- describe Cloud security posture management (CSPM)
- describe security baselines for Azure
Describe security capabilities of Azure Sentinel
- define the concepts of SIEM, SOAR, XDR
- describe the role and value of Azure Sentinel to provide integrated threat protection
Describe threat protection with Microsoft 365 Defender (formerly Microsoft Threat Protection)
- describe Microsoft 365 Defender services
- describe Microsoft Defender for Identity (formerly Azure ATP)
- describe Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formerly Office 365 ATP)
- describe Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP)
- describe Microsoft Cloud App Security
Describe security management capabilities of Microsoft 365
- describe the Microsoft 365 Security Center
- describe how to use Microsoft Secure Score
- describe security reports and dashboards
- describe incidents and incident management capabilities
Describe endpoint security with Microsoft Intune
- describe what Intune is
- describe endpoint security with Intune
- describe the endpoint security with the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center
Describe the Capabilities of Microsoft Compliance Solutions (25-30%)
Describe the compliance management capabilities in Microsoft
- describe the compliance center
- describe compliance manager
- describe use and benefits of compliance score
Describe information protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft 365
- describe data classification capabilities
- describe the value of content and activity explorer
- describe sensitivity labels
- describe Retention Polices and Retention Labels
- describe Records Management
- describe Data Loss Prevention
Describe insider risk capabilities in Microsoft 365
- describe Insider risk management solution
- describe communication compliance
- describe information barriers
- describe privileged access management
- describe customer lockbox
Describe the eDiscovery capabilities of Microsoft 365
- describe the purpose of eDiscovery
- describe the capabilities of the content search tool
- describe the core eDiscovery workflow
- describe the advanced eDiscovery workflow
Describe the audit capabilities in Microsoft 365
- describe the core audit capabilities of M365
- describe purpose and value of Advanced Auditing
Describe resource governance capabilities in Azure
- describe the use of Azure Resource locks
- describe what Azure Blueprints is
- define Azure Policy and describe its use cases
- describe cloud adoption framework
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