Don't necessarily agree. Part of my job is to operate as a cloud solution architect for Azure with no relevant Microsoft certifications yet what I do is so cutting edge that one of my actual customers is Microsoft. I work with their product groups in almost all aspects of Azure.
Do you think it is worth it to become Microsoft Azure and 365 certified?
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Associate
good to hear and congrats! im working through that course at the moment.
Associate
Nice one mate!!!!!!!!! happy for you
ploughing through az-900 my brain is useless not retaining info but just being repetitive lol
Soldato
Thanks, and good luck! storage was featured quite a lot on mine so ensure you know the reasons for blob/file/table etc and the limitations between them!
Nice one mate!!!!!!!!! happy for you
Thanks! good luck as well, every so often MS do a training session that if you complete you get a free go at the exam (if not already aware), pretty sure they set one up not long back, well worth going to. John Savills youtube channel has a great video on the az900 which should see you through part of it. if only to be used as a refresher!
If your new to azure it can seem overwhelming as it covers quite a lot of ground, be worth getting a test azure account setup with a free $100, fire up a few vm or 2 and get familiar with resource groups etc
Experience always trumps certification for sure when your already in the field but they are also a good way of validating that experience to clients/cv. i'm essentially doing mine just to show why they pay me what they do and why they should pay me more
+ in my case it goes towards our MS competency's so just adds more leverage at the bargaining table
I'm currently office 365/SharePoint/SQL/Azure assistant admin but struggle to get decent experience exposure as the main DBA and DevOps don't share the work. So I've been thinking of doing these certs so I can move elsewhere. Thus far I've been on the fence about going down this route or moving back to development.
Associate
Has anyone sat the MD-100 & MD-101 Exam? worth it?
Associate
I mean, I like to progress part of me want to pick up/learn linux besides downloading the OS I honestly don't know where to start - as my career has primarily been supporting windows and mac os's.
I have recently passed my AZ-900 exam so I am PUMPED and full of feel good rewarding hormones
- I am thinking invest in my AZ-104 exam, I been looking at MD0-100 & 101 as it covers in-tune would like a little exposure on that
I have recently passed my AZ-900 exam so I am PUMPED and full of feel good rewarding hormones
- I am thinking invest in my AZ-104 exam, I been looking at MD0-100 & 101 as it covers in-tune would like a little exposure on that
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Man of Honour
Very nice, how did you find the 305? I assume you did 104 as well or are planning to in order to get the architect expert cert?
I haven't taken the 305 yet but yeah I did AZ-104 last year so only the 305 exam to go.
I have another 3 exams scheduled for this year, AZ-500, AZ-800 and AZ-801. Doubt I get them all done this year, probably move AZ-500 to the start of next year. I see how I get on with the others first.
Man of Honour
Ah sorry, despite your post being very clear, I managed to misread it
good luck!Well I tackled AZ-305 this morning and passed!Ah sorry, despite your post being very clear, I managed to misread it
Now Im Azure Solutions Architect certified
The exam was not easy.
Man of Honour
Very nice.Well I tackled AZ-305 this morning and passed!
Now Im Azure Solutions Architect certified
How did you find it compared to AZ-104? I understand it's a different focus but in terms of overlap of knowledge and relative difficulty?
I found it more difficult, its not really technical like AZ-104, as in they dont test you on where to find certain features and options in the Azure interface or know Powershell/Azure CLI commands. But its more recommend this and suggest that, if you dont know about certain Azure technologies such as Azure Front Door, Azure Traffic Manager which are both a form of load balancers but which scenarios is best to you them. Thats where it is difficult.
Thanks