- Published 7/26/2023
- 1st Edition
Now with Pearson Practice Tests! This eBook includes the full text and comes with TWO full practice tests!
About the book
Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-100 and demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge needed to design and evolve cybersecurity strategy for all aspects of enterprise architecture. Designed for experienced IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certfied: Cybersecurity Architect Expert level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
- Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
- Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies
- Design a strategy for data and applications
- Recommend security best practices and priorities
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
- Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
- Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
- Assumes you have advanced security engineering experience and knowledge and experience with hybrid and cloud implementations
About the Pearson Practice Test
This Exam Ref includes access to the companion website for the powerful Pearson Test Prep practice test software, complete with two full practice exams with hundreds of exam-realistic questions. The assessment engine offers you a wealth of customization options and reporting features, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.
· Includes direct links from each question to detailed tutorials to help you understand the concepts behind the questions.
· Provides unique sets of exam-realistic practice questions.
· Tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, laying out a complete assessment of your knowledge to help you focus your study where it is needed most.
About the Exam
Exam SC-100 focuses on the knowledge needed to build overall security strategy and architecture; design strategies for security operations, identity security, and regulatory compliance; evaluate security posture; recommend technical strategies to manage risk; design strategies to secure server endpoints, client endpoints, and SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services; specify application security requirements; design data security strategy; recommend security best practices based on Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture and Azure Security Benchmarks; use the Cloud Adoption Framework to recommend secure methodologies; use Microsoft Security Best Practices to recommend ransomware strategies.
About Microsoft Certification
The Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification credential demonstrates your ability to plan and implement cybersecurity strategy that meets business needs and protects the organization's mission and processes across its entire enterprise architecture. To fulfill your requirements, pass this exam and earn one of these four prerequisite certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate; Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate; Microsoft365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate; Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate.
See full details at: microsoft.com/learn
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Build an overall security strategy and architecture
CHAPTER 2 Design a security operations strategy
CHAPTER 3 Design an identity security strategy
CHAPTER 4 Design a regulatory compliance strategy
CHAPTER 5 Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
CHAPTER 6 Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
CHAPTER 7 Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
CHAPTER 8 Specify security requirements for applications
CHAPTER 9 Design a strategy for securing data
CHAPTER 10 Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures and Microsoft cloud security benchmark best practices
CHAPTER 11 Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
CHAPTER 12 Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices