SC-100Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert practice exams
Original questions written from the published objectives and cited to official documentation, never recalled exam content. How we verify, why not dumps.
- Exam code
- SC-100
- Cost
- $165 USD
- Questions
- 40 to 60
- Duration
- 120 minutes
- Passing score
- 700 (scale 1-1000)
- Format
- Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies
Fail and the retake is another $165. Practicing until you are ready is the cheapest part of this. Full cost breakdown.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
From the official Microsoft Learn study guides. Put your study time where the weight is.
- Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities23%
- Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities27%
- Design security solutions for infrastructure27%
- Design security solutions for applications and data23%
Coverage by domain
0 verified- Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities0 / 23% of exam
- Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities0 / 27% of exam
- Design security solutions for infrastructure0 / 27% of exam
- Design security solutions for applications and data0 / 23% of exam
Open now. Nothing is published for Cybersecurity Architect yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.
Opens next. The first practice exam opens at 40 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.
Every question here is verified against vendor documentation before it serves, which is why the count grows slowly.
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.
- 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 ↗
Cybersecurity Architect practice exams
No complete practice exam yet. A form is 40 questions apportioned to the official weightings, and a partial one would report a score that means nothing, so none is assembled until the questions are there.
- Open now
- Nothing is published for Cybersecurity Architect yet. The bank is being written from the official objectives.
- Opens next
- The first practice exam opens at 40 verified questions, spread across all 4 domains.
Where Cybersecurity Architect fits
An honest study plan
1. Read the official objectives first
Download the official objectives from Microsoft Azure and skim every line. The exam can only test what’s listed there, it’s the contract.
2. Weight your study toward Design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities and Design security solutions for infrastructure
Together the top two domains are 54% of the exam. Practice them until your accuracy is consistently above 80%.
3. Drill weak domains, then sit a numbered practice exam
Use Domain Drill on your weakest areas, then sit a full-length form under exam conditions: 40 questions in 120 minutes, scored against the published pass mark. Book the real exam when you are consistently clearing that, not before.
Official free resources
Study from the source. These are Microsoft Azure’s own materials:
Official Cybersecurity Architect exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
Cybersecurity Architect passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
How hard is Cybersecurity Architect?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
Frequently asked questions
How is SC-100 different from AZ-500 and SC-200?
Those exams configure and operate; SC-100 designs. Questions give a business scenario and ask which strategy fits: Zero Trust rollout order, which capabilities close a described gap, how governance and operations connect across Microsoft's security stack.
What must I hold for the Expert certification?
SC-100 plus one prerequisite certification: AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300. The exam itself assumes working familiarity with what all three cover.
Note on domain weightings
Microsoft publishes weightings as ranges. The figures here use midpoints of the official ranges from the current SC-100 study guide.
Ready to practice for SC-100?
Nothing is published for this exam yet. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when the first questions ship, and nothing else.
Cybersecurity Architect is not for sale yet. A certification goes on sale when it has a complete practice exam behind it, and this one does not, so there is nothing here worth charging for. Everything published is free to answer in the meantime.