Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-200 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge required to work with stakeholders to secure IT systems, and to rapidly remediate active attacks. Designed for Microsoft security operations analysts, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Associate level.
Focus on the expertise on monitoring, identifying, investigating, and responding to threats in cloud and on-premises environments by using:
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Security Copilot
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
- Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
- Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
- Assumes you have experience with threat management, monitoring, and/or response in Microsoft 365 environments
Exam SC-200 focuses on knowledge needed to detect, investigate, and remediate security threats across cloud and on-premises environments by equipping security operations analysts with the skills to manage and operate a modern SOC using Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Security Copilot; configure and manage a security operations environment by designing Sentinel workspaces, optimizing data sources, managing assets through Defender Vulnerability Management and Exposure Management, and configuring automation and attack disruption; configure protections and detections across Defender solutions; assess incident response capabilities, including investigating and remediating threats such as ransomware, email compromise, compromised identities, insider risks, and cloud workload attacks using investigation tools, device timelines, live response, playbooks, and automation, as well as leveraging Security Copilot for guided investigations and analysis; employ KQL for proactive threat hunting, interpreting threat analytics and MITRE ATT&CK coverage, managing threat indicators, and visualizing security data to continuously reduce organizational risk.
About Microsoft Certification
Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate certification credential, demonstrating your ability to collaborate with organizational stakeholders to reduce organizational risk, advise on threat protection improvements, and address violations of organizational policies.
See full details at: microsoft.com/learn
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Manage a security operations environment
Chapter 2 Configure protections and detections
Chapter 3 Manage incident response
Chapter 4 Manage security threats
Chapter 5 SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst exam updates
About the Author :
Yuri Diogenes has a PhD in cybersecurity leadership and a Master of Science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation. Yuri has been working at Microsoft since 2006, and currently he is a Principal PM Manager at Microsoft CxE, where he manages the Defender for Cloud and Azure Network Security Teams. Yuri is also a Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Trine University, and EC-Council University. Yuri has published more than 30 books, mostly around information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, E|CTI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, CASP, and MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence. You can follow Yuri on X at @yuridiogenes and watch his Defender for Cloud in the Field show at aka.ms/MDCInTheField.
Sarah Young is the Director of Security for the Microsoft Innovation Hub. Having worked with Microsoft Security products for a good portion of her security career, Sarah has extensive knowledge of the platform and has helped it develop and grow in various roles at Microsoft over the years. Sarah is an experienced public speaker and has presented on a range of IT security and technology topics at global industry events and holds numerous IT security qualifications (some expired, some still going!). She is an active supporter of security and cloud native communities around the world and is a co-host of the Microsoft Azure Security Podcast. You can follow Sarah on the socials @_sarahyo and listen to her podcast at aka.ms/azsecpod.
