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.

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 You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification exam. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

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.

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

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. You can use this certification to prepare for role-based or specialty certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.

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.

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).

As a candidate for this certification, you’re responsible for configuring and managing Windows Server on-premises, hybrid, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform workloads. As a Windows Server hybrid administrator, you’re tasked with: Integrating Windows Server environments with Azure services. Managing Windows Server in on-premises networks. In this role, you manage and maintain Windows Server IaaS workloads in Azure as well as migrating and deploying workloads to Azure. You typically collaborate with: Azure administrators Enterprise architects Microsoft 365 administrators Network engineers As a candidate for this certification, you deploy, package, secure, update, and configure Windows Server workloads using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. In this role, you implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions, such as identity, security, management, compute, networking, storage, monitoring, high availability, and disaster recovery. 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. Important The English language version of this certification will be updated on June 09, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-800 and Exam AZ-801 pages for details about recent changes.

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 You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification exam. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

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).

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

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). Important The English language version of this certification will be updated on June 10, 2025. Review the study guide linked in the Certification resources section for details about upcoming changes.

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: Dynamics 365 Contact Center Microsoft Copilot in Customer Service Collaboration Knowledge management Customer feedback You must have strong applied knowledge of customer service, including in-depth understanding of cases, knowledge management, queues, service scheduling, service-level agreements (SLAs), Microsoft Copilot Studio, Customer Service applications, Customer Voice, basic and unified routing, and Contact Center. 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.

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

This certification is an opportunity for you to demonstrate knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts and related Microsoft Azure services. As a candidate for this certification, you should have familiarity with the self-paced or instructor-led learning material. This certification is intended for you if you have both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Data science and software engineering experience are not required. However, you would benefit from having awareness of: Basic cloud concepts Client-server applications You can use Azure AI Fundamentals to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications like Azure Data Scientist Associate or Azure AI Engineer Associate, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them. You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

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

As a candidate for this certification, you’re an expert or senior supply chain functional consultant who implements and configures advanced features of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to meet the requirements of a business. You have an advanced knowledge of supply chain management operations including: Production Logistics Master planning and planning optimization Mixed reality and use of Microsoft 365 Copilot features for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Advanced supply chain management, including rebate and service management As a candidate, you: Analyze business requirements. Translate the requirements into fully realized business processes and solutions. Apply industry-recommended practices to implementations. You demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following manufacturing methods: Discrete Process Lean You implement solutions that meet or exceed the needs of your customers by partnering with: Architects Developers Consultants Other stakeholders Important The English language version of this certification was updated on December 19, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam MB-335 page for details about recent changes.

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. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on July 26, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-400 page for details about recent changes.

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. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on September 23, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam PL-600 page for details about recent changes.

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).

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.

As a candidate for this certification, you’re a supply chain management functional consultant who designs and configures Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and related tools and technologies to meet the requirements for a customer. You analyze business requirements and translate them into fully realized business processes and solutions that implement industry-recommended practices. You deliver solutions that meet or exceed the needs of your customers by partnering with: Architects Developers Consultants Other stakeholders You are familiar with the concept of supply chain processes and/or implementing Supply Chain Management, including: Product information management Sales processes Procurement processes Inventory management Warehouse management Master planning Asset management Transportation management Landed cost Vendor collaboration

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

As a candidate for this certification, you design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components that use the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. You use traditional code to solve challenges not appropriate for low code. You implement the parts of a business solution that include: Custom user experiences Custom business logic System integrations Data conversions Custom process automation Complex Power Fx formulas Workflow expressions You must have: A strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform services, including in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints An applied knowledge of authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform An applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform developer tools including Power Platform CLI as part of the developer workflow 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.

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.

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 Important The English language version of this certification was updated on October 18, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-305 page for details about latest changes.

This certification is an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. As a candidate for this certification, 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. You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

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 To become a Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert, you must earn at least one of the following: Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate, Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate certification certification. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on April 25, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam MS-102 page for details about recent changes.

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

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).

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.

As a candidate for this certification, you are a Microsoft Dynamics 365 professional who advises stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. You should have knowledge of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and Microsoft Power Platform. You must have deep understanding of Dynamics 365 apps and copilots and AI used in Dynamics 365 apps. In addition, you must have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This role requires understanding how decisions affect the overall solution. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on March 19, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam MB-700 page for details about recent changes.

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. Important The English language version of this certification was updated on April 21, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam SC-100 page for details about recent changes.

As a candidate for this certification, you’re a functional consultant who implements 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. You implement and configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central including: Setting up core functionality and modules, including:Financial management Sales Purchasing Inventory Migrating data to Business Central. 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, and charts. You also may expand functionality by using extensions. You also understand how Business Central connects to: Microsoft 365 Microsoft Power Platform Dynamics 365 You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification exam. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.

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.

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.

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

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

As a candidate for this certification, you aspire to understand how Microsoft Power Platform technologies can be used to: Develop tailored business solutions. Identify how Microsoft Dataverse supports the interoperability of Microsoft Power Platform. Accelerate business outcomes by using Microsoft Power Apps for low code/no code solutions. Improve processes by using Microsoft Power Automate and Process mining. Identify use cases for Microsoft Power Pages. Help make data-driven technology decisions by using Microsoft Power BI. Evaluate how Copilot can assist with each of these. 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 or specialty certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to develop AI agents by using Azure OpenAI Service and the Semantic Kernel SDK. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Visual Studio Code, C# programming, and Azure OpenAI.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to train and manage machine learning models with Azure Machine Learning. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Azure services and should have experience with Azure Machine Learning and Mlflow. Candidates should also have experience performing tasks related to machine learning by using Python.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric, including: Creating and managing a lakehouse Ingesting and transforming data Querying and exploring lakehouse data Candidates for this credential should be familiar with data modeling, data transformation, and exploratory analytics. They should also be able to query and change data by using SQL or PySpark.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to develop data-driven applications by using Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Candidates for this credential should have experience developing data-driven applications. They should also be familiar with the Azure ecosystem and the components involved in developing applications that include Azure SQL Database. Candidates need a basic understanding of Git-based source control, in addition to how REST APIs interact with Azure SQL Database for data operations.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to develop custom apps for the Microsoft Teams platform. Candidates for this credential should have experience developing applications that use Microsoft Graph API and the Microsoft identity platform. Candidates should be familiar with: Tools for developing apps for Microsoft Teams, such as the Microsoft Teams Toolkit. How to deploy and configure Azure Functions, Web Apps, and storage accounts in Azure.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, demonstrate the ability to develop AI-powered solutions with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. As a candidate for this credential, you should have experience writing SQL queries and Python. You should also be familiar with general AI concepts and RAG frameworks.

