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 - 

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

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

• Design a security strategy to support business resiliency goals, including identifying and prioritizing threats to business-critical assets
• Design solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR), including secure backup and restore for hybrid and multicloud environments
• Design solutions for mitigating ransomware attacks, including prioritization of BCDR and privileged access
• Evaluate solutions for security updates

1.2 Design solutions that align with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) and Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)

• Design solutions that align with best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls
• Design solutions that align with best practices for protecting against insider, external, and supply chain attacks
• Design AI solutions that align to the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark.
• Design solutions that align with the Zero Trust adoption framework

1.3 Design solutions that align with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Design a strategy for secure AI adoption
• Design a new or evaluate an existing strategy for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
• Recommend solutions for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF) and the Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Design solutions for implementing and governing security by using Azure landing zones
• Design a DevSecOps process that aligns with best practices in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (CAF)

Domain 2 - Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (25–30%)

2.1 Design solutions for security operations

• Design a solution for detection and response that includes extended detection and response (XDR) and security information and event management (SIEM)
• Design a solution for centralized logging and auditing, including Microsoft Purview Audit
• Design monitoring to support hybrid and multicloud environments
• Design a solution for security orchestration and automated response (SOAR), including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR
• Design and evaluate security workflows, including incident response, threat hunting, and incident management
• Design and evaluate threat detection coverage by using MITRE ATT&CK matrices, including Enterprise, Mobile, and industrial control systems (ICS)

2.2 Design solutions for identity and access management

• Design a solution for agent identities using Microsoft Entra Agent ID and conditional access policies
• 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
• Design a solution for Microsoft Entra ID, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Design a solution for external identities, including business-to-business (B2B) and decentralized identity
• Design a modern authentication and authorization strategy, including Conditional Access, continuous access evaluation, risk scoring, and protected actions
• Validate the alignment of Conditional Access policies with a Zero Trust strategy
• Specify requirements to harden Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Design a solution to manage secrets, keys, and certificates

2.3 Design solutions for securing privileged access

• Design a solution for assigning and delegating privileged roles by using the enterprise access model
• Evaluate the security and governance of Microsoft Entra ID, including Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), entitlement management, and access reviews
• Evaluate the security and governance of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), including resilience to common attacks
• Design a solution for securing the administration of cloud tenants, including SaaS and multicloud infrastructure and platforms
• Design a solution for cloud infrastructure entitlement management
• Evaluate an access review management solution
• Design a solution for secure workstations for privileged access, including remote access

2.4 Design solutions for regulatory compliance

• Translate compliance requirements into security controls
• Design a solution to address compliance requirements by using Microsoft Purview
• Design Azure Policy solutions to address security and compliance requirements
• Evaluate and validate alignment with regulatory standards and benchmarks by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Domain 3 - Design security solutions for infrastructure (25–30%)

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

• Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, including the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
• Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Secure Score
• Design integrated security posture management solutions that include Microsoft Defender for Cloud in hybrid and multi-cloud environments
• Select cloud workload protection solutions in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Design a solution for integrating hybrid and multicloud environments by using Azure Arc
• Design a solution for Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM)
• Specify requirements and priorities for a posture management process that uses Microsoft Security Exposure Management attack paths, attack surface reduction, security insights, and initiatives

3.2 Specify requirements for securing server and client endpoints

• Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems
• Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration
• Specify security requirements for IoT devices and embedded systems
• Evaluate solutions for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) by using Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
• Evaluate Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) solution

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

• Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
• Specify security requirements for IoT workloads
• Specify security requirements for web workloads
• Specify security requirements for containers
• Specify security requirements for container orchestration
• Evaluate solutions that include Azure AI services security

3.4 Evaluate solutions for network security and Security Service Edge (SSE)

• Evaluate network designs to align with security requirements and best practices
• Evaluate solutions that use Microsoft Entra Internet Access as a secure web gateway
• Evaluate solutions that use Microsoft Entra Internet Access for Microsoft Services, including cross-tenant configurations
• Evaluate solutions that use Microsoft Entra Private Access

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

4.1 Evaluate solutions for securing Microsoft 365

• Evaluate security posture for productivity and collaboration workloads by using metrics, including Microsoft Secure Score
• Evaluate solutions that include Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Evaluate device management solutions that include Microsoft Intune
• Evaluate solutions for securing data in Microsoft 365 by using Microsoft Purview
• Evaluate data security and compliance controls in Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 services

4.2 Design solutions for securing applications

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

4.3 Design solutions for securing an organization's data

• Evaluate solutions for data discovery and classification
• Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
• Evaluate solutions for encryption of data at rest and in transit, including Azure Key Vault and infrastructure encryption
• Design security for data used in AI workloads
• Design a security solution for data in Azure workloads, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB
• Design a security solution for data in Azure Storage
• Design a security solution that includes Microsoft Defender for Storage and Microsoft Defender for Databases

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