SC-100T00: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (Zero-Trust) — Lesson 1: Zero Trust Strategy, Governance and Risk

Learning Objectives

• Assess business objectives, assets, threats, compliance, maturity, stakeholders, risk appetite, and security outcomes
• Design Zero Trust principles, governance, policies, architecture decisions, roadmaps, metrics, and control validation
• Validate zero trust strategy, governance and risk decisions with documented requirements, test evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Detailed Topics

• Assess business objectives: Assess business objectives, assets, threats, compliance, maturity, stakeholders, risk appetite, and security outcomes
• Design Zero Trust principles: Design Zero Trust principles, governance, policies, architecture decisions, roadmaps, metrics, and control validation
• Validate zero trust strategy: Validate zero trust strategy, governance and risk decisions with documented requirements, test evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant design, configuration, development, analysis, administration, or support workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Create an enterprise Zero Trust strategy and risk map.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Zero Trust Strategy, Governance and Risk in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.