Azure offers an ever-expanding set of cloud services that can help companies meet business challenges. It offers the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive global network using an organization’s favorite tools and frameworks. This opens up many opportunities for IT professionals, depending on their talents and interests.
If you're a developer, Azure can get the job done faster, take your skills to the next level, and build the applications of tomorrow.
If you're an IT administrator, Azure's cloud infrastructure helps you simplify administration, reduce costs, quickly adapt to changing business requirements, and improve security.
- If you're a data specialist, Azure can help you unleash your data potential. Azure enables rapid growth and innovation with a portfolio of secure enterprise-class database services that support open source database engines.
- If you are an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist, you will learn more about the areas of AI, including machine learning, which is the core of AI. You will explore computer vision (an area of artificial intelligence in which software systems are designed to perceive the world visually through cameras, images and videos) and get details on natural language processing (NLP).
How to choose the right certification?
Your Azure journey can begin with the basics of cloud services, continue with basic data concepts, and move on to mainstream machine learning and AI. Complete the necessary training to prepare for the exam and obtain Microsoft Azure certification.
- If you’re a system administrator, developer, or data and AI professional just starting out with Azure or the cloud, consider the Azure Fundamentals certification. This validates your basic knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Azure. It can also help to prepare you for other Azure certifications, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.
- Looking to grow your cloud database expertise? If you’re a developer or a data and AI pro—or even if you’re just beginning to work with data in the cloud—the new Azure Data Fundamentals certification can help you prove your knowledge of core data concepts and how they’re implemented using Azure data services.
- If you’re getting started in the AI world, consider the Azure AI Fundamentals certification. Use this certification to demonstrate your knowledge of common AI and machine learning workloads and how to implement them on Azure. You don’t need to be a technical professional to take this exam. General programming knowledge will help, but data science or software engineering experience isn’t required.
- Although not part of the Azure portfolio, the Power Platform Fundamentals certification can help data analysts and Azure developers validate their understanding of core Microsoft Power Platform capabilities, including Power Apps and Power BI.
Explore basic training and related certifications at Microsoft Learn, or contact us and we will be happy to advise you on choosing a suitable training.
* Source article Microsoft "Master the basics with the Azure Data Fundamentals certification"
