The Azure database administrator implements and manages the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure Data Services. The Azure database administrator uses a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL for administrative management purposes.

Candidates for the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification build, manage, and deploy AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Applied AI services.

Candidates for the Azure Data Scientist Associate certification should have subject matter expertise applying data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure.

A candidate for the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into structures that are suitable for building analytics solutions.

If you enjoy analyzing data and using Power BI to discover and unlock data insights, this could be the ideal certification for you—especially if you use those insights to provide easy-to-understand data visualizations that can help drive the success of your team and organization.

If your specialty is implementing solutions that provide insight into customer profiles and that track engagement activities to help improve customer experiences and increase customer retention, this certification could validate your skills and help open career doors.

Candidates for the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification should have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.