associate Cloud — Azure paid
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
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Security engineers who implement, manage, and monitor security for identity, networking, compute, and data in Azure.
Exam facts
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Exam code
- AZ-500
- Level
- associate
- Domain
- Cloud — Azure
- Exam format
- Multiple choice, case studies, and interactive items; online proctored or Pearson VUE test center
- Duration
- Approximately 100 minutes
- Cost
- $165 USD
- Renewal
- 1 year (free online renewal assessment)
- Prerequisites
- None formally; practical experience administering Azure and hybrid environments is strongly recommended.
Recommended preparation
Practice configuring Microsoft Entra ID, network security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, and Sentinel in a lab subscription. Complete the AZ-500 learning paths on Microsoft Learn and the free official practice assessment.
Follow the free CloudSecOps 90-Day Learning Path — its final phase (days 76–90) is built for certification preparation.
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