Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-500 and demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization's security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. Designed for professionals with Azure security experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate level.
Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:
- Manage identity and access
- Secure networking
- Secure compute, storage, and databases
- Manage security operations
This Microsoft Exam Ref:
- Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
- Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
- Assumes you have experience in administration of Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments, and familiarity with compute, network, and storage in Azure and Microsoft Entra ID
About the Exam
Exam AZ-500 focuses on knowledge needed to manage Microsoft Entra identities, authentication, authorization, and application access; plan and implement security for virtual networks, as well as for private and public access to Azure resources; plan and implement advanced security for compute, storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL managed instance; plan, implement, and manage governance for security, manage security posture and configure and manage threat protection using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions.
About Microsoft Certification
Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as an Azure Security Engineer capable of managing an organization's security posture, identifying, and remediating vulnerabilities, performing threat modeling, implementing threat protection, responding to security incident escalations, and participating in the planning and implementation of cloud-based management and security.
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Yuri Diogenes, MSC has a Master of Science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation from UTICA College, currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has been working at Microsoft since 2006. Currently, he is a principal PM manager for the Customer Experience Engineering Defender for Cloud Team, where he manages a global team of Product Managers focusing on Cloud Security Posture Management and Workload Protection. Yuri has published over 32 books, mostly around information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri is also a professor at EC-Council University, teaching in the Bachelor's in Cybersecurity Program. Yuri also has an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, MITRE ATT&CK(R) Cyber Threat Intelligence Certified, ECND, ECEH, ECSA, ECHFI, ECTIA CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP, and CyberSec First Responder. You can follow Yuri on X at @yuridiogenes.
Orin Thomas is a Principal Cloud Operations Advocate at Microsoft and has written more than 45 books for Microsoft Press on topics such as Windows Server, Windows Client, Azure, Microsoft 365, Office 365, System Center, Exchange Server, Security, and SQL Server. He holds a Master of computing research from Charles Sturt University and has helped design certifications, applied skills, and training materials for Microsoft. You can follow him on X at @orinthomas.
