SC-300 is the identity exam for people who design, operate, and troubleshoot access in Microsoft Entra. It is not just an MFA exam. A useful study plan covers the full lifecycle: users, devices, applications, permissions, governance, and Zero Trust controls.
Primary source checked on 2026-05-10: Study guide for Exam SC-300. Use the Microsoft page as the final source of truth before booking an exam or committing a remediation plan.
Who this is for
- Microsoft 365 or Azure admins who keep getting pulled into Conditional Access and Entra incidents.
- Security engineers who need identity governance muscle memory before designing Zero Trust rollouts.
- Teams preparing to clean up app registrations, privileged roles, access reviews, and authentication methods.
What to work on first
- Document the current identity estate: hybrid sync, external identities, app registrations, privileged roles, and break-glass accounts.
- Practice Conditional Access design with exclusions, report-only mode, authentication strengths, and device compliance.
- Lab identity governance: access packages, entitlement management, reviews, lifecycle workflows, and privileged identity management.
Team training angle
SC-300 becomes valuable when a team trains on its own identity decisions. The course should include role assignment reviews, application access cleanup, and a draft Conditional Access policy set.
One-week action plan
- Day 1: Entra tenant inventory and identity lifecycle review.
- Day 2: authentication methods, MFA, passwordless, and Conditional Access.
- Day 3: app registrations, enterprise applications, consent, and access troubleshooting.
- Day 4: identity governance, access reviews, PIM, and entitlement management.
- Day 5: exam drills plus a tenant hardening backlog.
Where Cloud Evolvers fits
Cloud Evolvers can teach SC-300 as exam prep or as an Entra hardening workshop for teams that need better access control before an audit or migration.