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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re an Azure AI engineer who builds, manages, and deploys agents and AI solutions that take advantage of Microsoft Foundry.
For this exam, you should have experience developing apps by using Python, and you need to be familiar with the capabilities of general AI, generative AI, and Azure services.
Your responsibilities include:
- Planning and managing Azure AI solutions.
- Implementing generative AI and agentic solutions.
- Implementing computer vision solutions.
- Implementing text analysis solutions.
- Implementing information extraction solutions.
In this role, you collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, data scientists, DevOps engineers, and cloud security engineers to design, implement, and maintain AI solutions.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty (DP-420)
Write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage, and provision resources in the SQL API and SDK with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and implementing data models and data distribution.
- Loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database.
- Optimizing and maintaining the solution.
As a professional in this role, you integrate the solution with other Azure services. You also design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements.
As a candidate for this certification, you must have solid knowledge and experience with:
- Developing apps for Azure.
- Working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.
- Creating server-side objects with JavaScript.
You should be proficient at developing applications that use the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API. You should be able to:
- Write efficient SQL queries for the API.
- Create appropriate indexing policies.
- Interpret JSON.
- Read C# or Java code.
- Use PowerShell.
Additionally, you should be familiar with provisioning and managing resources in Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
Build end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure to create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, and more.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.
You should be proficient in Azure:
- SDK
- Data storage options
- Data connections
- APIs
- App authentication and authorization
- Compute and container deployment
- Debugging
To implement solutions, you partner with:
- Cloud solution architects
- DBAs
- DevOps
- Infrastructure admins
- Other stakeholders
You should have:
- At least two years of programming experience.
- Proficiency in programming with Azure SDKs.
- Proficiency using Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and other tools.
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.
Your responsibilities for this role include delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation.
As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:
- Developers
- Site reliability engineers
- Azure administrators
- Security engineers
You must have experience both administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should also have experience implementing both GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate (MB-820)
Demonstrate you have the skills to design, develop, test, and maintain solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central.
As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer, you’re responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this role, you develop apps that extend Business Central, including customizing or adding extra functionality. You also integrate Business Central with other applications, such as Microsoft Power Platform products. Plus, you need to ensure that data remains current during an upgrade process.
As a Business Central developer, you’re responsible for troubleshooting and debugging issues in the system. This may involve:
- Identifying the root cause of a problem.
- Fixing bugs.
- Testing the solution to ensure that it works as expected.
You may be required to optimize the performance of the system by:
- Identifying bottlenecks.
- Improving code quality.
You must have applied knowledge of Business Central and the application language (AL), the development environment, and other tools to develop extensions for it. You need some knowledge of how to install and upgrade the system. You should also understand:
- Industry terminology.
- The Business Central role in relationship to Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.
As a developer, you should have knowledge of:
- AppSource, Business Central–related technologies, frameworks, and services to build solutions.
- Technologies for application lifecycle management (ALM), including source control management (SCM) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate (MB-500)
Implement and extend finance and operation apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a developer who works with finance and operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 to implement and extend applications that meet the requirements of a business. You provide fully realized solutions by using:
- Standardized application coding patterns
- Extensible features
- External integrations
As a candidate for this certification, you do the following:
- Develop business logic by using X++.
- Create and modify finance and operations app reports and workspaces.
- Customize the UI.
- Provide endpoints and APIs to support Microsoft Power Platform apps and external systems.
- Perform testing.
- Monitor performance.
- Analyze and manipulate data.
- Manage implementations by using application lifecycle management (ALM).
You also create technical designs and implementation details, and implement permission policies and security requirements.
You should have a deep knowledge and experience using the underlying framework, data structures, and objects associated with the finance and operations solutions.
You should have experience with products and services that include Microsoft Visual Studio, Azure, Dataverse, Power Platform Admin Center, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure DevOps, Lifecycle Services tools, Postman, GitHub, Microsoft 365, reporting tools (for example, SQL Server Reporting Services [SSRS], Power BI), and SQL Server Management Studio.
Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate (AB-410)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a professional who builds AI-powered solutions in Microsoft Power Platform by using Microsoft Copilot, natural language prompts, and low-code tools. You create apps, data models, and flows that connect to agents, AI models and prompts, and visualizations to enrich these experiences.
In this role, your responsibilities include:
- Developing Dataverse data models, model-driven apps, and canvas apps.
- Integrating agents and Copilot features into canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages sites.
- Creating cloud flows and business logic.
You collaborate with:
- Environment and security administrators for policies, roles, identity, and authentication.
- Governance teams on responsible AI principles, application lifecycle management (ALM), solutions, pipelines, and monitoring.
- Agent developers, solution architects, and other app builders for business solution building.
- Business stakeholders to gather requirements, iterate business solutions, and promote user adoption.
Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert (AI-500)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re an expert-level practitioner who has subject matter expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable, production‑ready, multi-agent AI systems and workflows. You manage the development from design to production.
You work closely with developers, machine learning engineers, platform engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into production-ready, multi-agent solutions.
For this exam, you should have experience developing AI and machine learning, deploying agentic systems in production environments, and orchestrating agent logic using Microsoft Foundry. You should also be proficient in Python.
Additionally, you need experience developing solutions that include Azure compute, network, storage, and data services. You should be familiar with open-source frameworks and standards, including Microsoft Agent Framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LangGraph.
Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate (PL-500)
Demonstrate how to improve and automate workflows with Microsoft Power Automate RPA developer.
As a candidate for this certification, you automate Windows-based, browser-based, and terminal-based applications that are time-consuming or contain repetitive processes. You use a mix of automation approaches like:
- UI
- API
- Database
You analyze, design, and implement automations by using Power Automate desktop flows and cloud flows. As a robotic process automation (RPA) developer, you use actions for logic and work with:
- Data
- Applications
- Services
You work with business stakeholders to optimize business workflows. You partner with administrators to deploy and support solutions in other environments.
Additionally, as a candidate, you should have experience with:
- The Windows desktop environment
- Scripting languages such as VBScript and JavaScript
- .NET Framework for use in custom actions
- Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)
Demonstrate how to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform Developer.
As a candidate for this certification, you design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components using the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. Your expertise encompasses implementing:
- Custom user experiences and business logic.
- System integrations.
- Data conversions.
- Custom process automation.
- Complex Power Fx logic.
- Power Automate workflow expressions.
- AI as part of your solution logic.
You must have applied knowledge of:
- Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
- Authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Microsoft Power Platform developer tools including Power Platform CLI as part of the developer workflow.
- AI tools, including copilots, to improve development and troubleshooting solutions.
As a candidate, you should have development experience that includes Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Azure.
GitHub Actions Certification (GH-200)
This exam is designed for DevOps engineers, software developers, and IT professionals with intermediate level experience in GitHub Actions, including workflow creation, automation, and CI/CD pipeline management.
Certify your proficiency in automating workflows and accelerating development with GitHub Actions. Test your skills in streamlining workflows, automating tasks, and optimizing software pipelines, including CI/CD—all within customizable workflows. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
GitHub Advanced Security Certification (GH-500)
This exam is designed for experienced professionals in the field of software development and security. This certification is designed for individuals who have a deep understanding of GitHub and its security features, as well as hands-on experience in securing software development workflows.
Highlight your code security knowledge with the GitHub Advanced Security certification. Validate your expertise in vulnerability identification, workflow security, and robust security implementation—elevating software integrity standards. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (GH-600)
You should have subject matter expertise in operating, integrating, supervising, and governing AI agents inside production-grade SDLC workflows and development environments, ensuring reliability, safety, and velocity using GitHub as the system of record and control plane.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Operating agent workflows inside the SDLC
- Supervising autonomous behavior with GitHub controls
- Evaluating and tuning agent outputs using scans and artifacts
- Configuring custom agents
- Coordinating multi-agent execution safely
You work closely with architects, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, application developers, product managers, and security engineers to develop, deploy, operate, and manage agents that operate within the GitHub platform.
