What are the popular Role-based certifications offered by Microsoft?
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
An Azure Administrator is responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintaining Microsoft Azure solutions, including major services related to compute, storage, network, and security.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Exam Information
Azure Administrators implement, monitor, and maintain Microsoft Azure solutions, including major services related to compute, storage, network, and security.
Learn more about changes to this certification that took effect on May 1, 2019.
Required exams: Exam AZ-103
Prerequisite for: Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Master the skills needed to design solutions that run on Azure. A Microsoft Azure solution architect must have expertise in compute, network, storage, and security.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Exam Information
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architects must have expertise in compute, network, storage, and security so that they can design solutions that run on Azure.
Required exams: Exam AZ-300 and Exam AZ-301
Skills measured
- Deploy and configure infrastructure
- Implement workloads and security
- Create and deploy apps
- Implement authentication and secure data
- Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage
- Determine workload requirements
- Design for identity and security
- Design a data platform solution
- Design a business continuity strategy
- Design for deployment, migration, and integration
- Design an infrastructure strategy
Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
The Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator takes part in evaluating, planning, migrating, deploying, and managing Microsoft 365 services.
Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
Exam Information
Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrators evaluate, plan, migrate, deploy, and manage Microsoft 365 services.
Required exams: Exam MS-100 and Exam MS-101
Prerequisite: 1 certification | See below for options
Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate
Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator
Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate
Skills measured
- Design and implement Microsoft 365 services
- Manage user identity and roles
- Manage access and authentication
- Plan Office 365 workloads and applications
- Implement modern device services
- Implement Microsoft 365 security and threat management
- Manage Microsoft 365 governance and compliance
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure DevOps professional combine, people, process and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives.
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Exam Information
Azure DevOps professionals combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives.
Required exam: Exam AZ-400
Prerequisite: 1 certification | See below for options
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Skills measured
- Design a DevOps strategy
- Implement DevOps development processes
- Implement continuous integration
- Implement continuous delivery
- Implement dependency management
- Implement application infrastructure
- Implement continuous feedback
