Passed SC-300 today - My Experience
Background
I've worked in Entra solidly now for about 2 years at my organisation, managing CA's, applications, PIM.
After looking at the scope of the SC-300 and doing some practice exams at the start of my revision I realised I had a lot to learn to pass the exam. I revised for around a month and a half. About 4 hours during the week, and a full day at the weekend.
Revision
I haven't done a Microsoft cert in over 5 years, and the one I have done was a fundamentals. I took a bit of a scatter gun approach to revision, which in retrospect now I will change next time. I worked through MS-Learn content, taking notes in my OneNote, which I never really revisited. Used the online training platform CBTNuggets, of which I found Bob Salmans's course and explanations on SC-300 very good. If there was a topic I was struggling to understand on MS-Learn, Bob's videos helped clarify things up, and I also used the official SC-300 Training videos from Microsoft, on some topics I struggled on like app registrations.
I setup a test tenant with some Entra trial licences which for me was invaluable, reading these things in MS-Learn and then putting them into practice in the test tenant was where I solidified my learning(s).
Exam Content
Compared to the SC-300 Practice exams, the exam completely took me back. The questions in the MS-Learn practice exams are sentences, the questions in the exam for me were paragraphs. I haven't done an exam in a long while, this caught me off guard the sheer amount of information to read and ingest per question, not all, but alot of them.
For me, the exam focused heavily on Defender for Cloud Apps (there was lots of questions on this around session controls and app controls, more than I'd of liked), Identities in Azure, PIM, GSA, and entitlement management with access reviews and access packages.
I had 53 questions, and 8 questions in my case study. No labs.
Time management was extremely important, and something I wasn't prepared for. I felt very rushed during the exam, so in retrospect have a good idea of a time management plan going into this exam.
Score breakdown: 815/1000
Happy to answer questions. Good luck to everyone currently studying — it's a solid cert and worth the effort.