You should have experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), workflows in GitHub and controls, and code quality, security, and review practices. You should also have experience with coding agents including GitHub Copilot, MCP servers and agent customization such as custom instructions, custom agents, tools, and Copilot setup steps.
GitHub Copilot Certification (GH-300)
The GitHub Copilot certification exam evaluates your skill in using the AI-driven code completion tool in various programming languages, certifying your capability to optimize software development workflows efficiently.
This exam is designed for individuals in the field of software development who are proficient in using GitHub, including software developers, administrators, and project managers. This certification is intended for individuals who have a foundational understanding of GitHub Copilot as a product and its available features, along with hands-on experience in optimizing software development workflows using GitHub Copilot. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
GitHub Foundations Certification (GH-900)
This exam is targeted towards GitHub users who want to validate their understanding of the foundational topics, products, and concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub.
Highlight your understanding of the foundational topics and concepts of collaborating, contributing, and working on GitHub. This exam covers collaboration, GitHub products, Git basics, and working within GitHub repositories. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
GitHub Copilot Certification (GH-300)
The GitHub Copilot certification exam evaluates your skill in using the AI-driven code completion tool in various programming languages, certifying your capability to optimize software development workflows efficiently.
This exam is designed for individuals in the field of software development who are proficient in using GitHub, including software developers, administrators, and project managers. This certification is intended for individuals who have a foundational understanding of GitHub Copilot as a product and its available features, along with hands-on experience in optimizing software development workflows using GitHub Copilot. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
GitHub Certified: Agentic AI Developer (GH-600)
You should have subject matter expertise in operating, integrating, supervising, and governing AI agents inside production-grade SDLC workflows and development environments, ensuring reliability, safety, and velocity using GitHub as the system of record and control plane.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Operating agent workflows inside the SDLC
- Supervising autonomous behavior with GitHub controls
- Evaluating and tuning agent outputs using scans and artifacts
- Configuring custom agents
- Coordinating multi-agent execution safely
You work closely with architects, platform engineers, DevOps engineers, application developers, product managers, and security engineers to develop, deploy, operate, and manage agents that operate within the GitHub platform.
You should have experience with the software development lifecycle (SDLC), workflows in GitHub and controls, and code quality, security, and review practices. You should also have experience with coding agents including GitHub Copilot, MCP servers and agent customization such as custom instructions, custom agents, tools, and Copilot setup steps.
Microsoft Certified: AI Business Professional (AB-730)
Enable and manage AI capabilities in Microsoft 365 by configuring, securing, and governing Copilot and agents while applying identity, security, and compliance principles.
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have experience using generative AI–powered productivity tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Researcher, and Analyst. You take advantage of AI to improve daily work, drive business outcomes, and make informed decisions in business contexts—without building AI apps or writing code.
You should have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and should be comfortable navigating core apps, such as Outlook, Word, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. You should also be familiar with common business processes, including drafting emails, creating presentations, generating images, and managing documents.
Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader (AB-731)
Leverage AI tools across Microsoft 365 to draft documents, analyze data, collaborate, and automate tasks for improved productivity and decision-making.
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should understand how to recognize opportunities for AI transformation, identify the right AI tools and resources, plan for AI adoption, optimize business processes, and drive innovation by using Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services.
This Certification is designed for business decision-makers at all levels who are responsible for guiding transformation and innovation within their teams or organizations. In this role, you’re expected to demonstrate AI fluency, strategic vision, and the ability to lead AI adoption across teams and functions but are not expected to write any code.
As a candidate for this Certification, you should be able to evaluate AI opportunities, champion responsible AI practices, and align AI investments with business goals. You need experience leading adoption or change management in a business context. You must also be familiar with Microsoft 365 services, Azure AI services, and general AI capabilities.
Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect (AB-100)
As an AI-first solution architect, you lead the transformation of enterprise operations by envisioning and implementing AI-powered architecture.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re an accomplished solution architect with expertise in designing and delivering AI-driven business solutions that transform business processes and foster innovation. You’re experienced in creating scalable, secure, and integrated solutions that use multiple Microsoft services to address complex organizational challenges.
Your competencies include:
- Expertise in architecting solutions that use AI, including generative AI and various AI services tailored to meet business objectives.
- The ability to design agentic-first solutions.
Skills in designing multi-agent orchestrated solutions. - Experience designing secure and scalable cross-platform AI solutions.
- Comprehensive knowledge of core Dynamics 365 products, Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, and Azure OpenAI.
- Proficiency in working with agents created by using Copilot Studio, AI prompts, Azure AI Foundry, and working knowledge of multiple language models to create intelligent solutions.
- Proficiency in adopting frameworks and delivering measurable outcomes aligned with enterprise success metrics and architecture patterns.
- Expertise in working with open standards and protocols, including Agent2Agent (A2A) and Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Expertise in responsible AI practices, helping to ensure compliance and advocating for the Microsoft responsible AI guidelines.
- Strong leadership in orchestrating AI features in Microsoft business applications to optimize operations and unlock growth opportunities.
Skills in securing AI models and data workflows, including detecting and resolving vulnerabilities, enforcing data residency and access controls, safeguarding model tuning, tracking changes, maintaining audit trails, and defending against prompt manipulation. - Experience in monitoring agent performance and interpreting telemetry data to help ensure reliability, optimize behavior, and drive continuous improvement.
- Ability to conduct a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis of an AI-powered solution.
Your key responsibilities include:
- Envisioning and defining architecture strategies to integrate AI and agents into business solutions.
- Defining the roadmap for agentic-first business processes.
- Analyzing and interpreting business and technical requirements to architect comprehensive solutions.
- Designing and prototyping AI components and showcasing transformative capabilities.
- Guiding the end-to-end implementation of AI-centric solutions, helping to ensure security, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Promoting and championing the adoption of AI technologies in the development lifecycle and across business units.
- Creating a cohesive application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy for agentic-first solutions.
- Creating a cohesive environment strategy for AI-powered solutions, with consideration for third-party AI solutions.
- Guiding organizations on their way to becoming AI-forward companies.
As an AI-first solution architect, you lead the transformation of enterprise operations by envisioning and implementing AI-powered architecture. With a focus on making the most of the full spectrum of Microsoft AI apps and services, along with business application tools, you drive innovation and help to ensure the delivery of impactful AI-powered solutions.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re an Azure AI engineer who builds, manages, and deploys agents and AI solutions that take advantage of Microsoft Foundry.
For this exam, you should have experience developing apps by using Python, and you need to be familiar with the capabilities of general AI, generative AI, and Azure services.
Your responsibilities include:
- Planning and managing Azure AI solutions.
- Implementing generative AI and agentic solutions.
- Implementing computer vision solutions.
- Implementing text analysis solutions.
- Implementing information extraction solutions.
In this role, you collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, data scientists, DevOps engineers, and cloud security engineers to design, implement, and maintain AI solutions.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate (AI-200)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re responsible for contributing to all phases of implementing AI solutions on Azure, with an emphasis on back-end services and components. You’re also responsible for supporting all phases of the development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, and monitoring.
You should be proficient in:
- Azure SDKs and third-party SDKs used in Azure.
- Azure data management services.
- Azure monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Azure messaging and eventing.
- Vector databases.
- Python programming.
- Implementing containerized applications on Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
Design and implement an Azure AI solution using Azure AI services, Azure AI Search, and Azure Open AI.
As a Microsoft Azure AI engineer, you build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure AI.
