As a Microsoft identity and access administrator, you design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management by using Microsoft Entra ID (ID). You configure and manage the full cycle of identities for:

• Users
• Devices
• Microsoft Azure resources
• Applications

As an identity and access administrator, you provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for users. You plan and implement identity, authorization, and access to connect applications and resources in Azure. You’re also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting on identity and access. You collaborate with many other roles in the organization to:

• Drive strategic identity projects.
• Modernize identity solutions.
• Implement hybrid identity solutions.
• Implement identity governance.

You should be familiar with Azure, Microsoft 365 services and workloads, and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You should have experience:

• Automating the management of Microsoft Entra ID using PowerShell.
• Analyzing events using Kusto Query Language (KQL).

• As a Microsoft cybersecurity architect, you translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization. You design, guide the implementation of, and maintain security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles and best practices, including security strategies for:

  • Identity
  • Devices
  • Data
  • Applications
  • Network
  • Infrastructure
  • DevOps

  Plus, you design solutions for:

  • Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC)
  • Security operations
  • Security posture management

  As a cybersecurity architect, you continuously collaborate with leaders and practitioners in IT security, privacy, and other roles across an organization to plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.

  As a candidate for this exam, you have experience implementing or administering solutions in the following areas:

  • Identity and access
  • Platform protection
  • Security operations
  • Data security
  • Application security
  • Hybrid and multicloud infrastructures

  You should have expert skills in at least one of those areas, and you should have experience designing security solutions that include Microsoft security technologies.