Microsoft Entra Fundamentals

This course provides a general but complete overview of Microsoft Entra, Microsoft's unified multi-cloud identity and access solution. It covers the three major components of Microsoft Entra: Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, and Microsoft Entra Verified ID.

Microsoft's guiding cloud-architecture and information-security principles set the stage for everything else in this course.

In the early days of Active Directory — and even earlier, with Windows NT domains and workgroups — Windows was largely open by default, and it was up to the administrator to gradually lock it down. That posture has been inverted. Modern architecture assumes zero trust and assume breach: the operating assumption is that an application or identity has already been compromised, and the goal becomes limiting the resulting blast radius.