Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect – Beta is waiting for you with discount code!
Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect, is one of the exams that will give you access to the new Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert .
You need at least one more exam to gain this certification, and you can choose among 4 options:
- Exam AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
- Exam SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
- Exam MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration
- Exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
The exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect is made for candidate expert in a wide range of security engineering areas including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications. Candidates should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.
From today it is finally possible to take this exam in Beta and it is possible to get 80 percent off market price by using the code SC100ARCH. The code is not private and the seats are offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
You can take the exam in beta with the code below before May 5, 2022!
Skills measured
- Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
- Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
- Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
- Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)
Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
Build an overall security strategy and architecture
• Identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference
Architecture (MCRA)
• Translate business goals into security requirements
• Translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security
products, and security processes
• Design security for a resiliency strategy
• Integrate a hybrid or multi-tenant environment into a security strategy
• Develop a technical governance strategy for security
Design a security operations strategy
• Design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations
• Develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment
• Design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR
• Evaluate security workflows
• Evaluate a security operations strategy for incident management lifecycle
• Evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence
Design an identity security strategy
Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
• Design a strategy for access to cloud resources
• Recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid)
• Recommend an authentication strategy
• Recommend an authorization strategy
• Design a strategy for conditional access
• Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
• Design security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure including identity-based
firewall rules, Azure PIM
• Design security strategy for privileged activities including PAM, entitlement management, cloud
tenant administration
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
Design a regulatory compliance strategy
• Interpret compliance requirements and translate into specific technical capabilities (new or
existing)
• Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
• Design implementation of Azure Policy
• Design for data residency requirements
• Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
• Evaluate security posture by using benchmarks (including Azure security benchmarks, ISO 2701,
etc.)
• Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores
• Evaluate security posture of cloud workloads
• Design security for an Azure Landing Zone
• Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
• Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
NOTE: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
• Specify security baselines for 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 requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services
• Design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
• Design a strategy for secure remote access
Design a strategy 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 data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure
Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB
• Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
• Specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage
• Specify security requirements for containers
• Specify security requirements for container orchestration
Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)
Specify security requirements for applications
• Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
• Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
• Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
Design a strategy for securing data
• Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
• Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
• Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion
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Good luck!