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title: AZ-500 Study Materials
description: "Collection of study materials for the certification exam AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies. Contains official Microsoft Learn materials, labs, videos, practice tests and paid courses."
---

:::caution
Exam and its certification are being retired on August 31, 2026.

It will be replaced by [SC-500: Cloud and AI Security Engineer](/security/sc-500/).

Microsoft Learn always takes a while to update with certification retirements so don't panic if you can't see it there yet.
:::

### Get Started

### Exam AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

### AZ-500 Study Guide

### Exam Labs

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**Text:**

### Microsoft Learn

### Exam Ref AZ-500

**Videos:**

### Microsoft Learn Exam Readiness Zone

### On Demand Instructor-led Training Series

### On Demand Instructor-led Training Series: Secure Azure services and workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance controls

### On Demand Instructor-led Training Series: Enhance security operations by using Microsoft Security Copilot

### AGuideToCloud Course

### Inside Cloud and Security Cram

### Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative Intructor-led course

### Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Strengthen Cloud Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

### Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Predict and Defend Against Cybersecurity Threats

### Microsoft Learn AZ-500 Course on YouTube

**Tests:**

### Microsoft Learn Practice Assessment

### MeasureUp Assessment

### MeasureUp Practice Tests

**Paid:**

### Pluralsight Course

### Coursera Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate

### MeasureUp Certkit

### edX Security Engineer

### Cloudguides Follow Labs AZ-500

**Misc:**

### Microsoft Azure Free Account

### Microsoft 365 E5 Developer Tenant

### Microsoft Sentinel Training Lab

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### MeasureUp Practice Tests

### MeasureUp Assessment

### MeasureUp Practice Test

### MeasureUp Subscriptions

Official Microsoft Practice tests. They are expensive but they will prepare you for the exam. They are harder than normal exam questions but that helps
even more to identify your weak areas and where you need to study more. There are also cheaper assessments but they contain less questions and no explanations.

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