Microsoft Azure Security

Course overview

Skills measured

  • Manage identity and access (30–35%)
  • Implement platform protection (15–20%)
  • Manage security operations (20–25%)
  • Secure data and applications (20–25%)

Functional groups

Manage identity and access(30–35%)

Manage identities in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of
Microsoft Entra

  • Create and manage a managed identity for Azure resources
  • Manage Azure AD groups
  • Manage Azure AD users
  • Manage external identities by using Azure AD
  • Manage administrative units 

Manage secure access by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD),
part of Microsoft Entra

  • Configure Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
  • Implement Conditional Access policies, including multifactor authentication
  • Implement Azure AD Identity Protection
  • Implement passwordless authenticatio
  • Configure access reviews

Manage application access

  • Integrate single sign on (SSO) and identity providers for authentication
  • Create an app registration
  • Configure app registration permission scopes
  • Manage app registration permission consent
  • Manage API permissions to Azure subscriptions and resources
  • Configure an authentication method for a service principal

Manage access control

  •  Configure Azure role permissions for management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and
    resources
  • Interpret role and resource permissions
  • Assign built-in roles in Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra
  • Create and assign custom roles, including Azure roles and Azure AD roles

Implement platform protection (15–20%)

Implement advanced network security

  • Secure the connectivity of hybrid networks
  • Secure the connectivity of virtual networks
  • Create and configure Azure Firewall
  • Create and configure Azure Firewall Manager
  • Create and configure Azure Application Gateway
  • Create and configure Azure Front Door
  • Create and configure Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Configure a resource firewall, including storage account, Azure SQL, Azure Key Vault, or Azure
    App Service
  • Configure network isolation for Web Apps and Azure Functions
  • Implement Azure Service Endpoints
  • Implement Azure Private Endpoints, including integrating with other services
  • Implement Azure Private Links
  • Implement Azure DDoS Protection

Configure advanced security for compute

  • Configure Endpoint Protection for virtual machines (VMs)
  • Implement and manage security updates for VMs
  • Configure security for container services
  • Manage access to Azure Container Registry
  • Configure security for serverless compute
  • Configure security for an Azure App Service
  • Configure encryption at rest
  • Configure encryption in transit

Manage security operations (20–25%)

Configure centralized policy management

  • Configure a custom security policy
  • Create a policy initiative
  • Configure security settings and auditing by using Azure Policy

Configure and manage threat protection

  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Servers (not including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint)
  • Evaluate vulnerability scans from Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Configure Microsoft Defender for SQL
  • Use the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool

Configure and manage security monitoring solutions

  • Create and customize alert rules by using Azure Monitor
  • Configure diagnostic logging and log retention by using Azure Monitor
  • Monitor security logs by using Azure Monitor
  • Create and customize alert rules in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Configure data connectors in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Evaluate alerts and incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

Secure data and applications (20–25%)

Configure security for storage

  • Configure access control for storage accounts
  • Configure storage account access keys
  • Configure Azure Files identity-based authentication for SMB access
  • Configure delegated access

Configure security for data

  • Enable database authentication by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra
  • Enable database auditing
  • Configure dynamic masking on SQL workloads
  • Implement database encryption for Azure SQL Database
  • Implement network isolation for data solutions, including Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Cosmos DB

Configure and manage Azure Key Vault

  • Create and configure Key Vault
  • Configure access to Key Vault
  • Manage certificates, secrets, and keys
  • Configure key rotation
  • Configure backup and recovery of certificates, secrets, and keys