Your responsibilities include participating in all phases of AI solutions development, including:
- Requirements definition and design
- Development
- Deployment
- Integration
- Maintenance
- Performance tuning
- Monitoring
You work with solution architects to translate their vision. You also work with data scientists, data engineers, Internet of Things (IoT) specialists, infrastructure administrators, and other software developers to:
- Build complete and secure end-to-end AI solutions.
- Integrate AI capabilities in other applications and solutions.
As an Azure AI engineer, you have experience developing solutions that use languages such as:
- Python
- C#
You should be able to use Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs and SDKs to build secure image processing, video processing, natural language processing, knowledge mining, and generative AI solutions on Azure. You should:
- Understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio and the available data storage options.
- Be able to apply responsible AI principles.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900_901)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re at the beginning of your career in AI solution development. These Microsoft certifications offer opportunities to demonstrate your understanding of machine learning, AI concepts, and Azure services, whether you are starting your career or advancing your skills in AI solution development. Both certifications are designed for candidates from technical and non-technical backgrounds—prior experience in data science or software engineering is not required, though familiarity with basic cloud concepts and client-server applications will be helpful.
For the AI-900, you should have foundational knowledge or AI workloads and understand the basic principles of AI and machine learning. For AI-901, you should have foundational technical skills for working with AI solutions in Azure, conceptual knowledge of Azure-based AI solutions, and familiarity with Python coding syntax and programming techniques, as well as Azure resources.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
Manage data ingestion and preparation, model training and deployment, and machine learning solution monitoring with Python, Azure Machine Learning and MLflow.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in applying data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure. Additionally, you should have knowledge of optimizing language models for AI applications using Azure AI.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads.
- Exploring data.
- Training machine learning models.
- Implementing pipelines.
- Running jobs to prepare for production.
- Managing, deploying, and monitoring scalable machine learning solutions.
- Using language models for building AI applications.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have knowledge and experience in data science by using:
- Azure Machine Learning
- MLflow
- Azure AI services, including Azure AI Search
- Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (SC-500)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a security engineer who protects organizational systems and data across cloud and hybrid environments by implementing comprehensive security controls that proactively help prevent unauthorized access and mitigate risks. Your role spans multiple security domains, including identity, network, application, data, and compute. You also help ensure that platforms, data, identities, and infrastructure used by AI workloads are securely implemented and monitored.
In this role, your responsibilities include:
- Securing access to resources by using Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Key Vault.
- Enforcing security and regulatory compliance.
- Securing storage, databases, and networking.
- Securing compute.
- Securing AI solutions.
- Managing and monitoring security posture.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Sales AI Consultant Associate (AB-210)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you design and configure AI-enhanced sales solutions by using Dynamics 365 Sales, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, and agent capabilities to help sellers work more efficiently throughout the lead-to-cash process. You translate business requirements into practical seller workflows enhanced with conversational intelligence, predictive insights, guided automation, and secure data access.
In this role, you work closely with sales, operations, and IT stakeholders to help ensure that solutions align with revenue goals and process optimization.
You perform the following design and implementation tasks:
- Configure Dynamics 365 Sales core features.
- Deploy, manage, and monitor agents in Sales.
- Implement collaboration features.
- Tailor AI-powered intelligence features.
It is highly recommended that candidates complete training in intermediate-level Microsoft Power Platform configuration before taking this certification exam. Additionally, you must have functional knowledge of:
- Interpreting an organization’s sales processes and seller experience.
- Building and extending model-driven apps.
- Building Power Automate cloud flows.
Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate (AB-410)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a professional who builds AI-powered solutions in Microsoft Power Platform by using Microsoft Copilot, natural language prompts, and low-code tools. You create apps, data models, and flows that connect to agents, AI models and prompts, and visualizations to enrich these experiences.
In this role, your responsibilities include:
- Developing Dataverse data models, model-driven apps, and canvas apps.
- Integrating agents and Copilot features into canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages sites.
- Creating cloud flows and business logic.
You collaborate with:
- Environment and security administrators for policies, roles, identity, and authentication.
- Governance teams on responsible AI principles, application lifecycle management (ALM), solutions, pipelines, and monitoring.
- Agent developers, solution architects, and other app builders for business solution building.
- Business stakeholders to gather requirements, iterate business solutions, and promote user adoption.
Microsoft Certified: Machine Learning Operations Engineer Associate (AI-300)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have subject matter expertise in setting up infrastructure for machine learning operations (MLOps) and generative AI operations (GenAIOps) solutions on Azure, together referred to as AI operations (AIOps). You need experience training, optimizing, deploying, and maintaining traditional machine learning models by using Azure Machine Learning, in addition to experience deploying, evaluating, monitoring, and optimizing generative AI applications and agents by using Microsoft Foundry.
You should have a data science background with experience in Python programming and an entry-level understanding of DevOps practices, including using tools like GitHub Actions and working with command-line interfaces (CLIs).
Additionally, you need knowledge and experience in MLOps by using:
- Machine Learning.
- Foundry.
- GitHub Actions.
- Infrastructure as code (IaC) practices with Bicep and Azure CLI.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and implementing MLOps infrastructure.
- Implementing machine learning model lifecycle and operations.
- Designing and implementing GenAIOps infrastructure.
- Implementing generative AI quality assurance and observability.
- Optimizing generative AI systems and model performance.
You work with data scientists, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to deliver scalable AI solutions with comprehensive automation and monitoring.
Microsoft Certified: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert (AI-500)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re an expert-level practitioner who has subject matter expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable, production‑ready, multi-agent AI systems and workflows. You manage the development from design to production.
You work closely with developers, machine learning engineers, platform engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into production-ready, multi-agent solutions.
For this exam, you should have experience developing AI and machine learning, deploying agentic systems in production environments, and orchestrating agent logic using Microsoft Foundry. You should also be proficient in Python.
Additionally, you need experience developing solutions that include Azure compute, network, storage, and data services. You should be familiar with open-source frameworks and standards, including Microsoft Agent Framework, Model Context Protocol (MCP), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LangGraph.
Microsoft 365 Certified: AI Services Administrator Associate (AB-650)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you configure, manage, secure, and govern Microsoft 365 tenants, workloads, and AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents, and connected AI capabilities. You enable secure, compliant, and scalable productivity across the organization by governing data access, protecting information, and supporting collaboration between users and agents. You operate and continuously optimize Microsoft 365 and AI services at enterprise scale, helping to ensure reliable and effective outcomes in an AI-powered workplace.
As a Microsoft 365 and AI services administrator, you collaborate with architects and administrators across workloads, infrastructure, identity, security, compliance, endpoints, and applications.
For this exam, you should have experience with Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID, an understanding of Defender XDR capabilities, and familiarity with Microsoft Graph PowerShell.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900)
Demonstrate how to support, secure, and protect an AI-enabled Microsoft 365 environment.
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should be familiar with Microsoft 365, including core services, security, identity and access, data protection, and governance, along with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents.
Additionally, you should be familiar with the admin centers used to access Microsoft 365 workloads, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview. You need to have experience with AI-driven productivity tools and modern IT management practices.
You must be able to identify the roles of the core features and objects available in Microsoft 365, such as users, groups, teams, sites, and libraries. Plus, you should understand the core security features of Microsoft 365, such as authentication methods, conditional access policies, and single sign-on (SSO).
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate (MB-820)
Demonstrate you have the skills to design, develop, test, and maintain solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central.
As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central developer, you’re responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining solutions based on Dynamics 365 Business Central. In this role, you develop apps that extend Business Central, including customizing or adding extra functionality. You also integrate Business Central with other applications, such as Microsoft Power Platform products. Plus, you need to ensure that data remains current during an upgrade process.
As a Business Central developer, you’re responsible for troubleshooting and debugging issues in the system. This may involve:
- Identifying the root cause of a problem.
