Course Summary
Whether you’re a business user, or IT professional, this certification ensures you have a firm grasp of a range of topics in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity. This fundamentals certification can serve as a steppingstone if you’re interested in advancing to role-based certifications in security operations, identity and access management, and information protection.
The Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification could be a great fit for you if you’d like to:
Demonstrate your knowledge of Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity (SCI) solutions.
Highlight your understanding of how Microsoft SCI solutions provide holistic, end-to-end cybersecurity capabilities.
It is recommended that as a candidate, you have familiarity with:
Networking and cloud computing concepts.
General IT knowledge or any general experience working in an IT environment.
General understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (10–15%)
• Describe security and compliance concepts
• Describe the shared responsibility model
• Describe defense-in-depth
• Describe the Zero Trust model
• Describe encryption and hashing
• Describe Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) concepts
• Define identity concepts
• Define identity as the primary security perimeter
• Define authentication
• Define authorization
• Describe identity providers
• Describe the concept of directory services and Active Directory
• Describe the concept of federation
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra (25–30%)
• Describe function and identity types of Microsoft Entra ID
• Describe Microsoft Entra ID
• Describe types of identities
• Describe hybrid identity
• Describe authentication capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
• Describe the authentication methods
• Describe multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• Describe password protection and management capabilities
• Describe access management capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
• Describe Conditional Access
• Describe Microsoft Entra roles and role-based access control (RBAC)
• Describe identity protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft Entra
• Describe Microsoft Entra ID Governance
• Describe access reviews
• Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management
• Describe Entra ID Protection
• Describe Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions (35–40%)
• Describe core infrastructure security services in Azure
• Describe Azure distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Protection
• Describe Azure Firewall
• Describe Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Describe network segmentation with Azure virtual networks
• Describe network security groups (NSGs)
• Describe Azure Bastion
• Describe Azure Key Vault
• Describe security management capabilities of Azure
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Describe Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Describe how security policies and initiatives improve the cloud security posture
• Describe enhanced security features provided by cloud workload protection
• Describe capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel
• Define the concepts of security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR)
• Describe threat detection and mitigation capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel
• Describe threat protection with Microsoft 365 Defender
• Describe Microsoft 365 Defender services
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Describe Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
• Describe Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI)
• Describe the Microsoft 365 Defender portal
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (20–25%)
• Describe Microsoft Service Trust Portal and privacy principles
• Describe the Service Trust Portal offerings
• Describe the privacy principles of Microsoft
• Describe Microsoft Priva
• Describe compliance management capabilities of Microsoft Purview
• Describe the Microsoft Purview compliance portal
• Describe Compliance Manager
• Describe the uses and benefits of compliance score
• Describe information protection, data lifecycle management, and data governance capabilities of Microsoft Purview
• Describe the data classification capabilities
• Describe the benefits of Content explorer and Activity explorer
• Describe sensitivity labels and sensitivity label policies
• Describe data loss prevention (DLP)
• Describe records management
• Describe retention policies, retention labels, and retention label policies
• Describe unified data governance solutions in Microsoft Purview
• Describe insider risk, eDiscovery, and audit capabilities in Microsoft Purview
• Describe insider risk management
• Describe eDiscovery solutions in Microsoft Purview
• Describe audit solutions in Microsoft Purview
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