Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Validates expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring security for resources in Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. This associate-level certification covers securing identity and access with Microsoft Entra ID, Privileged Identity Management, MFA, and Conditional Access, securing networking with NSGs, Azure Firewall, Private Link, WAF, and DDoS Protection, securing compute, storage, and databases including AKS, disk encryption, and Azure SQL security features, and managing security posture and threat protection using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel. Requires practical experience in Azure administration and strong familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, compute, network, and storage.
Exam domains
- Secure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel34%
Enforce Azure Policy, Key Vault network and access controls, certificate, secret, and key lifecycle, and asset-management security; manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud secure score, compliance standards, multi-cloud connectors, and workload-protection plans for servers, databases, storage, and DevOps; and configure Microsoft Sentinel data connectors, analytics rules, and automation.
- Secure networking24%
Plan and implement NSGs, ASGs, Virtual Network Manager, user-defined routes, virtual network peering, VPN gateways, Virtual WAN with secured virtual hubs, ExpressRoute encryption, service endpoints, private endpoints, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, WAF, and DDoS Protection.
- Secure compute, storage, and databases24%
Secure VMs with Azure Bastion and just-in-time access; harden Azure Kubernetes Service, Container Instances, Container Apps, and Container Registry; configure disk encryption and storage account access; and protect Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance with Microsoft Entra authentication, auditing, dynamic masking, and Transparent Data Encryption.
- Secure identity and access
Sources
Questions are grounded in 100 references from official and authoritative materials.