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Audience profile
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.
Skills at a glance
Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (20–25%)
Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (30–35%)
Design security solutions for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design security solutions for applications and data (20–25%)
Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (20–25%)
Design a resiliency strategy for ransomware and other attacks based on Microsoft Security Best Practices
Design a security strategy to support business resiliency goals, including identifying and prioritizing threats to business-critical assets
Design solutions that align with Microsoft ransomware best practices, including backup, restore, and privileged access
Design configurations for secure backup and restore by using Azure Backup for hybrid and multicloud environments
Design solutions for security updates
Design solutions that align with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) and Microsoft cloud security benchmark (MCSB)
Design solutions that align with best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls
Design solutions that align with best practices for protecting against insider and external attacks
Design solutions that align with best practices for Zero Trust security, including the Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan (RaMP)
Design solutions that align with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Design a new or evaluate an existing strategy for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for Azure and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Recommend solutions for security and governance based on the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Design solutions for implementing and governing security by using Azure landing zones
Design a DevSecOps process
Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (30–35%)
Design solutions for security operations
Develop security operations capabilities to support a hybrid or multicloud environment
Design a solution for centralized logging and auditing
Design a solution for security information and event management (SIEM), including Microsoft Sentinel
Design a solution for detection and response that includes extended detection and response (XDR)
Design a solution for security orchestration automated response (SOAR), including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender
Design and evaluate security workflows, including incident response, threat hunting, incident management, and threat intelligence
Design and evaluate threat detection coverage by using MITRE ATT&CK
Design solutions for identity and access management
Design a solution for access to software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), hybrid/on-premises, and multicloud resources, including identity, networking, and application controls
Design a solution for Microsoft Entra ID, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Design a solution for external identities, including business-to-business (B2B), business-to-customer (B2C), and decentralized identity
Design a modern authentication and authorization strategy, including Conditional Access, continuous access evaluation, threat intelligence integration, and risk scoring
Validate the alignment of Conditional Access policies with a Zero Trust strategy
Specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
Design a solution to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
Design solutions for securing privileged access
Design a solution for assigning and delegating privileged roles by using the enterprise access model
Design an identity governance solution, including Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM), privileged access management, entitlement management, and access reviews
Design a solution for securing the administration of cloud tenants, including SaaS and multicloud infrastructure and platforms
Design a solution for cloud infrastructure entitlement management that includes Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
Design a solution for Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) and bastion services
Design solutions for regulatory compliance
Translate compliance requirements into a security solution
Design a solution to address compliance requirements by using Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions
Design a solution to address privacy requirements, including Microsoft Priva
Design Azure Policy solutions to address security and compliance requirements
Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Design security solutions for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design solutions for security posture management in hybrid and multicloud environments
Evaluate security posture by using MCSB
Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Secure Score
Design integrated security posture management and workload protection solutions in hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Design cloud workload protection solutions that use Microsoft Defender for Cloud, such as Microsoft Defender for Servers, Microsoft Defender for App Service, and Microsoft Defender for SQL
Design a solution for integrating hybrid and multicloud environments by using Azure Arc
Design a solution for Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management (Defender EASM)
Design solutions for securing server and client endpoints
Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems
Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration
Specify security requirements for IoT devices and embedded systems
Design a solution for securing operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) by using Microsoft Defender for IoT
Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
Design a solution for secure remote access
Specify requirements for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
Specify security requirements for IoT workloads
Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
Specify security requirements for containers
Specify security requirements for container orchestration
Design security solutions for applications and data (20–25%)
Design solutions for securing Microsoft 365
Evaluate security posture for productivity and collaboration workloads by using metrics, including Microsoft Secure Score and Microsoft Defender for Cloud secure score
Design a Microsoft 365 Defender solution
Design secure configurations and operational practices for Microsoft 365 workloads and data
Design solutions for securing applications
Evaluate the security posture of existing application portfolios
Evaluate threats to business-critical applications by using threat modeling
Design and implement a full lifecycle strategy for application security
Design and implement standards and practices for securing the application development process
Map technologies to application security requirements
Design a solution for workload identity to authenticate and access Azure cloud resources
Design a solution for API management and security
Design a solution for secure access to applications, including Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Front Door
Design solutions for securing an organization’s data
Design a solution for data discovery and classification by using Microsoft Purview data governance solutions
Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
Design a solution for protection of data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
Design a security solution for data in Azure workloads, including Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Cosmos DB
Design a security solution for data in Azure Storage
Design a security solution that includes Microsoft Defender for Storage and Microsoft Defender for SQL
Sample Questions and Answers
New Topic: Topic 1, Fabrikam, Inc Case Study 1
OverView
Fabrikam, Inc. is an insurance company that has a main office in New York and a branch office in Paris.
On-premises Environment
The on-premises network contains a single Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain named corp.fabrikam.com.
Azure Environment
Fabrikam has the following Azure resources:
An Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named fabrikam.onmicrosoft.com that syncs with corp.fabnkam.com
A single Azure subscription named Sub1
A virtual network named Vnet1 in the East US Azure region
A virtual network named Vnet2 in the West Europe Azure region
An instance of Azure Front Door named FD1 that has Azure Web Application Firewall (WAR enabled
A Microsoft Sentinel workspace
An Azure SQL database named ClaimsDB that contains a table named ClaimDetails
20 virtual machines that are configured as application servers and are NOT onboarded to
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
A resource group named TestRG that is used for testing purposes only
An Azure Virtual Desktop host pool that contains personal assigned session hosts
All the resources in Sub1 are in either the East US or the West Europe region.
