In order to set realistic expectations, please note: These questions are NOT official questions that you will find on the official exam. These questions DO cover all the material outlined in the knowledge sections below. Many of the questions are based on fictitious scenarios which have questions posed within them.

The official knowledge requirements for the exam are reviewed routinely to ensure that the content has the latest requirements incorporated in the practice questions. Updates to content are often made without prior notification and are subject to change at any time.

Each question has a detailed explanation and links to reference materials to support the answers which ensures accuracy of the problem solutions.

The questions will be shuffled each time you repeat the tests so you will need to know why an answer is correct, not just that the correct answer was item "B" last time you went through the test.

This certification is targeted to those looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services.

This practice exam series measures your ability to describe the following: concepts of security, compliance, and identity; capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions; capabilities of Microsoft security solutions; and capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions.

This course is for a broad audience that may include business stakeholders, new or existing IT professionals, or students who have an interest in Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions.

Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and want to understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution.

Describe the Concepts of Security, Compliance, and Identity (10-15%)

Describe security and compliance concepts & methodologies

• describe the Zero-Trust methodology

• describe the shared responsibility model

• define defense in depth

• describe common threats

• describe encryption

• describe cloud adoption framework

Define identity 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 capabilities of Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solutions (30-35%)

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 (35-40%)

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 centre

• 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

• 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 Defender portal

• 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 offerings of the Service Trust portal

• describe Microsoft’s privacy principles

• describe the compliance centre

• 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 and audit 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 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

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