SC-100T00-A: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (20–25%)

Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (30–35%)

Design security solutions for infrastructure (20–25%)

Design security solutions for applications and data (20–25%)

Design a security strategy to support business resiliency goals, including identifying and prioritizing threats to business-critical assets

Design solutions that align with Microsoft ransomware best practices, including backup, restore, and privileged access

Design configurations for secure backup and restore by using Azure Backup for hybrid and multicloud environments

Design solutions for security updates

Design solutions that align with best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls

Design solutions that align with best practices for protecting against insider and external attacks

Design solutions that align with best practices for Zero Trust security, including the Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan (RaMP)

Design a new or evaluate an existing strategy for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Recommend solutions for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Design solutions for implementing and governing security by using Azure landing zones

Design a DevSecOps process

Develop security operations capabilities to support a hybrid or multicloud environment

Design a solution for centralized logging and auditing

Design a solution for security information and event management (SIEM), including Microsoft Sentinel

Design a solution for detection and response that includes extended detection and response (XDR)

Design a solution for security orchestration automated response (SOAR), including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR

Design and evaluate security workflows, including incident response, threat hunting, incident management, and threat intelligence

Design and evaluate threat detection coverage by using MITRE ATT&CK

Design a solution for access to software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), hybrid/on-premises, and multicloud resources, including identity, networking, and application controls

Design a solution for Microsoft Entra ID, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments

Design a solution for external identities, including business-to-business (B2B), business-to-customer (B2C), and decentralized identity

Design a modern authentication and authorization strategy, including Conditional Access, continuous access evaluation, threat intelligence integration, and risk scoring

Validate the alignment of Conditional Access policies with a Zero Trust strategy

Specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Design a solution to manage secrets, keys, and certificates

Design a solution for assigning and delegating privileged roles by using the enterprise access model

Design an identity governance solution, including Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), privileged access management, entitlement management, and access reviews

Design a solution for securing the administration of cloud tenants, including SaaS and multicloud infrastructure and platforms

Design a solution for cloud infrastructure entitlement management that includes Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Design a solution for Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) and bastion services

Translate compliance requirements into a security solution

Design a solution to address compliance requirements by using Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions

Design a solution to address privacy requirements, including Microsoft Priva

Design Azure Policy solutions to address security and compliance requirements

Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Evaluate security posture by using the Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB)

Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Secure Score

Design integrated security posture management and workload protection solutions in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Design cloud workload protection solutions that use Microsoft Defender for Cloud, such as Microsoft Defender for Servers, Microsoft Defender for App Service, and Microsoft Defender for SQL

Design a solution for integrating hybrid and multicloud environments by using Azure Arc

Design a solution for Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM)

Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems

Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration

Specify security requirements for IoT devices and embedded systems

Design a solution for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) by using Microsoft Defender for IoT

Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints

Design a solution for secure remote access, including Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access

Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services

Specify security requirements for IoT workloads

Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service

Specify security requirements for containers

Specify security requirements for container orchestration

Evaluate security posture for productivity and collaboration workloads by using metrics, including Microsoft Secure Score and Microsoft Defender for Cloud secure score

Design a Microsoft Defender XDR solution

Design secure configurations and operational practices for Microsoft 365 workloads and data

Evaluate the security posture of existing application portfolios

Evaluate threats to business-critical applications by using threat modeling

Design and implement a full lifecycle strategy for application security

Design and implement standards and practices for securing the application development process

Map technologies to application security requirements

Design a solution for workload identity to authenticate and access Azure cloud resources

Design a solution for API management and security

Design a solution for secure access to applications, including Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Front Door

Design a solution for data discovery and classification by using Microsoft Purview data governance solutions

Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data

Design a solution for protection of data at rest, data in motion, and data in use

Design a security solution for data in Azure workloads, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB

Design a security solution for data in Azure Storage

Design a security solution that includes Microsoft Defender for Storage and Microsoft Defender for SQL