The Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500) certification exam tests and validates a candidates expertise at implementing security controls, and maintaining security, and identity, access and protections within Microsoft Azure. This is the required exam necessary for earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification.
Certification Target Audience
The Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification exam (AZ-500) is geared towards Security Engineers who implement security controls, maintain the security posture, manages identity and access, and protects data, applications, and networks. These candidates should be able to identify and remediate vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools, implement threat protection, and respond to security incident escalations.
Azure Security Engineers will generally serve as part of a larger team that’s dedicated to managing cloud-based systems and security. They might also be involved in securing hybrid cloud environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.
Exam Objective Domains
Here’s a high level list of all the skills and objectives measured by the AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification exam. The percentages next to each exam objective area represents the portion of the exam that focuses on that particular objective area.
- Secure identity and access (15-20%)
- Secure networking (20-25%)
- Secure compute, storage, and databases (20-25%)
- Secure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel (30-35%)
To view the most up-to-date list of these exam objectives, please reference the official AZ-500 exam page.
Happy studying!
what are the prerequisites to take this exam ?
Microsoft exams don’t have prerequisites. Just be sure to study the exam objectives.
Hello Chris ,
Hope you are doing well ! , I wanna to prepare myself for this AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification , Can you please help me to provide a better guidance or materiel to preparation of Az 500 Certification
What additional material are you looking for? There are a lot of training materials out there, and this article links to an on-demand video course that provides a good path to follow.
Hello sir, “This exam is a part of the required exams”….. isn’t it the only exam required for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate?
Thanks for letting me know.
Hi Chris, any idea when the AZ-500 will be live (not beta)?
Sorry for the delay, the AZ-500 exam is now out of Beta. 🙂