Practice Tests: SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

Course Updates:

v 3.0 - May 2025

• Added 250 New Questions to Practice Exam 5 - SME Level. The SME Level focus on threat hunting, Microsoft security tools, Copilot, and AI integration, which are aligned with the updated SC-200 syllabus (Microsoft Security Operations Analyst).

v 2.0 - December 2024

• Added 50 New Questions to Practice Exam 4 - Expert Level. The Expert level Practice Exam contains scenario based questions covering wide variety of topics. The broad topics covers Copilot for Security, Defender XDR, Purview, Intune, DLP alerts, Defender for Cloud and few others. The questions are designed to be complex and detailed explanations are added to all the questions. These questions span across practical scenarios, focusing on real-world scenarios in a SOC (Security Operations Center) environment.

v 1.0 - December 2024

• Added 50 New Questions with Explanations to Practice Exam 3 - Advanced Level on Advanced Hunting

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                                                                         Exam Objectives as on March 24, 2024

Skills at a glance

• Manage a security operations environment (25–30%)

• Configure protections and detections (15–20%)

• Manage incident response (35–40%)

• Perform threat hunting (15–20%)

Manage a security operations environment (25–30%)

Configure settings in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure a connection from Defender XDR to a Sentinel workspace

• Configure alert and vulnerability notification rules

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint advanced features

• Configure endpoint rules settings, including indicators and web content filtering

• Manage automated investigation and response capabilities in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR

Manage assets and environments

• Configure and manage device groups, permissions, and automation levels in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Identify and remediate unmanaged devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Manage resources by using Azure Arc

• Connect environments to Microsoft Defender for Cloud (by using multi-cloud account management)

• Discover and remediate unprotected resources by using Defender for Cloud

• Identify and remediate devices at risk by using Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Design and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

• Plan a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

• Configure Microsoft Sentinel roles

• Specify Azure RBAC roles for Microsoft Sentinel configuration

• Design and configure Microsoft Sentinel data storage, including log types and log retention

• Manage multiple workspaces by using Workspace manager and Azure Lighthouse

Ingest data sources in Microsoft Sentinel

• Identify data sources to be ingested for Microsoft Sentinel

• Implement and use Content hub solutions

• Configure and use Microsoft connectors for Azure resources, including Azure Policy and diagnostic settings

• Configure bidirectional synchronization between Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR

• Plan and configure Syslog and Common Event Format (CEF) event collections

• Plan and configure collection of Windows Security events by using data collection rules, including Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)

• Configure threat intelligence connectors, including platform, TAXII, upload indicators API, and MISP

• Create custom log tables in the workspace to store ingested data

Configure protections and detections (15–20%)

Configure protections in Microsoft Defender security technologies

• Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Office

• Configure security policies for Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, including attack surface reduction (ASR) rules

• Configure cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Configure detection in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure and manage custom detections

• Configure alert tuning

• Configure deception rules in Microsoft Defender XDR

Configure detections in Microsoft Sentinel

• Classify and analyze data by using entities

• Configure scheduled query rules, including KQL

• Configure near-real-time (NRT) query rules, including KQL

• Manage analytics rules from Content hub

• Configure anomaly detection analytics rules

• Configure the Fusion rule

• Query Microsoft Sentinel data by using ASIM parsers

• Manage and use threat indicators

Manage incident response (35–40%)

Respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Investigate and remediate threats to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive

• Investigate and remediate threats in email by using Microsoft Defender for Office

• Investigate and remediate ransomware and business email compromise incidents identified by automatic attack disruption

• Investigate and remediate compromised entities identified by Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP) policies

• Investigate and remediate threats identified by Microsoft Purview insider risk policies

• Investigate and remediate alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Investigate and remediate security risks identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Investigate and remediate compromised identities in Microsoft Entra ID

• Investigate and remediate security alerts from Microsoft Defender for Identity

• Manage actions and submissions in the Microsoft Defender portal

Respond to alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Investigate timeline of compromised devices

• Perform actions on the device, including live response and collecting investigation packages

• Perform evidence and entity investigation

Enrich investigations by using other Microsoft tools

• Investigate threats by using unified audit Log

• Investigate threats by using Content Search

• Perform threat hunting by using Microsoft Graph activity logs

Manage incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

• Triage incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

• Investigate incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

• Respond to incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

Configure security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) in Microsoft Sentinel

• Create and configure automation rules

• Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel playbooks

• Configure analytic rules to trigger automation

• Trigger playbooks manually from alerts and incidents

• Run playbooks on On-premises resources

Perform threat hunting (15–20%)

Hunt for threats by using KQL

• Identify threats by using Kusto Query Language (KQL)

• Interpret threat analytics in the Microsoft Defender portal

• Create custom hunting queries by using KQL

Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Sentinel

• Analyze attack vector coverage by using the MITRE ATT&CK in Microsoft Sentinel

• Customize content gallery hunting queries

• Use hunting bookmarks for data investigations

• Monitor hunting queries by using Livestream

• Retrieve and manage archived log data

• Create and manage search jobs

Analyze and interpret data by using workbooks

• Activate and customize Microsoft Sentinel workbook templates

• Create custom workbooks that include KQL

• Configure visualizations

                                                                                                        Exam Details

Exam Questions:

40-60 Questions

Timeline:

You will have 100 minutes to complete this assessment.

Exam policy

This exam will be proctored, and is not open book. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.

If you fail a certification exam, don’t worry. You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the amount of time varies. For full details, visit: Exam retake policy.

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