- Fixing bugs.
- Testing the solution to ensure that it works as expected.
You may be required to optimize the performance of the system by:
- Identifying bottlenecks.
- Improving code quality.
You must have applied knowledge of Business Central and the application language (AL), the development environment, and other tools to develop extensions for it. You need some knowledge of how to install and upgrade the system. You should also understand:
- Industry terminology.
- The Business Central role in relationship to Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.
As a developer, you should have knowledge of:
- AppSource, Business Central–related technologies, frameworks, and services to build solutions.
- Technologies for application lifecycle management (ALM), including source control management (SCM) and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate (MB-800)
As a functional consultant, you implement core application setup processes for small and medium businesses. You configure the application in collaboration with the implementation team to provide the business with manageability and ease of use.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a functional consultant who implements Business Central including the configuration of the core application, creating companies, and migrating data for small and medium businesses. You configure the application in collaboration with the implementation team to provide the business with manageability and ease of use by setting up modules, including:
- Financial management
- Sales
- Purchasing
- Inventory
- Fixed Assets
You have applied knowledge of meeting business needs by specializing in one or more feature sets of Business Central.
As a candidate, you may configure role centers including adapting insights, cues, action tiles, reports, charts, and utilize copilots inside Business Central. You also may expand functionality by using extensions.
You understand how to connect and use technologies with Business Central, including:
- Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Analyst Associate (MB-280)
As a Microsoft Dynamics 365 customer experience analyst, you’re responsible for configuring, customizing, and expanding the functionality of Dynamics 365 Sales to create business solutions that support, automate, and accelerate the company’s sales process.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Microsoft Dynamics 365 customer experience analyst who has:
- Participated in or plans to participate in Dynamics 365 Sales implementations.
- An understanding of an organization’s sales process.
- An understanding of the seller’s perspective (user experience).
- An understanding of how AI and intelligence features increase seller efficiency.
- The ability to demonstrate Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data and Customer Insights – Journeys capabilities.
You’re responsible for configuring, customizing, and expanding the functionality of Dynamics 365 Sales to create business solutions that support, automate, and accelerate the company’s sales process. You use your knowledge of customer experience capabilities in Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Power Platform to inform the following design and implementation tasks:
- Configure Dynamics 365 Sales standard and premium features.
- Implement collaboration features.
- Configure the security model.
- Perform Dynamics 365 Sales customizations.
- Extend Dynamics 365 Sales with Microsoft Power Platform.
- Deploy the Dynamics 365 App for Outlook.
- Set up journeys to support sales-related processes using Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys.
- Create Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data unified profiles from different data sources.
As a candidate, you need:
- Experience configuring model-driven apps in Microsoft Power Apps.
- An understanding of accounts, contacts, and activities.
- An understanding of leads and opportunities.
- An understanding of the components of model-driven apps, including forms, views, charts, and dashboards.
- An understanding of model-driven app personal settings.
- Experience working with Dataverse solutions.
- An understanding of Dataverse, including tables, columns, and relationships.
- Familiarity with Power Automate cloud flow concepts, such as connectors, triggers, and actions.
- An understanding of the Dataverse security model and features, including business units, security roles, and row ownership and sharing.
- An understanding of the Dynamics 365 Sales Insights and Copilot functions that enhance, guide, and support the sales process.
- An understanding of how Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Journeys and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights – Data can personalize and support sales activities.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate (MB-230)
Improve business processes for customer service functions, such as automatic case creation and queue management with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a functional consultant with customer service expertise. You’re responsible for implementing solutions that focus upon:
- Customer service
- Quality
- Reliability
- Efficiency
- Customer satisfaction
You design and implement service management processes and automation in collaboration with solution architects and developers. You coordinate with customer engagement administrators to implement and upgrade customer service components including:
- Case management
- Dynamics 365 Copilot in Service
- Collaboration
- Knowledge management
- Customer feedbac
You must have strong applied knowledge of customer service, including in-depth understanding of cases, knowledge management, queues, service-level agreements (SLAs), Customer Service applications, Customer Voice, and routing.
As a functional consultant, your knowledge should include:
- Comprehensive understanding of the customer service application’s role in relationship to the Dynamics 365 suite of apps.
- Basic understanding of the solution architecture.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant Associate (MB-240)
Demonstrate how to configure a Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service implementation to maximize tools and features available while managing a mobile work force.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service functional consultant. You’re responsible for implementing solutions that:
- Schedule resources to meet customer requirements.
- Optimize resources by matching skills, locations, and availability.
- Equip frontline workers with the information and tools to deliver great service.
- Build a service history of customer assets.
You’re responsible for:
- Configuring the default administration areas of the Field Service application.
- Configuring resources and scheduling.
- Configuring service agreements and booking setups.
- Managing work orders, incident types, and bookings.
- Managing customer assets.
- Installing and configuring the Field Service mobile app.
- Enhancing Field Service based on customer requirements.
As a candidate, you should have a basic understanding of field service principles and the role the Field Service app plays in relationship to the Dynamics 365 suite of applications, including integration of:
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Microsoft 365 apps
- Dynamics 365 Remote Assist
- Dynamics 365 Guides
You should understand:
- Industry terminology
- Field service processes
- Work order lifecycle
- Uses for Copilot in Field Service
- Best practices
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert (MB-700)
Candidates for this certification are Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Commerce professionals who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
Candidates should have knowledge of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and Microsoft Power Platform. They must have deep understanding of finance and operations apps, and Copilot and AI agents used in the finance and operations apps. In addition, they must have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This role requires understanding how decisions affect the overall solution.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate (MB-310)
Analyze and translate financial business requirements into processes and solutions that implement industry recommended practices.
As a candidate for this certification, you analyze business requirements and translate them into fully realized business processes and solutions that implement industry-recommended practices. You have a fundamental understanding of accounting principles and financial operations as they relate to:
- Core tasks in the finance and operations apps
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Supply chain management operations
As a candidate for this exam, you specialize in one or more feature sets of Dynamics 365 Finance including:
- General ledger
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Credit and collections
- Cash and bank management
- Budgeting
- Fixed assets
- Asset leasing
- Tax
- Expense management
- Subscription billing
- Cost accounting
- Cost management
- Consolidation and elimination
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 CRM Fundamentals (MB-910)
Demonstrate fundamental knowledge about the customer engagement capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365.
As a candidate for this certification, you aspire to understand how customer engagement apps for Dynamics 365 can be used to:
- Unify profiles and tailor targeted, personalized customer journeys by using Dynamics 365 Customer Insights apps.
- Efficiently assist users through the complete sales order lifecycle by using Dynamics 365 Sales.
- Assist agents with case management through the complete customer support lifecycle by using Dynamics 365 Customer Service.
- Schedule and complete work orders by using Dynamics 365 Field Service.
- Evaluate how Microsoft 365 Copilot can assist with each of these.
The certification is intended for you if you’re seeking to start your journey using Dynamics 365 customer engagement solutions.
You can use this certification to prepare for role-based or specialty certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 ERP Fundamentals (MB-920)
Demonstrate fundamental knowledge about the finance and operations capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365.
This exam covers the features and capabilities of Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management.
As a candidate for this certification, you aspire to understand how Finance and Supply Chain Management can be used to:
- Support the core financial model of an organization and its associated processes.
- Support the business operations of an organization, including warehousing and manufacturing.
- Unify different business processes into one software solution.
- Manage multiple legal entities within one business application.
- Integrate with other applications within the Microsoft ecosystem.
This certification is intended for you if you’re seeking to start your journey using Finance and Supply Chain Management solutions.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Sales AI Consultant Associate (AB-210)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you design and configure AI-enhanced sales solutions by using Dynamics 365 Sales, Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, and agent capabilities to help sellers work more efficiently throughout the lead-to-cash process. You translate business requirements into practical seller workflows enhanced with conversational intelligence, predictive insights, guided automation, and secure data access.
