Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores how to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Entra ID. Learn to manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications. You will also learn to provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Finally, learn to create adaptive access and governance of your identity and access management solutions ensuring you can troubleshoot, monitor, and report on your environment. The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. Learn how this role collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects. The end goal is to provide you knowledge to modernize identity solutions, to implement hybrid identity solutions, and to implement identity governance.

Audience Profile

This course is for the Identity and Access Administrators who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing identity and access administration tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an administrator or engineer that wants to specialize in providing identity solutions and access management systems for Azure-based solutions; playing an integral role in protecting an organization.

Course Syllabus

Explore identity in Microsoft Entra ID

• Introduction
• 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
• Knowledge check
• Summary

Implement an identity management solution

• Implement initial configuration of Microsoft Entra ID
• Create, configure, and manage identities
• Implement and manage external identities
• Implement and manage hybrid identity

Implement an Authentication and Access Management solution

• Secure Microsoft Entra users with multifactor authentication
• Manage user authentication
• Plan, implement, and administer Conditional Access
• Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection
• Implement access management for Azure resources
• Deploy and Configure Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access

Implement Access Management for Apps

• Plan and design the integration of enterprise apps for SSO
• Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO
• Implement app registration
• Register apps using Microsoft Entra ID

Plan and implement an identity governance strategy

• Plan and implement entitlement management
• Plan, implement, and manage access review
• Plan and implement privileged access
• Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID
• Explore the many features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management