Candidates for this credential should have experience creating resources by using the Azure portal, working with cloud and on-premises management platforms, and managing virtual machines (VMs) and databases as if the VMs and databases are running in Azure. They should also know how to automate tasks by using PowerShell and the Azure CLI and should be able to implement Azure Arc governance by using Azure Policy. For this credential, candidates should have an understanding of security concepts, like identities, permissions, and encryption, in addition to networking concepts, like virtual networks and subnetting.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement retention, eDiscovery, Communication Compliance, and Content search in Microsoft Purview. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Microsoft 365 services and Microsoft Purview. They also need experience administering compliance in Microsoft 365.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to work with containers, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and manage clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Candidates for this credential must have experience with Azure administration and with deploying resources in Azure. They should also have a basic understanding of Azure Policy, Kubernetes, and AKS concepts, including docker and kubectl commands.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to develop an ASP.NET Core Blazor Web app that consumes an API to retrieve, create, and update data. Candidates for this credential should have experience developing ASP.NET Core Blazor Web apps by using Visual Studio Code.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to deploy cloud-native applications using Azure Container Apps. Candidates should be familiar with Azure platform services, as well as container-related technologies. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with: Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) Azure DevOps Azure CLI PowerShell Bash

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to deploy and configure monitoring for Azure infrastructure. Candidates for this assessment lab should be familiar with operating systems, networking, servers, and virtualization.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to build computer vision solutions by using Azure AI Vision. Candidates for this credential should have a solid understanding of working with Azure AI Vision models, both prebuilt and custom, through Vision Studio and in code. They should also have experience programming in either Python or C#, be familiar with the Azure portal, and be comfortable provisioning Azure AI resources.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to build distributed apps with .NET Aspire. Candidates for this credential should have experience building .NET apps and containerized solutions with C#.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to deploy and administer Linux virtual machines (VMs) on Azure. Candidates perform tasks in the context of the current LTS version of the Ubuntu Server distribution. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with the fundamentals of Azure and Linux and should have experience administering VMs on Azure.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric, including: Creating a data warehouse Loading, transforming, and querying data Modeling a star schema Managing security Candidates for this credential should be familiar with data modeling, data transformation, and exploratory data analytics. They should also be able to query and change data by using T-SQL.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to assess and migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Database. Candidates for this credential should have a solid understanding of both database-level and instance-level scoped objects in SQL Server. They should also be familiar with provisioning Azure SQL resources and navigating the Azure portal.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to use Microsoft Defender XDR to detect and respond to cyberthreats. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with investigating and gathering evidence about attacks on endpoints. They should also have experience using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Kusto Query Language (KQL).

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement a Real-Time Intelligence solution in Microsoft Fabric, including: Preparing a Real-Time Analytics environment Creating and loading data from external sources Loading and processing streaming data by using Eventstreams Exploring and manipulating data Visualizing and exporting data Candidates for this credential should be familiar with data transformation, exploratory analytics, and real-time dashboards. They should also be proficient in KQL.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to securely store business data by using Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Azure services, storage, networking, and virtual machine concepts.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement regulatory compliance controls as recommended by the Microsoft cloud security benchmark. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). They should have experience with security capabilities in Azure, along with a working knowledge of regulatory compliance standards.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to develop generative AI solutions with Azure OpenAI Service. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Azure services and have experience developing applications by using C# or Python.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. They validate their ability to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in Microsoft 365, effectively implementing data security by using Microsoft Purview. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Purview, and PowerShell. They should understand data classification, sensitivity labels, and policy enforcement. The scenario in this experience represents real-world challenges faced by those in security roles, including information protection and compliance administrators, Microsoft 365 administrators, and security operations analysts.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to build model-driven apps by using Microsoft Power Apps. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with: Data modeling concepts in Microsoft Dataverse. The Power Apps maker portal.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to prepare Microsoft 365 security and compliance to support Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Microsoft 365 services, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune, and Microsoft Purview.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to solve business problems by creating canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform. Candidates for this credential should understand application development, writing formulas such as those in Excel, and creating, reading, updating, and deleting data.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Windows Server, core networking technologies, PowerShell basics, and AD DS concepts and technologies.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement secure Azure Pipelines. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, including Azure Pipelines.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create a natural language processing (NLP) solution by using Azure AI Language. Candidates for this credential should have a solid understanding of creating and using various Azure NLP models through both Language Studio and in code, including custom models. They should also have experience programming in either Python or C#, be familiar with the Azure portal, and be comfortable provisioning Azure AI resources.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to implement a data science solution by using Microsoft Fabric, including: Ingesting, loading, exploring, and preparing data Training, tracking, and scoring a model Candidates for this credential should be familiar with data science and AI fundamentals, in addition to open-source frameworks, such as scikit-learn and SynapseML. They should also have experience with: Python MLflow Synapse Data Science in Microsoft Fabric

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to set up and configure Microsoft Sentinel. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity products; the Azure portal; and Azure administration, including role-based access control (RBAC).

