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Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)

Standardize your team on Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) with a structured Microsoft training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
1
Practice exam
6
Core skills
$165
Exam fee (Microsoft)
Microsoft Azure / 365 admin team at workstations with PowerShell and identity consoles
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (Microsoft)
$165
Courses on path
1
Official source
Microsoft’s official exam page
Exam code
  • SC-300

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
Familiarity with Azure AD, identity governance, and access management solutions
Recertification
1 year
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$165

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) path takes SC-300.

  1. SC-300Microsoft Identity and Access AdministratorPractice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $165
    Exam length
    100 minutes
    Questions
    40-60
    Passing score
    700

    Exam blueprint: SC-300

Skills your team builds

Identity and access managementAzure Active DirectoryConditional AccessIdentity governanceAccess reviewsPrivileged Identity Management

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    SC-300

    This Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) training prepares you to become a Microsoft identity and access admin. Expert-led training will teach you to implement and manage secure identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and hybrid identities. You’ll set up and manage users, groups, devices, and custom roles. You’ll learn to configure passwordless and multifactor sign-in, apply conditional access policies, and use tools like PIM to support a zero-trust strategy. You’ll also manage app access with registrations, service principals, and entitlement controls. Bring on-prem and cloud together using Azure AD Connect and Active Directory Federation Services, and monitor and protect identities using Defender for Cloud Apps, Sentinel, Identity Protection and Identity Secure Score. With practice exams and real‑world scenarios, this course maps to the SC‑300 exam blueprint, giving you the skills and confidence to get certified and secure access to your organization’s cloud resources.

    Bob Salmans, James Conrad
    135 videosPractice exam18h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

Microsoft career ladder

Where Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) sits in your team's Microsoft progression

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.

  1. Entry level

    6 certs

    Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

    AI-900

    Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)

    DP-900

    Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900)

    AB-900

    Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

    AZ-900

    Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals

    PL-900

    Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)

    SC-900

  2. Associate level

    13 certs

    Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)

    DP-300

    Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)

    AZ-700

    Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)

    AZ-500

    Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)

    MD-102

    Exam MO-310: Microsoft PowerPoint (Microsoft 365 Apps)

    MO-310

    Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)

    DP-600

    Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)

    SC-300

    You are here

    Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate (MS-721)

    MS-721

    Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700)

    MS-700

    Microsoft Azure Administrator

    AZ-104

    Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)

    PL-300

    Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate (PL-200)

    PL-200

    Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)

    SC-200

  3. Professional level

    10 certs

    AI Business Professional

    AB-730

    AI Transformation Leader

    AB-731

    Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

    AZ-140

    Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

    AI-103

    Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

    AZ-400

    Exam MO 211: Microsoft Excel Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps)

    MO-211

    Exam MO-110: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 Apps)

    MO-110

    Exam MO-210: Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365 Apps)

    MO-210

    Microsoft Word Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps)

    MO-111

    Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800 & AZ-801)

  4. Expert level

    3 certs

    Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)

    SC-100

    Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

    AZ-305

    Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102)

    MS-102

Compliance frameworks this training supports

Where Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) skills fit your compliance program

The compliance frameworks whose controls draw on the skills Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) 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.

  • FrameworkSOC 2
    Control families
    CC6
  • FrameworkHIPAA
    Control families
    164.308(a)(4)
  • FrameworkISO 27001
    Control families
    A.9
  • FrameworkNIST 800-53
    Control families
    ACIA

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.

Customer outcome

Build SC-300 capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make SC-300 a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on SC-300 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: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)

Exam
  • SC-300

Frequently asked questions about Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) training for their team.

How does Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) support our compliance or identity governance program?

Teams commonly cite SC-300 when documenting training coverage for identity controls such as MFA, Conditional Access, access reviews, entitlement management and privileged identity, but the auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping for your environment and audit scope. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can go into the audit evidence your reviewer requests.

Who on the team should hold Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300), and what can a certified team own?

SC-300 fits the identity administrators and security engineers who run the Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) tenant, including hybrid and external identities, MFA and user authentication, Conditional Access and Identity Protection. A certified team can also own enterprise application deployment and app registration, entitlement management, access reviews and Privileged Identity Management. It can monitor that environment with Azure Monitor, Identity Secure Score and Defender for Cloud Apps.

What does CBT Nuggets Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) 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.

How do I assign and track Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) 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.

How long does it take to certify a team on Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)?

The linked CBT Nuggets courses total about 27 hours of video, which gives IT leaders a planning baseline for each engineer. Actual time to certify depends on the team's starting point, especially prior hands-on experience administering Entra ID and Azure resources.

What if Microsoft updates the Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300) exam objectives?

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.

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