Passed the MS-500

Yesterday after 7 months of reading. I sat and passed the MS-500. It goes EOL on the 30th. I wanted to take it to validate my own working knowledge of M365 Security.

I got about 7 MSFT renewals to do, then onward into SC-400 and then SC-100.

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xagreus

Well done getting that earned before the 30th. Keep up the good work!

itdept

Congrats on the pass. You mention seven month of reading. How many hours all up did you spend studying? What resources did you use?

Deáthmáge85

Mainly used the MS-500 book from Packt and also followed along with the MS Learn content. Then I used my home-lab instance of M365 via a 5 pack of E5 licenses I pay for on a month-to-month that my employee reimburses me on. I spent about 2-3 hours a day studying.

I made a very elaborate setup in M365 between my paid tenant and the M365 developer subscription. I bought two domains from Godaddy and bought a pair of wildcard certificates and really labbed till my heart was content.

Right now I'm doing nothing but renewals:

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But after all of these, I'll do the SC-400 and then AZ-500, and then SC-100, before going into the 800's.

I'm also the lead hands-on M365/Azure Security Engineer for my day job, so overall; lots of practice.