In this role, you work closely with sales, operations, and IT stakeholders to help ensure that solutions align with revenue goals and process optimization.
You perform the following design and implementation tasks:
- Configure Dynamics 365 Sales core features.
- Deploy, manage, and monitor agents in Sales.
- Implement collaboration features.
- Tailor AI-powered intelligence features.
It is highly recommended that candidates complete training in intermediate-level Microsoft Power Platform configuration before taking this certification exam. Additionally, you must have functional knowledge of:
- Interpreting an organization’s sales processes and seller experience.
- Building and extending model-driven apps.
- Building Power Automate cloud flows.
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate (MB-330)
Design and configure Dynamics 365 Supply chain Management and related tools.
As a candidate for this certification, you design solutions and configure Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to meet the business requirements for a customer. You understand the end-to-end processes of supply chain management and can identify system capabilities and features that can be used to implement system functionality using industry-recommended practices.
You possess knowledge of supply chain management operations and implementing Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management features, including:
- Product information management
- Sales processes
- Procurement processes
- Vendor collaboration
- Inventory processes
- Quality management
- Warehouse management
- Warehouse Management mobile app
- Master planning and planning optimization
- Asset management
- Transportation management
- Landed cost
- Copilot in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
As a candidate, you:
- Analyze business requirements across multiple areas.
- Map requirements to system capabilities and design reliable, scalable solutions.
- Identify and manage dependencies between processes.
- Apply industry-recommended practices to implementations.
You deliver effective solutions that meet or exceed the needs of your customers by partnering with:
- Solution architects
- Developers
- Consultants
- Business users
- Project managers
- Other stakeholders
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert (MB-335)
As a candidate for this certification, you design solutions and configure Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to meet complex business requirements for a customer. You have a deep understanding of the end-to-end processes of supply chain management and can identify advanced system capabilities and features that can be used to implement system functionality using industry recommended practices.
You possess advanced knowledge of supply chain management operations and implementing Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management features for complex scenarios, including:
- Product information management
- Production control (costing, subcontracting, manufacturing execution, production scheduling)
- Production methods (discrete, process, lean)
- Engineering change management
- Master planning and planning optimization for advanced scenarios
- Vendor rebates
- Service management
- Mixed reality technologies
- Copilot in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
As a candidate, you:
- Analyze complex business requirements across multiple areas
- Map requirements to system capabilities and design reliable, scalable solutions
- Identify and manage dependencies between processes
- Apply industry-recommended practices to implementations
You deliver effective solutions that meet or exceed the needs of your customers by partnering with:
- Solution architects
- Developers
- Consultants
- Business users
- Project managers
- Other stakeholders
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
Demonstrate key skills to configure, manage, secure, and administer key professional functions in Microsoft Azure.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Azure environment, including:
- Virtual networks
- Storage
- Compute
- Identity
- Security
- Governance
As an Azure administrator, you often serve as part of a larger team dedicated to implementing an organization’s cloud infrastructure. You also coordinate with other roles to deliver Azure networking, security, database, application development, and DevOps solutions.
You should be familiar with:
- Operating systems
- Networking
- Servers
- Virtualization
In addition, you should have experience with:
- PowerShell
- Azure CLI
- The Azure portal
- Azure Resource Manager templates
- Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-30X)
As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:
- Compute
- Network
- Storage
- Monitoring
- Security
Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:
- Developers
- Administrators
- Security engineers
- Data engineers
As a candidate for this certification, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with:
- Azure administration
- Azure development
- DevOps processes
Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty (AZ-120)
Demonstrate planning, migration, and operation of an SAP solution on Microsoft Azure while you leverage Azure resources.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re an architect or engineer who designs and manages the SAP landscape on Azure. Your responsibilities include:
- Implementing industry-specific standards for migrations and integrations.
- Ensuring the sustained operation of an SAP solution within the Azure environment.
You recommend services and adjust resources as appropriate for optimal:
- Resiliency
- Performance
- Scale
- Provision
- Size
- Monitoring
You partner with cloud administrators, cloud database administrators, and clients to implement solutions, including RISE with SAP. You manage SAP infrastructure by using:
- The Azure portal
- Azure Marketplace
- Azure Resource Manager templates
You should have extensive experience and knowledge of the SAP applications and databases including:
- SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA)
- SAP Business Suite
- SAP NetWeaver
You should also have experience with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, data protection, and networking.
For this certification, we strongly recommend that candidates have an Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Demonstrate foundational knowledge of cloud concepts, core Azure services, plus Azure management and governance features and tools.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a technology professional who wants to demonstrate foundational knowledge of cloud concepts in general and Microsoft Azure in particular. This certification is a common starting point in a journey towards a career in Azure.
You can describe Azure architectural components and Azure services, such as:
- Compute
- Networking
- Storage
You can also describe features and tools to secure, govern, and administer Azure.
You should have skills and experience working with an area of IT, such as:
- Infrastructure management
- Database management
- Software development
Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)
Demonstrate the design, implementation, and maintenance of Azure networking infrastructure, load balancing traffic, network routing, and more.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in planning, implementing, and managing Azure networking solutions, including:
- Core network infrastructure
- Hybrid connectivity
- Application delivery services
- Private access to Azure services
- Network security
As an Azure network engineer your responsibilities include optimizing performance, resiliency, scale, and security of Azure networking solutions. You proactively monitor network environments to identify issues and minimize risk. You also identify and resolve connectivity issues.
To deliver Azure solutions, you work with:
- Solution architects
- Cloud administrators
- Security engineers
- Application developers
- DevOps engineers
As a candidate for this certification, you should have experience creating and managing compute, storage, and networking resources in Azure. You should understand networking fundamentals, such as:
- Name resolution
- Network protocols
- Network address management
Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
Plan, deliver, manage, and monitor virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Microsoft Azure for any device.
As a candidate for this certification, you should be a server or desktop administrator with subject matter expertise in designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop experiences and remote apps for any device.
To deliver these experiences, you should work closely with:
- Azure administrators
- Azure architects
- Microsoft 365 administrators
- Azure security engineers
- Azure Local administrators
You should have experience with Azure technologies, including:
- Compute
- Networking
- Identity
- Storage
- Resiliency
You should be able to manage end-user desktop environments, including delivering applications and configuring user settings. You should use the Azure portal, templates, scripting, and command-line tools to manage an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment.
Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Administrator Associate (AZ-802)
As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for deploying, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows Server as a workload in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
You administer identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, and monitoring for Windows Server. You typically collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers.
Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate (AZ-800+1)
As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for administering Windows Server as a workload in both on-premises and hybrid environments.
In this role, you deploy, implement, manage, and troubleshoot Windows Server in Azure as well as migrating and deploying workloads to Azure. You administer on- identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery for Windows Server. You typically collaborate with architects, administrators, and engineers.
You use administrative tools and technologies such as Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Update Manager, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and IaaS virtual machine (VM) administration.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have several years of experience with Windows Server operating systems.
GitHub Advanced Security Certification (GH-500)
This exam is designed for experienced professionals in the field of software development and security. This certification is designed for individuals who have a deep understanding of GitHub and its security features, as well as hands-on experience in securing software development workflows.
Highlight your code security knowledge with the GitHub Advanced Security certification. Validate your expertise in vulnerability identification, workflow security, and robust security implementation—elevating software integrity standards. Once achieved, the certification will be valid for two years.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
Demonstrate the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
As the Azure security engineer, you implement, manage, and monitor security for resources in Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure. You implement and manage security components and configurations by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and other tools. You ensure that the infrastructure aligns with standards and best practices such as the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB).
Your responsibilities as an Azure security engineer include:
- Managing the security posture.
