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Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC200)

The SC-200 certification, known as the Microsoft Security Operations Analyst certification, holds significant value for individuals seeking proficiency in security operations analysis within the Microsoft environment. This certification evaluates a candidate's ability to identify, investigate, respond to, and mitigate security threats using Microsoft security tools. 

Our certified course helps participants learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course, participants learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Azure Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. 

This training is a comprehensive preparation for the SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst exam to earn the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate certification.

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Training plan: 

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200T00)

Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft 365 threat protection

  • Explore Extended Detection & Response (XDR) response use cases
  • Understand Microsoft 365 Defender in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
  • Investigate security incident in Microsoft 365 Defender

Module 2: Mitigate incidents using Microsoft 365 Defender

  • Use the Microsoft 365 Defender portal
  • Manage incidents
  • Investigate incidents
  • Manage and investigate alerts
  • Manage automated investigations
  • Use the action center
  • Explore advanced hunting
  • Investigate Azure AD sign-in logs
  • Understand Microsoft Secure Score
  • Analyze threat analytics
  • Analyze reports
  • Configure the Microsoft 365 Defender portal

Module 3: Protect your identities with Azure AD Identity Protection

  • Azure AD Identity Protection overview
  • Detect risks with Azure AD Identity Protection policies
  • Investigate and remediate risks detected by Azure AD Identity Protection

Module 4: Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

  • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Automate, investigate, and remediate
  • Configure, protect, and detect

Module 5: Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity

  • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Identity
  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors
  • Review compromised accounts or data
  • Integrate with other Microsoft tools

Module 6: Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

  • Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework
  • Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery
  • Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control
  • Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Classify and protect sensitive information
  • Detect Threats

Module 7: Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365

  • Describe data loss prevention alerts
  • Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
  • Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Module 8: Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview

  • Insider risk management overview
  • Introduction to managing insider risk policies
  • Create and manage insider risk policies
  • Knowledge check
  • Investigate insider risk alerts
  • Take action on insider risk alerts through cases

Module 9: Investigate threats by using audit features in Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Purview Standard

  • Introduction to threat investigation with the Unified Audit Log (UAL)
  • Explore Microsoft Purview Audit solutions
  • Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard)
  • Start recording activity in the Unified Audit Log
  • Search the Unified Audit Log (UAL)
  • Export, configure, and view audit log records
  • Use audit log searching to investigate common support issues

Module 10: Investigate threats using audit in Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Purview (Premium)

  • Introduction to threat investigation with Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
  • Explore Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
  • Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
  • Manage audit log retention policies
  • Investigate compromised email accounts using Purview Audit (Premium)

Module 11: Investigate threats with Content search in Microsoft Purview

  • Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
  • Create a content search
  • View the search results and statistics
  • Export the search results and search report
  • Configure search permissions filtering
  • Search for and delete email messages

Module 12: Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Practice security administration
  • Hunt threats within your network

Module 13: Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment

  • Create your environment
  • Understand operating systems compatibility and features
  • Onboard devices
  • Manage access
  • Create and manage roles for role-based access control
  • Configure device groups
  • Configure environment advanced features

Module 14: Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Understand attack surface reduction
  • Enable attack surface reduction rules

Module 15: Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Use the device inventory list
  • Investigate the device
  • Use behavioral blocking
  • Detect devices with device discovery

Module 16: Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Explain device actions
  • Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices
  • Collect investigation package from devices
  • Initiate live response session

Module 17: Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Investigate a file
  • Investigate a user account
  • Investigate an IP address
  • Investigate a domain

Module 18: Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Configure advanced features
  • Manage automation upload and folder settings
  • Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
  • Block at risk devices

Module 19: Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Configure advanced features
  • Configure alert notifications
  • Manage alert suppression
  • Manage indicators

Module 20: Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Understand vulnerability management
  • Explore vulnerabilities on your devices
  • Manage remediation

Module 21: Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
  • Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Module 22: Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory
  • Configure auto provisioning
  • Manual log analytics agent provisioning

Module 23: Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Protect non-Azure resources
  • Connect non-Azure machines
  • Connect your AWS accounts
  • Connect your GCP accounts

Module 24: Manage your cloud security posture management

  • Explore Secure Score
  • Explore Recommendations
  • Measure and enforce regulatory compliance
  • Understand Workbooks

Module 25: Explain cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Understand Microsoft Defender for servers
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers
  • Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections

Module 26: Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Understand security alerts
  • Remediate alerts and automate responses
  • Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud
  • Generate threat intelligence reports
  • Respond to alerts from Azure resources

Module 27: Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure
  • Use the search operator
  • Use the where operator
  • Use the let statement
  • Use the extend operator
  • Use the order by operator
  • Use the project operators

Module 28: Analyze query results using KQL

  • Use the summarize operator
  • Use the summarize operator to filter results
  • Use the summarize operator to prepare data
  • Use the render operator to create visualizations

Module 29: Build multi-table statements using KQL

  • Use the union operator
  • Use the join operator

Module 30: Work with data in Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language

  • Extract data from unstructured string fields
  • Extract data from structured string data
  • Integrate external data
  • Create parsers with functions

Module 31: Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel

  • What is Microsoft Sentinel?
  • How Microsoft Sentinel works
  • When to use Microsoft Sentinel

Module 32: Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces

  • Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
  • Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
  • Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
  • Configure logs

Module 33: Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Query logs in the logs page
  • Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables
  • Understand common tables
  • Understand Microsoft 365 Defender tables

Module 34: Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for watchlists
  • Create a watchlist
  • Manage watchlists

Module 35: Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Define threat intelligence
  • Manage your threat indicators
  • View your threat indicators with KQL

Module 36: Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors

  • Ingest log data with data connectors
  • Understand data connector providers
  • View connected hosts

