MS Azure Certification

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Just wondering has anyone gone the route of MS Azure Certification and what did you do, how many did you get, hour long did it take?
 
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Just wondering has anyone gone the route of MS Azure Certification and what did you do, how many did you get, hour long did it take?
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Yes, I have have a few. I started in 2020 with Azure Fundamentals, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security, Compliance, and Identity, Azure Solutions Architect and Azure Security Engineer Associate which is the last one I got in December.

Apart from the two fundamentals cert which I studied and passed in 3 weeks due to my experience working withn Azure already. The others took on average of 3 to 4 months for me to study for nearly everyday.

I used MS-Docs(not MS learn as its so bare bones) ITpro.tv videos, John Savill's Technical Training on Youtube and PLENTY of labbing in Azure itself.
 
Cheers. What sort of lab did it need.

I'm a dba-lite of sorts and dabble in the server side but have done nothing in Azure. It's looking likely in going to have to commit to the Azure path going forward. It's like to start getting ahead of that curve before I'm thrown in the deep end. I've to cover the main DBA at times. He's a cover your home work kinda person.
 
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Cheers. What sort of lab did it need.
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Which ever was required for the cert as Azure is so broad. If you look at which cert you want to take MS will have a blue print of what to study. Sign up for an Azure trial sub and play around in which areas they cover.

As you are new to Azure, start off with one of the fundamental certs. They are non technical so you can do them without doing any labs. Nice and easy :)
 
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Sorry I though you mean hardware. Not those virtual course labs you do on MS course. Which is what you meant. I always find you do them at breakneck speed on courses.
 
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Sorry I though you mean hardware. Not those virtual course labs you do on MS course. Which is what you meant. I always find you do them at breakneck speed on courses.
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Check out these set of videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1V2ny8FWM&list=PLlVtbbG169nETlTE5AsN-AZZllMzll5Sk

It will help to get you started. The only way to pass the exams is to get familiar with the Azure GUI and its commands from sign-up to Azure and using their free credits.

Everything is done in Azure so you dont need anything apart from access to the internet :)
 
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I did the following certs a couple of years back, all via the above scheme so free exams:

Azure Fundamentals
Azure Data Fundamentals
Azure Power Platform Fundamentals
Azure AI Fundamentals

Didn't do much study for them - basically prerecorded online training sessions (about 5hrs total for each cert) and then about 90mins of study for each of the first two, the second two I had very little prior experience of so did maybe 3hrs of study for each.
For these particular ones I didn't bother doing any lab work, as I knew they'd be theory based.
One word of warning, the online training days do NOT cover all the course content (they don't make this clear, so the first exam I just went into and got kind of surprised by a couple of questions), so I'd recommend skim reading the MS Learn pages afterwards to pickup the extra stuff (as per above I just skipped any sections relating to use of labs).

So in summary the foundation certs you can do with about a day of study each.
 
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