As a Microsoft cybersecurity architect, you translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization. You design, guide the implementation of, and maintain security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles and best practices, including security strategies for:
• Identity
• Devices
• Data
• Applications
• Network
• Infrastructure
• DevOps

Plus, you design solutions for:
• Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC)
• Security operations
• Security posture management
As a cybersecurity architect, you continuously collaborate with leaders and practitioners in IT security, privacy, and other roles across an organization to plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.
As a trainee for this course, you have experience implementing or administering solutions in the following areas:
• Identity and access
• Platform protection
• Security operations
• Data security
• Application security
• Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures

Trainees will gain knowledge in:
• Designing solutions that align with security best practices and priorities
• Designing security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities
• Designing security solutions for infrastructure
• Designing security solutions for applications and data

Trainees should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Trainees should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. Trainees will gain knowledge in:
• Designing identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
• Designing data storage solutions
• Designing business continuity solutions
• Designing infrastructure solutions

The Microsoft identity and access administrator designs, implements, and operates an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra. 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 management of Azure AD by using PowerShell and analyze events by using Kusto Query Language (KQL). They are also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting for the identity and access environment.
Trainees should be familiar with Azure and Microsoft 365 services and workloads.
Trainees will gain knowledge in:
• Implementing identities in Azure AD
• Implementing authentication and access management
• Implementing access management for applications
• Planning and implementing identity governance in Azure AD