AZ-500Microsoft Azure Security Engineer is retired
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- Exam code
- AZ-500
- Cost
- $165USD
- Questions
- 40 to 60
- Duration
- 120minutes
- Passing score
- 700(scale 1000)
- Level
- Advanced
- Valid for
- 1year
- Study guide
- How to prepare
- Sources
- 59official pages
- Format
- Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies
Azure Security Engineer practice exams
2 full-length forms, 40 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings.
A team publishes checks through a custom security initiative and expects the secure score to rise once those findings are remediated. Does it?
The answer
No. Only built-in MCSB recommendations affect it
Checked against
learn.microsoft.com, checked August 2026Only built-in recommendations from the MCSB affect the secure score.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
The percentage is the exam weighting; the bar is how many verified questions we hold there, so a short bar is where our bank is thin.
- Manage identity and access28%24 verified
- Secure networking22%20 verified
- Secure compute, storage, and databases22%20 verified
- Manage security operations28%24 verified
Where to focus: Identity and security operations are 56 percent together. Build a lab tenant and configure conditional access and Defender for Cloud yourself; the exam asks what happens, not what the feature is called.
What the exam actually asks you to do
Multiple choice and multiple response, plus drag-and-drop ordering, hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot, and case studies that hold one scenario across several linked questions.
Item formats
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
- Hot area
- Case study
The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. Microsoft Learn, exam duration and question types ↗
Between sittings
The same bank the numbered forms are assembled from.
Quick Practice
Open now
All 88 verified questions, untimed, with the explanation after each answer.
Domain Drill
Open now
Every domain on its own, for the area a score report says is weakest.
Review Missed
Fills as you go
Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.
Where Azure Security Engineer fits
Microsoft Azure track
An administration line and a security line. Fundamentals never expire and are optional; the role-based exams renew yearly.
Microsoft Azure’s free resources
Study from the source. Everything below is published by the vendor, free to read, and is what our own questions are written from:
Official Azure Security Engineer exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
- Free Azure Security Engineer practice test
Ten real questions, playable now. No account, no card.
- Azure Security Engineer passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is Azure Security Engineer?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
- What Azure Security Engineer costs
The voucher price, the retake, and what renewal costs across the cycle.
- Azure Security Engineer guide
Who it is for, study plans by experience level, and whether it is worth it.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need AZ-104 before AZ-500?
Not formally, but AZ-500 assumes you can already build and operate the things it asks you to secure. If virtual networks, managed identities, and RBAC are unfamiliar, AZ-500 will feel like two exams at once.
What is the hardest part of AZ-500?
Most candidates report the networking domain, because it demands exact behaviour: which NSG rule wins, what a service endpoint does that a private endpoint does not, and where a firewall rule applies. Guessing does not survive contact with those questions.
How much of AZ-500 is Entra ID?
Identity and access is 28% on its own, and identity turns up again inside the compute and operations domains through managed identities and Key Vault access. Study it first and it pays back twice.
Is AZ-500 still worth taking?
For anyone running security in an Azure estate, yes. It is the credential that maps most directly to the day job, and the free annual renewal makes holding it cheap once you have it.