You can see it againUnder pressure people bring back shapes and positions long after the wording has gone.
Picture superiority · Shepard 1967, Standing 1973
MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Identity and Access Administrator Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification validates your ability to design, implement, and manage identity and access solutions using Microsoft Entra. It is aimed at professionals responsible for ensuring secure access and identity governance. Earning it demonstrates your expertise in applying Zero Trust principles and managing identities across applications and resources.
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions492
Content last reviewed 30 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What SC-300 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
4domains
16objectives
143concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification validates that you can design, implement, and operate identity and access management solutions using Microsoft Entra. It targets professionals responsible for managing identities and ensuring secure access across applications and resources.
Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to apply Zero Trust principles, implement hybrid identity solutions, and manage identity governance. You will be equipped to provide seamless user experiences and self-service management capabilities, collaborating with various roles to drive strategic identity projects.
Who it’s for
This certification is for identity and access administrators who design and manage identity solutions using Microsoft Entra. You are responsible for configuring and managing identities for users, devices, and applications, ensuring secure access and identity governance. You should be familiar with Azure, Microsoft 365 services, and Active Directory Domain Services. Knowledge of PowerShell and Kusto Query Language (KQL) is also beneficial.
Recommended experience
Familiarity with Azure, Microsoft 365 services, and Active Directory Domain Services. Configuring and managing identities for users and devices; Implementing identity governance and secure access solutions; Using PowerShell and Kusto Query Language (KQL)
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
Implement and manage user identities
- Configure and manage a Microsoft Entra tenant
- Create, configure, and manage Microsoft Entra identities
- Implement and manage identities for external users and tenants
- Implement and manage hybrid identity
Implement authentication and access management
- Plan, implement, and manage Microsoft Entra user authentication
- Plan, implement, and manage Microsoft Entra Conditional Access
- Manage risk by using Microsoft Entra ID Protection
- Implement Global Secure Access
Plan and implement workload identities
- Plan and implement identities for applications and Azure workloads
- Plan, implement, and monitor the integration of enterprise applications
- Plan and implement app registrations
- Manage and monitor app access by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Plan and automate identity governance
- Plan and implement entitlement management in Microsoft Entra
- Plan, implement, and manage access reviews in Microsoft Entra
- Plan and implement privileged access
- Monitor identity activity by using logs, workbooks, and reports
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeSC-300
CertificationIdentity and Access Administrator Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and multiple response
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your certification annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
View the official pageYour coach
And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
See how the coach worksBefore you book
Questions people ask
If I fail SC-300, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt. There is no annual cap on attempts.
What job roles does the Identity and Access Administrator Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as identity and access administrator, security engineer, and IT administrator responsible for managing identity solutions.
Is any part of the SC-300 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam may include interactive components where you complete tasks in a simulated environment.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
Yes. Earning a higher-level Microsoft certification can renew this credential without taking the SC-300 renewal assessment.
How do I schedule the SC-300 exam?
You can schedule the exam through Pearson VUE, either online or at a test center.
Are there any testing accommodations available?
Yes. Microsoft offers a variety of accommodations to support candidates with disabilities. You must request accommodations before registering for the exam.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-30 Up to date
Practice free questions 492 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
4domains
16objectives
143concepts
104free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 30 July 2026 · See the source
1Implement and manage user identities103 questions
Configure and manage a Microsoft Entra tenant12 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Create, configure, and manage Microsoft Entra identities13 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Implement and manage identities for external users and tenants7 concepts · 3 pagesOpen →Implement and manage hybrid identity7 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →
2Implement authentication and access management133 questions
Plan, implement, and manage Microsoft Entra user authentication12 concepts · 9 pagesOpen →Plan, implement, and manage Microsoft Entra Conditional Access10 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Manage risk by using Microsoft Entra ID Protection6 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Implement Global Secure Access7 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
3Plan and implement workload identities116 questions
Plan and implement identities for applications and Azure workloads4 concepts · 4 pagesOpen →Plan, implement, and monitor the integration of enterprise applications7 concepts · 5 pagesOpen →Plan and implement app registrations9 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Manage and monitor app access by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps9 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →
4Plan and automate identity governance140 questions
Plan and implement entitlement management in Microsoft Entra11 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Plan, implement, and manage access reviews in Microsoft Entra11 concepts · 8 pagesOpen →Plan and implement privileged access11 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →Monitor identity activity by using logs, workbooks, and reports7 concepts · 7 pagesOpen →
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Configure and manage a Microsoft Entra tenant7 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
33 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
492 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
492questions
104pages
16objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Implement and manage user identities103 questions
2Implement authentication and access management133 questions
3Plan and implement workload identities116 questions
4Plan and automate identity governance140 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
143concepts
492free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
143concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 16 objectives, 143 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
16objectives on the outline→143concepts written→492free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.