OK, so this mindmap is mental (unless you enjoy a good zoom in-and-out) - but i’ll break down each exam objective into sections, which may make it more consumable…
mindmap
root((Azure SC-100 Exam Objectives))
Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
Build an overall security strategy and architecture
Identify the integration points in a security architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture MCRA
Translate business goals into security requirements
Translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and security processes
Design security for a resiliency strategy
Integrate a hybrid or multitenant environment into a security strategy
Develop a technical governance strategy for security
Design a security operations strategy
Design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations
Develop security operations to support a hybrid or multicloud environment
Design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR
Evaluate security workflows
Evaluate a security operations strategy for incident management lifecycle
Evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence
Design an identity security strategy
Design a strategy for access to cloud resources
Recommend an identity store e.g tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid
Recommend an authentication strategy
Recommend an authorization strategy
Design a strategy for conditional access
Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
Design security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure including identity based firewall rules and Privileged Identity Management PIM in Microsoft Azure Active Directory Azure AD, part of Microsoft Entra
Design security strategy for privileged activities including PAM, entitlement management, cloudtenant administration
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance technical strategies and security operations strategies
Design a regulatory compliance strategy
Interpret compliance requirements and translate into specific technical capabilities new or existing
Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
Design implementation of Azure Policy
Design for data residency requirements
Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
Evaluate security posture by using Azure Security Benchmark
Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores
Evaluate security posture of cloud workloads
Design security for an Azure Landing Zone
Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
Design security for infrastructure
Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
Specify security baselines for 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 requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services
Design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
Design a strategy for secure remote access
Design a strategy for securing privileged access
Design a strategy 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 data workloads, including SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB
Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
Specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage
Specify security requirements for containers
Specify security requirements for container orchestration
Design a strategy for data and applications
Specify security requirements for applications
Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
Design a strategy for securing data
Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion
Recommend security best practices and priorities
Recommend security best practices by using the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture and Azure Security Benchmarks
Recommend best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls
Recommend best practices for protecting from insider and external attacks
Recommend best practices for Zero Trust security
Recommend best practices for Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan
Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework
Recommend a DevSecOps process
Recommend a methodology for asset protection
Recommend strategies for managing and minimizing risk
Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices
Plan for ransomware protection and extortion based attacks i.e., backup and recovery, limit scope
Protect assets from ransomware attacks
Recommend Microsoft ransomware best practices