Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) Practice Exam

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) Practice Exam

About Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) Practice Exam

The Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) exam has been developed to measure your skills and knowledge to perform the technical tasks including:

• Designing solutions that align with security best practices and priorities
• Designing security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities
• Designing security solutions for infrastructure; and design security solutions for applications and data.

Skills and Knowledge Required

The candidates appearing for the SC-100 this exam should have  -

• Required experience implementing or administering solutions to identity and access, platform protection, security operations, data security, application security, and hybrid and multicloud infrastructures.
• Required experience designing security solutions that include Microsoft security technologies.
  

Who should take the Microsoft SC-100 Exam?

The candidates appearing for the SC-100 exam are Microsoft cybersecurity architects responsible to translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization.

Roles and Responsibilities 

The candidates are responsible to perform the following tasks - 

• Design and guide the implementation of, and maintain security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles and best practices, including security strategies for identity, devices, data, applications, network, infrastructure, and DevOps.
• Design solutions for Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations, and security posture management.
• Cybersecurity architects collaborate with leaders and practitioners in IT security, privacy, and other roles across an organization
• Plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.

Course Outline

The Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) Exam covers the latest and updated topics as per exam updates as on November 3, 2023 - 

Domain 1 - Understanding to Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (20–25%)

1.1 Designing a resiliency strategy for ransomware and other attacks based on Microsoft Security Best Practices

• Learn to Design a security strategy to support business resiliency goals, including identifying and prioritizing threats to business-critical assets
• Learn to Design solutions that align with Microsoft ransomware best practices, including backup, restore, and privileged access
• Learn to Design configurations for secure backup and restore by using Azure Backup for hybrid and multicloud environments
• Learn to Design solutions for security updates

1.2 Designing solutions that align with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) and Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB)

• Learn to Design solutions that align with best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls
• Learn to Design solutions that align with best practices for protecting against insider and external attacks
• Learn to Design solutions that align with best practices for Zero Trust security, including the Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan

1.3 Designing solutions that align with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Learn to Design a new or evaluate an existing strategy for security and governance based on the CAF and the Well-Architected Framework
• Learn to Recommend solutions for security and governance based on the the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Well-Learn to Architected Framework
• Learn to Design solutions for implementing and governing security by using an Azure landing zone
• Learn to Design a DevSecOps process

Domain 2 - Understanding to Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (30–35%)

2.1 Designing solutions for security operations

• Learn to Develop security operations capabilities to support a hybrid or multicloud environment
• Learn to Design a solution for centralized logging and auditing
• Learn to Design a solution for security information and event management (SIEM), including Microsoft Sentinel
• Learn to Design a solution for detection and response that includes extended detection and response (XDR)
• Learn to Design a solution for security orchestration automated response (SOAR), including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender
• Learn to Design and evaluate security workflows, including incident response, threat hunting, incident management, and threat intelligence
• Learn to Design and evaluate threat detection coverage by using MITRE ATT&CK

2.2 Designing solutions for identity and access management

• Learn to Design a solution for access to software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), hybrid/on-premises, and multicloud resources, including identity, networking, and application controls
• Learn to Design a solution for Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra, including hybrid and multicloud environments
• Learn to Design a solution for external identities, including B2B, B2C, and decentralized identities
• Learn to Design a modern authentication and authorization strategy, including Conditional Access, continuous access evaluation, threat intelligence integration, and risk scoring
• Learn to Validate the alignment of Conditional Access policies with a Zero Trust strategy
• Learn to Specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Learn to Design a solution to manage secrets, keys, and certificates

2.3 Designing solutions for securing privileged access

• Learn to Design a solution for assigning and delegating privileged roles by using the enterprise access model
• Learn to Design an identity governance solution, including Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), privileged entitlement management, and access reviews
• Learn to Design a solution for securing the administration of cloud tenants, including SaaS and multicloud infrastructure and platforms
• Learn to Design a solution for cloud infrastructure entitlement management that includes Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
• Learn to Design a solution for Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) and bastion services

2.4 Designing solutions for regulatory compliance

• Learn to Translate compliance requirements into a security solution
• Learn to Design a solution to address compliance requirements by using Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions
• Learn to Design a solution to address privacy requirements, including Microsoft Priva
• Learn to Design Azure Policy solutions to address security and compliance requirements
• Learn to Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Domain 3 - Understanding to Design security solutions for infrastructure (20–25%)

3.1 Designing solutions for security posture management in hybrid and multicloud environments

• Learn to Evaluate security posture by using MCSB
• Learn to Evaluate security posture by using Defender for Cloud
• Learn to Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Secure Score
• Learn to Design integrated security posture management and workload protection solutions in hybrid and multicloud environments, including Defender for Cloud
• Learn to Design cloud workload protection solutions that use Defender for Cloud, such as Microsoft Defender for Servers, Microsoft Defender for App Service, and Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Learn to Design a solution for integrating hybrid and multicloud environments by using Azure Arc
• Learn to Design a solution for Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM)

3.2 Designing solutions for securing server and client endpoints

• Learn to Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems
• Learn to Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration
• Learn to Specify security requirements for IoT devices and embedded systems
• Learn to Design a solution for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) by using Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Learn to Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
• Learn to Design a solution for secure remote access

3.3 Specifying requirements for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services

• Learn to Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
• Learn to Specify security requirements for IoT workloads
• Learn to Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
• Learn to Specify security requirements for containers
• Learn to Specify security requirements for container orchestration

Domain 4 - Understanding to Design security solutions for applications and data (20–25%)

4.1 Designing solutions for securing Microsoft 365

• Learn to Evaluate security posture for productivity and collaboration workloads by using metrics, including Secure Score and Defender for Cloud secure score
• Learn to Design a Microsoft 365 Defender solution
• Learn to Design secure configurations and operational practices for Microsoft 365 workloads and data

4.2 Designing solutions for securing applications

• Learn to Evaluate the security posture of existing application portfolios
• Learn to Evaluate threats to business-critical applications by using threat modeling
• Learn to Design and implement a full lifecycle strategy for application security
• Learn to Design and implement standards and practices for securing the application development process
• Learn to Map technologies to application security requirements
• Learn to Design a solution for workload identity to authenticate and access Azure cloud resources
• Learn to Design a solution for API management and security
• Learn to Design a solution for secure access to applications, including Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Front Door

4.2 Designing solutions for securing an organization's data

• Learn to Design a solution for data discovery and classification by using Microsoft Purview data governance solutions
• Learn to Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
• Learn to Design a solution for protection of data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
• Learn to Design a security solution for data in Azure workloads, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB
• Learn to Design a security solution for data in Azure Storage
• Learn to Design a security solution that includes Microsoft Defender for Storage and Microsoft Defender for SQL
  

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