SC-900: Security, Identity and Compliance Fundamentals

Prepare to earn the Microsoft Security, Identity and Compliance fundamentals certification in just 3 hours a week! Next cohort starts March 6, 2025!

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Course Description

This course provides foundational level knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course is looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. The content for this course aligns to the SC-900 exam objective domain. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution. Before attending this course, students must have:

General understanding of networking and cloud computing concepts.
General IT knowledge or any general experience working in an IT environment.
General understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

About this Course

Course Outline

Skills at a glance

Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (10–15%)
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra (25–30%)
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions (35–40%)
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (20–25%)

Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (10–15%)

Describe security and compliance concepts

Describe the shared responsibility model
Describe defense-in-depth
Describe the Zero Trust model
Describe encryption and hashing
Describe Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) concepts

Define identity concepts

Define identity as the primary security perimeter
Define authentication
Define authorization
Describe identity providers
Describe the concept of directory services and Active Directory
Describe the concept of federation

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra (25–30%)

Describe function and identity types of Microsoft Entra ID

Describe Microsoft Entra ID
Describe types of identities
Describe hybrid identity

Describe authentication capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID

Describe the authentication methods
Describe multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Describe password protection and management capabilities

Describe access management capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID

Describe Conditional Access
Describe Microsoft Entra roles and role-based access control (RBAC)

Describe identity protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft Entra

Describe Microsoft Entra ID Governance
Describe access reviews
Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management
Describe Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Describe Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions (35–40%)

Describe core infrastructure security services in Azure

Describe Azure distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Protection
Describe Azure Firewall
Describe Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Describe network segmentation with Azure virtual networks
Describe network security groups (NSGs)
Describe Azure Bastion
Describe Azure Key Vault

Describe security management capabilities of Azure

Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Describe Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Describe how security policies and initiatives improve the cloud security posture
Describe enhanced security features provided by cloud workload protection

Describe capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel

Define the concepts of security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR)
Describe threat detection and mitigation capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel

Describe threat protection with Microsoft Defender XDR

Describe Microsoft Defender XDR services
Describe Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Describe Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Describe Microsoft Defender for Identity
Describe Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Describe Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI)
Describe the Microsoft Defender portal

Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (20–25%)

Describe Microsoft Service Trust Portal and privacy principles

Describe the Service Trust Portal offerings
Describe the privacy principles of Microsoft
Describe Microsoft Priva

Describe compliance management capabilities of Microsoft Purview

Describe the Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Describe Compliance Manager
Describe the uses and benefits of compliance score

Describe information protection, data lifecycle management, and data governance capabilities of Microsoft Purview

Describe the data classification capabilities
Describe the benefits of Content explorer and Activity explorer
Describe sensitivity labels and sensitivity label policies
Describe data loss prevention (DLP)
Describe records management
Describe retention policies, retention labels, and retention label policies
Describe unified data governance solutions in Microsoft Purview

Describe insider risk, eDiscovery, and audit capabilities in Microsoft Purview

Describe insider risk management
Describe eDiscovery solutions in Microsoft Purview
Describe audit solutions in Microsoft Purview

Hybrid Course Schedule

Course	Start Date	End Date	Meets on	Start Time	End Time	Time Zone	Weeks	Weekly Live Training	Weekly Self Paced
SC-900: Security, Identity and Compliance Fundamentals	March 6th	April 10th	Thursday	12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Central	4	1 Hour	2 Hours
SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst	April 17th	June 6th	Thursday	12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Central	4	1 Hour	2 Hours

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