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The SC-401: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst exam is designed for security analysts who collaborate with organizational stakeholders to respond to threats. The exam focuses on threat detection, investigation, response, and proactive hunting using Microsoft security products such as Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender, and Defender for Cloud. Passing SC-401 validates your ability to operate as a security operations analyst in modern cloud-first environments.
The SC-401 exam validates skills for security operations analysts who reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks and advising on threat protection and response. The exam covers monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security incidents using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender, Defender for Cloud, and integrating data from various sources. Passing this exam demonstrates your ability to implement detection, investigate incidents, author detection queries, and build automated response workflows.
The SC-401 exam is split into skill domains that reflect real-world security operations tasks. Below is a module-wise breakdown tailored to the SC-401 objectives:
This area focuses on understanding Microsoft 365 Defender capabilities for detection and response across identities, endpoints, email, and collaboration apps. You should be able to triage alerts, investigate incidents, and recommend remediation steps.
Design, configure, and operate Sentinel: create workspaces, connect data sources, write KQL queries, create analytic rules, investigate incidents, and build automated playbooks (Logic Apps).
Use Defender for Cloud to monitor cloud resource security posture, detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and integrate signals into Sentinel or Defender products.
Proactive threat hunting using KQL, custom detection rules, entity mapping, and enriching events to find sophisticated threats across data sources.
Microsoft Learn provides official free modules and learning paths for security ops and Microsoft Sentinel. These are highly recommended for hands-on practice and reading the official product docs. Official SC-401 exam page on Microsoft Learn
Practice SC-401 exam style questions to test your knowledge on detection, incident response, Sentinel analytics and KQL. Use Sentinel sandbox or trial subscription for labs. Practice material & premium PDF
SC-401 involves a mix of question types to evaluate practical investigation and response skills:
Select the most appropriate answer(s) among options. Some MCQs may require multiple correct answers.
Assess statements about detection, response, or product behavior.
Match steps in an investigation or correct sequence of actions to remediate an incident.
Realistic scenarios requiring analysis across multiple tools (Defender, Sentinel) and recommending a remediation plan.
Complete missing terms or small expressions related to concepts or KQL patterns.
Real-like exam questions and answer explanations help you experience the format and difficulty of the SC-401 exam. Our premium PDFs include step-by-step investigation examples, KQL snippets, playbook templates, and recommended remediation steps. Get premium SC-401 materials here: Download SC-401 material
Use a combination of official Microsoft Learn modules, hands-on Sentinel workbooks, and practical labs in a trial Azure subscription. Complement with practice questions and real incident walkthroughs.
Official Microsoft Learn - SC-401Below are sample-style questions to test your preparation:
Q: Which Azure service is commonly used to build automated playbooks for Microsoft Sentinel incidents?
Q: You want to search across endpoint telemetry to find suspicious PowerShell execution that encoded payloads. Which tool and language should you use?
SC-401 (Security Operations Analyst) tests your ability to detect, investigate, respond to threats and perform threat hunting using Microsoft security tools (Sentinel, Defender).
The exam measures ability to triage threats, analyze and investigate alerts, author KQL queries, configure Sentinel analytics, and automate response with playbooks.
Clearcatnet keeps materials updated and focuses on real-world scenarios, practical KQL examples, playbook templates, and exam-like questions to help you pass.
Security operations analysts, SOC engineers, incident responders, and security engineers who operate and manage detection & response solutions.
No formal prerequisites, but recommended experience with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender products, threat hunting, and incident response practices.
SC-401 typically contains 40-60 questions, duration around 120 minutes, and passing score is 700/1000. Question types include MCQ, drag & drop, case studies, and scenario simulations.
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