From Reddit
One of the biggest frustrations when I was trying to get hands-on with Microsoft's stack was that you simply can't practice the actual tools without paying. Azure costs are absurd, Sentinel and Defender XDR licenses aren't cheap, and free tiers don't give you the real environment.
I work in a SOC using both daily, and recently I became a Microsoft Student Ambassador. When I joined I found out about Applied Skills a section of their Learn platform that gives you a real Azure environment, hands you a scenario, and evaluates what you actually configured. No multiple choice, no memorization tricks, no way to fake it.
I did the Defender XDR one. Even with daily production experience, I ran into things I hadn't set up before. Worth the few hours. There are labs for Azure Monitor, Sentinel, Defender XDR, secure storage, Azure networking, GitHub Actions pipelines and a lot more I haven't gotten to yet. You get a badge on completion good for LinkedIn if you're into that kind of thing.
Catalog of labs is here (Azure, security, networking, data):
learn.microsoft.com/credentials/applied-skills/?wt.mc_id=studentamb_506171
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