Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Practice Exam

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Practice Exam

About Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Exam

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks including mitigating threats using Microsoft 365 Defender; mitigate threats using Azure Defender; and mitigate threats using Azure Sentinel.

Microsoft SC-200 Exam Objectives

The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.

Skills Acquired

• Firstly, as a Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, you will be required to perform threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment.
• The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products.
• Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.

Exam Details

• Exam Name: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam 
• Exam Code: SC-200 
• Exam Duration: 150 mins
• Exam Questions: 40-60 Questions
• Passing Score: 700 (on a scale 1-1000)

Course Outline

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Domain 1 - Manage a security operations environment (40–45%)

1.1 Configure automation for Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel

• Configure email notifications in Microsoft Defender XDR, including incidents, actions, and threat analytics
• Configure alert notifications in Microsoft Defender XDR, including tuning, suppression, and correlation
• Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint advanced features
• Configure rules settings in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Configure custom data collection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Configure security policies for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, including attack surface reduction (ASR) rules
• Manage automated investigation and response capabilities in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Configure automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Configure and manage device groups, permissions, and automation levels in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Create and configure automation rules in Microsoft Sentinel
• Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel playbooks

1.2 Configure the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and platform

• Specify Microsoft Sentinel roles
• Manage data retention for XDR and Microsoft Sentinel tables, including Analytics, Data lake, and XDR tiers
• Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel workbooks
• Optimize the Microsoft Sentinel platform, including SOC optimization recommendations

1.3 Ingest data into the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and platform

• Select data connectors based on data source requirements, including Windows logs and security events
• Configure collection of Windows Security events by using Windows Security Events via AMA, including data collection rules
• Plan and configure collection of Windows Security events by using Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)
• Plan and configure Syslog via AMA and Common Event Format (CEF) via AMA connectors
• Configure collection of Azure activities by using Azure Policy and resource diagnostic settings
• Ingest threat indicators into Microsoft Sentinel
• Create custom log tables in the workspace to store ingested data

1.4 Configure detections

• Create custom detection rules by using Advanced Hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Manage custom detection rules in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Configure and manage analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel SIEM, including scheduled, near-real time (NRT), threat intelligence, and machine learning
• Analyze attack vector coverage by using the MITRE ATT&CK matrix
• Configure anomalies in Microsoft Sentinel

Domain 2 - Respond to security incidents (35–40%)

2.1 Respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Investigate and remediate threats by using Microsoft Defender for Office 365, including automatic attack disruption
• Investigate and remediate threats or compromised entities identified by Microsoft Purview
• Investigate and remediate alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
• Investigate and remediate security risks identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Investigate and remediate compromised identities that are identified by Microsoft Entra ID
• Investigate and remediate security alerts from Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Investigate and remediate alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Sentinel
• Investigate incidents by using agentic AI, including embedded Microsoft Security Copilot
• Investigate complex attacks, such as multi-stage, multi-domain, and lateral movement
• Manage security incidents by using case management

2.2 Respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Investigate device timelines
• Perform actions on the device, including live response and collecting investigation packages
• Perform evidence and entity investigation
• Investigate and remediate incidents identified by automatic attack disruption

2.3 Investigate Microsoft 365 activities to identify threats

• Investigate threats by using Microsoft Purview Audit
• Investigate threats by using Content search in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
• Investigate threats by using Microsoft Graph activity logs

Domain 3 - Perform threat hunting (20–25%)

3.1 Detect threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR

• Identify the appropriate table to use in a KQL query
• Identify threats by using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Create Advanced Hunting queries
• Interpret threat analytics in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Create hunting graphs, including blast radius
• Analyze relationships between entities by using Sentinel Graph

3.2 Detect threats by using the Microsoft Sentinel platform

• Create and monitor hunting queries
• Create and manage KQL jobs in Data lake
• Create and manage Summary rule tables for querying
• Hunt for threats by using Notebooks, including connection to the Sentinel MCP Server

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