Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

 

This course is for the Identity and Access Administrators who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing identity and access administration tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an administrator or engineer that wants to specialize in providing identity solutions and access management systems for Azure-based solutions; playing an integral role in protecting an organization. Job role: Security Engineer
 

Before attending this course, students should have understanding of:
• Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.
• Be familiar with identity concepts such as authentication, authorization, and active directory.
• Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security specific information.
• Some experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages is helpful but not required. Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.
Prerequisite courses (or equivalent knowledge and hands-on experience):
• This free online training will give you the experience you need to be successful in this course.
• SC-900 part 1: Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity - Learn | Microsoft Docs
• SC-900 part 2: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Identity and access management solutions - Learn | Microsoft Docs
• SC-900 part 3: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions - Learn | Microsoft Docs
• SC-900 part 4: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-104: Manage identities and governance in Azure - Learn | Microsoft Docs
 

Explore identity and Azure AD

• Introduction
• Explain the identity landscape
• Explore zero trust with identity
• Discuss identity as a control plane
• Explore why we have identity
• Define identity administration
• Contrast decentralized identity with central identity systems
• Discuss identity management solutions
• Explain Azure AD Business to Business
• Compare Microsoft identity providers
• Define identity licensing
• Explore authentication
• Discuss authorization
• Explain auditing in identity
• Knowledge check

Implement initial configuration of Azure Active Directory

• Introduction
• Configure company brand
• Configure and manage Azure Active Directory roles
• Exercise manage users roles
• Configure delegation by using administrative units
• Analyze Azure AD role permissions
• Configure and manage custom domains
• Configure tenant-wide setting
• Exercise - setting tenant-wide properties
• Knowledge check

Create, configure, and manage identities

• Introduction
• Create, configure, and manage users
• Exercise - assign licenses to users
• Exercise - restore or remove deleted users
• Create, configure, and manage groups
• Exercise - add groups in Azure Active Directory
• Configure and manage device registration
• Manage licenses
• Exercise - change group license assignments
• Exercise - change user license assignments
• Create custom security attributes
• Explore automatic user creation
• Knowledge check

Implement and manage external identities

• Introduction
• Describe guest access and Business to Business accounts
• Manage external collaboration
• Exercise - configure external collaboration
• Invite external users - individually and in bulk
• Exercise - add guest users to directory
• Exercise - invite guest users bulk
• Demo - manage guest users in Azure Active Directory
• Manage external user accounts in Azure Active Directory
• Manage external users in Microsoft 365 workloads
• Exercise - explore dynamic groups
• Implement cross-tenant access controls
• Configure identity providers
• Implement and manage Entra Verified ID
• Knowledge check

Implement and manage hybrid identity

• Introduction
• Plan, design, and implement Azure Active Directory Connect
• Implement manage password hash synchronization (PHS)
• Implement manage pass-through authentication (PTA)
• Demo - Manage pass-through authentication and seamless single sign-on (SSO)
• Implement and manage federation
• Trouble-shoot synchronization errors
• Implement Azure Active Directory Connect Health
• Manage Azure Active Directory Connect Health
• Knowledge check

Secure Microsoft Entra users with multifactor authentication

• Introduction
• What is Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication?
• Plan your multifactor authentication deployment
• Exercise - Enable Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication
• Configure multi-factor authentication methods

Manage user authentication

• Introduction
• Administer FIDO2 and passwordless authentication methods
• Explore Authenticator app and OATH tokens
• Implement an authentication solution based on Windows Hello for Business
• Exercise configure and deploy self-service password reset
• Deploy and manage password protection
• Configure smart lockout thresholds
• Exercise - Manage Azure Active Directory smart lockout values
• Implement Kerberos and certificate-based authentication in Azure AD
• Configure Azure AD user authentication for virtual machines
• Knowledge check

Plan, implement, and administer Conditional Access

• Introduction
• Plan security defaults
• Exercise - Work with security defaults
• Plan Conditional Access policies
• Implement Conditional Access policy controls and assignments
• Exercise - Implement Conditional Access policies roles and assignments
• Test and troubleshoot Conditional Access policies
• Implement application controls
• Implement session management
• Exercise - Configure authentication session controls
• Implement continuous access evaluation
• Knowledge check

Manage Azure AD Identity Protection

• Introduction
• Review identity protection basics
• Implement and manage user risk policy
• Exercise enable sign-in risk policy
• Exercise configure Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication registration policy
• Monitor, investigate, and remediate elevated risky users
• Implement security for workload identities
• Explore Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Knowledge check

Implement access management for Azure resources

• Introduction
• Assign Azure roles
• Configure custom Azure roles
• Create and configure managed identities
• Access Azure resources with managed identities
• Analyze Azure role permissions
• Configure Azure Key Vault RBAC policies
• Retrieve objects from Azure Key Vault
• Explore Entra Permissions Management (CloudKnox)
• Knowledge check

Plan and design the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

• Introduction
• Discover apps by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Active Directory Federation Services app report
• Configure connectors to apps
• Exercise implement access management for apps
• Design and implement app management roles
• Exercise create a custom role to manage app registration
• Configure pre-integrated gallery SaaS apps
• Implement and manage policies for OAuth apps
• Knowledge check

Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

• Introduction
• Implement token customizations
• Implement and configure consent settings
• Integrate on-premises apps by using Azure Active Directory application proxy
• Integrate custom SaaS apps for single-sign-on
• Implement application user provisioning
• Monitor and audit access to Azure Active Directory integrated applications
• Create and manage application collections
• Knowledge check

Implement app registration

• Introduction
• Plan your line of business application registration strategy
• Implement application registration
• Exercise register an application
• Configure application permission
• Exercise grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application
• Implement application authorization
• Exercise add app roles to application and receive tokens
• Manage and monitor application with App governance
• Knowledge check

Plan and implement entitlement management

• Introduction
• Define access packages
• Exercise create and manage a resource catalog with Azure AD entitlement
• Configure entitlement management
• Exercise add terms of use acceptance report
• Exercise manage the lifecycle of external users with Azure AD identity governance
• Configure and manage connected organizations
• Review per-user entitlements
• Knowledge check

Plan, implement, and manage access review

• Introduction
• Plan for access reviews
• Create access reviews for groups and apps
• Create and configure access review programs
• Monitor access review findings
• Automate access review management tasks
• Configure recurring access reviews
• Knowledge check

Plan and implement privileged access

• Introduction
• Define a privileged access strategy for administrative users
• Configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources
• Exercise configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure Active Directory roles
• Exercise assign Azure Active Directory roles in Privileged Identity Management
• Exercise assign Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management
• Plan and configure Privileged Access Groups
• Analyze Privileged Identity Management audit history and reports
• Create and manage emergency access accounts
• Knowledge check

Monitor and maintain Azure Active Directory

• Introduction
• Analyze and investigate sign-in logs to troubleshoot access issues
• Review and monitor Azure Active Directory audit logs
• Exercise connect data from Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Sentinel
• Export logs to third-party security information and event management system
• Analyze Azure Active Directory workbooks and reporting
• Monitor security posture with Identity Secure Score
• Knowledge check