The Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) certification is retired. Move your team to Microsoft training and plan the transition with a CBT Nuggets demo.
Microsoft has retired the Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) certification as of . See current Microsoft training: all Microsoft certifications.
Exams
Every engineer on the Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) path takes AZ-500.
Skills your team builds
Training path
One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.
Microsoft career ladder
The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.
DP-300
AZ-700
AZ-500
MD-102
MO-310
DP-600
SC-300
MS-721
MS-700
AZ-104
PL-300
PL-200
SC-200
AB-730
AB-731
AZ-140
AI-103
AZ-400
MO-211
MO-110
MO-210
MO-111
Compliance frameworks this training supports
The compliance frameworks whose controls draw on the skills Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) training builds, with the control families the certification’s learning objectives address. A planning aid for mapping training to your program, not evidence that a requirement is met.
Mappings reflect the certification’s stated learning objectives against published framework control families. CBT Nuggets is a training platform. Our courses build the skills these frameworks depend on, and our completion records document the workforce training many of them require. Training supports a compliance program; it does not by itself make an organization compliant. Your compliance program and its assessors decide what counts as evidence. Pair this table with your auditor’s control crosswalk for the mapping your review requires.
Assign the Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.
Team capability
Standardizing your team on AZ-500 gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.
Credential: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) training for their team.
Teams in regulated industries commonly cite Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) when documenting training coverage for SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53. The specific control families Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) maps to depend on your environment and audit scope — see the compliance mapping on this page for the planning view, and pair it with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal attestation mapping. Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion and certification coverage for the audit packet your reviewer wants to see.
IT leaders typically frame Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) in operational terms — which roles and systems a certified engineer can own, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding, and audit-ready training documentation. The measures that matter are time to resolve, time to productivity for new Microsoft hires, and certification coverage by role rather than seat time.
CBT Nuggets Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.
From the admin console, managers assign the Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.
It depends on the team's starting baseline and how much time each engineer can give the linked courses each week. Most teams plan the training as an assigned playlist with a target date, and the team report shows who has finished the courses and the practice exams before anyone books the exam.
CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.