- Implementing threat protection.
- Identifying and remediating vulnerabilities.
You are responsible for implementing regulatory compliance controls for Azure infrastructure including identity and access, network, compute, storage, data, applications, asset management, backup and recovery, and devops security.
As an Azure security engineer, you work with architects, administrators, and developers to plan and implement solutions that meet security and compliance requirements. You may also collaborate with security operations in responding to security incidents in Azure.
You should have:
- Practical experience in administration of Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
- Strong familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, as well as compute, network, and storage in Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Cloud and AI Security Engineer Associate (SC-500)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a security engineer who protects organizational systems and data across cloud and hybrid environments by implementing comprehensive security controls that proactively help prevent unauthorized access and mitigate risks. Your role spans multiple security domains, including identity, network, application, data, and compute. You also help ensure that platforms, data, identities, and infrastructure used by AI workloads are securely implemented and monitored.
In this role, your responsibilities include:
- Securing access to resources by using Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Key Vault.
- Enforcing security and regulatory compliance.
- Securing storage, databases, and networking.
- Securing compute.
- Securing AI solutions.
- Managing and monitoring security posture.
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
As a Microsoft cybersecurity architect, you translate a cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect the assets, business, and operations of an organization. You design, guide the implementation of, and maintain security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles and best practices, including security strategies for identity, devices, data, AI, applications, network, infrastructure, and DevOps. Plus, you design solutions for Governance and Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations, and security posture management.
As a cybersecurity architect, you continuously collaborate with leaders and practitioners in security, privacy, engineering, and other roles across an organization to plan and implement a cybersecurity strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.As a candidate for this certification, you have experience implementing or administering solutions in the following areas: identity and access, platform protection, security operations, data and AI security, application security, and hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. You should have expert skills in at least one of those areas, and you should have experience designing security solutions that include Microsoft security technologies.
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Business Professional (SC-730)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a business professional who works with digital tools and connected systems to perform your daily tasks, but you’re not a security professional. You typically work as an administrative staff member, analyst, project manager, marketer, or salesperson. Your primary focus is business productivity and collaboration, but you regularly handle sensitive data and interact across networks, making your apps and data a prime target for cyberthreats.
For this certification, you need foundational knowledge in cybersecurity awareness, privacy expectations, and security event response, along with the practical skills to work in these areas. You should understand basic security concepts and know how to apply simple, role-relevant practices to help reduce risks and maintain compliance for your organization.
As a candidate for this Certification, you have:
- Digital reliance, and you frequently use computers, mobile devices, cloud services, and collaboration platforms to access, share, and store information.
- A non-technical background and limited formal training in cybersecurity. Your expertise lies in business processes rather than in IT or security operations.
- High exposure to cyber risks because you regularly handle sensitive data and communicate across networks, but you might not always be aware of potential risks.
- Responsibility for privacy and accountability for safeguarding personal and organizational information in compliance with company policies.
You should be able to:
- Recognize common threats, such as phishing, malware, and social engineering.
- Apply basic protection practices, including strong passwords, multifactor authentication, and safe internet use.
- Follow organizational privacy and security policies when handling sensitive data.
- Report suspected incidents promptly and take appropriate steps during data breaches.
- Maintain continuous awareness of evolving threats and best practices through organizational updates and training.
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
Demonstrate the features of Microsoft Entra ID to modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid solutions, and implement identity governance.
As a Microsoft identity and access administrator, you design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management by using Microsoft Entra. You configure and manage identities throughout their lifecycles for users, devices, Microsoft Azure resources, and applications. You are responsible for ensuring the application of Zero Trust principles for identity and access solutions.
As an identity and access administrator, you provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for users. You plan and implement identity, authentication, and authorization to enable access across applications and resources. You’re also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting on identity and access.
You collaborate with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects, modernize identity solutions, implement hybrid identity solutions, and implement identity governance.
You should be familiar with Azure, Microsoft 365 services and workloads, and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). You should also be familiar with PowerShell and Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate (SC-401)
As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement information security of sensitive data by using Microsoft Purview and related services.
As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement information security of sensitive data by using Microsoft Purview and related services. You’re responsible for mitigating risks by protecting data inside collaboration environments that are managed by Microsoft 365 from internal and external threats and protecting data used by AI services. You also implement information protection, data loss prevention, retention, insider risk management, and manage information security alerts and activities.
You work with other roles that are responsible for governance, data, and security to evaluate and develop policies to address an organization’s information security and risk reduction goals. You collaborate with workload administrators, business application owners, and governance stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support the necessary policies and controls. This role also participates in responding to information security incidents.
You should be familiar with all Microsoft 365 services, PowerShell, Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender portal, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)
Investigate, search for, and mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Microsoft security operations analyst who reduces organizational risk by:
- Rapidly remediating active attacks in cloud and on-premises environments.
- Advising on improvements to threat protection practices.
- Identifying violations of organizational policies.
As a security operations analyst, you:
- Perform triage.
- Respond to incidents.
- Mitigate risk by using exposure management.
- Hunt for threats by using threat intelligence.
- Use KQL for reporting, detections, and investigations
You also monitor, identify, investigate, and respond to threats in cloud and on-premises environments by using:
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- Security Copilot
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
- Third-party security solutions
You collaborate with business and security leadership to define security standards for the organization. You work with other roles across the digital enterprise to implement the standards, to enhance the security posture of an organization, and to raise security awareness.
As a candidate, you should be familiar with:
- Microsoft 365
- Azure cloud services
- Windows, Linux, and mobile operating systems
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
Demonstrate foundational knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.
This exam is targeted to you, if you’re looking to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services.
If you have an interest in Microsoft SCI solutions, this exam is for you, whether you’re a:
- Business stakeholder
- New or existing IT professional
- Student
You should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and want to understand how Microsoft SCI solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty (DP-420)
Write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage, and provision resources in the SQL API and SDK with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and implementing data models and data distribution.
- Loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database.
- Optimizing and maintaining the solution.
As a professional in this role, you integrate the solution with other Azure services. You also design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements.
As a candidate for this certification, you must have solid knowledge and experience with:
- Developing apps for Azure.
- Working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.
- Creating server-side objects with JavaScript.
You should be proficient at developing applications that use the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API. You should be able to:
- Write efficient SQL queries for the API.
- Create appropriate indexing policies.
- Interpret JSON.
- Read C# or Java code.
- Use PowerShell.
Additionally, you should be familiar with provisioning and managing resources in Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
Demonstrate foundational knowledge of core data concepts related to Microsoft Azure data services.
This certification is an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. As a candidate for this exam, you should have familiarity with Exam DP-900’s self-paced or instructor-led learning material.
This certification is intended for you, if you’re a candidate beginning to work with data in the cloud.
You should be familiar with:
- The concepts of relational and non-relational data.
- Different types of data workloads such as transactional or analytical.
You can use Azure Data Fundamentals to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications like Azure Database Administrator Associate or Azure Data Engineer Associate, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
Manage data ingestion and preparation, model training and deployment, and machine learning solution monitoring with Python, Azure Machine Learning and MLflow.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in applying data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure. Additionally, you should have knowledge of optimizing language models for AI applications using Azure AI.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads.
- Exploring data.
- Training machine learning models.
- Implementing pipelines.
- Running jobs to prepare for production.
- Managing, deploying, and monitoring scalable machine learning solutions.
- Using language models for building AI applications.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have knowledge and experience in data science by using:
- Azure Machine Learning
- MLflow
- Azure AI services, including Azure AI Search
- Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300)
Administer an SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases using the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in building database solutions that are designed to support multiple workloads built with:
- SQL Server on-premises
- Azure SQL services
You’re a database administrator who manages on-premises and cloud databases built with SQL Server and Azure SQL services.
