Assessed on this exam
- Manage identity, access, and governance
- Secure storage, databases, and networking
- Secure compute
- Manage and monitor security posture
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Certification
This certification validates your ability to design, implement, and manage end‑to‑end security controls across Azure, hybrid, and AI-enabled environments to protect identities, data, applications, infrastructure, and maintain regulatory compliance.
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Role
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:
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.
Important
Learn more about the beta exam SC-500.
Passing score: 700. Learn more about exam scores. Beta exams are not scored immediately because we’re gathering data on the quality of the questions and the exam. Learn more about beta certification exams.
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You will have 120 minutes to complete this assessment.
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