SC-300 Practice Test, Practice Exam and Questions for the Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Certification

SC-300 is the Entra exam. You can prove it by counting words.

Microsoft's security track has three exams that people constantly mix up. The fastest way to tell them apart is to count product names in the official skills-measured outlines, which is exactly what we did. The counts below come straight from the current study guides on Microsoft Learn.

The SC-300 outline runs about 893 words, one of the longest in the security track, and nearly every bullet starts with configure, implement or manage. This is not a describe-level exam. It expects you to have built Conditional Access policies, wired up Entra Connect Sync, registered applications and run access reviews, or at least to have drilled those workflows until you can answer scenario questions about them cold.

That is where question drilling earns its keep. You can generate practice questions from your own Entra notes and weight them to the four real domains rather than whatever a generic bank happens to cover.

SC-300 skills measured, straight from Microsoft's study guide

Four domains, and none is worth less than 20 percent. The two that sink working admins are the last two, because they cover the parts of Entra most tenants set up once and never touch again.

One honesty note you will not find on other prep sites: Microsoft's own study guide currently lists the authentication domain at 25 to 30 percent in its skills-at-a-glance summary and 20 to 25 percent in the section heading below it. The two numbers sit on the same page. We show the at-a-glance figure because it is the canonical summary, but either way the practical guidance is identical: this domain is the biggest, and Conditional Access is its center of gravity.

Weights and bullets are current as of the study-guide version stamped April 27, 2026. Microsoft publishes no question count for SC-300 and no pass rate for any exam. Its general guidance is that most exams contain 40 to 60 questions. The passing score is 700 on a scale of 1 to 1000, and Microsoft notes a scaled score may not equal 70 percent of the points.

SC-300 questions, answered

What is Exam SC-300?

SC-300 is Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator. It earns the Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate certification. It covers Microsoft Entra ID end to end: user and hybrid identities, authentication and Conditional Access, workload identities and app registrations, and identity governance with entitlement management, access reviews and PIM. Its skills are stamped as of April 27, 2026.

What are the SC-300 domain weights?

Four domains: implement and manage user identities at 20 to 25 percent, implement authentication and access management at 25 to 30 percent, plan and implement workload identities at 20 to 25 percent, and plan and automate identity governance at 20 to 25 percent. Authentication and access management is the largest domain in the skills-at-a-glance list of Microsoft's current study guide.

Is SC-300 hard?

SC-300 is considered one of the more hands-on Microsoft associate exams because nearly every bullet in the outline starts with configure, implement or manage rather than describe. It is also close to flat: no domain is worth less than 20 percent, so you cannot safely skip governance or workload identities, the two areas most admins have the least daily contact with.

How much does the SC-300 exam cost?

Microsoft does not list SC-300 in its published exam pricing feed, so no honest source can quote you a confirmed SC-300 fee. Associate-level Microsoft exams have generally been $165 in the United States, so that is the reasonable expectation, but confirm the price at checkout before you book. Treat any site stating a firm SC-300 price as guessing.

How many questions are on the SC-300 exam?

Microsoft publishes no question count for SC-300, and it publishes no pass rate for any of its exams. Its general guidance is that most exams contain 40 to 60 questions. The passing score is 700 on a scale of 1 to 1000, and Microsoft notes that a scaled score may not equal 70 percent of the points. Any site quoting an exact SC-300 question count or a pass percentage invented it.

What is the difference between SC-300 and SC-200?

SC-300 is the identity administration exam and SC-200 is the security operations exam. The split is visible in the official outlines: Microsoft Sentinel appears 16 times in SC-200 and zero times in SC-300, while Entra appears 28 times in SC-300. If you build Conditional Access policies and manage app registrations, SC-300 is your exam. If you investigate incidents in Defender and Sentinel, take SC-200.

Do I need SC-900 before SC-300?

No. SC-300 has no prerequisite. SC-900 is the optional security fundamentals exam, and it is a gentler on-ramp: its outline names Entra 12 times at a describe level, while SC-300 names Entra 28 times and expects you to configure it. If you already administer a tenant, you can go straight to SC-300.

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