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Skills at a glance

• Manage a security operations environment (20–25%)

• Configure protections and detections (15–20%)

• Manage incident response (25–30%)

• Manage security threats (15–20%)

Manage a security operations environment

Configure settings in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure alert and vulnerability notification rules

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint advanced features

• Configure endpoint rules settings

• Manage automated investigation and response capabilities in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR

Manage assets and environments

• Configure and manage device groups, permissions, and automation levels in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Identify unmanaged devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Discover unprotected resources by using Defender for Cloud

• Identify and remediate devices at risk by using Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

• Mitigate risk by using Exposure Management in Microsoft Defender XDR

Design and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

• Plan a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

• Configure Microsoft Sentinel roles

• Specify Azure RBAC roles for Microsoft Sentinel configuration

• Design and configure Microsoft Sentinel data storage, including log types and log retention

Ingest data sources in Microsoft Sentinel

• Identify data sources to be ingested for Microsoft Sentinel

• Implement and use Content hub solutions

• Configure and use Microsoft connectors for Azure resources, including Azure Policy and diagnostic settings

• Plan and configure Syslog and Common Event Format (CEF) event collections

• Plan and configure collection of Windows Security events by using data collection rules, including Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)

• Create custom log tables in the workspace to store ingested data

• Monitor and optimize data ingestion

Configure protections and detections

Configure protections in Microsoft Defender security technologies

• Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Office 365

• Configure security policies for Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, including attack surface reduction (ASR) rules

• Configure cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Configure detections in Microsoft Defender XDR

• Configure and manage custom detection rules

• Manage alerts, including tuning, suppression, and correlation

• Configure deception rules in Microsoft Defender XDR

Configure detections in Microsoft Sentinel

• Classify and analyze data by using entities

• Configure and manage analytics rules

• Query Microsoft Sentinel data by using ASIM parsers

• Implement behavioral analytics

Manage incident response

Respond to alerts and incidents in the Microsoft Defender portal

• Investigate and remediate threats by using Microsoft Defender for Office 365

• Investigate and remediate ransomware and business email compromise incidents identified by automatic attack disruption

• Investigate and remediate compromised entities identified by Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP) policies

• Investigate and remediate threats identified by Microsoft Purview insider risk policies

• Investigate and remediate alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections

• Investigate and remediate security risks identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Investigate and remediate compromised identities that are identified by Microsoft Entra ID

• Investigate and remediate security alerts from Microsoft Defender for Identity

Respond to alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Investigate device timelines

• Perform actions on the device, including live response and collecting investigation packages

• Perform evidence and entity investigation

Investigate Microsoft 365 activities

• Investigate threats by using the unified audit log

• Investigate threats by using Content Search

• Investigate threats by using Microsoft Graph activity logs

Respond to incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

• Investigate and remediate incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

• Create and configure automation rules

• Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel playbooks

• Run playbooks on on-premises resources

Implement and use Microsoft Security Copilot

• Create and use promptbooks

• Manage sources for Security Copilot, including plugins and files

• Integrate Security Copilot by implementing connectors

• Manage permissions and roles in Security Copilot

• Monitor Security Copilot capacity and cost

• Identify threats and risks by using Security Copilot

• Investigate incidents by using Security Copilot

Manage security threats

Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR

• Identify threats by using Kusto Query Language (KQL)

• Interpret threat analytics in the Microsoft Defender portal

• Create custom hunting queries by using KQL

Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Sentinel

• Analyze attack vector coverage by using the MITRE ATT&CK matrix

• Manage and use threat indicators

• Create and manage hunts

• Create and monitor hunting queries

• Use hunting bookmarks for data investigations

• Retrieve and manage archived log data

• Create and manage search jobs

Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel workbooks

• Activate and customize workbook templates

• Create custom workbooks that include KQL

• Configure visualizations