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to build intelligent apps with AI Builder, a feature within Microsoft Power Platform. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with the Microsoft Power Platform Environment Maker role, Power Automate, Power Platform canvas apps, Power Automate cloud flows and Dataverse. They should also have experience with AI Builder.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create and implement Azure AI Document Intelligence solutions. Candidates for this credential should have a solid understanding of creating and using Document Intelligence models through both Document Intelligence Studio and in code. They should also have experience programming in either Python or C#, be familiar with the Azure portal, and be comfortable provisioning Azure AI resources.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to secure resources by using Azure virtual networking solutions. Candidates for this credential should be familiar with Azure services, the Azure portal, and basic networking, DNS, and Azure Firewall concepts.

To earn this Microsoft Applied Skills credential, learners demonstrate the ability to create and manage automated processes with Power Automate. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Power Platform and Power Automate and should have subject matter expertise in automating business processes.

This course covers the financial aspects of Dynamics 365: configure and use essential financial components, accounts payable, accounts receivable, collections, budgeting, fixed assets, and additional functionality. Audience Profile As a Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Functional Consultant, 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 a deeper understanding of financial operations as they relate to core finance, manufacturing, retail, and supply chain management operations. You specialize in one or more feature sets of Dynamics 365 Finance including core finance, general ledger, tax, cost accounting, cost management, fixed assets, asset leasing, budgeting, revenue recognition, consolidation and elimination, credit and collections, cash and bank management, and expense management. You understand the relationships between finance and manufacturing, retail, and supply chain management.

Learn how to protect information in your Microsoft 365 deployment. This course focuses on data lifecycle management and information protection and compliance within your organization. The course covers implementation of data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types, sensitivity labels, data retention policies, Microsoft Purview Message Encryption, audit, eDiscovery, and insider risk among other related topics. The course helps learners prepare for the Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam (SC-400). Audience Profile The information protection administrator translates an organization’s risk and compliance requirements into technical implementation. They are responsible for implementing and managing solutions for content classification, data loss prevention (DLP), information protection, data lifecycle management, records management, privacy, risk, and compliance. They also work with other roles that are responsible for governance, data, and security to evaluate and develop policies to address an organization's risk reduction and compliance goals. This role assists workload administrators, business application owners, human resources departments, and legal stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support the necessary policies and controls.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service offers any organization an opportunity for customer success.  Using tools such as automatic case creation and queue management frees up your time to dedicate it where you can have a greater impact, directly with your customers.Join our team of globally recognized experts as they take you step by step from creating cases to interacting with customers to resolving those cases.  Once you’ve resolved those cases you can learn from data analysis the key details to help you resolve similar cases faster or avoid new issues altogether. Audience Profile A Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring the solution and applications. The Functional Consultant implements a solution using out of the box capabilities, codeless extensibility, application and service integrations.

Learn the business value and product capabilities of Microsoft Power Platform. Create simple Power Apps, connect data with Dataverse, build a Power BI Dashboard, and automate processes with Power Automate. Audience Profile Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences.

This training course is designed to help you understand the extensibility options available for Microsoft 365 copilot. You will learn about the different ways to extend Copilot, including building plugins and connectors, and how to choose the right option for your use case. The course also covers best practices for building high-quality plugins and connectors, as well as data, privacy, and security considerations. Whether you are a pro-code or low/no-code developer, this course will help you chart your path to extending and customizing Microsoft 365 Copilot. Audience Profile This training course is targeted at developers who are interested in extending and customizing Microsoft 365 Copilot. This includes both pro-code and low/no-code developers who want to learn about the different Copilot extensibility options available and how to choose the right option for their use case.

Discover ways to craft effective and contextual prompts for Microsoft 365 Copilot that create, simplify, transform, and compile content across Microsoft 365 applications. Learn the importance of providing a clear goal, context, source, and expectation in your prompt for the best results. This course covers real world scenarios and examples using Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, OneNote, and Chat. Audience Profile Learners should be familiar working in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This course is intended for all types of users working with Microsoft 365 Copilot.

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution. Audience Profile This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage. Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks. Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies. Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control. Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms Audience Profile Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

This course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; and Azure management and governance features and tools. Audience Profile This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure. This audience wants to learn about our offerings and get hands-on experience with the product. This course primarily uses the Azure portal and command line interface to create resources and does not require scripting skills. Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator. This course combines lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. This course will also help prepare someone for the AZ-900 exam.

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches. Audience Profile This course is intended for IT Professionals who are already experienced in general Windows Server, Windows client, Azure, and Microsoft 365 administration, and who want to learn more about using Windows PowerShell for administration. No prior experience with any version of PowerShell or any scripting language is assumed. This course is also suitable for IT Professionals already experienced in server administration, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.

This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell. Audience Profile Students for AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop are interested in delivering applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. As an Azure Virtual Desktop administrator, you will closely with the Azure Administrators and Architects, along with Microsoft 365 Administrators. Azure Virtual Desktop administrator responsibilities include planning, deploying, packaging, updating, and maintaining the Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure. They also create session host images, implement and manage FSLogix, monitor Azure Virtual Desktop performance, and automate Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks.

Built and optimized for small and medium businesses, Dynamics 365 Business Central is an application for companies that have outgrown their entry-level business applications. Growing businesses often outgrow their basic accounting software or legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that are unable to handle increased inventory and transactions, lack integration with other line-of-business systems, and have reporting limitations. Businesses are also challenged with the logistics of providing services that have more scalability, increased mobility, and availability in the cloud. With Business Central, you can manage your financials, automate and secure your supply chain, sell smarter, improve customer service and project performance, and optimize your operations.  Audience Profile Candidates for this course are functional consultants who implement core application setup processes for small and medium businesses. They implement and configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central including setting up core functionality and modules and migrating data to Business Central. Candidates configure the application in collaboration with the implementation team to provide the business with manageability and ease of use. They may configure role centers including adapting insights, cues, action tiles, reports, charts, and extend Business Central by using Power Platform components. Candidates have applied knowledge of meeting business needs by using Business Central, including basic understanding of financial management, sales, purchasing, and inventory. Candidates for this exam typically specialize in one or more feature sets of Business Central. They understand the role of Business Central in relationship to the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 suites of applications.

