SC-400: Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365

Prepare to pass the SC-400: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate Certification Exam

Course Description

As an information protection and compliance administrator, you plan and implement risk and compliance controls in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

In this role, you translate an organization’s risk and compliance requirements into technical implementation. You’re responsible for implementing and managing solutions for content classification, data loss prevention (DLP), information protection, data lifecycle management, records management, privacy, risk, and compliance.

You work with other roles that are responsible for governance, data, and security to evaluate and develop policies to address an organization’s risk reduction and compliance goals. You assist workload administrators, business application owners, human resources departments, and legal stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support the necessary policies and controls.

You should have experience with Microsoft 365 services, including:

Microsoft 365 Apps
Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Teams
You should also be familiar with PowerShell.

About this Course

Course Outline

Implement information protection (25–30%)

Create and manage sensitive info types

Identify sensitive information requirements for an organization’s data
Translate sensitive information requirements into built-in or custom sensitive info types
Create and manage custom sensitive info types
Create and manage exact data match (EDM) classifiers
Implement document fingerprinting

Create and manage trainable classifiers

Identify when to use trainable classifiers
Design and create a trainable classifier
Test a trainable classifier
Retrain a trainable classifier

Implement and manage sensitivity labels

Implement roles and permissions for administering sensitivity labels
Define and create sensitivity labels
Configure and manage sensitivity label policies
Configure auto-labeling policies for sensitivity labels
Monitor data classification and label usage by using Content explorer, Activity explorer, and audit search
Apply bulk classification to on-premises data by using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection scanner
Manage protection settings and marking for applied sensitivity labels

Design and implement encryption for email messages

Design an email encryption solution based on methods available in Microsoft 365
Implement Microsoft Purview Message Encryption
Implement Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption

Implement DLP (15–20%)

Create and configure DLP policies

Design DLP policies based on an organization’s requirements
Configure permissions for DLP
Create and manage DLP policies
Interpret policy and rule precedence in DLP
Configure a Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps file policy to use DLP policies

Implement and monitor Endpoint DLP

Configure advanced DLP rules for devices in DLP policies
Configure Endpoint DLP settings
Recommend a deployment method for device onboarding
Identify endpoint requirements for device onboarding
Monitor endpoint activities
Implement the Microsoft Purview Extension

Monitor and manage DLP activities

Analyze DLP reports
Analyze DLP activities by using Activity explorer
Remediate DLP alerts in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Remediate DLP alerts generated by Defender for Cloud Apps

Implement data lifecycle and records management (10–15%)

Retain and delete data by using retention labels

Plan for information retention and disposition by using retention labels
Create retention labels for data lifecycle management
Configure and manage adaptive scopes
Configure a retention label policy to publish labels
Configure a retention label policy to auto-apply labels
Interpret the results of policy precedence, including using Policy lookup

Manage data retention in Microsoft 365 workloads

Create and apply retention policies for SharePoint and OneDrive
Create and apply retention policies for Microsoft 365 groups
Create and apply retention policies for Teams
Create and apply retention policies for Yammer
Create and apply retention policies for Exchange Online
Apply mailbox holds in Exchange Online
Implement Exchange Online archiving policies
Configure preservation locks for retention policies and retention label policies
Recover retained content in Microsoft 365

Implement Microsoft Purview records management

Create and configure retention labels for records management
Manage retention labels by using a file plan, including file plan descriptors
Classify records by using retention labels and retention label policies
Manage event-based retention
Manage the disposition of content in records management
Configure records management settings, including retention label settings and disposition settings

Monitor and investigate data and activities by using Microsoft Purview (15–20%)

Plan and manage regulatory requirements by using Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Plan for regulatory compliance in Microsoft 365
Create and manage assessments
Create and modify custom templates
Interpret and manage improvement actions
Create and manage alert policies for assessments

Plan and manage eDiscovery and Content search

Choose between eDiscovery (Standard) and eDiscovery (Premium) based on an organization’s requirements
Plan and implement eDiscovery
Delegate permissions to use eDiscovery and Content search
Perform searches and respond to results from eDiscovery
Manage eDiscovery cases
Perform searches by using Content search

Manage and analyze audit logs and reports in Microsoft Purview

Choose between Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium) based on an organization’s requirements
Plan for and configure auditing
Investigate activities by using the unified audit log
Review and interpret compliance reports and dashboards
Configure alert policies
Configure audit retention policies

Manage insider and privacy risk in Microsoft 365 (15–20%)

Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

Plan for communication compliance
Create and manage communication compliance policies
Investigate and remediate communication compliance alerts and reports

Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

Plan for insider risk management
Create and manage insider risk management policies
Investigate and remediate insider risk activities, alerts, and reports
Manage insider risk cases
Manage forensic evidence settings
Manage notice templates

Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Information Barriers (IBs)

Plan for IBs
Create and manage IB segments and policies
Configure Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive to enforce IBs, including setting barrier modes
Investigate issues with IB policies

Implement and manage privacy requirements by using Microsoft Priva

Configure and maintain privacy risk management
Create and manage Privacy Risk Management policies
Identify and monitor potential risks involving personal data
Evaluate and remediate alerts and issues
Implement and manage subject rights requests