Cloud certifications
55 current certifications across three providers. Retired exams, and exams retiring within a month, keep their details and syllabus but are no longer supported for practice.
Foundational · 5
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Foundational knowledge of cloud concepts, core Azure services, and Azure management and governance.
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
Retired 30 June 2026; replaced by AI-901. Bank retained for AI fundamentals practice.
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-901)
Updated AI fundamentals exam covering AI workloads, machine learning, computer vision, NLP and generative AI on Azure.
Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
Core data concepts and how they are implemented with relational, non-relational and analytics services on Azure.
Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
Foundational knowledge of security, compliance and identity concepts and related Microsoft Entra, Defender and Purview solutions.
Associate · 21
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Implement, manage and monitor identity, governance, storage, compute and virtual networks in Azure.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Develop Azure compute, storage, security and integration solutions. Being succeeded by AI-200 (AI-native cloud development).
Exam AI-200: Developing AI Cloud Solutions on Azure
Successor to AZ-204 (retired 31 July 2026): build AI solutions on Azure with containers, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and Redis vector search, messaging, Functions, and secure monitoring.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Retired 31 August 2026 and replaced by SC-500. Bank retained for Azure security practice.
Exam SC-500: Implementing End-to-End Security Controls for Cloud and AI Workloads
Successor to AZ-500: end-to-end security controls for cloud and AI workloads across Azure, Defender and Entra. Skills outline to be confirmed.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
Design, implement and manage core networking, hybrid connectivity, application delivery and private access on Azure.
Exam AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
Part 1 of the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification. AZ-800 and AZ-801 consolidate into AZ-802.
Exam AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services
Part 2 of the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification. AZ-800 and AZ-801 consolidate into AZ-802.
Exam AZ-802: Administering Windows Server
Single consolidated Windows Server administration exam replacing AZ-800 + AZ-801. Skills outline to be confirmed.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)
Retired 30 June 2026; replaced by AI-103. Bank retained for Azure AI services practice.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI App and Agent Developer Associate
Develop AI apps and agents on Azure with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI and agent frameworks. Successor to AI-102.
Microsoft Certified: Machine Learning Operations Engineer Associate
Operationalise machine learning and generative AI solutions on Azure. Successor to DP-100.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
Retired 1 June 2026; replaced by AI-300. Bank retained for Azure Machine Learning practice.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
Administer SQL Server and Azure SQL database solutions: deployment, security, monitoring, optimisation, automation and HA/DR.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB AI Developer Associate
Design, secure and optimise Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL solutions, including vector, full-text and hybrid search, agent memory and analytics in Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Design, create and deploy enterprise-scale analytics solutions with Microsoft Fabric (lakehouses, warehouses, semantic models).
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate
Implement data engineering solutions using Microsoft Fabric: ingestion, transformation, monitoring and optimisation.
Exam DP-750: Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Azure Databricks
Data engineering on Azure Databricks: Unity Catalog governance, ingestion and transformation, Lakeflow pipelines and jobs, and performance tuning.
Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate
Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR and Defender for Cloud.
Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate
Implement identities, authentication, access management, workload identities and identity governance with Microsoft Entra ID.
Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate
Plan and implement information protection, data loss prevention, retention and insider-risk controls with Microsoft Purview.
Expert · 3
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Design identity, governance, monitoring, data storage, business continuity and infrastructure solutions on Azure. Requires AZ-104 as a prerequisite.
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Design and implement DevOps processes, source control, CI/CD pipelines, security and instrumentation with Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Design Zero Trust security strategies and architectures across identity, infrastructure, applications and data.
Specialty · 2
Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
Plan, deliver and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps on Azure Virtual Desktop.
Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty
Plan, migrate, build and operate SAP workloads on Azure.