Partners
Fabrikam has contracted a company named Contoso, Ltd. to develop applications. Contoso has the following infrastructure-.
An Azure AD tenant named contoso.onmicrosoft.com
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) implementation named ContosoAWS1 that contains AWS EC2
instances used to host test workloads for the applications of Fabrikam
Developers at Contoso will connect to the resources of Fabrikam to test or update applications. The
developers will be added to a security Group named Contoso Developers in
fabrikam.onmicrosoft.com that will be assigned to roles in Sub1.
The ContosoDevelopers group is assigned the db.owner role for the ClaimsDB database.
Compliance Event
Fabrikam deploys the following compliance environment:
Defender for Cloud is configured to assess all the resources in Sub1 for compliance to the HIPAA HITRUST standard.
Currently, resources that are noncompliant with the HIPAA HITRUST standard are remediated manually.
Qualys is used as the standard vulnerability assessment tool for servers.
Problem Statements
The secure score in Defender for Cloud shows that all the virtual machines generate the following
recommendation-. Machines should have a vulnerability assessment solution.
All the virtual machines must be compliant in Defender for Cloud.
ClaimApp Deployment
Fabrikam plans to implement an internet-accessible application named ClaimsApp that will have the following specification
ClaimsApp will be deployed to Azure App Service instances that connect to Vnetl and Vnet2.
Users will connect to ClaimsApp by using a URL of https://claims.fabrikam.com.
ClaimsApp will access data in ClaimsDB.
ClaimsDB must be accessible only from Azure virtual networks.
The app services permission for ClaimsApp must be assigned to ClaimsDB.
Application Development Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for application development:
Azure DevTest labs will be used by developers for testing.
All the application code must be stored in GitHub Enterprise.
Azure Pipelines will be used to manage application deployments.
All application code changes must be scanned for security vulnerabilities, including application
code or configuration files that contain secrets in clear text. Scanning must be done at the time the
code is pushed to a repository.
Security Requirement
Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements:
Internet-accessible applications must prevent connections that originate in North Korea.
Only members of a group named InfraSec must be allowed to configure network security groups
(NSGs} and instances of Azure Firewall, VJM. And Front Door in Sub1.
Administrators must connect to a secure host to perform any remote administration of the virtual
machines. The secure host must be provisioned from a custom operating system image.
AWS Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following security requirements for the data hosted in ContosoAWSV.
Notify security administrators at Fabrikam if any AWS EC2 instances are noncompliant with secure
score recommendations.
Ensure that the security administrators can query AWS service logs directly from the Azure environment.
Contoso Developer Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following requirements for the Contoso developers;
Every month, the membership of the ContosoDevelopers group must be verified.
The Contoso developers must use their existing contoso.onmicrosoft.com credentials to access the resources in Sub1.
The Comoro developers must be prevented from viewing the data in a column named
MedicalHistory in the ClaimDetails table.
Compliance Requirement
Fabrikam wants to automatically remediate the virtual machines in Sub1 to be compliant with the
HIPPA HITRUST standard. The virtual machines in TestRG must be excluded from the compliance assessment.
QUESTION 1
You need to recommend a solution to meet the security requirements for the InfraSec group.
What should you use to delegate the access?
A. a subscription
B. a custom role-based access control (RBAC) role
C. a resource group
D. a management group
Answer: B
QUESTION 2
You need to recommend a solution to scan the application code. The solution must meet the
application development requirements. What should you include in the recommendation?
A. Azure Key Vault
B. GitHub Advanced Security
C. Application Insights in Azure Monitor
D. Azure DevTest Labs
Answer: B
QUESTION 3
You need to recommend a solution to resolve the virtual machine issue. What should you include in the recommendation? (Choose Two)
A. Onboard the virtual machines to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
B. Onboard the virtual machines to Azure Arc.
C. Create a device compliance policy in Microsoft Endpoint Manager.
D. Enable the Qualys scanner in Defender for Cloud.
Answer: A, B
QUESTION 4
HOTSPOT
What should you create in Azure AD to meet the Contoso developer requirements?
Answer:
Box 1: A synced user account –
Need to use a synched user account.
Box 2: An access review
QUESTION 5
HOTSPOT
You are evaluating the security of ClaimsApp.
For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.
NOTE; Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
QUESTION 6
You need to recommend a solution to secure the MedicalHistory data in the ClaimsDetail table. The
solution must meet the Contoso developer requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
B. Always Encrypted
C. row-level security (RLS)
D. dynamic data masking
E. data classification
Answer: D
QUESTION 7
HOTSPOT
You need to recommend a solution to meet the AWS requirements.
What should you include in the recommendation? To answer, select the appropriate options in the
answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
QUESTION 8
You need to recommend a solution to meet the security requirements for the virtual machines.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A. an Azure Bastion host
B. a network security group (NSG)
C. just-in-time (JIT) VM access
D. Azure Virtual Desktop
Answer: A
QUESTION 9
HOTSPOT
You need to recommend a solution to meet the requirements for connections to ClaimsDB.
What should you recommend using for each requirement? To answer, select the appropriate options
in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
Explanation:
QUESTION 10
HOTSPOT
You need to recommend a solution to meet the compliance requirements.
What should you recommend? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
Answer:
