Microsoft Certified:
Security Operations Analyst Associate

As a Microsoft security operations analyst, you reduce organizational risk by:

• Rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment.
• Advising on improvements to threat protection practices.
• Referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.

You perform:

• Triage.
• Incident response.
• Vulnerability management.
• Threat hunting.
• Cyber threat intelligence analysis.

As a Microsoft security operations analyst, you monitor, identify, investigate, and respond to threats in multicloud environments by using:

• Microsoft Sentinel
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Defender
• Third-party security solutions

In this role, you collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, identity administrators, Azure administrators, and endpoint administrators to secure IT systems for the organization.

As a candidate, you should be familiar with:

• Microsoft 365
• Azure cloud services
• Windows and Linux operating systems