Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)

Teams commonly cite Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) when documenting training coverage for the people who set security and compliance strategy, and the linked course includes lessons on designing a regulatory compliance strategy and evaluating and managing security postures. The organization's auditor and its control crosswalk decide the formal mapping to any framework. Team reporting provides per-learner completion exports that can go into the audit evidence.

IT leaders typically assign it to senior security engineers and architects who turn security requirements into design decisions. A certified team can own strategy built on the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA), including security operations, identity security, regulatory compliance and security posture. It can also own the plans for securing server and client endpoints, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services, data and applications, and the introduction and configuration of Entra Global Secure Access.

CBT Nuggets Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) 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 Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) 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.

The linked live courses add up to about 11 hours of video. The total time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point in Microsoft security architecture. Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion as the team works through that training.

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.