This one-day course is composed of two parts - Getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Empower your workforce with Microsoft 365 Copilot Use Cases. The first part of the course introduces you to Copilot for Microsoft 365, examines how you can use Copilot throughout the various Microsoft 365 apps, explores best practices for using Copilot and building effective prompts, and examines how you can extend Copilot. The second part of this training content is really the heart of this course. Students perform a series of hands-on exercises involving ten Use Cases - Executives, Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, HR, Operations, Communications, Customer Service, and Legal. These exercises focus on using Copilot in various Microsoft 365 apps (such as Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and so on) to complete a series of common business-related tasks pertaining to each Use Case. To complete the Use Case exercises in this course, each student must have access to a Microsoft 365 subscription (BYOS) in which they're licensed to use Microsoft 365 Copilot. Each student must also have a Microsoft OneDrive account, since Copilot requires OneDrive to complete the file sharing tasks used throughout the Use Case exercises. Audience Profile This course is targeted towards business users who want to enhance their Microsoft 365 Copilot skills to solve business-related use case scenarios.

The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect is a trusted advisor who consults with organizations and implementation team members to refine business needs into a well-defined and cost-effective solution. The architect is accountable for the integrity and successful delivery of the complete solution design. The architect provides critical guidance and support from pre-sales throughout the remainder of the project lifecycle. They have great breadth of knowledge and experience designing solutions that meet business needs. The solution architect may have a technical, functional, or industry background. The solution architect must demonstrate knowledge of all Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform. They must have deep understanding of Finance and Operations apps. In addition, they have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This course is designed to prepare those who are aspired to be solution architects and those who are new to this role to learn more about the technical information that solution architects will be dealing with during implantation. Audience Profile The audience for this course should have previous experience with functional or technical focus in Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Applications. Primarily for those who are aspired to be solution architect role.

In this course, students will gain foundational knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. Students will learn about core data concepts such as relational, non-relational, big data, and analytics, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure. Students will explore fundamental relational data concepts and relational database services in Azure. They will explore Azure storage for non-relational data and the fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn about large-scale data warehousing, real-time analytics, and data visualization. Audience Profile The audience for this course is individuals who want to learn the fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment, get basic skilling in cloud data services, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure.

This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications and security operations. Audience Profile This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization's data.

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage core Windows Server workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment. Audience Profile This four-day course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies. Windows Server Hybrid Administrators implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.

This course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions. Audience Profile Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.

Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR and  Microsoft Defender for Cloud. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Microsoft Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. The course was designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst. Audience Profile The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.

This course teaches IT Professionals experienced in SAP solutions how to leverage Azure resources that include deployment and configuration of virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Azure AD that includes implementing and managing hybrid identities. Students of this course will learn through concepts, scenarios, procedures, and hands-on labs how to best plan and implement migration and operation of an SAP solution on Azure. Your will receive guidance on subscriptions, create and scale virtual machines, implement storage solutions, configure virtual networking, back up and share data, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement Azure Active Directory, secure identities, and monitor your solution. Audience Profile This course is for Azure Administrators who migrate and manage SAP solutions on Azure. Azure Administrators manage the cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle. They take end-user requests for new cloud applications and make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor and adjust as appropriate. This role requires communicating and coordinating with vendors. Azure Administrators use the Azure Portal and as they become more proficient they use PowerShell and the Command Line Interface.

This course covers the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data with Power BI. The course will show how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational sources. Finally, this course will also discuss how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution. Audience Profile The audience for this course are data professionals and business intelligence professionals who want to learn how to accurately perform data analysis using Power BI. This course is also targeted toward those individuals who develop reports that visualize data from the data platform technologies that exist on both in the cloud and on-premises.

This course teaches Network Engineers how to design, implement, and maintain Azure networking solutions. This course covers the process of designing, implementing, and managing core Azure networking infrastructure, Hybrid Networking connections, load balancing traffic, network routing, private access to Azure services, network security and monitoring. Learn how to design and implement a secure, reliable, network infrastructure in Azure and how to establish hybrid connectivity, routing, private access to Azure services, and monitoring in Azure. Audience Profile This course is for Network Engineers looking to specialize in Azure networking solutions. An Azure Network engineer designs and implements core Azure networking infrastructure, hybrid networking connections, load balance traffic, network routing, private access to Azure services, network security and monitoring. The azure network engineer will manage networking solutions for optimal performance, resiliency, scale, and security. Successful Azure Network Engineers start this role with experience in enterprise networking, on-premises or cloud infrastructure and network security. Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks. Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies. Understanding of software defined networking. Understanding hybrid network connectivity methods, such as VPN. Understanding resilience and disaster recovery, including high availability and restore operations.

This course examines how administrators can manage and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot to meet their business needs. The course introduces you to Copilot, examines how to implement and administer it, and then explores the fundamentals of Copilot extensibility. Audience Profile This course is designed for administrators, Microsoft 365 administrators, and IT professionals who are interested in learning how to manage and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The Solution Architect is responsible for the successful design, implementation, deployment and adoption of an overall solution. The Solution Architect ensures that the solution meets the customer’s needs now and in the future. In this course, students will learn about decisions a Solution Architect makes during an implementation, covering security, integrations, Power Apps architecture, Power Automate architecture, and more. This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Solution Architect role. Audience Profile Senior Consultants (both functional and technical) that aspire to be Solution Architects, or current Solution Architects that are new to the role.

