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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

5 (1)
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

Who should take the SC-100 exam?

Now that you understand more about Microsoft exams, paths to learning, and the specific areas covered in the SC-100 exam, it is important to think about the roles that someone should have or want before preparing for this exam. The SC-100 exam is the Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect exam, so it covers a broad range of services and solutions for architecture, design, and evaluation of security, compliance, and identity within Microsoft 365, Azure, and hybrid infrastructures. This exam is a culmination of the security, compliance, and identity certification paths and prepares you for earning the Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert badge. This exam, along with any one of the prerequisite exams, will earn you this expert badge. The following screenshot shows the path to the Cybersecurity Architect Expert badge:

Figure 0.14 – Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification details

Figure 0.14 – Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification details

If you have already passed...