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The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores how to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Azure AD. 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.
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What You'll Learn

  • Define common identity terms and explain how they're used in the Microsoft Cloud
  • Explore the common management tools and needs of an identity solution
  • Review the goal of Zero Trust and how it's applied in the Microsoft Cloud
  • Explore the available identity services in the Microsoft Cloud
  • Implement initial configuration of Microsoft Entra ID.
  • Create, configure, and manage identities.
  • Implement and manage external identities (excluding B2C scenarios).
  • Implement and manage hybrid identity.
  • Create, configure, and manage users
  • Create, configure, and manage groups
  • Manage licenses
  • Explain custom security attributes and automatic user provisioning
  • Manage external collaboration settings in Microsoft Entra ID
  • Invite external users (individually or in bulk)
  • Manage external user accounts in Microsoft Entra ID
  • Configure identity providers (social and SAML/WS-fed)
  • Plan, design, and implement Microsoft Entra Connect
  • Manage Microsoft Entra Connect
  • Manage password hash synchronization (PHS)
  • Manage pass-through authentication (PTA)
  • Manage seamless single sign-on (seamless SSO)
  • Manage federation excluding manual ADFS deployments
  • Troubleshoot synchronization errors
  • Implement and manage Microsoft Entra Connect Health
  • Learn about Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication
  • Create a plan to deploy Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication
  • Turn on Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication for users and specific apps
  • Administer authentication methods (FIDO2 / Passwordless)
  • Implement an authentication solution based on Windows Hello for Business
  • Configure and deploy self-service password reset
  • Deploy and manage password protection
  • Implement and manage tenant restrictions
  • Plan and implement security defaults.
  • Plan conditional access policies.
  • Implement conditional access policy controls and assignments (targeting, applications, and conditions).
  • Test and troubleshoot conditional access policies.
  • Implement application controls.
  • Implement session management.
  • Configure smart lockout thresholds.
  • Implement and manage a user risk policy.
  • Implement and manage sign-in risk policies.
  • Implement and manage MFA registration policy.
  • Monitor, investigate, and remediate elevated risky users.
  • Configure and use Azure roles within Microsoft Entra ID
  • Configure and managed identity and assign it to Azure resources
  • Analyze the role permissions granted to or inherited by a user
  • Configure access to data in Azure Key Vault using RBAC-policy
  • Discover apps by using Defender for Cloud Apps or ADFS app report.
  • Design and implement access management for apps.
  • Design and implement app management roles.
  • Configure preintegrated (gallery) SaaS apps.
  • Implement token customizations
  • Implement and configure consent settings
  • Integrate on-premises apps by using Microsoft Entra application proxy
  • Integrate custom SaaS apps for SSO
  • Implement application user provisioning
  • Monitor and audit access/Sign-On to Microsoft Entra ID integrated enterprise applications
  • Plan your line of business application registration strategy
  • Implement application registrations
  • Configure application permissions
  • Plan and configure multi-tier application permissions
  • Explain the benefits of registering apps in Microsoft Entra ID
  • Compare and contrast single and multitenant apps
  • Describe what happens and the primary settings when registering an app
  • Describe the relationship between application objects and service principals
  • Define catalogs.
  • Define access packages.
  • Plan, implement and manage entitlements.
  • Implement and manage terms of use.
  • Manage the lifecycle of external users in Microsoft Entra Identity Governance settings.
  • Plan for access reviews
  • Create access reviews for groups and apps
  • Monitor the access review findings
  • Manage licenses for access reviews
  • Automate management tasks for access review
  • Configure recurring access reviews
  • Define a privileged access strategy for administrative users (resources, roles, approvals, and thresholds)
  • Configure Privileged Identity Management for Microsoft Entra roles
  • Configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources
  • Assign roles
  • Manage PIM requests
  • Analyze PIM audit history and reports
  • Create and manage emergency access accounts
  • Analyze and investigate sign in logs to troubleshoot access issues
  • Review and monitor Microsoft Entra audit logs
  • Enable and integrate Microsoft Entra diagnostic logs with Log Analytics / Azure Sentinel
  • Export sign in and audit logs to a third-party SIEM (security information and event management)
  • Review Microsoft Entra activity by using Log Analytics / Azure Sentinel, excluding KQL (Kusto Query Language) use
  • Analyze Microsoft Entra workbooks / reporting
  • Configure notifications
  • Understand the features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
  • Learn more specifics about how Permissions Management allows you to discover, remediate, and monitor identities, permissions, and resources
  • Get real-world views of the data and analytics Permissions Management provides

Who Should Attend

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.
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Learning Journey

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1. 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.