This course introduces fundamentals concepts related to artificial intelligence (AI), and the services in Microsoft Azure that can be used to create AI solutions. The course is not designed to teach students to become professional data scientists or software developers, but rather to build awareness of common AI workloads and the ability to identify Azure services to support them. The course is designed as a blended learning experience that combines instructor-led training with online materials on the Microsoft Learn platform (https://azure.com/learn). The hands-on exercises in the course are based on Learn modules, and students are encouraged to use the content on Learn as reference materials to reinforce what they learn in the class and to explore topics in more depth. Audience Profile The Azure AI Fundamentals course is designed for anyone interested in learning about the types of solution artificial intelligence (AI) makes possible, and the services on Microsoft Azure that you can use to create them. You don’t need to have any experience of using Microsoft Azure before taking this course, but a basic level of familiarity with computer technology and the Internet is assumed. Some of the concepts covered in the course require a basic understanding of mathematics, such as the ability to interpret charts. The course includes hands-on activities that involve working with data and running code, so a knowledge of fundamental programming principles will be helpful.

In this course we discuss the tasks needed to fulfill the role of developer in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps. The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps developer is a key technical resource that implements and extends the application to meet the requirements of the business. Audience Profile Microsoft Dynamics 365 finance and operations apps developers

This course covers methods and practices to implement data engineering solutions by using Microsoft Fabric. Students will learn how to design and develop effective data loading patterns, data architectures, and orchestration processes. Objectives for this course include ingesting and transforming data and securing, managing, and monitoring data engineering solutions. This course is designed for experienced data professionals skilled at data integration and orchestration, such as those with the DP-203: Azure Data Engineer certification. Audience Profile This audience for this course is data professionals with experience in data extraction, transformation, and loading. DP-700 is designed for professionals who need to create and deploy data engineering solutions using Microsoft Fabric for enterprise-scale data analytics. Learners should also have experience at manipulating and transforming data with one of the following programming languages: Structured Query Language (SQL), PySpark, or Kusto Query Language (KQL).

A Dynamics 365 Business Central developer develops apps that extend Business Central. This can include creating new modules and modifying existing modules. The developer can add new business logic or change existing business logic by using events. A developer also makes it possible to integrate Business Central with other applications, including Microsoft Power Platform products. Business Central developers are responsible for troubleshooting and debugging issues in the system. This may involve identifying the root cause of a problem, fixing bugs, and testing the solution to ensure it works as expected. Business Central developers may be required to optimize the performance of the system by identifying bottlenecks and improving code quality. Business Central developers are responsible for upgrading the system, migrating data, and maintaining the system to ensure it remains up to date and secure. Audience Profile Candidates for this course are Developers, Software engineers, Architects, Technical advisors, Technical consultants, User Experience leads or have a combination of these skills. Business Central is our fastest growing app with the largest number of solutions published to AppSource. It is however a complex solution, and it requires deep domain and technical expertise for implementation.

Do you want to learn more about Dynamics 365? This course will provide you with a broad introduction to the finance and operations capabilities of Dynamics 365. You will become familiar with the concept of enterprise resource management (ERP) and learn about the core capabilities of the finance and operations apps. Then we will discuss each of the apps individually, focusing on Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. This course will include lecture and hands-on-labs. Audience Profile People in different roles and at various stages in their careers can benefit from this fundamentals course. This includes business stakeholders and others who want to be exposed to the finance and operations capabilities of Dynamics 365, students, recent graduates, and people changing careers who want to leverage Dynamics 365 to move to the next level.

This 1-day course teaches IT professionals who have experience with SAP solutions how to use Azure resources that include setting up and configuration of SAP environments in Azure for virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Microsoft Entra ID. Learners will also explore backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring of SAP systems in Azure. Learn through the application of concepts, scenarios, and procedures through hands-on labs using Azure Center for SAP solutions. Audience Profile Administrators of SAP systems that run on Azure should take this course. Before taking this course, candidates should pass the Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305) exam and have completed training in SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver.

This course covers the following key elements of Microsoft 365 administration: Microsoft 365 tenant management, Microsoft 365 identity synchronization, and Microsoft 365 security and compliance. In Microsoft 365 tenant management, you learn how to configure your Microsoft 365 tenant, including your organizational profile, tenant subscription options, component services, user accounts and licenses, security groups, and administrative roles. You then transition to configuring Microsoft 365, with a primary focus on configuring Office client connectivity. Finally, you explore how to manage user-driven client installations of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise deployments. The course then transitions to an in-depth examination of Microsoft 365 identity synchronization, with a focus on Azure Active Directory Connect and Connect Cloud Sync. You learn how to plan for and implement each of these directory synchronization options, how to manage synchronized identities, and how to implement password management in Microsoft 365 using multifactor authentication and self-service password management. In Microsoft 365 security management, you begin examining the common types of threat vectors and data breaches facing organizations today. You then learn how Microsoft 365’s security solutions address each of these threats. You are introduced to the Microsoft Secure Score, as well as to Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. You then learn how to manage the Microsoft 365 security services, including Exchange Online Protection, Safe Attachments, and Safe Links. Finally, you are introduced to the various reports that monitor an organization’s security health. You then transition from security services to threat intelligence; specifically, using Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Once you have this understanding of Microsoft 365’s security suite, you then examine the key components of Microsoft 365 compliance management. This begins with an overview of all key aspects of data governance, including data archiving and retention, Microsoft Purview message encryption, and data loss prevention (DLP). You then delve deeper into archiving and retention, paying particular attention to Microsoft Purview insider risk management, information barriers, and DLP policies. You then examine how to implement these compliance features by using data classification and sensitivity labels. Audience Profile This course is designed for persons aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Administrator role and have completed at least one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.

This course will teach you to use Microsoft Power Platform solutions to simplify, automate, and empower business processes for organizations in the role of a Functional Consultant. A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations. This course may contain a 1-day Applied Workshop. This workshop will allow you to practice your Functional Consultant skills by creating an end-to-end solution to solve a problem for a fictitious company. The solution will include a Microsoft Dataverse database, Power Apps canvas app, and Power Automate flows. Audience Profile A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations.

