Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Training (SC-300)

Course 8592

  • Duration: 4 days
  • Language: English
  • Level: Intermediate

The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores using Azure AD to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems. Learn to manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications. You will also learn to provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Finally, learn to create adaptive access and governance of your identity and access management solutions, ensuring you can troubleshoot, monitor, and report on your environment. The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. Learn how this role collaborates with other organizational roles to drive strategic identity projects. The goal is to provide you with the knowledge to modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid identity solutions, and implement identity governance.

SC-300 Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

SC-300 Course Information

In this Identity and Access Administrator course, you will learn how to:

  • Implement an identity management solution.
  • Implement authentication and access management solutions.
  • Implement access management for apps.
  • Plan and implement an identity governance strategy.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

SC-300 Training Course Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

  • Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.
  • Be familiar with identity concepts such as authentication, authorization, and active directory.
  • Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration. Instead, the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security-specific information.
  • Some experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages is helpful but not required. Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.
  • Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Training (SC-900) and Microsoft Azure Administrator Training (AZ-104)

SC-300 Certification Information

This course helps you prepare for Exam SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator.

SC-300 Training Outline

Learn to create and manage your initial Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) implementation and configure the users, groups, and external identities you will use to run your solution.

Lessons

  • Implement Initial configuration of Azure AD
  • Create, configure, and manage identities
  • Implement and manage external identities
  • Implement and manage hybrid identity

Lab: Manage user roles

Lab: Setting tenant-wide properties

Lab: Assign licenses to users

Lab: Restore or remove deleted users

Lab: Add groups in Azure AD

Lab: Change group license assignments

Lab: Change user license assignments

Lab: Configure external collaboration

Lab: Add guest users to the directory

Lab: Explore dynamic groups

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Deploy an initial Azure AD with custom settings
  • Manage both internal and external identities
  • Implement a hybrid identity solution

Implement and administer your access management using Azure AD. Use MFA, conditional access, and identity protection to manage your identity solution.

Lessons

  • Secure Azure AD user with MFA
  • Manage user authentication
  • Plan, implement, and administer conditional access
  • Manage Azure AD identity protection

Lab: Enable Azure AD MFA

Lab: Configure and deploy self-service password reset (SSPR)

Lab: Work with security defaults

Lab: Implement conditional access policies, roles, and assignments

Lab: Configure authentication session controls

Lab: Manage Azure AD smart lockout values

Lab: Enable sign-in risk policy

Lab: Configure Azure AD MFA authentication registration policy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Configure and manage user authentication, including MFA
  • Control access to resources using conditional access
  • Use Azure AD Identity Protection to protect your organization

Explore how applications can and should be added to your identity and access solutions with application registration in Azure AD.

Lessons

  • Plan and design the integration of enterprise for SSO
  • Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO
  • Implement app registration

Lab: Implement access management for apps

Lab: Create a custom role to manage app registration

Lab: Register an application

Lab: Grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application

Lab: Add app roles to applications and receive tokens

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Register a new application to your Azure AD
  • Plan and implement SSO for enterprise application
  • Monitor and maintain enterprise applications

Design and implement identity governance for your identity solution using entitlement, access reviews, privileged access, and monitoring your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).

Lessons

  • Plan and implement entitlement management
  • Plan, implement, and manage access reviews
  • Plan and implement privileged access
  • Monitor and maintain Azure AD

Lab: Create and manage a resource catalog with Azure AD entitlement

Lab: Add terms of use acceptance report

Lab: Manage the lifecycle of external users with Azure AD identity governance

Lab: Create access reviews for groups and apps

Lab: Configure PIM for Azure AD roles

Lab: Assign Azure AD role in PIM

Lab: Assign Azure resource roles in PIM

Lab: Connect data from Azure AD to Azure Sentinel

After completing this module, students will be able to:

  • Manage and maintain Azure AD from creation to solution
  • Use access reviews to maintain your Azure AD
  • Grant access to users with entitlement management

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SC-300 Course FAQs

Yes! This class prepares an attendee for the Microsoft Exam SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator.

The Microsoft identity and access administrator designs, implements, and operates an organization’s identity and access management systems using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). They configure and manage authentication and authorization of identities for users, devices, Azure resources, and applications.

The identity and access administrator provides seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. They ensure that identity is verified explicitly to support Zero Trust principles. They automate the management of Azure AD by using PowerShell and analyze events using Kusto Query Language (KQL). They are also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting for the identity and access environment.

The identity and access administrator collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects, modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid identity solutions, and implement identity governance. Therefore, they should be familiar with Azure and Microsoft 365 services and workloads.

This course is for the Identity and Access Administrators planning to take the associated certification exam or performing identity and access administration tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an administrator or engineer that wants to specialize in providing identity solutions and access management systems for Azure-based solutions, playing an integral role in protecting an organization.

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