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Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Investigate, search for, and mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender.

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Overview

As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Microsoft security operations analyst who reduces organizational risk by:

  • Rapidly remediating active attacks in cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Advising on improvements to threat protection practices.
  • Identifying violations of organizational policies.

As a security operations analyst, you:

  • Perform triage.
  • Respond to incidents.
  • Mitigate risk by using exposure management.
  • Hunt for threats by using threat intelligence.
  • Use KQL for reporting, detections, and investigations.

You also monitor, identify, investigate, and respond to threats in cloud and on-premises environments by using:

  • Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Copilot for Security
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
  • Third-party security solutions

You collaborate with business and security leadership to define security standards for the organization. You work with other roles across the digital enterprise to implement the standards, to enhance the security posture of an organization, and to raise security awareness.

As a candidate, you should be familiar with:

  • Microsoft 365
  • Azure cloud services
  • Windows, Linux, and mobile operating systems

Skills measured

  • Manage a security operations environment
  • Configure protections and detections
  • Manage incident response
  • Manage security threats

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