Exam SC-400: Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365

Requirements / Skills Required for taking the SC-400 exam

Candidates who are appearing for this SC 400 exam should have the below skills:

• Implementation of information protection
• Implementation of DLP
• Implementation of the data lifecycle and management of records
• Data monitoring and data investigation and activities with usage of Microsoft Purview
• Management of insider and privacy-related risks in the Microsoft 365

What you'll learn in the SC-400 certification exam?

In this Exam SC-400: Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365, you will be learning about:

Implement Information Protection (25-30%)

• Creating and managing sensitive information types.
• Creating and managing trainable classifiers
• Implementing and managing sensitivity labels
• Encryption for email messages.

Implementing Data Loss Prevention (15-20%)

• Creating and configuring data loss prevention policies
• Implementing and monitoring Microsoft Endpoint data loss prevention
• Manage and monitor data loss prevention policies and activities

Manage insider and privacy risk in Microsoft 365 (15–20%)

• Configuring retention policies and labels
• Managing data retention in Microsoft 365
• Implement records management in Microsoft 365

Implementation of the data lifecycle and management of records (10-15%)

• Data lifecycle management in Microsoft Purview
• Data retention management in Microsoft 365 workloads
• Record management in Microsoft Purview

Monitor and investigate data and activities by using Microsoft Purview (15–20%)

• Planning and managing regulatory requirements with the usage of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
• Planning and managing eDiscovery and Content search
• Managing and analyzing the audit logs and reports in the Microsoft Purview

How do I prepare for the SC-400 exam?

• Step-1: Start learning the exam objectives of SC-400 certification clearly and find out the skills which you need to learn. You can also take up a study guide on the SC-400 certification exam.
• Step-2: Try attending free questions available for the SC-400 exam. Once you are very familiar with the exam objectives, it’s time to try out the practice tests which have unique questions on the SC-400 exam.
• Step-3: Even Microsoft recommends trying out SC-400 practice tests. Have a relook at practice tests again and when you are confident enough, try the actual exams without any fear.

Target Audience for the SC-400 exam

The Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Administrator designs and implements the control to meet the needs of the organization's compliance. You’ll be in charge of converting requirements and compliance controls into technical implementation. Also, you will aid organizational control owners in becoming and remaining compliant.

You’ll collaborate with information technology (IT) personnel, business application owners, human resources, and legal stakeholders to implement technology that supports the policies and controls required to meet their organization's regulatory requirements.

Finally, you’ll be responsible for creating policies and rules, governance, and protection.