Microsoft 365 Messaging Administrators deploy, configure, manage, and monitor messaging infrastructure, permissions, client access, mail protection, and mail flow in both on-premises, hybrid, and cloud enterprise environments.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MS-203 Microsoft 365 Messaging

Microsoft 365 Security Administrators proactively secure M365 enterprise and hybrid environments, implement and manage security and compliance solutions, respond to threats, and enforce data governance.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MS-500 Microsoft 365 Security Administrator

Microsoft 365 Developers design, build, test, and maintain applications and solutions that are optimized for the productivity and collaboration needs of organizations using the Microsoft 365 platform.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MS-600

Microsoft Teams Administrators configure, deploy, and manage Office 365 workloads for Microsoft Teams that focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in an enterprise environment.

Microsoft Teams Administrators must be able to plan, deploy, and manage Teams: chat, apps, channels, meetings, audio conferences, live events, and calls.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MS-700 Managing Microsoft Teams

If you’re a functional consultant, a professional working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, or a developer looking to hone your consulting skills, this certification could help give your career a boost. It lets you market yourself more effectively for projects and shows your organization that you can use Dynamics 365 Sales to empower the sales force.

As a candidate for this certification, you have experience configuring Microsoft Power Platform and you know Dynamics 365 model-driven applications and data-modeling principles. You work with an organization’s stakeholders to gather requirements and implement Dynamics 365 Sales solutions. You manage leads, opportunities, quotes, and orders, and you configure product catalogs and price lists. Additionally, you configure Dynamics 365 Sales to match your organization's unique business process, and you model Dynamics 365 Sales data. You even extend Dynamics 365 solutions using Power Platform components, such as Power Automate and Power Apps.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain a Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant
• MB-210: Dynamics 365 Sales

If you’re a functional consultant, a professional using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing in your organization’s day-to-day business operations, or a developer looking to hone your consulting skills, this certification could help give your career a boost and could enable you to position yourself more effectively for projects and promotions.

As a candidate for this certification, you know Dynamics 365 model-driven applications and data-modeling principles, plus you can configure Microsoft Power Platform. You implement marketing initiatives, like campaigns, emails, and customer journeys. You have experience working with an organization’s stakeholders to gather requirements and implement Dynamics 365 Marketing solutions. Additionally, you configure Dynamics 365 Marketing and set up Dynamics 365 organizational security. You even extend Dynamics 365 solutions using Power Platform components, such as Power Automate and Power Apps.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain a Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant
• MB-220 Dynamics 365 Marketing

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultants build CX solutions that are fast, agile, and leverage AI to drive actionable insights that anticipate customer needs.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant
• MB-230 Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultants configure the Field Service application, implement solutions that manage the field service lifecycle, and deploy the Connected Field Service (IoT) solution.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant
• MB-240 Dynamics 365 Field Service

Use this certification to prove your skills and help advance your career, if you have experience as a functional consultant who analyzes business requirements and translates them into successful business processes and solutions based on industry best practices. You need to have experience in implementing and configuring Dynamics 365 Finance to meet business requirements.

This certification is a good fit for people in finance departments who work in accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, fixed assets, budgeting, cost accounting and cost management, or expenses. You must have a fundamental understanding of business accounting principles and financial operations.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MB-300 Dynamics 365: Core Finance and Operations
• MB-310 Dynamics 365 Finance

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Functional Consultants integrate digital and physical systems; improve visibility, manufacturing efficiency, and flexibility; and lower costs for their clients.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MB-300 Dynamics 365: Core Finance and Operations
• MB-320 Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing

Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultants streamline cost accounting, inventory management, master planning, and warehouse management for their clients.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MB-300 Core Finance and Operations
• MB-330 Supply Chain Management

Developers who work with Finance and Operations apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 implement and extend applications to meet the requirements of the business. Candidates provide fully realized solutions by using standardized application coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MB-300 Core Finance and Operations
• MB-500 Finance and Operations Apps Developer

Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultants are responsible for implementing core application setup processes for small and medium businesses.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MB-800 Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant

Design apps and automate workflows

• Create apps and automate workflows
• Analyze and visualize data in context of an app or automated workflow
• Implement and manage apps and automated workflows

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain a Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-100 Microsoft Power Platform App Maker

