Microsoft SC-100 Study Guide: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam

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About Exam SC-100: Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert

The Microsoft cybersecurity architect has subject matter expertise in designing and evolving the cybersecurity strategy to protect an organization's mission and business processes across all aspects of the enterprise architecture.

The cybersecurity architect designs a Zero Trust strategy and architecture, including security strategies for data, applications, access management, identity, and infrastructure. The cybersecurity architect also evaluates Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies.

SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have the following:

• Highly recommended to have attended and passed one of the associate-level certifications in the security, compliance, and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200, or SC-300)

• Advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications.

• Experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

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Audience Profile for the Exam

This course is for experienced cloud security engineers who have taken a previous certification in the security, compliance, and identity portfolio. Specifically, students should have advanced experience and knowledge in various security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations. Beginning students should instead take the course SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.

About Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

This is an advanced, expert-level course. Although not required to attend, students are strongly encouraged to have taken and passed another associate-level certification in the security, compliance, and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200, or SC-300) before attending this class. This course prepares students with the expertise to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), and data and applications. Students will also learn how to design and architect solutions using zero trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

Skills Measured

For the full list of the skills that the exam measures, along with the level of experience and expertise that you’ll need as an exam candidate, check out the skills measured.

• Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30-35%)

• Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (10-15%)

• Design security for infrastructure (10-15%)

• Design a strategy for data and applications (15-20%)

• Recommend security best practices and priorities (20-25%)
  

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Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)

Build an overall security strategy and architecture

• Identify the integration points in a security 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 the incident management lifecycle

• Evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence

Design an identity security strategy

• 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 and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra

• Design security strategy for privileged activities, including PAM, entitlement management, cloud tenant administration

Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (10–15%)

Design a regulatory compliance strategy

• Interpret compliance requirements and translate them 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 Azure Security Benchmark

• Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores

• Evaluate the 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 (10–15%)

Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

• 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 privileged 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 Server, Azure SQL, 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 (15–20%)

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

Recommend security best practices and priorities (20–25%)

Recommend security best practices by using the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and Azure Security Benchmarks

• Recommend best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls

• Recommend best practices for protecting from insider and external attacks

• Recommend best practices for Zero Trust security

• Recommend best practices for Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan

Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

• Recommend a DevSecOps process

• Recommend a methodology for asset protection

• Recommend strategies for managing and minimizing risk

Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices

• Plan for ransomware protection and extortion-based attacks (i.e., backup and recovery, limit scope)

• Protect assets from ransomware attacks

• Recommend Microsoft ransomware best practices