As a Microsoft identity and access administrator, you design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management by using Microsoft Entra. You configure and manage identities throughout their lifecycles for users, devices, Microsoft Azure resources, and applications. You are responsible for ensuring the application of Zero Trust principles for identity and access solutions. As an identity and access administrator, you provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for users. You plan and implement identity, authentication, and authorization to enable access across applications and resources. You’re also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting on identity and access. You collaborate with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects, modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid identity solutions, and implement identity governance. You should be familiar with Azure, Microsoft 365 services and workloads, and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You should also be familiar with PowerShell and Kusto Query Language (KQL). Important The English language version of this certification will be updated on July 25, 2025. Review the study guide linked in the Certification resources section for details about upcoming changes.

As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for administering Windows Server as a workload in both on-premises and hybrid environments. In this role, you deploy, implement, manage, and troubleshoot Windows Server in Azure as well as migrating and deploying workloads to Azure. You administer on- identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery for Windows Server. You typically collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers. You use administrative tools and technologies such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Update Manager, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and IaaS virtual machine (VM) administration. As a candidate for this certification, you should have several years of experience with Windows Server operating systems. Important The English language version of this certification will be updated on June 17, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-800 and Exam AZ-801 pages for details about recent changes.

As the Azure security engineer, you implement, manage, and monitor security for resources in Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure. You implement and manage security components and configurations by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and other tools. You ensure that the infrastructure aligns with standards and best practices such as the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB). Your responsibilities as an Azure security engineer include: Managing the security posture. Implementing threat protection. Identifying and remediating vulnerabilities. You are responsible for implementing regulatory compliance controls for Azure infrastructure including identity and access, network, compute, storage, data, applications, asset management, backup and recovery, and devops security. As an Azure security engineer, you work with architects, administrators, and developers to plan and implement solutions that meet security and compliance requirements. You may also collaborate with security operations in responding to security incidents in Azure. You should have: Practical experience in administration of Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments. Strong familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, as well as compute, network, and storage in Azure.

As a Microsoft cybersecurity architect, you translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization. You design, guide the implementation of, and maintain security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles and best practices, including security strategies for identity, devices, data, AI, applications, network, infrastructure, and DevOps. Plus, you design solutions for Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations, and security posture management.​ As a cybersecurity architect, you continuously collaborate with leaders and practitioners in security, privacy, engineering, and other roles across an organization to plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.​ As a candidate for this certification, you have experience implementing or administering solutions in the following areas: identity and access, platform protection, security operations, data and AI security, application security, and hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. You should have expert skills in at least one of those areas, and you should have experience designing security solutions that include Microsoft security technologies. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on April 21, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam SC-100 page for details about recent changes.

This exam is targeted to you, if you’re looking to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. If you have an interest in Microsoft SCI solutions, this exam is for you, whether you’re a: Business stakeholder New or existing IT professional Student You should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and want to understand how Microsoft SCI solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution. Important The English language version of this certification will be updated on July 18, 2025. Review the study guide linked in the Certification resources section for details about upcoming changes.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to set up and configure Microsoft Sentinel. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity products; the Azure portal; and Azure administration, including role-based access control (RBAC).