SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam

Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
Languages: English
Retirement date: none

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture; evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies; design security for infrastructure; and design a strategy for data and applications.

Candidates for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

Skills measured
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Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)

Audience Profile
The Microsoft cybersecurity architect has subject matter expertise in designing and evolving the cybersecurity strategy to protect an organization’s mission and business processes across all aspects of the enterprise architecture. The cybersecurity architect designs a Zero Trust strategy and architecture, including security strategies for data, applications, access management, identity, and infrastructure. The cybersecurity architect also evaluates Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies.

The cybersecurity architect continuously collaborates with leaders and practitioners in IT security, privacy, and other roles across an organization to plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.

A candidate for this certification should have advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

To earn the Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect certification, candidates must also pass one of the following exams: SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500, or MS-500. We strongly recommend that you do this before taking this exam.

Topic Covered :

NOTE: The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. Related topics may be covered in the exam.
NOTE: Most questions cover features that are in general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.


This practice test covers following topics:

Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)

Build an overall security strategy and architecture
• identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA)
• translate business goals into security requirements
• translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and security processes
• design security for a resiliency strategy
• integrate a hybrid or multi-tenant environment into a security strategy
• develop a technical and governance strategy for traffic filtering and segmentation

Design a security operations strategy
• design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations
• develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment
• design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR
• evaluate security workflows
• evaluate a security operations strategy for incident management lifecycle
• evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence

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Design an identity security strategy

Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
• design a strategy for access to cloud resources
• recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid)
• recommend an authentication strategy
• recommend an authorization strategy
• design a strategy for conditional access
• design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
• design security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure including identity- based firewall rules, Azure PIM
• design security strategy for privileged activities including PAM, entitlement management, cloud tenant administration

Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)

Design a regulatory compliance strategy
• interpret compliance requirements and translate into specific technical capabilities (new or existing)
• evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
• design implementation of Azure Policy
• design for data residency requirements
• translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions

Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
• evaluate security posture by using benchmarks (including Azure security benchmarks, ISO 2701, etc.)
• evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores
• evaluate security posture of cloud workloads
• design security for an Azure Landing Zone
• interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
• recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks

Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

NOTE: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
• specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
• 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 requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services
• design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
• design a strategy for secure remote access

Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
• specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
• specify security requirements for IoT workloads
• specify security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB
• specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
• specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage
• specify security requirements for containers
• specify security requirements for container orchestration

Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)

Specify security requirements for applications
• specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
• specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
• specify a security strategy for applications and APIs

Design a strategy for securing data
• specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
• design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
• specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion

This course is good enough to pass your exam at your first attempt easily.

QUESTION 1
You have an Azure subscription that contains virtual machines, storage accounts, and Azure SQL databases.
All resources are backed up multiple times a day by using Azure Backup. You are developing a strategy to
protect against ransomware attacks.
You need to recommend which controls must be enabled to ensure that Azure Backup can be used to
restore the resources in the event of a successtu\ ransonvwaTe attack.
Which two controls should you include in the recommendation? Each correct answer presents a
complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Use Azure Monitor notifications when backup configurations change.
B. Require PINs for critical operations.
C. Perform offline backups to Azure Data Box.
D. Encrypt backups by using customer-managed keys (CMKs).
E. Enable soft delete for backups.

Answer: B, C
 

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QUESTION 2
Your company has a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.
The Chief Compliance Officer plans to enhance privacy management in the working environment. You
need to recommend a solution to enhance the privacy management. The solution must meet the following requirements:
? Identify unused personal data and empower users to make smart data handling decisions.
? Provide users with notifications and guidance when a user sends personal data in Microsoft Teams.
? Provide users with recommendations to mitigate privacy risks.
What should you include in the recommendation?

A. Microsoft Viva Insights
B. Advanced eDiscovery
C. Privacy Risk Management in Microsoft Priva
D. communication compliance in insider risk management

Answer: A
 

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QUESTION 3
Your company is moving a big data solution to Azure.
The company plans to use the following storage workloads:
? Azure Storage blob containers
? Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
? Azure Storage file shares
? Azure Disk Storage
Which two storage workloads support authentication by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)? Each
correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Azure Disk Storage
B. Azure Storage blob containers
C. Azure Storage file shares
D. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Answer: B, D
 

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QUESTION 4
You need to recommend a solution to scan the application code. The solution must meet the application
development requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?

A. Azure Key Vault
B. GitHub Advanced Security
C. Application Insights in Azure Monitor
D. Azure DevTest Labs

Answer: D
 

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QUESTION 5
You need to recommend a solution to resolve the virtual machine issue. What should you include in the
recommendation?

A. Onboard the virtual machines to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
B. Onboard the virtual machines to Azure Arc.
C. Create a device compliance policy in Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
D. Enable the Qualys scanner in Defender for Cloud.

Answer: A