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Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)

Achieve your Microsoft SC-900 Cyber Security Fundamentals certification with our immersive Firebrand course.

What you’ll learn

On this Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals course, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services.


At Firebrand, we are one of the few companies in the world to be designated a Microsoft Cloud Partner. By studying with us, you'll access the latest Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC), learn from Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs), and take the official exam, included in the price of your course.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the official SC-900 exam and become certified.


You'll learn about:

  • Security and compliance concepts: Shared responsibility model, defense-in-depth, Zero Trust model, encryption, hashing, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)

  • Identity concepts: Identity as the primary security perimeter, authentication, authorization, identity providers, directory services/Active Directory, and federation.

  • Microsoft Entra ID: Functions and identity types, authentication methods (including MFA and password protection/management), and access management capabilities. [1]

  • Azure infrastructure security: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF), network segmentation/virtual networks, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Bastion, and Azure Key Vault

Curriculum

  • Describe Security and Compliance Concepts
  • Describe Identity Concepts
  • Describe the Function and Identity Types of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe the Authentication Capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe Access Management Capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe the Identity Protection and Governance Capabilities of Microsoft Entra
  • Describe Core Infrastructure Security Services in Azure
  • Describe the Security Management Capabilities in Azure
  • Describe the Capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Describe Threat Protection with Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Describe Microsoft’s Service Trust Portal and Privacy Capabilities
  • Describe the Compliance Management Capabilities in Microsoft Purview
  • Describe Information Protection, Data Lifecycle
  • Management, and Data Governance Capabilities in Microsoft Purview
  • Describe the Insider Risk Capabilities in Microsoft Purview
  • Describe the eDiscovery and Audit Capabilities in Microsoft Purview

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a general understanding of the following:


● Networking and cloud computing concepts
● IT or any general experience working in an IT environment
● Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365

Exam info

As part of your course, you'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by our Certification Guarantee:

Exam SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Exam code: SC-900

Language: English

Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (10–15%)

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Azure Active Directory, part of Microsoft Entra (25–30%)

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Security solutions (25–30%)

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (25–30%)

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FAQs

Yes, we do provide courses suitable for beginners. However, Firebrand's courses aren't easy and it's essential that you are interested and actively pursuing a career in IT.

Traditional training providers usually run their courses from 9am to 5pm. At Firebrand Training we maximise the number of learning hours to minimise the number of training days, so you’ll be back to your job as quickly as possible.

Firebrand's courses are constantly reviewed. We ask our delegates for feedback after every course. We are official partners with leading vendors and therefore, we're provided with certification changes and updates, which we can then implement in our course delivery at a very early stage. This feedback is then analysed in view of changes or discrepancies. We will then address the topics mentioned and have a panel of subject matter experts provide us with valuable suggestions for improvement and solutions.

Our award-winning Lecture | Lab | Review method focuses on what matters:

Industry professionals delivering your lectures

Labs that bring the real world into the classroom, immersing you in every practical detail.

Reviews to test – and stretch – your knowledge

Exams that come at the perfect moment – when the material is still fresh in your mind.

Our focused approach delivers results!

This course is ideal for:

-Business stakeholders
-IT professionals
-Students interested in Microsoft security, compliance and identity solutions

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