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

by Yuri Diogenes, Nicholas DiCola, Mark Morowczynski, Kevin McKinnerney

Overview

Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-900 and help demonstrate your real-world knowledge of the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. Designed for business stakeholders, new and existing IT professionals, functional consultants, and students, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity

• Describe the capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions

• Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions

• Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

• Assumes you are a business user, stakeholder, consultant, professional, or student who wants to create holistic, end-to-end solutions with Microsoft security, compliance, and identity technologies

About the Exam

Exam SC-900 focuses on knowledge needed to describe: security and compliance concepts and methods; identity concepts; Azure AD identity services/types, authentication, access management, identity protection, and governance; Azure, Azure Sentinel, and Microsoft 365 security management; Microsoft 365 Defender threat protection and Intune endpoint security; Microsoft 365 compliance management, information protection, governance, insider risk, eDiscovery, and audit capabilities; and Azure resource governance.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification, helping to demonstrate your understanding of the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. With this certification, you can move on to earn more advanced related Associate-level role-based certifications.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780138363734
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	04/19/2024
Series:	Exam Ref
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

YURI DIOGENES, MSC has a Master of Science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation from UTICA College and is currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has been working at Microsoft since 2006; currently, he is a Principal PM Manager for the Customer Experience Engineering Defender for Cloud Team, where he manages a global team of product managers focusing on cloud security posture management and workload protection. Yuri has published more than 30 books, mostly about information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri is also a professor at EC-Council University, teaching in the Bachelor in Cybersecurity Program. Yuri has an MBA and many IT/security industry certifications, such as CISSP, MITRE ATT&CK® Cyber Threat Intelligence Certified, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CTI, E|CSA, E|CHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP, and CyberSec First Responder. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @yuridiogenes.

NICHOLAS DICOLA is a Security Jedi and the VP of Customers at Zero Networks, where he leads a global team responsible for all things customer related. He has a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in information systems and various industry certifications such as CISSP and CEH. You can follow Nicholas on Twitter at @mastersecjedi.

KEVIN MCKINNERNEY is a senior program manager on the Microsoft Purview Data Governance Customer Experience Engineering (CxE) Team, where he provides best practices and deployment guidance to help customers quickly onboard the Microsoft Purview Data Governance solution. Kevin has been working at Microsoft since 2011 in various roles, including senior support escalation engineer on the Microsoft CSS Security team and senior premier field engineer, focusing on Microsoft security and information protection. Kevin has authored dozens of blog posts and videos related to information protection and Purview data governance and has spoken at many technical conferences, including RSAC, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft MVP Summits, and the Microsoft Security Engineering Advisory Council. Prior to starting at Microsoft, he worked for IBM as a Microsoft support manager and spent eight years as an information systems technician while on active duty in the United States Navy. Kevin received a Bachelor of Science in business management from the University of Phoenix and holds many certifications, including CISSP and GCIH. You can follow Kevin on Twitter @KemckinnMSFT and on GitHub (github.com/kemckinnmsft).

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity

CHAPTER 2 Microsoft identity and access management solutions

CHAPTER 3 Capabilities of Microsoft security solutions

CHAPTER 4 Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

CHAPTER 5 SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals exam updates