Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Practice Exam
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Practice Exam
About Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Exam
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam (SC-200) Exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks including mitigating threats using Microsoft 365 Defender; mitigate threats using Azure Defender; and mitigate threats using Azure Sentinel.
Microsoft SC-200 Exam Objectives
The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.
Skills Acquired
- Firstly, as a Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, you will be required to perform threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment.
- The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products.
- Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.
Exam Details
- Exam Name: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam
- Exam Code: SC-200
- Exam Duration: 150 mins
- Exam Questions: 40-60 Questions
- Passing Score: 700 (on a scale 1-1000)
Course Outline
The SC-900 exam covers the latest exam updates and topics -
MODULE 1 - Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender (25-30%)
Detect, investigate, respond, and remediate threats to the production environment by
- using Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- detect, investigate, respond, remediate Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive for
Business threats
- detect, investigate, respond, remediate threats to email by using Defender for Office 365
- manage data loss prevention policy alerts
- assess and recommend sensitivity labels
- assess and recommend insider risk policies
Detect, investigate, respond, and remediate endpoint threats by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- manage data retention, alert notification, and advanced features
- configure device attack surface reduction rules
- configure and manage custom detections and alerts
- respond to incidents and alerts
- manage automated investigations and remediations Assess and recommend endpoint
- configurations to reduce and remediate vulnerabilities by using Microsoft’s Threat and Vulnerability Management solution.
- manage Microsoft Defender for Endpoint threat indicators
- analyze Microsoft Defender for Endpoint threat analytics
Detect, investigate, respond, and remediate identity threats
- identify and remediate security risks related to sign-in risk policies
- identify and remediate security risks related to Conditional Access events
- identify and remediate security risks related to Azure Active Directory
- identify and remediate security risks using Secure Score
- identify, investigate, and remediate security risks related to privileged identities
- configure detection alerts in Azure AD Identity Protection
- identify and remediate security risks related to Active Directory Domain Services using Microsoft Defender for Identity
- identify, investigate, and remediate security risks by using Microsoft Cloud Application Security (MCAS)
- configure MCAS to generate alerts and reports to detect threats
Manage cross-domain investigations in Microsoft 365 Defender Portal
- manage incidents across Microsoft 365 Defender products
- manage actions pending approval across products
- perform advanced threat hunting
MODULE 2 - Mitigate threats using Azure Defender (25-30%)
Design and configure an Azure Defender implementation
- plan and configure an Azure Defender workspace
- configure Azure Defender roles
- configure data retention policies
- assess and recommend cloud workload protection
Plan and implement the use of data connectors for ingestion of data sources in Azure Defender
- identify data sources to be ingested for Azure Defender
- configure Automated Onboarding for Azure resources
- connect non-Azure machine onboarding
- connect AWS cloud resources
- connect GCP cloud resources
- configure data collection
Manage Azure Defender alert rules
- validate alert configuration
- setup email notifications
- create and manage alert suppression rules
Configure automation and remediation
- configure automated responses in Azure Security Center
- design and configure playbook in Azure Defender
- remediate incidents by using Azure Defender recommendations
- create an automatic response using an Azure Resource Manager template
Investigate Azure Defender alerts and incidents
- describe alert types for Azure workloads
- manage security alerts
- manage security incidents
- analyze Azure Defender threat intelligence
- respond to Azure Defender for Key Vault alerts
- manage user data discovered during an investigation
MODULE 3 - Mitigate threats using Azure Sentinel (40-45%)
Design and configure an Azure Sentinel workspace
- plan an Azure Sentinel workspace
- configure Azure Sentinel roles
- design Azure Sentinel data storage
- configure Azure Sentinel service security
Plan and Implement the use of Data Connectors for Ingestion of Data Sources in Azure Sentinel
- identify data sources to be ingested for Azure Sentinel
- identify the prerequisites for a data connector
- configure and use Azure Sentinel data connectors
- design Syslog and CEF collections
- design and Configure Windows Events collections
- configure custom threat intelligence connectors
- create custom logs in Azure Log Analytics to store custom data
Manage Azure Sentinel analytics rules
- design and configure analytics rules
- create custom analytics rules to detect threats
- activate Microsoft security analytical rules
- configure connector provided scheduled queries
- configure custom scheduled queries
- define incident creation logic
Configure Security Orchestration Automation and Remediation (SOAR) in Azure Sentinel
- create Azure Sentinel playbooks
- configure rules and incidents to trigger playbooks
- use playbooks to remediate threats
- use playbooks to manage incidents
- use playbooks across Microsoft Defender solutions
Manage Azure Sentinel Incidents
- investigate incidents in Azure Sentinel
- triage incidents in Azure Sentinel
- respond to incidents in Azure Sentinel
- investigate multi-workspace incidents
- identify advanced threats with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
Use Azure Sentinel workbooks to analyze and interpret data
- activate and customize Azure Sentinel workbook templates
- create custom workbooks
- configure advanced visualizations
- view and analyze Azure Sentinel data using workbooks
- track incident metrics using the security operations efficiency workbook
Hunt for threats using the Azure Sentinel portal
- create custom hunting queries
- run hunting queries manually
- monitor hunting queries by using Livestream
- perform advanced hunting with notebooks
- track query results with bookmarks
- use hunting bookmarks for data investigations
- convert a hunting query to an analytical rule
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- Practice exam questions have been created on the basis of content outlined in the official documentation.
- Each set in the practice exam contains unique questions built with the intent to provide real-time experience to the candidates as well as gain more confidence during exam preparation.
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