SC-500 practice exam — Cloud and AI Security Engineer
Secure the estate and its AI: identity, data, compute, posture. Replaces the retiring AZ-500. This free practice paper mirrors the live exam: 20 questions drawn across the official skill areas, a countdown clock, and the same question formats — multiple choice, multiple response, drag-to-order, matching, hot-area statements, and exhibit-based items (diagrams, settings panels, and code).
Skills measured
The SC-500 exam measures your ability across the areas below; this practice paper draws proportionally from each.
| Skill area | Weight |
|---|---|
| Manage identity, access, and governance | 20–25% |
| Secure storage, databases, and networking | 25–30% |
| Secure compute (including AI workloads) | 20–25% |
| Manage and monitor security posture | 20–25% |
Press Start to sit the paper under exam conditions. Your answers are graded the moment you hand in, with a per-domain breakdown and every miss walked back to the material.
Study material
Every question walks back to a free class. Start here and sit the paper again when you have read it.
- Class 31 — Security & DevSecOps — where this paper begins
- All 42 classes, in order
- The other practice papers
- Skill drills — Bicep, Terraform, security, AI & data