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

Skills Measured

(1) Describe cloud concepts
(2) Describe Azure architecture and services
(3) Describe Azure management and governance

This program 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.

Skills Measured

(1) Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity
(2) Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Entra
(3) Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions
(4) Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions

As a candidate for this course, 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

Skills Measured

(1) Manage Azure identities and governance
(2) Implement and manage storage
(3) Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
(4) Implement and manage virtual networking
(5) Monitor and maintain Azure resources

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

Skills Measured

(1) Develop Azure compute solutions
(2) Develop for Azure storage
(3) Implement Azure security
(4) Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
(5) Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party 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.

Skills Measured

(1) Secure identity and access
(2) Secure networking
(3) Secure compute, storage, and databases
(4) Secure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel

As a candidate for this course, you should have subject matter expertise in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured, unstructured, and streaming data systems into a suitable schema for building analytics solutions.

As an Azure data engineer, you help stakeholders understand the data through exploration, and build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques. You use various Azure data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed
and enhanced datasets for analysis. This data store can be designed with different architecture patterns based on business requirements, including:
 Modern data warehouse (MDW)
 Big data
 Lakehouse architecture

Skills Measured

(1) Design and implement data storage
(2) Develop data processing
(3) Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing

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

Skills Measured

(1) Prepare the data
(2) Model the data
(3) Visualize and analyze the data
(4) Manage and secure Power BI