Power Platform solutions course will help you learn how to simplify, automate, and empower business processes for organizations in the role of a Functional Consultant. A Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring Power Platform solutions and apps. This course covers Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI concepts to teach students how to build an integrated solution for an organization based on business requirements.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain a Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant

If you have a passion for designing, developing, securing, and extending Microsoft Power Platform solutions, this certification could be for you. To earn this certification, you must be able to create solution components, including application enhancements, custom user experience, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and custom visualizations. You need a strong applied knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform services and a basic understanding of DevOps practices for Microsoft Power Platform. Plus, your background should include development experience using JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, .NET, Azure, Microsoft 365, RESTful web services, ASP.NET, and Power BI.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer

Data Analysts enable businesses to maximize the value of their data assets by using Microsoft Power BI. As a subject matter expert, Data Analysts are responsible for designing and building scalable data models, cleaning and transforming data, and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI

Azure Security Engineers implement security controls and threat protection; manage identity and access; and protect data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of end-to-end infrastructure.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

Candidates for the Azure Stack Hub Operator Associate certification are Azure administrators or Azure Stack Hub operators who provide cloud services to end users or customers from within their own datacenter using Azure Stack Hub.

Their responsibilities are to plan, deploy, package, update, and maintain the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure. They also offer hybrid cloud resources and requested services and manage infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).

They serve as part of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and security or hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AZ-600: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub

Candidates for the Azure AI Engineer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise building, managing, and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework.

Their responsibilities include participating in all phases of AI solutions development—from requirements definition and design to development, deployment, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Azure AI Engineers work with solution architects to translate their vision and with data scientists, data engineers, IoT specialists, and AI developers to build complete end-to-end AI solutions.

Candidates for this certification should be proficient in C#, Python, or JavaScript and should be able to use REST-based APIs and SDKs to build computer vision, natural language processing, knowledge mining, and conversational AI solutions on Azure. They should also understand the components that make up the Azure AI portfolio and the available data storage options. Plus, candidates need to understand and be able to apply responsible AI principles.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution

This role is responsible for solving the business problem that initiated the project. While the Data Engineer will prepare the data to be used for the models, the Data Scientist determines what data is needed for model training, creates model features from the data, determines what machine learning model to use, trains and evaluates the model, and often has involvement in model deployment. Often the data scientist needs to evaluate multiple models to determine which performs the best.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure

A candidate for the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured and unstructured data systems into structures that are suitable for building analytics solutions.

Responsibilities for this role include helping stakeholders understand the data through exploration, building and maintaining secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques. This professional uses various Azure data services and languages to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis.

An Azure Data Engineer also helps ensure that data pipelines and data stores are high-performing, efficient, organized, and reliable, given a specific set of business requirements and constraints. This professional deals with unanticipated issues swiftly and minimizes data loss. An Azure Data Engineer also designs, implements, monitors, and optimizes data platforms to meet the data pipeline needs.

A candidate for this certification must have solid knowledge of data processing languages, such as SQL, Python, or Scala, and they need to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure

The Azure Database Administrator implements and manages the operational aspects of cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions built with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure Data Services. The Azure Database Administrator uses a variety of methods and tools to perform day-to-day operations, including applying knowledge of using T-SQL for administrative management purposes.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• DP-300 - Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure

Data Analysts enable businesses to maximize the value of their data assets by using Microsoft Power BI. As a subject matter expert, Data Analysts are responsible for designing and building scalable data models, cleaning and transforming data, and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value through easy-to-comprehend data visualizations.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• DA-100 - Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI

Candidates for the Azure Developer Associate certification should have subject matter expertise in designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities for this role include participating in all phases of cloud development from requirements, definition, and design; to development, deployment, and maintenance; to performance tuning and monitoring.

Azure developers partner with cloud solution architects, cloud DBAs, cloud administrators, and clients to implement solutions.

A candidate for this certification should have 1-2 years professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. In addition, the candidate for this role should have the ability to program in a language supported by Azure and proficiency in Azure SDKs, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, data storage options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute and container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Candidates for the Azure Administrator Associate certification should have subject matter expertise implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment.

Responsibilities for this role include implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment, plus provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources, when needed.

An Azure administrator often serves as part of a larger team dedicated to implementing an organization's cloud infrastructure.

A candidate for this certification should 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.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator