SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Topics and Questions

These Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200) exam topics are organized according to official exam domains to help candidates quickly verify coverage and focus on assessment rather than theory. Each domain is paired with topic-wise SC-200 sample questions that reflect how objectives are tested in the actual exam. This structure enables efficient review, targeted self-assessment, and rapid identification of weak areas when preparing for the Microsoft Security Operations Analyst certification exam.

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Configure automation for Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel by setting up email notifications for incidents, actions, and threat analytics, configuring alert notifications with tuning, suppression, and correlation capabilities, and enabling advanced features and rule settings in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Implement custom data collection, security policies including attack surface reduction rules, and automated investigation and response capabilities while managing device groups, permissions, and automation levels. Create and configure automation rules and playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel to streamline security operations... Configure automation for Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel by setting up email notifications for incidents, actions, and threat analytics, configuring alert notifications with tuning, suppression, and correlation capabilities, and enabling advanced features and rule settings in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Implement custom data collection, security policies including attack surface reduction rules, and automated investigation and response capabilities while managing device groups, permissions, and automation levels. Create and configure automation rules and playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel to streamline security operations and incident response workflows. Configure the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and platform by assigning appropriate roles, managing data retention across Analytics, Data lake, and XDR tiers, and creating customized workbooks for security monitoring and analysis. Optimize the platform using SOC optimization recommendations to enhance operational efficiency and reduce alert fatigue while maintaining comprehensive threat detection and response capabilities. Ingest data into Microsoft Sentinel by selecting appropriate data connectors for various sources including Windows logs and security events, configuring Windows Security Events collection through Azure Monitoring Agent with data collection rules, and planning Windows Event Forwarding implementations. Establish Syslog and Common Event Format data ingestion via Azure Monitoring Agent, configure Azure activity collection using Azure Policy and diagnostic settings, ingest threat indicators, and create custom log tables to store and organize ingested data effectively. Configure detections by creating and managing custom detection rules using Advanced Hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR, configuring analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel including scheduled, near-real time, threat intelligence, and machine learning-based detections. Analyze attack vector coverage using the MITRE ATTCK framework to identify detection gaps and configure anomaly detection capabilities to identify unusual patterns and potential security threats in your environment. See More

Sample Questions for Topic 1 : Manage a security operations environment

You have a Microsoft 365 E5 subscription.

You have 1,000 Windows devices that have a third-party antivirus product installed and Microsoft Defender Antivirus in passive mode.

All Windows devices are on boarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

You need to ensure that the devices are protected from malicious artifacts that were undetected by the third-party antivirus product.

Solution: You enable Live Response.

Does this meet the goal?

Yes No

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Respond to security incidents by managing alerts and incidents across Microsoft Defender XDR, including investigating and remediating threats identified by Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Defender for Identity. Utilize Microsoft Sentinel for incident investigation and leverage agentic AI with embedded Microsoft Security Copilot to analyze complex attacks involving multi-stage, multi-domain, and lateral movement scenarios while implementing case management for security incident tracking.... See More

Sample Questions for Topic 2 : Respond to security incidents

You create a custom analytics rule to detect threats in Azure Sentinel.

You discover that the rule fails intermittently.

What are two possible causes of the failures? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

The rule query takes too long to run and times out. The target workspace was deleted. Permissions to the data sources of the rule query were modified. There are connectivity issues between the data sources and Log Analytics

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Perform Threat Hunting Using Microsoft Security Tools Threat hunting involves proactively detecting and investigating security threats across your organizations infrastructure. Using Microsoft Defender XDR, you will learn to identify the appropriate data tables for KQL queries, leverage Kusto Query Language to identify threats, and create advanced hunting queries to uncover suspicious activities. You will interpret threat analytics within Microsoft Defender XDR, develop hunting graphs that visualize blast radius and attack scope, and analyze relationships between entities using Sentinel Graph to understand... See More

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