Module 37: Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for Microsoft services connectors
  • Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector
  • Connect the Azure Active Directory connector
  • Connect the Azure Active Directory identity protection connector
  • Connect the Azure Activity connector

Module 38: Connect Microsoft 365 Defender to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for Microsoft 365 Defender connectors
  • Connect the Microsoft 365 Defender connector
  • Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector
  • Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT
  • Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors

Moudule 39: Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
  • Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
  • Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
  • Collect Sysmon event logs

Module 40: Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for Common Event Format connector
  • Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector

Module 41: Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for the syslog connector
  • Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog
  • Configure the log analytics agent
  • Parse syslog data with KQL

Module 42: Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Plan for threat intelligence connectors
  • Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector
  • Connect the threat intelligence platforms connector
  • View your threat indicators with KQL

Module 43: Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics

  • What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
  • Types of analytics rules
  • Create an analytics rule from templates
  • Create an analytics rule from wizard
  • Manage analytics rules

Module 44: Automation in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understand automation options
  • Create automation rules

Module 45: Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understand incidents
  • Incident evidence and entities
  • Incident management

Module 46: Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics

  • Understand behavioral analytics
  • Explore entities
  • Display entity behavior information
  • Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates

Module 47: Data normalization in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understand data normalization
  • Use ASIM Parsers
  • Understand parameterized KQL functions
  • Create an ASIM Parser
  • Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules

Module 48: Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Monitor and visualize data
  • Query data using Kusto Query Language
  • Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
  • Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook

Module 49: Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Use solutions from the content hub
  • Use repositories for deployment

Module 50: Explain threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understand cybersecurity threat hunts
  • Develop a hypothesis
  • Explore MITRE ATT&CK

Module 51: Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel

  • Exercise setup
  • Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries
  • Save key findings with bookmarks
  • Observe threats over time with livestream

Module 52: Use Search jobs in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Hunt with a Search Job
  • Restore historical data

Module 53: Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Access Azure Sentinel data with external tools
  • Hunt with notebooks
  • Create a notebook
  • Explore notebook code
Exclusives: 
  • One FREE attendance to the Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS900) training - $695 value!
  • One voucher to take the exam - $225 value!
  • One year access to the class recording
  • 180 days access to the lab environment after class
  • Up to date courseware with Microsoft Learn
  • Microsoft course achievement badge
Prerequisites: 
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft 365
  • Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products
  • Intermediate understanding of Windows 10
  • Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage
  • Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking
  • Basic understanding of scripting concepts.
Credentials information: 

Exam Characteristics 

  • Exam code: SC-200 
  • Exam Title: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst 
  • Exam Duration: 150 minutes  
  • Number of Questions: 40 to 60  
  • Questions Format: Multiple-choice, multiple-answer, scenario-based 
  • Passing Score: 700 out of 1000 
  • Cost: $0 (included in your training) 

Exam Topics 

  • Mitigate threats by using Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Mitigate threats by using Defender for Cloud
  • Mitigate threats by using Microsoft Sentinel
  • All details...  

Understanding the SC-200 Certification 

The SC-200 certification revolves around a comprehensive understanding of security operations concepts and methodologies within the Microsoft ecosystem. It delves into various aspects, including threat intelligence, security posture management, incident response, and compliance. 

SC-200 Exam Overview 

The SC-200 exam assesses candidates' proficiency in multiple domains, including security monitoring, incident analysis, threat detection, response procedures, and implementing security solutions using Microsoft tools. Mastery of these areas is pivotal for success in the SC-200 exam. 

Preparing for the SC-200 Exam 

Preparation for the SC-200 exam involves leveraging designated learning paths, study guides, and specialized training courses offered by Microsoft. Hands-on experience with security monitoring, incident analysis, and using Microsoft security tools is highly recommended for a thorough understanding. 

Career Prospects with SC-200 Certification 

Earning the SC-200 certification significantly enhances career prospects, particularly in roles such as Security Operations Analysts or Security Engineers focusing on Microsoft environments. With the rising importance of cybersecurity, certified professionals in this domain are highly sought after. 

Conclusion 

The SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst certification is a testament to an individual's expertise in managing security operations using Microsoft tools. Proficiency in threat detection, incident response, and security solution implementation are crucial skills certified professionals bring to organizations, bolstering cybersecurity measures and safeguarding against evolving threats. 

By diligently preparing and gaining practical experience with Microsoft security tools, candidates can not only pass the SC-200 exam but also position themselves as competent Security Operations Analysts, contributing significantly to enhancing cybersecurity in their organizations. 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Microsoft SC-200 

Is Microsoft SC-200 hard? 

The difficulty level of Microsoft SC-200 varies based on an individual's background, experience, and familiarity with security operations analysis in the Microsoft environment. Adequate preparation, study resources, and hands-on experience significantly aid in navigating the certification successfully. 

How long does it take to study for SC-200?  

The duration to prepare for Microsoft SC-200 depends on various factors, including one's existing knowledge, study habits, and time commitment. Typically, candidates spend several weeks to a few months, dedicating consistent study hours daily or weekly to cover the exam topics thoroughly. 

What is Microsoft SC-200?  

Microsoft SC-200, also known as the Security Operations Analyst certification, assesses one's abilities in identifying, investigating, responding to, and mitigating security threats using Microsoft security tools. It validates proficiency in security operations analysis within the Microsoft environment. 

How to prepare for the SC-200 exam?  

Preparing for the SC-200 exam involves a structured approach. Utilize official Microsoft learning paths, study guides, and specialized training courses tailored for security operations analysis. Hands-on experience with security monitoring, incident response, and using Microsoft security tools is highly recommended. 

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