SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Prep

About this course

Master the SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst exam and launch or advance your career as a certified SOC analyst with this comprehensive, up-to-date 2026 preparation course. Aligned with the latest Microsoft skills measured (as of January 2026), this hands-on training equips you to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating attacks, configuring advanced detections, managing incident response, and performing proactive threat hunting using Microsoft's powerful security stack.Dive deep into Microsoft Defender XDR for unified threat protection across endpoints, identities, email, and cloud apps. Learn to triage alerts, investigate incidents with the investigation graph and evidence timelines, isolate compromised devices, and leverage automated attack disruption features. Explore Microsoft Sentinel as your SIEM/SOAR platform: set up data connectors, create scheduled and anomaly analytics rules, build Fusion multi-stage detections, automate responses with Logic Apps playbooks, and write efficient KQL queries for hunting, reporting, and custom detections.Gain expertise in Microsoft Defender for Cloud to enhance secure score, enable workload protections (including JIT VM access, adaptive hardening, and container security), and integrate alerts into Sentinel for centralized visibility. The course covers key topics like managing security operations environments (20–25%), configuring protections and detections (15–20%), incident response orchestration (25–30%), and threat hunting with threat intelligence (15–20%).Packed with real-world labs, practice questions, KQL examples, and exam tips, you'll build practical skills in threat mitigation, entity behavior analytics (UEBA), MITRE ATT&CK mapping, and exposure management. Whether you're an aspiring SOC analyst, Azure/Microsoft 365 admin transitioning to security operations, or preparing for the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analy

Course objectives

• prepare for the SC-200 exam
• develop practical skills in threat mitigation
• enhance incident response orchestration
• understand security operations environments