Candidates for this course automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks by using Microsoft Power Automate. They review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, troubleshoot, and evaluate solutions. Candidates work with business stakeholders to improve and automate business workflows. They collaborate with administrators to deploy solutions to production environments, and they support solutions. Audience Profile If you’re a developer with a keen interest in providing automated solutions for your organization, this certification could be a great fit for you. You automate time-consuming and repetitive tasks by using Microsoft Power Automate. You review solution requirements, create process documentation, and design, develop, deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and evaluate solutions. Working with business stakeholders, you help to improve and automate business workflows.

Dynamics 365 Customer Insights helps organizations deliver exceptional experiences personalized to every customer. In this course, students will learn how to work with key features of Customer Insights – Data and Customer Insights – Journeys.   First, students will learn about the business value of using a customer data platform. They will ingest data into Customer Insights – Data, create unified customer profiles, and create segments to help target specific audiences.   Then, students will build impactful and personal experiences using Customer Insights – Journeys. They will create marketing assets like emails and text messages and deliver them via segment- and trigger-based journeys. This course is part of a four-course series (MB-280T01-T04) aligning to the MB-280 certification exam. Audience Profile This course is designed for IT or marketing professionals who want to learn how to leverage Dynamics 365 Customer Insights for their organizations.   Students should have knowledge in basic marketing principles.   Students should be familiar with the Dynamics 365 customer experience suite, including Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. They should also have basic model-driven application configuration experience.

This training course is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to become a Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer. Participants should understand the fundamentals of networking, telecommunications, audio/visual and meeting room technologies, identity and access management, and Microsoft Teams. They will gain hands-on experience configuring and deploying Microsoft Teams Phone, meetings and certified devices including Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub. The course will also cover how to manage and monitor Teams Phone, meetings, and certified devices using the Microsoft Teams admin center, PowerShell, the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Portal, and the Call Quality Dashboard. In addition, the course will cover configuring and deploying Microsoft Teams Phone with PSTN connectivity through Microsoft Calling Plans, Operator Connect, Teams Phone Mobile, and Direct Routing. Audience Profile Collaboration Communications Systems Engineers are responsible for planning, deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft Teams Phone, meetings, and personal and shared space devices, including Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub. Collaboration Communications Systems Engineers have a fundamental understanding of networking, telecommunications, audio/visual and meeting room technologies, identity and access management. They are proficient in managing and monitoring Teams Phone, meetings, and certified devices using the Microsoft Teams admin center, PowerShell, the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Portal, and the Call Quality Dashboard. They deploy and configure Microsoft Teams Phone with PSTN connectivity through Microsoft Calling Plans, Operator Connect, Teams Phone Mobile, and Direct Routing. Collaboration Communications Systems Engineers work with Teams Administrators, Microsoft Identity and Access Administrators, and Microsoft 365 Administrators. In addition, they may work with owners of other workloads, including facilities managers, network engineers, security engineers, device manufacturers, telephony providers, and Microsoft Certified solutions providers.

This course teaches developers how to create application using the NoSQL API and SDK for Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn how to write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage and provisioned resources, and perform common operations with the SDK. Audience Profile Software engineers tasked with authoring cloud-native solutions that leverage Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and its various SDKs. They are familiar with C#, Python, Java, or JavaScript. They also have experience writing code that interacts with a SQL or NoSQL database platform.

In this course, students will learn to plan and execute an endpoint deployment strategy using contemporary deployment techniques and implementing update strategies. The course introduces essential elements of modern management and Microsoft Intune integration. It covers app deployment, management of browser-based applications, and key security concepts such as authentication, identities, access, and compliance policies. Technologies like Microsoft Entra, Windows Autopilot, Microsoft Intune Suite and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint are explored to protect devices and data. Audience Profile The Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator is responsible for deploying, configuring, securing, managing, and monitoring devices and client applications in a corporate setting. Their duties include managing identity, access, policies, updates, and apps. They work alongside the M365 Enterprise Administrator to develop and execute a device strategy that aligns with the requirements of a modern organization. Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrators should be well-versed in M365 workloads and possess extensive skills and experience in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Windows 11 and later, as well as non-Windows devices. Their role emphasizes cloud services over on-premises management technologies.

Dynamics 365 Sales helps accelerate sales teams’ efforts with relationship-building tools and AI-driven insights. In this course, students will learn how to configure and leverage Dynamics 365 Sales to set sales teams up for success.   First, students will set up and configure lead and opportunity management strategies. Then students will organize their product catalog and process sales orders. Finally, students will leverage relationship selling features, the Sales accelerator, and Sales Insights.   In this course students will also learn how to set up and deploy Microsoft Copilot for Sales, a productivity tool to help sellers inside and outside Dynamics 365 Sales. This course is part of a four-course series (MB-280T01-T04) aligning to the MB-280 certification exam. Audience Profile This course is designed for IT or sales professionals who want to learn how to leverage Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft Copilot for Sales for their organizations.   Students should have knowledge in basic sales principles.   Students should be familiar with the Dynamics 365 customer experience suite, including Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. They should also have basic model-driven application configuration experience.

This course teaches IT Professionals to configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also teaches IT Professionals how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor. Audience Profile This four-day course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies. Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure Iaas, enable a highly available, fully redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting.

This course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles. Audience Profile Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of: Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions Azure virtual networking to include load balancers Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases) General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability

This is a single day Instructor Lead Course designed to give the learners instruction on the SQL dedicated and serverless Spark pools and providing instruction of data wrangling and the ELT process using Synapse Pipelines which is very similar to those familiar with Azure Data Factory (ADF) to move data into the Synapse dedicated pool database. Audience Profile The Audience should have familiarity with notebooks that use different languages and a Spark engine, such as Databricks, Jupyter Notebooks, Zeppelin notebooks and more. They should also have some experience with SQL, Python, and Azure tools, such as Data Factory.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases and who work with the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL-based relational databases. Audience Profile The audience for this course is data professionals managing data and databases who want to learn about administering the data platform technologies that are available on Microsoft Azure. This course is also valuable for data architects and application developers who need to understand what technologies are available for the data platform with Azure and how to work with those technologies through applications.

