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Security certifications validate expertise in Microsoft Entra, Defender, Sentinel, compliance, and identity protection across the Microsoft cloud.

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Associate

SC-200 Associate

Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Security

Investigate, search for, and mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender.

Skills measured
  • General
  • Manage a security operations environment (41%)
  • Mitigate threats
  • Respond to security incidents (36%)
  • Perform threat hunting (22%)
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000 📚 62 questions
SC-300 Associate

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Security · RoleSecurity Engineer

Demonstrate the features of Microsoft Entra ID to modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid solutions, and implement identity governance.

Skills measured
  • Implement and manage user identities (23%)
  • Implement authentication and access management (28%)
  • Plan and implement workload identities (23%)
  • Plan and automate identity governance (23%)
  • General
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000 📚 58 questions
SC-401 Associate

Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate

Security · RoleAdministrator

Demonstrate the fundamentals of data security, lifecycle management, information security, and compliance to protect a Microsoft 365 deployment.

Skills measured
  • Implement information protection (33%)
  • Implement data loss prevention and retention (33%)
  • Manage risks, alerts, and activities (33%)
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000
SC-500 Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Security · RoleSecurity Engineer

Demonstrate the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.

Skills measured
  • Manage identity, access, and governance (23%)
  • Secure storage, databases, and networking (28%)
  • Secure compute (23%)
  • Manage and monitor security posture (23%)
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000
SC-730 Associate

Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Security

Investigate, search for, and mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender.

Skills measured
  • Understand cybersecurity concepts (21%)
  • Understand cybersecurity risks and threats (25%)
  • Apply basic security policies to protect the organization (21%)
  • Report and respond to security incidents (9%)
  • Apply basic security practices to protect the organization (21%)
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000

Expert

SC-100 Expert

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert

Security · Administrator,

As a Microsoft cybersecurity architect, you translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization. You design, guide the implementation of, and maintain…

Skills measured
  • priorities (18%)
  • Design security solutions for infrastructure (22%)
  • Design security solutions for applications and data (18%)
  • Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (18%)
  • Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (22%)
⏱ 90 min 🎯 700/1000

Fundamentals

SC-900 Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Security · RoleSecurity Engineer

Demonstrate foundational knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.

Skills measured
  • Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (12%)
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra (27%)
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions (37%)
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (22%)
⏱ 60 min 🎯 700/1000