As the Azure database administrator, you implement and manage the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built on SQL Server and Azure SQL services. You use a variety of methods and tools to perform and automate day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and other tools for administrative management purposes.
You’re responsible for the following concerning database solutions:
- Management
- Availability
- Security
- Performance monitoring and optimization
You evaluate and implement migration strategies for moving databases between Azure and on-premises. Plus, you work with Azure data engineers, Azure solution architects, Azure developers, data scientists, and other professionals to manage operational aspects of data platform solutions.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have knowledge of and experience with:
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (Windows and Linux)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate (DP-750)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have subject matter expertise in integrating and modeling data, building and deploying optimized pipelines, and troubleshooting and maintaining workloads in Azure Databricks. You should also have experience applying data quality and data governance best practices in Unity Catalog.
You need to know how to ingest and transform data by using Structured Query Language (SQL) and Python. You need experience with software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, including Git. Additionally, you should be familiar with Microsoft Entra, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Monitor.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Setting up and configuring an Azure Databricks environment.
- Securing and governing Unity Catalog objects.
- Preparing and processing data.
- Deploying and maintaining data pipelines and workloads.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
As a Fabric analytics engineer associate, you should have subject matter expertise in designing, creating, and deploying enterprise-scale data analytics solutions.
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in designing, creating, and managing analytical assets, such as semantic models, data warehouses, or lakehouses.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Prepare and enrich data for analysis
- Secure and maintain analytics assets
- Implement and manage semantic models
You work closely with stakeholders for business requirements and partner with architects, analysts, engineers, and administrators.
You should also be able to query and analyze data by using Structured Query Language (SQL), Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700)
As a Fabric Data Engineer, you should have subject matter expertise with data loading patterns, data architectures, and orchestration processes.
As a candidate for this exam, you should have subject matter expertise with data loading patterns, data architectures, and orchestration processes. Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Ingesting and transforming data.
- Securing and managing an analytics solution.
- Monitoring and optimizing an analytics solution.
You work closely with analytics engineers, architects, analysts, and administrators to design and deploy data engineering solutions for analytics.
You should be skilled at manipulating and transforming data by using Structured Query Language (SQL), PySpark, and Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Microsoft Certified: Machine Learning Operations Engineer Associate (AI-300)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have subject matter expertise in setting up infrastructure for machine learning operations (MLOps) and generative AI operations (GenAIOps) solutions on Azure, together referred to as AI operations (AIOps). You need experience training, optimizing, deploying, and maintaining traditional machine learning models by using Azure Machine Learning, in addition to experience deploying, evaluating, monitoring, and optimizing generative AI applications and agents by using Microsoft Foundry.
You should have a data science background with experience in Python programming and an entry-level understanding of DevOps practices, including using tools like GitHub Actions and working with command-line interfaces (CLIs).
Additionally, you need knowledge and experience in MLOps by using:
- Machine Learning.
- Foundry.
- GitHub Actions.
- Infrastructure as code (IaC) practices with Bicep and Azure CLI.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and implementing MLOps infrastructure.
- Implementing machine learning model lifecycle and operations.
- Designing and implementing GenAIOps infrastructure.
- Implementing generative AI quality assurance and observability.
- Optimizing generative AI systems and model performance.
You work with data scientists, DevOps teams, and stakeholders to deliver scalable AI solutions with comprehensive automation and monitoring.
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
Demonstrate methods and best practices that align with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI.
As a candidate for this certification, you should deliver actionable insights by working with available data and applying domain expertise. You should:
- Provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations.
- Enable others to perform self-service analytics.
As a Power BI data analyst, you work closely with business stakeholders to identify business requirements. You collaborate with analytics engineers and data engineers to identify and acquire data. You use Power BI to:
- Prepare the data
- Model the data
- Visualize and analyze data
- Manage and secure Power BI
You should be proficient at using Power Query and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).
Microsoft Certified: SQL AI Developer Associate (DP-800)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should have subject matter expertise in designing and developing AI-enabled database solutions across Microsoft SQL platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric.
You should also have experience writing T-SQL code and developing databases in Microsoft SQL platforms. Plus, you need to be familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices in GitHub, AI-assisted development tools, and AI concepts, such as embeddings, vectors, and models.
Your responsibilities include:
- Designing and developing database solutions that include both structured and semi-structured data.
- Integrating AI features into modern and highly scalable enterprise applications.
- Securing, optimizing, and deploying database solutions.
- Implementing AI capabilities in database solutions.
You work closely with application developers; database administrators (DBAs); architects; AI engineers; development, security, operations (DevSecOps) engineers; security and compliance administrators; and other stakeholders to deliver robust, high-performance database solutions that power modern applications and AI-driven experiences.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102)
If you’re an administrator who deploys and manages Microsoft 365 and performs Microsoft 365 tenant-level implementation and administration of cloud and hybrid environments, this certification is designed for you.
As a Microsoft 365 administrator, you:
- Function as the integrating hub for all Microsoft 365 workloads.
- Coordinate across multiple Microsoft 365 workloads.
- Work with architects and other administrators responsible for workloads, infrastructure, identity, security, compliance, endpoints, and applications.
As a candidate for this certification, you have functional experience with all Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID and have administered at least one of these. You should also have a working knowledge of the following:
- Networking
- Active Directory Directory Services
- DNS
- PowerShell
Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate (MS-721)
Demonstrate skills to configure, deploy, monitor, and manage Microsoft Teams Phone, meetings, and certified devices.
As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for planning, deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting collaboration communication systems that include:
- Microsoft Teams Phone
- Microsoft Teams meetings, webinars, and town halls
- Microsoft Teams Premium
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Teams Rooms
- Other certified and supported devices
- Flexible workplaces
As a collaboration communications systems engineer, you have a fundamental understanding of networking, telecommunications, audio/visual and meeting room technologies, and identity and access management. You’re proficient in managing collaboration and communications solutions by using:
- Microsoft Teams admin center
- Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
- PowerShell
- Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard
You work with:
- Microsoft Teams administrators
- Microsoft identity and access administrators
- Microsoft 365 administrators
- Owners of other workloads, including facilities managers, network engineers, security engineers, device manufacturers, telephony providers, and Microsoft Certified solution providers
Microsoft 365 Certified: Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals (AB-900)
Demonstrate how to support, secure, and protect an AI-enabled Microsoft 365 environment.
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you should be familiar with Microsoft 365, including core services, security, identity and access, data protection, and governance, along with Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents.
Additionally, you should be familiar with the admin centers used to access Microsoft 365 workloads, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview. You need to have experience with AI-driven productivity tools and modern IT management practices.
You must be able to identify the roles of the core features and objects available in Microsoft 365, such as users, groups, teams, sites, and libraries. Plus, you should understand the core security features of Microsoft 365, such as authentication methods, conditional access policies, and single sign-on (SSO).
Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
Plan and execute an endpoint deployment strategy, using essential elements of modern management, co-management approaches, and Microsoft Intune integration.
As a candidate for this certification, you have subject matter expertise managing devices and client applications in a Microsoft 365 tenant by using Microsoft Intune. You’re responsible for:
- Implementing solutions for efficient deployment and management of endpoints on various operating systems, platforms, and device types.
- Implementing and managing endpoints at scale by using Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Intune Suite, Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Copilot for Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Windows 365.
- Implementing identity, security, access, policies, updates, and apps for endpoints.
As an endpoint administrator, you collaborate with architects, Microsoft 365 administrators, security administrators, and other workload administrators to plan and implement a modern workplace strategy that meets the business needs of an organization.
You must have experience with Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 technologies, including Intune, as well as strong skills and experience in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Windows client and non-Windows devices.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS-900)
Demonstrate understanding of Microsoft 365, to deliver industry-leading productivity apps along with intelligent cloud services, and world-class security.
