Solution Architect

Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
  • Certification

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.

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate
  • Certification

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).

Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
  • CertificationExam PL-600

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.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • CertificationExam AZ-305

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.

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert
  • CertificationExam MB-700

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 will be updated on March 19, 2025. Review the study guide linked in the Certification resources section for details about upcoming changes.

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
  • CertificationExam SC-100

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 January 23, 2025. Review the study guide linked on the Exam SC-100 page for details about recent changes.

Microsoft Applied Skills: Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language
  • AppliedSkill

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.

Migrate and Modernize SAP in the Microsoft Cloud
  • Course

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.