Microsoft SC-200 Practice Test
Free SC-200 practice tests built around Microsoft’s skills measured from July 28, 2026. Use the mixed sets to check all three skill areas, then drill a single area when the pattern in your misses becomes obvious.
Mixed set — SC-200 practice tests
Five 20-question sets covering the full SC-200 outline. The mix follows the current weighting, so managing the security operations environment appears most often, followed by incident response and threat hunting.
Domain-wise — SC-200 practice tests
Once a mixed set shows you the weak spot, stay there for 20 questions. Each test below concentrates on one current Microsoft skill area instead of spreading your attention across all three.
Twenty questions finds the gap.
Fifty questions tests whether the fix holds.
The free tests are built for diagnosis. When you want a longer benchmark, the full-length series gives you 50 questions under a 100-minute practice window, with the same fixed 21 / 18 / 11 blueprint in every paper.
| Free tests on this page | Full-length practice tests | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions | 20 per test | 50 per test |
| Time | Timed short practice | 100-minute practice window |
| Coverage | Mixed across all 3 areas or focused on one | All 3 areas in every paper |
| Blueprint | Mixed sets follow the current Microsoft weighting | Fixed 21 / 18 / 11 distribution |
| Practice result | Short-test benchmark | Estimated 1–1000 practice score against 700 |
| Detailed breakdown | Use mixed and domain tests together to isolate gaps | Detailed performance breakdown after the paper |
| Series size | 8 tests · 160 questions | 10 tests · 500 questions |
| Price | Free | From $2₹99£1.47€1.70 per test |
How to use these tests in a study plan
Use the free sets to decide where to spend study time. Save the longer papers for the point where you want to measure sustained decision-making across the whole blueprint.
Benchmark the three areas
Take two mixed sets before changing your revision plan. Look for repeated misses, especially when the same Microsoft tool or workflow keeps appearing.
Start with Practice Test 1 →Drill the weak area
Move to the matching domain-wise test. If incident response is costing you marks, spend a whole set inside Defender XDR, Sentinel and endpoint response decisions.
Open incident-response practice →Run a full-length benchmark
When the weak area stops being obvious, sit 50 questions under the 100-minute clock. Then repeat on a fresh paper after you have repaired the misses.
Get full-length tests →About the Microsoft SC-200 exam
SC-200 is the exam for the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate credential. Microsoft refreshed the certification page and skills measured on July 28, 2026.
What SC-200 measures now
The role is operational. Microsoft expects candidates to triage and respond to incidents, hunt for threats and engineer detections across multi-cloud and on-premises environments. The current outline centers on Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections appearing where the analyst workflow needs them.
KQL runs through the exam. So does choosing the right response in the right product. That is why a useful SC-200 question is usually a scenario with two answers that both sound plausible until the product behavior or investigation requirement separates them.
Exam format
Exam code: SC-200.
Assessment time: 100 minutes.
Passing score: 700 or greater on Microsoft’s scaled scoring system.
Question count: Varies as Microsoft updates certification exams.
Exam experience: Proctored and may include interactive components.
U.S. price: $165 USD.
Candidate profile and renewal
Expected familiarity: Microsoft security, compliance and identity solutions, Microsoft 365, Azure cloud services, AI agents and Copilots, plus Windows, Linux and mobile operating systems.
Credential: Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate.
Renewal frequency: Every 12 months.
Renewal method: Pass the free online renewal assessment on Microsoft Learn before the certification expires.
Retakes: 24 hours after the first failed attempt, then 14 days between later attempts, with up to five attempts on the same exam in a 12-month period.
SC-200 skill-area weights — July 2026
Microsoft publishes ranges rather than a fixed question count. The largest area is managing a security operations environment, with incident response close behind.
| Skill area | Microsoft weight | Full-length practice blueprint |
|---|---|---|
| Manage a security operations environment | 40–45% | 21 of 50 |
| Respond to security incidents | 35–40% | 18 of 50 |
| Perform threat hunting | 20–25% | 11 of 50 |
How our SC-200 practice tests are written
Current outline first. The questions are mapped to Microsoft’s July 28, 2026 skills measured. That matters on SC-200 because the products and workflows move faster than most certification syllabuses.
Tool context matters. A Defender XDR incident question should not be answerable by remembering a generic incident-response definition. You have to know what the product can do, what the analyst is trying to preserve and which action fits the requirement.
KQL appears where analysts use it. Threat hunting covers table choice, filters, joins, aggregation, Advanced Hunting, Sentinel hunting queries, KQL jobs and summary rule tables. The point is to make the query serve the investigation, not to turn SC-200 into a syntax quiz.
Mixed sets keep the weighting visible. Security operations management carries 40–45%, incident response 35–40% and threat hunting 20–25%. The free mixed tests reflect that order instead of giving each area equal space.
SC-200 exam preparation tips
Study strategy
Get comfortable inside Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. The outline is full of tasks: configure automation, ingest data, create detections, investigate incidents and perform response actions. Reading feature lists is not enough.
Make KQL routine. Know how to choose a table, filter the rows you need, summarize the result and join data when the investigation crosses sources. Then practise explaining why that query answers the security question.
Study by weight. The first two skill areas together account for most of the exam. Put more time into automation, Sentinel configuration, detection engineering and incident investigation before polishing the smaller threat-hunting area.
Test-taking strategy
Read the product name before the answers. Defender XDR, Sentinel, Defender for Endpoint, Purview and Entra ID solve different parts of the analyst workflow. The named tool often removes half the distractors immediately.
Separate detection from response. Creating an analytics rule and isolating a device are both valid security actions, but they solve different steps in the workflow. SC-200 questions regularly hinge on that distinction.
Use the 100 minutes deliberately. Do not let one unfamiliar KQL or investigation scenario consume the time you need for the rest of the paper. Make a decision, move, then revisit if the exam interface allows it.
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Find the weak area. Then test the whole blueprint.
Start with a free 20-question mixed set. When you want a longer benchmark, move to a fresh 50-question full-length paper under the 100-minute clock.