This certification is designed for you, if you’re looking to demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of cloud-based solutions to facilitate productivity and collaboration among on-site, remote, and hybrid workers. As a candidate, you may:
- Have knowledge of cloud-based solutions.
- Be new to Microsoft 365.
You can use this certification to prepare for other Microsoft certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for the related ones.
As a candidate, you should be able to recommend Microsoft 365 solutions that address common organizational IT challenges. You should understand how Microsoft 365 solutions:
- Improve productivity
- Facilitate collaboration
- Optimize communications
- Help secure data
- Identify and facilitate compliance
You should be able to recommend solutions for:
- Endpoint and application management
- Desktop virtualization
- Automated operating system deployment
- Reporting and analytics
You should be familiar with Microsoft 365 licensing, deployment and migration assistance, and support options for organizations looking to maximize their investment in the cloud.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate (MS-700)
Demonstrate skills to plan, deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment.
As a Microsoft Teams administrator, you plan, implement, manage, and maintain internal and external collaboration and communication solutions using Teams.
You’re responsible for configuring and managing teams, channels, chat, apps, events, and calling.
You collaborate with owners of other areas, including:
- Identity
- Licensing
- Information management
- User adoption
- Security
- Compliance
- Devices
- Networking
As a candidate for this certification, you should have a working knowledge of how Teams integrates into Microsoft 365 services.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
Plan, deliver, manage, and monitor virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Microsoft Azure for any device.
As a candidate for this certification, you should be a server or desktop administrator with subject matter expertise in designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop experiences and remote apps for any device.
To deliver these experiences, you should work closely with:
- Azure administrators
- Azure architects
- Microsoft 365 administrators
- Azure security engineers
- Azure Local administrators
You should have experience with Azure technologies, including:
- Compute
- Networking
- Identity
- Storage
- Resiliency
You should be able to manage end-user desktop environments, including delivering applications and configuring user settings. You should use the Azure portal, templates, scripting, and command-line tools to manage an Azure Virtual Desktop deployment.
Microsoft Office Specialist: Associate - Microsoft 365 Apps (MO-110)
Demonstrate that you have the skills needed to get the most out of Microsoft 365 Apps by earning the Microsoft Office Specialist: Associate (Microsoft 365 Apps) certification.
To earn this certification, pass three of the following exams. All three must be in different programs and at least one must be a Microsoft 365 Apps exam.
- MO-110: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 Apps)
- MO-210: Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365 Apps)
- MO-310: Microsoft PowerPoint (Microsoft 365 Apps)
- MO-410: Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft 365 Apps) – coming soon
- MO-100: Microsoft Word (Office 2019)
- MO-200: Microsoft Excel (Office 2019)
- MO-300: Microsoft PowerPoint (Office 2019)
- MO-400: Microsoft Outlook (Office 2019)
Microsoft Certified: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate (AB-410)
As a candidate for this Microsoft Certification, you’re a professional who builds AI-powered solutions in Microsoft Power Platform by using Microsoft Copilot, natural language prompts, and low-code tools. You create apps, data models, and flows that connect to agents, AI models and prompts, and visualizations to enrich these experiences.
In this role, your responsibilities include:
- Developing Dataverse data models, model-driven apps, and canvas apps.
- Integrating agents and Copilot features into canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages sites.
- Creating cloud flows and business logic.
You collaborate with:
- Environment and security administrators for policies, roles, identity, and authentication.
- Governance teams on responsible AI principles, application lifecycle management (ALM), solutions, pipelines, and monitoring.
- Agent developers, solution architects, and other app builders for business solution building.
- Business stakeholders to gather requirements, iterate business solutions, and promote user adoption.
Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate (PL-500)
Demonstrate how to improve and automate workflows with Microsoft Power Automate RPA developer.
As a candidate for this certification, you automate Windows-based, browser-based, and terminal-based applications that are time-consuming or contain repetitive processes. You use a mix of automation approaches like:
- UI
- API
- Database
You analyze, design, and implement automations by using Power Automate desktop flows and cloud flows. As a robotic process automation (RPA) developer, you use actions for logic and work with:
- Data
- Applications
- Services
You work with business stakeholders to optimize business workflows. You partner with administrators to deploy and support solutions in other environments.
Additionally, as a candidate, you should have experience with:
- The Windows desktop environment
- Scripting languages such as VBScript and JavaScript
- .NET Framework for use in custom actions
- Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
Demonstrate methods and best practices that align with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Microsoft Power BI.
As a candidate for this certification, you should deliver actionable insights by working with available data and applying domain expertise. You should:
- Provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations.
- Enable others to perform self-service analytics.
As a Power BI data analyst, you work closely with business stakeholders to identify business requirements. You collaborate with analytics engineers and data engineers to identify and acquire data. You use Power BI to:
- Prepare the data
- Model the data
- Visualize and analyze data
- Manage and secure Power BI
You should be proficient at using Power Query and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)
Demonstrate how to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform Developer.
As a candidate for this certification, you design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components using the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. Your expertise encompasses implementing:
- Custom user experiences and business logic.
- System integrations.
- Data conversions.
- Custom process automation.
- Complex Power Fx logic.
- Power Automate workflow expressions.
- AI as part of your solution logic.
You must have applied knowledge of:
- Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints.
- Authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform.
- Microsoft Power Platform developer tools including Power Platform CLI as part of the developer workflow.
- AI tools, including copilots, to improve development and troubleshooting solutions.
As a candidate, you should have development experience that includes Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate (PL-200)
Demonstrate the use of Microsoft Power Platform solutions to simplify, automate, and empower business processes for organizations in the role of a Functional Consultant.
As a candidate for this certification, you:
- Perform discovery.
- Capture requirements.
- Engage subject matter experts and stakeholders.
- Configure business solutions by using Microsoft Power Platform tools and components.
You create:
- Application enhancements
- Tailored user experiences
- Process automation
As a candidate, you implement the design provided by and in collaboration with a solution architect and the standards, branding, and artifacts established by user experience designers. You implement integrations with third-party applications and services. You generate training documentation, and you facilitate training and enablement.
You must interact and effectively communicate with members of a delivery team, stakeholders, and customer teams while championing for their success. You must have an understanding of application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for Microsoft Power Platform and quality assurance.
You should be familiar with using the following Microsoft Power Platform components:
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Microsoft Power Apps
- Microsoft Power Automate cloud flows
- Microsoft Power Pages
- Microsoft Power Platform environments
You should have proficiency in:
- Data modeling
- User experience design
- Requirements analysis
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)
Demonstrate the business value and product capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform, such as Power Apps, data connections with Dataverse, and Power Automate.
As a candidate for this certification, you aspire to understand how Microsoft Power Platform technologies can be used to:
- Develop tailored business solutions.
- Optimize your use of data by using Microsoft Dataverse and connectors.
- Accelerate business outcomes by using Microsoft Power Apps for low code/no code solutions.
- Improve processes by using Microsoft Power Automate.
- Enable customer self-service by using Microsoft Power Pages.
- Boost your productivity by using copilots.
The certification is intended for you if you’re seeking to start your journey building solutions with Microsoft Power Platform.
You can use this certification to prepare for role-based certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600)
As a candidate for this certification, you should have solution architecture experience across functional and technical disciplines of Microsoft Power Platform. You should be able to facilitate design decisions based on recommended practices across development, configuration, integration, infrastructure, security, licensing, storage, and change management.
In this role, you are required to architect and ensure the successful implementation of appropriate end-to-end solutions to address business and technical needs of organizations.
You should have knowledge of:
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps
- Related Microsoft cloud solutions
- Other third-party technologies
You should be aware of Power Platform Well-Architected framework and ideally have used it for implementation.