Microsoft
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
MCCAE · Status not verified
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- Exam cost
- $165 USD (historical estimate)
- Questions · time · passing score
- Passing score: 700. Exam measures ability to design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities (20–25%), design security operations, identity, and compliance capabilities (25–30%), design security solutions for infrastructure (25–30%), and design security solutions for applications and data (20–25%).
- Prerequisites
- To become a Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, you must earn at least one of the following certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, or Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate.
- Estimated salary premium
- 10–10% (historical estimate)
- Renewal requirements
- 1-year cycle · CPE/CEU requirement not verified
- Difficulty
- Not rated
Domains covered
- ** Design solutions that align with security best practices and priorities
- Design security operations
- identity
- and compliance capabilities
- Design security solutions for infrastructure
- Design security solutions for applications and data
- Evaluate cybersecurity strategies
- Design security for identity
- devices
- data
- AI
- applications
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