Run the SOC on Defender and Sentinel. Pass SC-200.
Revision notes built to the SC-200 outline — Defender XDR and Defender for Endpoint automation, Sentinel ingestion, retention and analytics rules, incident response across the Defender workloads, Security Copilot, and KQL threat hunting in Advanced Hunting and the Sentinel data lake — plus scenario and KQL practice that explains every option and full-length timed mocks scored like the real exam.
The SC-200 exam at a glance
Official exam details from the Microsoft Azure exam guide — the numbers our mock exams mirror.
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Who should take the SC-200?
SC-200 is an associate-level, role-based certification. There are no formal prerequisites, but Microsoft Azure recommends hands-on experience — the questions are scenarios, not definitions.
You already build on Microsoft Azure
You run real workloads and want the credential that matches the job you're already doing — and the salary conversations that come with it.
You're moving into a cloud role
The exam blueprint doubles as a job description. Studying it task statement by task statement is the fastest way to find and close your skill gaps.
You hold a foundational cert
The natural next step on the same platform: deeper services, scenario-based questions, and a credential employers screen for by name.
What’s on the SC-200 exam
Every lesson, question, and mock is weighted to match these official domains.
Manage a security operations environment
Configuring the SOC platform: Defender XDR notifications, automated investigation and attack disruption, Defender for Endpoint settings, policies and device groups, Sentinel automation rules and playbooks, Sentinel roles, retention tiers, workbooks and SOC optimization, data connectors and ingestion, and detections in both Defender XDR and Sentinel. Official weighting 40–45%.
Respond to security incidents
Investigating and remediating alerts and incidents across Defender for Office 365, Purview, Defender for Cloud, Defender for Cloud Apps, Entra ID, Defender for Identity and Sentinel; agentic AI with Security Copilot; multi-stage attacks and case management; Defender for Endpoint device response; and Microsoft 365 investigation with Purview Audit, Content search and Graph activity logs. Official weighting 35–40%.
Perform threat hunting
Hunting with KQL: choosing tables and writing Advanced Hunting queries, interpreting threat analytics, hunting graphs and blast radius, Sentinel Graph entity relationships, Sentinel hunting queries, KQL jobs and summary rules in the data lake, and notebooks connected to the Sentinel MCP Server. Official weighting 20–25%.
How you’ll prepare for the SC-200
Three surfaces, one loop: read, drill, rehearse — repeat until your readiness score says book it.
Read the lessons
Work domain by domain through 13 plain-English revision lessons covering every task statement in the SC-200 exam guide — key terms, "what's tested" callouts, and takeaways.
Drill every topic
Work through 519 exam-realistic questions in learn mode to study, or quiz mode to test yourself. Every option explains why it’s right or why it’s a trap, with one click back to the lesson.
Rehearse the exam
Sit 3 full-length timed mocks weighted to the official domains and scored on the real SC-200 scale — so your mock result predicts your real one.
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