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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

By : Dwayne Natwick
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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

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By: Dwayne Natwick

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100 is a comprehensive guide that will help cybersecurity professionals design and evaluate the cybersecurity architecture of Microsoft cloud services. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll have everything you need to pass the SC-100 exam. This book will take you through designing a strategy for a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) of the architecture. This will include cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures, where you’ll learn how to protect using the principles of zero trust, along with evaluating security operations and the overall security posture. To make sure that you are able to take the SC-100 exam with confidence, the last chapter of this book will let you test your knowledge with a mock exam and practice questions. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan, design, and evaluate cybersecurity for Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and pass the SC-100 exam with flying colors.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Evolution of Cybersecurity in the Cloud
3
Part 2: Designing a Zero-Trust Strategy and Architecture
7
Part 3: Evaluating Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Technical Strategies and Security Operations Strategies
10
Part 4: Designing Security for Infrastructure
13
Part 5: Designing a Strategy for Data and Applications

Resources available and accessing Microsoft Learn

Earlier in this chapter, some of the resources available for preparing for the exam were mentioned. Microsoft Learn was mentioned along with the Microsoft docs, but Microsoft Learn requires its own section due to the amount of free content that it provides to help you prepare for an exam.

Accessing Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Learn is a great resource to get your learning path started. All the content on Microsoft Learn is free. When you create an account on Microsoft, learning progress is tracked and you can acquire badges along the way. In addition, Microsoft creates learning challenges periodically with prizes, such as free exam vouchers. You can create a free account by selecting the icon on the top right of the page and selecting Sign in, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 0.2 – Microsoft Learn site – Sign in

Figure 0.2 – Microsoft Learn site – Sign in

You can sign in with an existing Microsoft account or create one...