Learn how to operate machine learning solutions at cloud scale using Azure Machine Learning. This course teaches you to leverage your existing knowledge of Python and machine learning to manage data ingestion and preparation, model training and deployment, and machine learning solution monitoring with Azure Machine Learning and MLflow. Audience Profile This course is designed for data scientists with existing knowledge of Python and machine learning frameworks like Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, and Tensorflow, who want to build and operate machine learning solutions in the cloud.

This course covers methods and practices for implementing and managing enterprise-scale data analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Students will learn how to use Fabric dataflows, pipelines, and notebooks to develop analytics assets such as semantic models, data warehouses, and lakehouses.  This course is designed for experienced data professionals skilled at data preparation, modeling, analysis, and visualization, such as the PL-300: Power BI Data Analyst certification.  Audience Profile The primary audience for this course is data professionals with experience in data modeling and analytics. DP-600 is designed for professionals who want to use Microsoft Fabric to create and deploy enterprise-scale data analytics solutions. Learners should have prior experience with one of the following programming languages: Structured Query Language (SQL), Kusto Query Language (KQL), or Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).

Learn the knowledge and skills to drive enablement of Microsoft 365 Copilot across your organization. Explore effective strategies, including the Microsoft 365 Copilot user enablement framework to help you create and implement a robust adoption plan. Audience Profile This course is designed for user enablement specialists, business leaders, managers, IT professionals, consultants, or anyone involved in the adoption of Microsoft Copilot 365 within their organization.

This course provides foundational level knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions. Audience Profile The audience for this course is looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. The content for this course aligns to the SC-900 exam objective domain. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution. Before attending this course, students must have: General understanding of networking and cloud computing concepts. General IT knowledge or any general experience working in an IT environment. General understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.

This course introduces Microsoft 365, an integrated cloud platform that delivers industry-leading productivity apps along with intelligent cloud services, and world-class security. You’ll learn foundational knowledge on the considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, with a specific focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings. You will begin by learning about cloud fundamentals, including an overview of cloud computing. You will be introduced to Microsoft 365 and learn how Microsoft 365 solutions improve productivity, facilitate collaboration, and optimize communications. The course then analyzes how security, compliance, privacy, and trust are handled in Microsoft 365, and it concludes with a review of Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licenses, billing, and support.  Audience Profile This course is designed for candidates looking to demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of cloud-based solutions to facilitate productivity and collaboration on-site, at home, or a combination of both. Candidates may have knowledge of cloud-based solutions or may be new to Microsoft 365.

Learn how to effectively configure a Dynamics 365 for Field Service implementation to maximize the tools and features available to efficiently manage a mobile work force. Audience Profile This course is designed for IT professionals with experience or interest in delivering Field Service solutions for large-scale customers.

The Managing Microsoft Teams course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Teams Admin role. A Microsoft Teams administrator plans, deploys, configures, and manages Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment. In this course, you will learn about various Teams management tools, security and compliance feature for Teams, network requirement for Teams deployment as well as different Teams settings and policies for managing collaboration and communication experience in Teams. Audience Profile Students in this course are interested in Microsoft Teams or in passing the Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate certification exam. A Microsoft Teams administrator plans, deploys, configures, and manages Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment. A Microsoft Teams administrator must be able to plan, deploy, and manage teams, chat, apps, channels, meetings, audio/video conferencing, live events, calling, and Teams certified devices. A Microsoft Teams administrator has experience integrating Microsoft Teams with SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Microsoft 365 Groups, and other Microsoft, third-party, and custom apps. A Microsoft Teams administrator understands and collaborates with other workloads and roles, such as Network, Voice, Identity, Access, Devices, Licensing, Security, Compliance, Information management, and User Adoption.

The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores how to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Entra ID. Learn to manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications. You will also learn to provide seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Finally, learn to create adaptive access and governance of your identity and access management solutions ensuring you can troubleshoot, monitor, and report on your environment. The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. Learn how this role collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects. The end goal is to provide you knowledge to modernize identity solutions, to implement hybrid identity solutions, and to implement identity governance. Audience Profile This course is for the Identity and Access Administrators who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing identity and access administration tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an administrator or engineer that wants to specialize in providing identity solutions and access management systems for Azure-based solutions; playing an integral role in protecting an organization.

This is an advanced, expert-level course. Although not required to attend, students are strongly encouraged to have taken and passed another associate level certification in the security, compliance and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300) before attending this class. This course prepares students with the expertise to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), and data and applications. Students will also learn how to design and architect solutions using zero trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS). Audience Profile This course is for experienced cloud security engineers who have taken a previous certification in the security, compliance and identity portfolio. Specifically, students should have advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations. Beginning students should instead take the course SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.

With model-driven apps, organizations can customize their user experiences with little to no code and create powerful applications that empower their users and increase productivity. This course is designed to help students learn the skills necessary to configure the Dynamics 365 customer experience model-driven apps, which include Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.   In this course, students will learn how to create tables and columns, work with Microsoft Dataverse, and configure the user experience inside a model-driven application. This course is part of a four-course series (MB-280T01-T04) aligning to the MB-280 certification exam. Audience Profile This course is designed for IT or marketing professionals who want to learn how to leverage model-driven applications, Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, and Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales for their organizations.   Students should be familiar with Microsoft Power Apps and basic data modeling principles.   Students should be familiar with the Dynamics 365 customer experience suite, including Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.

