Microsoft New Security Certifications: SC-200, SC-300, SC-400 and SC-900
Check out the following guide on everything you need to know about Microsoft certifications and why you want to get security certified.
Phoebe Savvides
12 March, 2021
As the demand for technology continues to grow, employers and job candidates seek to bridge their digital skills gap. How can you stay on top of this? Check out the following guide on everything you need to know about Microsoft's new certifications and why you want to get security certified.
Microsoft have recently launched 4 new Security Certifications under a new Microsoft Career Pathway. Through Microsoft’s mission to support the closure of the digital skills gap, and in this respect, the security digital skills gap, these security certifications came to light.
“With complex cyberattacks increasing and more employees working remotely, the need for cybersecurity professionals is growing by the day... there’s an estimated global shortage of 3.5 million security professionals.”
Microsoft’s new Security certifications include:
- Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate | Exam SC-200
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate | Exam SC-300
- Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate | Exam SC-400
- Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance and Industry Fundamentals | Exam SC-900
The following blog outlines details of each of the new certifications, what their prerequisites are and why you want to get certified.
Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate | Exam SC-200
- Duration: only 3 days
- Exam: Exam SC-200
Through the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate course, you’ll learn to investigate and respond to threats to your business using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products.
You'll build knowledge on collaborating with stakeholders to secure information technology systems for your organisation. You’ll also learn how to:
- Reduce business risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment
- Advising on improvements to threat protection practices
- Refer violations of business policies to appropriate stakeholders
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate | Exam SC-300
- Duration: only 3 days
- Exam: SC-300
On this accelerated Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate course, you’ll learn to design, implement and operate your business' identity and access management system by using Azure AD.
You'll learn a variety of managing tasks like providing secure authentication and authorisation access to enterprise applications. You’ll also learn how to:
- Troubleshoot, monitor and report the identity and access environment
- Provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users
- Adapt access and governance
Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate | Exam SC-400
- Duration: only 2 days
- Exam: SC-400
- Define applicable requirements and tests IT processes and operations against those policies and controls
- Create policies and rules for content classification, data loss prevention, governance, and protection
- Work with the compliance and security leadership like Chief Compliance Officer and Security Officer
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance and Industry Fundamentals | Exam SC-900
- Duration: only 2 days
- Exam: SC-900
On this accelerated Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance and Industry Fundamentals course, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services.
In just 2 days, you’ll build knowledge on:
- Microsoft's privacy principles
- Azure Active Directory, Azure Network Security groups and Azure DDos protection
- The benefit and use cases of Azure Defender - previously the cloud workload
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It’s important to note that these new Security certifications do not degrade current ones like MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administrator or AZ-500: Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer, but, rather, they reflect how rapidly technology is developed.
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