In Ignite Conference 2018, Microsoft announced major changes and updates in its existing paths of Azure certification and introduced a new advanced certification path in 2019. Though Microsoft authorities have launched its fresh certification path officially, some IT pros are still not able to recognize the availability of these new certifications completely, and also the understanding of prerequisites for each certificate. The main purpose of these new certifications is that they should plot to job characters and also be able to realize a path from Foundation level to Associate level and also on to Expert level. Even after the launch in 2019, Microsoft has withdrawn some Azure certifications and introduced new ones as per the basis of the responses received from the market experts of IT.
These all-new certifications that offered in 2019 by Microsoft Azure, more focus on the operations of daily routine and the skills that are related to the IT professionals of a company. It is recommended to explore the different Microsoft Azure certifications that are now available in very high demand in the industry of IT. It increases the professional progress a lot and gear up the IT career of the professionals.
Below are the certifications that introduced in the Microsoft Azure 2019 certification path;
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator – Exam AZ-103
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals – Exam AZ-900
- Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert – Exam AZ-400
- Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ- 203
- Azure Security Engineer Associate – Exam AZ-500
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect – Exam AZ-300 and AZ-301
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator – Exam AZ-103
The purpose of this certification is the requirement of passing two exams; AZ-100 “MS Azure Infrastructure and Deployment” and the other one is AZ-101 “MS Azure Integration and Security. However, after getting feedback from the relevant community it has now altered to be just a single exam (AZ-103 MS Azure Administrator). To check out the details that have been merged from AZ-100 and AZ-101, the document of Exam design (AZ-103) can explain well. The certification of MS Certified Azure Administrator is perfect for the Administrators of cloud who want to get their talent worldwide accredited in the field of cloud storage. The requirement of these certifications are the necessary knowledge and skills to perform the below tasks;
- Efficient and effective management of Azure services and tools
- Comprehensive understanding of virtual machines
- Virtual networks Design and management
- Talent to design cloud relocation strategies
- Capability to manage multiple types of web applications and mobile
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals – Exam AZ-900
The certification in Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) is an optional level Azure certification path and covers the primary knowledge of Azure. This exam is projected for the professionals who wish to show their basic understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Even if the professionals are coming from the non-technical background and they have basic knowledge of the concepts related to the cloud, they can appear on the exam of this certification.
For this Fundamental exam of Microsoft Azure, no prerequisites are particular. However, one should have the awareness and also have a basic knowledge pertains to the cloud services as well as the platform of Microsoft Azure. The topics that are covered in this fundamental program are; “Cloud computing fundamentals” and “Information of different Azure services, products, and also pricing
Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert – Exam AZ-400
The candidates who have already received the mark of MS Azure Administrator Associate or Developer Associate make himself an “Azure DevOps Engineer Expert”. This is the new certification path in MS Azure certifications.
Below are the tasks to be performed for this credential;
- Designing effective DevOps Strategy
- Implementation of DevOps Development Practices
- Implementation of Continuous Integration and Delivery
- Implementation of Dependency Management and Application Infrastructure
- Implementation of Continuous Feedback
Microsoft Certified Azure Developer – Exam AZ- 203
As the certification of Azure Fundamentals, there were also two exams for this certification AZ-200 and AZ-201. Both are now replaced with “AZ-203 Developing Solutions and MS Azure”, and need to pass only one exam to obtain this credential. To get the Azure Developer certification completed, a candidate should be able to establish an understanding of offered services in MS Azure and should also be aware of designing and constructing solutions using the tools of MS Azure and technologies like security, storage, and communications. There is a year experience required in the development of scalable solutions and also a command in the cloud-supported programming language.
Azure Security Engineer Associate – Exam AZ-500
In order to achieve the certification of MS Azure Security Engineer Associate, a candidate must need to pass only a single exam of AZ-500. This certification is expressly aimed for IT security experts who are managing their IT operations in an Azure cloud environment. For the achievement of this certification, then, a candidate needs to have comprehensive knowledge and wide-ranging practical experience about below very critical practices of IT security;
- Management of Identity and access management
- Implementation of the platform protection architecture
- Management of risk in business security operations
- Security of application and data.
Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect – Exam AZ-300 and AZ-301
To achieve this Azure Solutions Architect certification, the clearance of two exams are required, one is the MS Azure Architect Technologies exam and the other one is the MS Azure Architect Design exam. The design of these certifications is specifically for experienced experts with good practical knowledge and direct experience of acting many types of cloud operations like data management, networking, business continuity solutions, budgeting, virtualization support, and disaster recovery processes.
The practical experience and the knowledge of performing below tasks are very useful to earn this certification;
- Deployment and configuration of MS Azure infrastructure
- Implementation of workload and security
- Creation and Development of Azure applications
- Provide the services of data security
- Deployment of the services of cloud management
- Planning for workload management
- To design and develop an identities and security management plan
- Implement and Design for the solutions of cloud data platform