The Microsoft Power Platform helps organizations optimize their operations by simplifying, automating and transforming business tasks and processes. In this course, students will learn how to design, develop, test, and troubleshoot solution components that use the extension points of Microsoft Power Platform. You use traditional code to solve challenges not appropriate with low-code. Audience Profile In this course you will learn to build solutions using Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that include the following: Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, and Microsoft Azure. As a training attendee you must have previous software developer experience using code techniques with modern programming languages such as C# and JavaScript. You must also have a foundational understanding of Microsoft Power Platform and have hands-on experience with the following: Developing a data model in Microsoft Dataverse Creating tables, columns, and relationships in Microsoft Dataverse Building Power Apps canvas apps Building Power Apps model-driven apps Building Power Automate cloud flows

This course is designed to build your in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management application knowledge. This course will cover the most important features and functionalities needed by Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management functional consultant including: The product information and how to configure, create, and manage your product and inventory. Supply chain management configuration and processing. The transportation management features, and the warehouse management features. Asset Management functionalities. Master planning configuration and processing. Sales and procurement processes. This course includes lectures and several hands-on exercises. The exercises will be introduced to you in the form of a case study presented to a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant, Expert. Each exercise will be based on a business scenario followed by a question or discussion then a step-by-step guidance to perform the system related steps.   Audience Profile This course is designed for the Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert. The Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert is a key resource that implements and configures advanced features of Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management to meet the requirements of a business. The functional consultant analyzes business requirements, translates those requirements into fully realized business processes and solutions, and applies industry-recommended practices to implementations. The functional consultant has a strong advanced knowledge of supply chain management operations including production, master planning, and asset management and demonstrates expertise in one or more of the following manufacturing methods: discrete, process, and lean. They partner with architects, developers, consultants and other stakeholders to implement solutions that meet or exceed the needs of their customers. The consultant identifies use cases for applying Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management add-ins for mixed reality, internet of things (IoT), and machine learning (ML) technologies. The functional consultant specializes in one or more of the following feature sets of Dynamics: finance, manufacturing, or supply chain management. They partner with architects, developers, administrators, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet or exceed the needs of their customers.

In this course, the student will learn how to implement and manage data engineering workloads on Microsoft Azure, using Azure services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, and others. The course focuses on common data engineering tasks such as orchestrating data transfer and transformation pipelines, working with data files in a data lake, creating and loading relational data warehouses, capturing and aggregating streams of real-time data, and tracking data assets and lineage. Audience Profile The primary audience for this course is data professionals, data architects, and business intelligence professionals who want to learn about data engineering and building analytical solutions using data platform technologies that exist on Microsoft Azure. The secondary audience for this course includes data analysts and data scientists who work with analytical solutions built on Microsoft Azure.

This course is designed to build your foundation in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management application knowledge. This course will cover the most important features and functionalities needed by Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management functional consultant including: The product information and how to configure, create, and manage your product and inventory. Supply chain management configuration and processing. The transportation management features, and the warehouse management features. Quality management and quality control functionalities. Master planning configuration and processing. This course includes lectures and several hands-on exercises. The exercises will be introduced to you in the form of a case study presented to a Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management functional consultant. Each exercise will be based on a business scenario followed by a question or discussion then a step-by-step guidance to perform the system related steps.   Audience Profile This course is designed for The Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management functional consultant. The Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management functional consultant is a key resource that designs and configures apps to meet the requirements for a customer. The functional consultant analyzes business requirements and translates those requirements into fully realized business processes and solutions that implement industry-recommended practices. The functional consultant specializes in one or more of the following feature sets of Dynamics: finance, manufacturing, or supply chain management. They partner with architects, developers, administrators, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions that meet or exceed the needs of their customers.

AI-102 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI. The course will use C# or Python as the programming language. Audience Profile This course was designed for software engineers concerned with building, managing and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and generative AI solutions on Azure.

This course will teach the basics of Microsoft's dialect of the standard SQL language: Transact-SQL. Topics include both querying and modifying data in relational databases that are hosted in Microsoft SQL Server-based database systems, including: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and, Azure Synapse Analytics. Audience Profile This course can be valuable for anyone who needs to write basic SQL or Transact-SQL queries. This includes anyone working with data as a data analyst, a data engineer, a data scientist, a database administrator or a database developer. It can also be useful for others peripherally involved with data, or wanting to learn more about working with data such as solution architects, students and technology managers.

This course teaches developers to utilize Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API and SDK. Students will learn query execution, resource configuration, SDK operations, and design strategies for non-relational data modeling and data partitioning. Audience Profile Software engineers tasked with authoring cloud-native solutions that leverage Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and its various SDKs. They are familiar with C# programming. They also have experience writing code that interacts with a SQL or NoSQL database platform.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can increase efficiency by streamlining daily tasks, collaboration, and communication. Microsoft 365 Copilot helps educators draft and summarize documents and emails, design presentations, analyze data, and more. Find a Global Training Partner to help you get started with this course.

Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot can increase efficiency by streamlining daily tasks, collaboration, and communication. Microsoft 365 Copilot helps educators draft and summarize documents and emails, design presentations, analyze data, and more. Find a Global Training Partner to help you get started with this course.

The Information Security Administrator course equips you with the skills needed to plan and implement information security for sensitive data using Microsoft Purview and related services. The course covers essential topics such as information protection, data loss prevention (DLP), retention, and insider risk management. You learn how to protect data within Microsoft 365 collaboration environments from internal and external threats. Additionally, you learn how to manage security alerts and respond to incidents by investigating activities, responding to DLP alerts, and managing insider risk cases. You also learn how to protect data used by AI services within Microsoft environments and implement controls to safeguard content in these environments. Audience Profile As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement information security for sensitive data using Microsoft Purview and related services. You're responsible for mitigating risks by protecting data within Microsoft 365 collaboration environments from internal and external threats, as well as safeguarding data used by AI services. Your role involves implementing information protection, data loss prevention (DLP), retention, and insider risk management. You also manage security alerts and respond to incidents by investigating activities, responding to DLP alerts, and managing insider risk cases. In this role, you collaborate with other roles responsible for governance, data, and security to develop policies that address your organization's information security and risk reduction goals. You work with workload administrators, business application owners, and governance stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support these policies and controls.