Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)

Teams commonly cite SC-200 when documenting training coverage for the people who run threat detection and incident response in Microsoft security tooling. The auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping for a given environment and audit scope. Completion exports from CBT Nuggets team reporting can serve as audit evidence of assigned and finished training.

SC-200 suits security operations analysts and the engineers who tune and run the SOC's Microsoft tooling. The linked course covers configuring endpoint settings, alert tuning, and automated investigation and response in Defender XDR, designing a Microsoft Sentinel workspace and ingesting its data sources, and writing KQL custom detections. A certified team can own Defender XDR and Sentinel detection, SOC data collection, and the investigation of alerts and incidents across Defender products.

CBT Nuggets Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200) 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 Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200) 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 CBT Nuggets training runs about 16 hours of video. Actual time to certify depends on the team's starting point, including how much hands-on Defender XDR, Sentinel, and KQL experience each analyst already brings.

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.