Seven Hot Microsoft Certifications Recommended In 2021

Recently, some updated and new Microsoft certification exams are available as listed:

• DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
• MS-600 Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services
• SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
• MS-720 Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer
• PL-600 Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect
• SC-900 Microsoft Security Compliance and Identity Fundamentals
• AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft certifications give a professional advantage by providing globally recognized and industry-endorsed evidence of mastering skills in a digital and cloud businesses. Currently, Microsoft develops the role-based certification to enhance your skills and positions. While there is a job market segment for every role represented in Microsoft certification program, the current explosive growth in the cloud services marketplace should be given consideration when choosing what training to pursue. Here, we have seven hot Microsoft certifications are recommended in 2021.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification is the fundational-level certification, which is an excellent starting point for the candidates who expect to have Azure somehow involved in their job roles to work with cloud-based solutions and services or are new to Azure. This certification is an opportunity to prove knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure services, Azure workloads, security and privacy in Azure, as well as Azure pricing and support. Candidates should be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification requires to take and pass AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam to measures your ability to describe the following concepts: cloud concepts; core Azure services; core solutions and management tools on Azure; general security and network security features; identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features; and Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification requires candidates to have at least six months of hands-on experience administering Azure, along with a strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance. In addition, this role should have experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure portal, and Azure Resource Manager templates.

AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam is the only requirement of Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification, which measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks:

• manage Azure identities and governance;
• implement and manage storage;
• deploy and manage Azure compute resources;
• configure and manage virtual networking;
• monitor and back up Azure resources.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate

Passing Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate certification to be Azure Database Administrators can implement and manage the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure Data Services. They use a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL for administrative management purposes.

Successfully getting the Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate certification is required to pass DP-300 Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure certification exam. DP-300 exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks including plan and implement data platform resources; implement a secure environment; monitor and optimize operational resources; optimize query performance; perform automation of tasks; plan and implement a High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR) environment; and perform administration by using T-SQL.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification is one of the security-based certifications which requires candidates to have subject matter expertise in implementing Azure security controls that protect identity, access, data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.

Candidates for Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification should have practical experience in administration of Azure and hybrid environments. Candidates should have experience with infrastructure as code, security operations processes, cloud capabilities, and Azure services. Candidates should pass AZ-500 exam successfully to prove your skills in manage identity and access; implement platform protection; manage security operations; and secure data and applications.

Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate is another security-based certification which primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products. 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.

SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst certification exam is the requirement of Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate certification. Microsoft SC-200 exam mainly measures the skills of mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender; mitigate threats using Azure Defender; and mitigate threats using Azure Sentinel.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is an anvanced-level certification. Candidates for this certification should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage, and security. Candidates should have intermediate-level skills for administering Azure. Candidates should understand Azure development and DevOps processes.

There will be three paths of getting Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification:

1. Pass AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (beta) certification exam. AZ-305 exam will be available online on November 16, 2021. So this path will be effective after that day.
2. Pass AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exams. Both AZ-303 and AZ-304 will be retired on March 31, 2022, so this path will be ended till that.
3. Pass AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (beta) exams. This path also will be ended on March 31, 2022 because AZ-303 will be retired on that day.

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate is for AI specialists with advanced experience in the areas of cognitive services and machine learning. Candidates for this certification should have subject matter expertise building, managing, and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework.

AI-102 Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution certification exam is the requirement, it measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks including plan and manage an Azure Cognitive Services solutions; implement Computer Vision solutions; implement natural language processing solutions; implement knowledge mining solutions; and implement conversational AI solutions.