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2. Implement initial configuration of Microsoft Entra ID

Learn to create an initial Microsoft Entra ID configuration to ensure all the identity solutions available in Azure are ready to use. This module explores how to build and configure a Microsoft Entra system.

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3. Create, configure, and manage identities

Access to cloud-based workloads needs to be controlled centrally by providing a definitive identity for each user and resource. You can ensure employees and vendors have just-enough access to do their job.

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4. Implement and manage external identities

Inviting external users to use company Azure resources is a great benefit, but you want to do it in a secure way. Explore how to enable secure external collaboration.

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5. Implement and manage hybrid identity

Creating a hybrid-identity solution to use your on-premises active directory can be challenging. Explore how to implement a secure hybrid-identity solution.

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6. Secure Microsoft Entra users with multifactor authentication

Learn how to use multifactor authentication with Microsoft Entra ID to harden your user accounts.

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7. Manage user authentication

There are multiple options for authentication in Microsoft Entra ID. Learn how to implement and manage the right authentications for users based on business needs.

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8. Plan, implement, and administer Conditional Access

Conditional Access gives a fine granularity of control over which users can do specific activities, access which resources, and how to ensure data and systems are safe.

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9. Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

Protecting a user's identity by monitoring their usage and sign-in patterns ensure a secure cloud solution. Explore how to design and implement Microsoft Entra Identity protection.

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10. Implement access management for Azure resources

Explore how to use built-in Azure roles, managed identities, and RBAC-policy to control access to Azure resources. Identity is the key to secure solutions.

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11. Plan and design the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

Enterprise app deployment enables control over which users can access the apps, easily log into apps with single-sign-on, and provide integrated usage reports.

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12. Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

Deploying and monitoring enterprise applications to Azure solutions can ensure security. Explore how to deploy on-premises and cloud based apps to users.

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13. Implement app registration

Line of business developed in-house need registration in Microsoft Entra ID and assigned to users for a secure Azure solution. Explore how to implement app registration.

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14. Register apps using Microsoft Entra ID

Explore the value and configuration options when registering an app in Microsoft Entra, to ensure your data and infrastructure is protected.

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15. Plan and implement entitlement management

When new users or external users join your site, quickly assigning them access to Azure solutions is a must. Explore how to entitle users to access your site and resources.

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16. Plan, implement, and manage access review

Once identity is deployed, proper governance using access reviews is necessary for a secure solution. Explore how to plan for and implement access reviews.

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17. Plan and implement privileged access

Ensuring that administrative roles are protected and managed to increase your Azure solution security is a must. Explore how to use PIM to protect your data and resources.

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18. Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID

Audit and diagnostic logs within Microsoft Entra ID provide a rich view into how users are accessing your Azure solution. Learn to monitor, troubleshoot, and analyze sign-in data.

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19. Explore the many features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

While diving deeper into the features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, we use the framework of discover, remediate, monitor as a guide to help walkthrough how the Permissions Management features set can benefit your organization.

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Skills measured

  • Implement and manage user identities
  • Implement authentication and access management
  • Plan and implement workload identities
  • Plan and implement identity governance

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    Microsoft-certified professionals are in high demand, opening doors to new career opportunities and higher earning potential.

  • What to expect for the examination?

    Microsoft certification exams are designed to assess your knowledge and skills in specific Microsoft technologies and solutions.

    Exams typically consist of multiple-choice, multiple-select, and case study questions, and some may include lab simulations to evaluate your practical skills.

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