{"id":6688,"date":"2018-10-10T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T10:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2024-06-25T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T11:11:09","slug":"microsoft-releases-two-more-role-based-certification-training-tracks-for-azure","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/blog\/microsoft-releases-two-more-role-based-certification-training-tracks-for-azure","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases Two More Role-based Certification &#038; Training Tracks for Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an update to my last article where I wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/new-role-based-azure-certification-training-tracks-from-microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Role-based Azure Certification &amp; Training Tracks<\/a>. If you did not get a chance to read it, please do.<\/p>\n<p>The previous article was about the new Microsoft Certified Azure <strong>Administrator Associate<\/strong> track, which replaces the Microsoft Exam 70-533. Since then two more role-based certification tracks have been released, each containing 3 exams and two paths to achieve them. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Certified <strong>Azure Developer Associate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Certified <strong>Azure Solutions Architect Expert<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of writing this article the exams are in beta.<\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Target Audience &amp; Prerequisites for this track:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Azure Developers who design and build applications \/ services for Azure Cloud\n<ul>\n<li>Their current \/ future work includes the entire SDLC from solution design, to development, deployment, testing and maintenance<\/li>\n<li>They partner with Solution Architects, DBAs, Cloud Administrators to implement and test these applications \/ services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Candidates should be proficient in developing applications \/ services using Microsoft tools and Microsoft Azure IaaS \/ PaaS services around compute, storage, security, etc.<\/li>\n<li>They should be skilled in one of the popular (supported) programming languages such as .NET \/ Java<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There are three exams currently being offered (in beta) for this track:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AZ-200: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-AZ-200.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Developer Core Solutions (beta)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ-201: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-AZ-201.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Developer Advanced Solutions (beta)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ-202: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-AZ-202.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Developer Certification Transition (beta)<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Upgrade Exam\n<ul>\n<li>AZ-202 covers delta topics between the new certification and Exam 70-532<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>So, which one\u2019s for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/azure_developer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6692\" src=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/azure_developer.png\" alt=\"Azure Developer\" width=\"594\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: The transition exam retires on 31<sup>st<\/sup> March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Target Audience &amp; Prerequisites for this track:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Azure Solution Architects who advise stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable and reliable solutions<\/li>\n<li>Candidates taking up this exam should possess advanced knowledge on Microsoft Azure services across networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting and governance<\/li>\n<li>They should be proficient in all aspects of Microsoft Azure administration, development, DevOps and architecture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There are three exams currently being offered (in beta) for this track:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AZ-300: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-az-300.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (beta)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ-301: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-AZ-301.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Architect Design (beta)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>AZ-302: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/learning\/exam-AZ-302.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Transition (beta)<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Upgrade Exam\n<ul>\n<li>AZ-302 covers delta topics between the new certification and Exam 70-535<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Which one should you go for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/azure_solutions_architect.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6693\" src=\"https:\/\/content.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/azure_solutions_architect.png\" alt=\"Azure Solutions Architect\" width=\"602\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>There is no upgrade path \/ transition exam for Exam 70-534<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The transition exam retires on 31<sup>st<\/sup> March 2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CloudThat will be introducing Certification BootCamps for these exams soon.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cloudthat.in\/new-role-based-azure-certification-raining-tracks-from-microsoft\/?utm_source=blog-website&amp;utm-medium=text-link&amp;utm_campaign=microsoft-releases-two-new-role-based-azure-certification-&amp;-training-tracks-for-developer-and-solutions-architect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to fill out the form if you are interested in any of these exams.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/\">https:\/\/blog.cloudthat.com\/<\/a>\u00a0for more updates on these new and upcoming Certification Tracks as well as our #ExamExperiences on these newly released tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":6709,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","blog_category":[3608],"user_email":"sangram@cloudthat.in","published_by":"324","primary-authors":"","secondary-authors":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/6688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45882,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/6688\/revisions\/45882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudthat.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}