Microsoft Certifications: Exams, Paths, Certifications, and Resources

Explore which Microsoft certifications might help you in your career. The course covers different certification paths and ways to prepare for and pass the exams themselves.

Introduction

• Understand the Microsoft certification program

1. Microsoft Certification: What Is in a Certification?

• The value of certification
• Understand the ecosystem of technology certifications
• Explore the levels of Microsoft certifications
• What's new and different in Microsoft certification: No more MCSA and MCSE
• Exploring the fundamentals certifications
• Does your Microsoft certification expire?
• Connecting your certification profile to Microsoft Learn
• How to take a certification renewal
• Microsoft Practice Assessments: A new free resource

2. Microsoft Certification: The Role-Based Certifications

• Understanding the Microsoft certification role-based paths
• The paths to success: Azure
• The paths to success: Microsoft 365
• The paths to success: Security, compliance, and identity
• The paths to success: Microsoft Power Platform

3. Microsoft Certification: The Exams

• What to expect in a Microsoft certification exam
• Anatomy of an exam question
• Certification exam question types: Overview
• Performance-based testing in certification exams
• Exam tips and tricks
• Take your exam now: The exam experience

4. Microsoft Certification: The Opportunities and the Prep Resources

• Best approaches to getting ready
• After you pass your first exam, the Learn portal

Conclusion

• Next steps in your Microsoft certification journey