The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores how to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Entra ID. Learn to manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications.
You will also learn to provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Finally, learn to create adaptive access and governance of your identity and access management solutions ensuring you can troubleshoot, monitor, and report on your environment.
The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. Learn how this role collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects. The end goal is to provide you knowledge to modernize identity solutions, to implement hybrid identity solutions, and to implement identity governance.
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.
Course Syllabus
Explore identity in Microsoft Entra ID
This module covers definitions and available services for identity provided in Microsoft Entra ID and to Microsoft 365. You start with authentication, authorization, and access tokens then build into full identity solutions.
Implement an identity management solution
Learn to create and manage your initial Microsoft Entra implementation and configure the users, groups, and external identities you’ll use to run your solution. Aligned to SC-300 Exam.
Implement an Authentication and Access Management solution
Implement and administer your access management using Microsoft Entra ID. Use MFA, Conditional Access, and identity protection to manager your identity solution.
Implement Access Management for Apps
Explore how applications can and should be added to your identity and access solution with application registration in Microsoft Entra ID.
Plan and implement an identity governance strategy
Design and implement identity governance for your identity solution using entitlement, access reviews, privileged access, and monitoring your Microsoft Entra ID.
Prerequisites
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and 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.
Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator
