1 – Explore identity in Microsoft Entra ID

• Explain the identity landscape
• Explore zero trust with identity
• Discuss identity as a control plane
• Explore why we have identity
• Define identity administration
• Contrast decentralized identity with central identity systems
• Discuss identity management solutions
• Explain Microsoft Entra Business to Business
• Compare Microsoft identity providers
• Define identity licensing
• Explore authentication
• Discuss authorization
• Explain auditing in identity

2 – Implement initial configuration of Microsoft Entra ID

• Configure company brand
• Configure and manage Microsoft Entra roles
• Configure delegation by using administrative units
• Analyze Microsoft Entra role permissions
• Configure and manage custom domains
• Configure tenant-wide setting

3 – Create, configure, and manage identities

• Create, configure, and manage users
• Create, configure, and manage groups
• Configure and manage device registration
• Manage licenses
• Create custom security attributes
• Explore automatic user creation

4 – Implement and manage external identities

• Describe guest access and Business to Business accounts
• Manage external collaboration
• Invite external users – individually and in bulk
• Demo – manage guest users in Microsoft Entra ID
• Manage external user accounts in Microsoft Entra ID
• Manage external users in Microsoft 365 workloads
• Implement and manage Microsoft Entra Verified ID
• Configure identity providers
• Implement cross-tenant access controls

5 – Implement and manage hybrid identity

• Plan, design, and implement Microsoft Entra Connect
• Implement manage password hash synchronization (PHS)
• Implement manage pass-through authentication (PTA)
• Demo – Manage pass-through authentication and seamless single sign-on (SSO)
• Implement and manage federation
• Trouble-shoot synchronization errors
• Implement Microsoft Entra Connect Health
• Manage Microsoft Entra Health

6 – Secure Microsoft Entra users with multifactor authentication

• What is Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication?
• Plan your multifactor authentication deployment
• Configure multi-factor authentication methods

7 – Manage user authentication

• Administer FIDO2 and passwordless authentication methods
• Explore Authenticator app and OATH tokens
• Implement an authentication solution based on Windows Hello for Business
• Deploy and manage password protection
• Configure smart lockout thresholds
• Implement Kerberos and certificate-based authentication in Microsoft Entra ID
• Configure Microsoft Entra user authentication for virtual machines

8 – Plan, implement, and administer Conditional Access

• Plan security defaults
• Plan Conditional Access policies
• Implement Conditional Access policy controls and assignments
• Test and troubleshoot Conditional Access policies
• Implement application controls
• Implement session management
• Implement continuous access evaluation

9 – Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection

• Review identity protection basics
• Implement and manage user risk policy
• Monitor, investigate, and remediate elevated risky users
• Implement security for workload identities
• Explore Microsoft Defender for Identity

10 – Implement access management for Azure resources

• Assign Azure roles
• Configure custom Azure roles
• Create and configure managed identities
• Access Azure resources with managed identities
• Analyze Azure role permissions
• Configure Azure Key Vault RBAC policies
• Retrieve objects from Azure Key Vault
• Explore Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

11 – Plan and design the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

• Discover apps by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Active Directory Federation Services app report
• Configure connectors to apps
• Design and implement app management roles
• Configure preintegrated gallery SaaS apps
• Implement and manage policies for OAuth apps

12 – Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO

• Implement token customizations
• Implement and configure consent settings
• Integrate on-premises apps with Microsoft Entra application proxy
• Integrate custom SaaS apps for single sign-on
• Implement application-based user provisioning
• Monitor and audit access to Microsoft Entra integrated enterprise applications
• Create and manage application collections

13 – Implement app registration

• Plan your line of business application registration strategy
• Implement application registration
• Register an application
• Configure permission for an application
• Grant tenant-wide admin consent to applications
• Implement application authorization
• Manage and monitor application by using app governance

14 – Register apps using Microsoft Entra ID

• Plan for app registration
• Explore application objects and service principals
• Create app registrations
• Configure app authentication
• Configure API permissions
• Create app roles

15 – Plan and implement entitlement management

• Define access packages
• Configure entitlement management
• Configure and manage connected organizations
• Review per-user entitlements

16 – Plan, implement, and manage access review

• Plan for access reviews
• Create access reviews for groups and apps
• Create and configure access review programs
• Monitor access review findings
• Automate access review management tasks
• Configure recurring access reviews

17 – Plan and implement privileged access

• Define a privileged access strategy for administrative users
• Configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources
• Plan and configure Privileged Access Groups
• Analyze Privileged Identity Management audit history and reports
• Create and manage emergency access accounts

18 – Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID

• Analyze and investigate sign-in logs to troubleshoot access issues
• Review and monitor Microsoft Entra audit logs
• Export logs to third-party security information and event management system
• Analyze Microsoft Entra workbooks and reporting
• Monitor security posture with Identity Secure Score

19 – Explore the many features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

• A comprehensive experience for all cloud environments
• Get high level insights in the Permissions Management dashboard
• Dive deeper with the Analytics tab
• Develop a better understanding of your environment with reports
• Analyze historical data with the Audit tab
• Act on your findings with the Permissions Management Remediation tab
• Take a more proactive approach to managing with continuous monitoring
• Manage access to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
• Putting it all together