Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) — Practice Questions and Mock Exam

The SC-300 certification validates skills in designing, implementing, and operating an organization's identity and access management using Microsoft Entra. It covers implementing identities in Microsoft Entra ID, authentication and access management, Conditional Access policies, identity governance, application access management, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for securing access to resources.

This certification is designed for identity and access administrators who manage user identities, authentication, authorization, and identity governance in Microsoft Entra. Candidates should have experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Conditional Access, multi-factor authentication, identity protection, and integrating SaaS applications with single sign-on.

All four domains land in the same 20–25% band — user identities, authentication and access management, workload identities, and identity governance carry essentially equal weight, so no single skill area dominates the exam.

That even split means SC-300 tests the full identity lifecycle rather than rewarding depth in one corner of it: Conditional Access policy design counts for as much as PIM's approval workflows and access reviews, and workload identities (service principals, app registrations, managed identities) get the same exam-time investment as human user accounts. Candidates who know Entra ID from a general-admin angle but haven't configured B2B collaboration, entitlement-management access packages, or workload-identity federation are missing a quarter of the exam each.

The exam draws 40–60 questions from a mix of multiple-choice, multiple-select, drag-and-drop, hot-area, and case-study formats inside a 100-minute window. Most items are scenario-based, presenting an identity or access problem and asking you to configure Conditional Access, PIM, or an identity-governance workflow to solve it. Authentication-method and external-identity questions go into enough detail that recognizing a feature by name isn't the same as knowing how to configure it.

The SC-300 pool covers every exam domain and keeps growing with new questions. A mock exam asks 50 questions in one sitting, on the same 100-minute clock as the real thing.

How long you'll need depends on how much hands-on experience you bring. The rest is set by the vendor: how the exam is delivered, how soon you can retake it, and how long the credential stays valid.

The exam runs through Pearson VUE, either online with a remote proctor or at an authorized testing center, and is offered in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, and several other languages. Certification holds for one year, and Microsoft opens a free renewal assessment on Learn starting six months before it expires.

Conditional Access policies evaluate and combine with each other, and grant controls interact with session controls in ways that only become clear when you've built overlapping policies and traced which one wins. Privileged Identity Management raises the same problem for role settings, approval workflows, and access reviews — the exam expects you to reason through a just-in-time access scenario, not recall a setting's name. B2B direct connect, B2B collaboration, and B2C solve different external-identity problems with different configuration paths, and app registration, API permissions, and consent frameworks trip up candidates who've only configured user accounts and never registered an application themselves.