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This course provides foundational level knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.

Audience profile

The audience for this course is looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. The content for this course aligns to the SC-900 exam objective domain. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution.

Skills gained

• Describe basic concepts of security, compliance, and identity.
• Describe the concepts and capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions.
• Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions.
• Describe the compliance management capabilities in Microsoft.

Course outline

Module 1: Describe basic concepts of security, compliance, and identity.

Learn about core concepts, principles, and methodologies that are foundational to security, compliance, and identity solutions, including Zero-Trust, shared responsibility, our privacy principles, and more.

Module 2: Describe the concepts and capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions

Learn about Azure AD services and identity principals, secure authentication, access management capabilities, as well as identity protection and governance.

Module 3: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions

Learn about security capabilities in Microsoft. Topics covered will include network and platform capabilities of Azure, Azure security management, and Sentinel. You’ll learn about threat protection with Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft 365 security management, and you'll explore endpoint protection with Intune.

Module 4: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

Learn about compliance solutions in Microsoft. Topics covered will include Compliance center, Information protection and governance in Microsoft 365, Insider Risk, audit, and eDiscovery solutions. Also covered are Azure resources governance capabilities.

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• General understanding of networking and cloud computing concepts.
• General IT knowledge or any general experience working in an IT environment.
• General understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

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

Boštjan Križnič, MCT