SC-200Microsoft Security Operations Analyst practice exams
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- Exam code
- SC-200
- Cost
- $165USD
- Questions
- 40 to 60
- Duration
- 100minutes
- Passing score
- 700(scale 1000)
- Level
- Mid level
- Valid for
- 1year
- Study guide
- How to prepare
- Sources
- 45official pages
- Format
- Multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies
Security Operations Analyst practice exams
2 full-length forms, 40 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings.
Two analysts are working one incident together and want both names visible as owners in the queue. What does the portal support?
The answer
One account only, so assign a shared group
Checked against
learn.microsoft.com, checked August 2026Only one user or group account can be assigned to an incident.
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 a security operations environment22%18 verified
- Configure protections and detections18%14 verified
- Manage incident response32%26 verified
- Manage security threats28%22 verified
Where to focus: Incident response and threat management are 60 percent between them. Practising the investigation flow inside a real Defender tenant moves the score faster than reading product docs.
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 80 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 Security Operations Analyst 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 Security Operations Analyst exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
- Free Security Operations Analyst practice test
Ten real questions, playable now. No account, no card.
- Security Operations Analyst passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is Security Operations Analyst?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
- What Security Operations Analyst costs
The voucher price, the retake, and what renewal costs across the cycle.
- Security Operations Analyst guide
Who it is for, study plans by experience level, and whether it is worth it.
Cheat sheets
Printable reference tables, free.
Compared with
Side by side on cost, difficulty, and which one to take first.
Frequently asked questions
How much KQL does SC-200 need?
Enough to read a hunting query and say what it returns, and enough to spot the one clause that makes a query miss the thing it is looking for. You are not asked to write long queries from a blank page, but you cannot avoid the language.
Which products does SC-200 cover?
Microsoft Sentinel and the Defender XDR family: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Defender for Cloud. Incident response across those products is the heaviest domain at 32%.
Do I need SC-900 first?
It is not required. SC-900 is a vocabulary exam and SC-200 assumes you already have the vocabulary, so people who work in a Microsoft security stack usually skip straight to SC-200.
How long does SC-200 stay valid?
One year, renewed free through an online assessment on Microsoft Learn. The assessment is unproctored, open book, and takes under an hour.