Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (beta)

As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a security engineer who protects organizational systems and data across cloud and hybrid environments by implementing comprehensive security controls that proactively help prevent unauthorized access and mitigate risks. Your role spans multiple security domains, including identity, network, application, data, and compute. You also help ensure that platforms, data, identities, and infrastructure used by AI workloads are securely implemented and monitored.

In this role, your responsibilities include:

• Securing access to resources by using Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Key Vault.
• Enforcing security and regulatory compliance.
• Securing storage, databases, and networking.
• Securing compute.
• Securing AI solutions.
• Managing and monitoring security posture.

You work closely with architects, administrators, engineers, analysts, and developers responsible for Azure, Microsoft 365, identity and access, information protection, security operations, DevOps, application development, database platforms, and networks.

For this exam, you should have practical experience in administration of Azure and hybrid environments, including compute, network, and storage. You need strong familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID and familiarity with Microsoft 365 administration.