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Exam AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Crash Course

Published by Pearson

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

In this online course, Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Tim Warner walks you through what to expect on the AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam. The new Azure certifications are aligned to industry job roles; earning Azure certification both validates your specific Azure skill set and increases your value in today's crowded IT job market. You will derive great benefit from this course even if certification is not your goal. Specifically, you will develop the knowledge and skills required to do the work of the Microsoft Azure security engineer.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

At course conclusion, you will be able to:

  • Complete your AZ-500 exam preparation with confidence
  • Manage identity and access to Azure enforcing least-privilege security
  • Implement Azure platform protection
  • Manage security operations in your Azure environment
  • Secure data and applications

This live event is for you because...

  • AZ-500 certification candidates
  • Current or prospective Azure security engineers
  • On-premises data center administrators and/or developers who are pressured to “skill up” in Azure
  • Microsoft Partners who require certification to achieve a competency rating

Prerequisites

The Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate is an associate-level credential. Accordingly, the learner needs to have a healthy skills balance among three Azure job roles:

  • Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) security, including virtual networks, virtual machines, network virtual appliances, and network security groups, among other resources
  • Azure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) security, including App Service, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, and storage accounts
  • Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) security, including tenant security and Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Course Setup

To follow along with the demonstrations and practice on his or her own, the learner should have the following environment available:

Tim’s course files will be available at his AZ-500 GitHub repository.

Recommended Preparation

Before the class, please study the following resources from the Safari Books Online library to assist in your preparation:

Recommended Follow-up

After the class, please study the following resources from the Safari Books Online library to broaden and deepen what you learned:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

DAY 1 (3 hours)

Introduction (10 minutes)

  • Set expectations
  • Perform high-level course overview
  • Give strategies to maximize benefit from this course

Module 1: Manage Identity and Access (60 minutes)

  • Manage Azure AD identities
  • Manage secure access by using Azure AD
  • Manage application access
  • Manage access control

Break: 10 minutes

Module 2: Implement Platform Protection (100 minutes)

  • Implement advanced network security
  • Configure advanced security for compute

DAY 2 (3 hours)

Introduction (10 minutes)

  • Briefly review Day 1 material
  • Perform Day 2 content overview
  • Answer any outstanding questions from Day 1

Module 3: Manage Security Operations (60 minutes)

  • Configure centralized policy management
  • Configure and manage threat protection
  • Configure and manage security monitoring solutions

Break: 10 minutes

Module 4: Secure Data and Applications (90 minutes)

  • Configure security for storage
  • Configure security for data
  • Configure and manage Azure Key Vault

Synthesis (10 min)

  • Content review
  • Q&A
  • Takeaways
  • Next steps/Goodbye

Your Instructor

Tim Warner

Tim Warner has been a Microsoft MVP in Azure AI and Cloud/Datacenter Management for 6 years and a Microsoft Certified Trainer for more than 25 years. His O'Reilly Live Training classes on generative AI, GitHub, DevOps, data engineering, cloud computing, and Microsoft certification reach hundreds of thousands of students around the world. He's written for Microsoft Press, presented at Microsoft Ignite, and contributed to several Microsoft open-source projects. You can connect with Tim on LinkedIn: timw.info/li.

Skill covered

AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies