Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate (SC-400)

Organizations running Microsoft 365 need more than security awareness — they need administrators who can translate information protection and compliance requirements into Microsoft Purview controls. This SC-400 training is a good fit for IT Directors, Training Managers, and Team Leads building baseline capability across entry-level information security staff or Microsoft 365 administrators with about two years of security experience.

Plan for about 12 hours per learner based on the course curriculum. Because the topics affect classification, DLP, encryption, retention, records, communication compliance, insider risk, information barriers, and privacy, teams should pair training with internal policy review and change-management planning before making production changes.

IT teams complete this course to prepare for the Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate exam and to standardize how practitioners approach Microsoft Purview administration. CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting can help leaders assign the course by role and track completion across the team.

This training helps Microsoft 365 teams turn compliance intent into operational controls across Microsoft Purview. Rather than treating information protection as a one-time configuration task, learners see how classification, labeling, DLP, retention, and risk tools work together.

• Improve data classification workflows: Teams learn the building blocks for sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, and Exact Data Match scenarios.
• Support safer collaboration: Practitioners review sensitivity labels, Microsoft Purview, and email encryption concepts that help protect data as users work in Microsoft 365.
• Reduce compliance gaps: DLP policy coverage includes both Microsoft 365 data loss prevention and Endpoint DLP, plus managing DLP events.
• Strengthen governance readiness: Retention labels, data retention, records management, communication compliance, insider risk management, information barriers, and Microsoft Priva give teams a broader compliance administration foundation.

Knowledge

• How Microsoft Purview supports information protection and compliance administration.
• The purpose of sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, and Exact Data Match.
• How sensitivity labels and email encryption fit into Microsoft 365 data protection.
• How DLP policies, Endpoint DLP, and DLP events support data loss prevention operations.
• How retention labels, data retention, and records management support governance requirements.
• Where communication compliance, insider risk management, information barriers, and Microsoft Priva fit in a compliance program.

Ability

• Interpret organizational information protection requirements and map them to Microsoft 365 technical controls.
• Configure and manage classification-related tools covered in the SC-400 curriculum.
• Implement sensitivity labeling and encryption concepts in Microsoft Purview contexts.
• Work with DLP policies and Endpoint DLP scenarios.
• Apply retention and records-management concepts to Microsoft 365 governance needs.
• Prepare for the SC-400 exam aligned to the Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate certification.