Exam Ref AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, 3rd Edition

Exam Ref AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, 3rd Edition

by Yuri Diogenes, Orin Thomas
Released September 2024
Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
ISBN: 9780135364994

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Book description

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-500 and demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, including the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organizations security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. Designed for professionals with Azure security experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

  • Manage identity and access

  • Secure networking

  • Secure compute, storage, and databases

  • Manage security operations

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

  • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives

  • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you

  • Assumes you have experience in administration of Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments, and familiarity with compute, network, and storage in Azure and Microsoft Entra ID

About the Exam

Exam AZ-500 focuses on knowledge needed to manage Microsoft Entra identities, authentication, authorization, and application access; plan and implement security for virtual networks, as well as for private and public access to Azure resources; plan and implement advanced security for compute, storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL managed instance; plan, implement, and manage governance for security, manage security posture and configure and manage threat protection using Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as an Azure Security Engineer capable of managing an organizations security posture, identifying, and remediating vulnerabilities, performing threat modeling, implementing threat protection, responding to security incident escalations, and participating in the planning and implementation of cloud-based management and security.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents at a glance
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. About the authors
  8. Introduction
    1. Organization of this book
    2. Preparing for the exam
    3. Microsoft certifications
    4. Access the Exam Updates chapter and online references
    5. Errata, updates, & book support
    6. Stay in touch
  9. Chapter 1. Microsoft Entra Security
    1. Skill 1.1: Microsoft Entra identities
    2. Skill 1.2: Microsoft Entra authentication
    3. Skill 1.3: Microsoft Entra authorization
    4. Skill 1.4: Microsoft Entra application access
    5. Thought experiment
    6. Thought experiment answers
    7. Chapter summary
  10. Chapter 2. Secure Azure Networks
    1. Skill 2.1: Virtual Network Security
    2. Skill 2.2: Security for private access to Azure resources
    3. Skill 2.3: Security for public access to Azure resources
    4. Thought experiment
    5. Thought experiment answers
    6. Chapter summary
  11. Chapter 3. Secure Azure Compute
    1. Skill 3.1: Secure Virtual Machine Workloads
    2. Skill 3.2: Secure Kubernetes and container workloads
    3. Skill 2.3: Secure APIs published in Azure
    4. Thought experiment
    5. Thought experiment answers
    6. Chapter summary
  12. Chapter 4. Secure Azure Storage
    1. Skill 4.1: Microsoft Defender for Storage
    2. Skill 4.2: Storage account access control
    3. Skill 4.3: Storage service encryption
    4. Skill 4.4: Storage account keys
    5. Skill 4.5: Using Entra with storage
    6. Skill 4.6: Configure delegated access
    7. Thought experiment
    8. Thought experiment answers
    9. Chapter summary
  13. Chapter 5. Secure Azure SQL
    1. Skill 5.1: Azure SQL server authentication
    2. Skill 5.2: Auditing Azure SQL
    3. Skill 5.3: Implement database encryption and masking
    4. Skill 5.4: Database governance
    5. Skill 5.5: Microsoft Defender for SQL
    6. Skill 5.6: Azure SQL Firewall
    7. Thought experiment
    8. Thought experiment answers
    9. Chapter summary
  14. Chapter 6. Security governance
    1. Skill 6.1: Plan, implement, and manage governance for security
    2. Thought experiment
    3. Thought experiment answers
    4. Chapter summary
  15. Chapter 7. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    1. Skill 7.1: Manage security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    2. Skill 7.2: Configure and manage threat protection by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    3. Though experiment
    4. Thought experiment answers
    5. Chapter summary
  16. Chapter 8. Security Monitoring and Automation
    1. Skill 8.1: Configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions
    2. Thought experiment
    3. Thought experiment answers
    4. Chapter summary
  17. Chapter 9. AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Exam Updates
    1. The purpose of this chapter
    2. Objective mapping
  18. Index
  19. Code Snippets

Product information

  • Title: Exam Ref AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies, 3rd Edition
  • Author(s): Yuri Diogenes, Orin Thomas
  • Release date: September 2024
  • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
  • ISBN: 9780135364994