Pass the Microsoft Information Security Administrator (SC-401) exam on your first attempt — the current replacement for the retired SC-400 Information Protection exam.

If you came looking for the SC-400 (Information Protection Administrator), here's the key update: Microsoft retired SC-400 on May 31, 2025 and replaced it with SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365, earning the Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate credential. This is where modern Microsoft data security lives now. SC-401 validates that you can protect sensitive data using Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender — implementing information protection, data loss prevention and retention, and managing data security risks, alerts, and activities across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

SC-401 is a hands-on, practical exam. You'll face 40–60 questions in 100 minutes — including scenario items — that test what you'd actually configure: sensitivity labels and auto-labeling, sensitive information types and trainable classifiers, DLP policies (including endpoint and Adaptive Protection), retention policies and labels, Insider Risk Management, and the newer Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI. Memorizing definitions won't cut it. The most reliable way to pass is realistic, scenario-driven practice, which is exactly what this course delivers.

Why this certification matters

Data is every organization's most valuable and most regulated asset, and Microsoft Purview is at the center of protecting it. SC-401 proves you can classify, label, protect, and govern sensitive data, prevent leaks, and respond to insider risks — increasingly including data used by AI and Copilot. It opens information security administrator, data protection, and compliance roles, and it renews for free each year.

What makes this course different

This is not recycled SC-400 content with a new label. Every question reflects the current SC-401 (Information Security) exam objectives, including the genuinely new topics SC-400 never covered — DSPM for AI, the refocused security scope, and the latest Purview and Defender capabilities. Questions mirror the exam's scenario-driven style with realistic distractors. You don't just learn the right answer — you learn why an auto-labeling policy is scoped a certain way, when to use exact data match over a keyword dictionary, or how DLP policy precedence resolves.

What's included

• A deep bank of realistic, scenario-based practice questions across multiple full-length timed tests

• Detailed, reference-backed explanations for every question, right and wrong options alike

• Full coverage of all three SC-401 domains, weighted to match the real exam

• Scenario questions on sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, and insider risk

• Built for the current SC-401 exam — not the retired SC-400 content

• Performance feedback that pinpoints your weak domains before exam day

Topics covered

• Implement information protection (~30–35%) — sensitive information types, document fingerprinting, exact data match, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels and protection settings, auto-labeling, message encryption, and DSPM for AI

• Implement data loss prevention and retention (~30–35%) — DLP policies and rules, endpoint DLP, Adaptive Protection, policy precedence, retention labels and policies, and data lifecycle management

• Manage risks, alerts, and activities (~30–35%) — Insider Risk Management, alerts and investigations, activity explorer, and monitoring with Microsoft Purview and Defender

How the practice tests simulate the real exam

Each test is a full-length, timed set built to match the real 100-minute exam, so you train pacing and configuration decision-making together. Take a test, study every explanation, identify your weak domains, and retake until you're consistently scoring 85%+. That benchmark is your green light to book the real exam with confidence.

Benefits for learners

• Walk in current with the Information Security (SC-401) exam, not retired SC-400 content

• Save the $165 fee and weeks of re-study by passing on your first attempt

• Master the labeling, DLP, and insider-risk scenarios candidates find hardest

• Turn weak spots into strengths with explanations that actually teach

• Earn the current, in-demand Microsoft data security credential

Enroll today and take your first timed SC-401 practice test now. Find out exactly where you stand, close your gaps, and pass the Microsoft Information Security Administrator exam on your first try.