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As a Gold Microsoft Partner, Learning Tree offers various fundamentals training and certifications for Azure—Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Fundamentals, and Azure AI Fundamentals. Choose the ones that work for you. Use these foundational certifications as a starting point to explore more training for Azure technologies and to chart your path forward. If you're looking to advance your career or to jump-start a new one, the message is the same: establish your foundations.
Azure opens a world of possibilities for you in this cloud-based, digital era. Let's explore a few of them and how they can fit with your plans for growing your skills and expertise.
How you can use Azure to grow your career
Azure offers an ever-expanding set of cloud services that can help companies meet business challenges. It offers the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive global network using an organization's favorite tools and frameworks. Depending on their talents and interests, this opens up many opportunities for IT professionals.
- If you're a developer, you can get your work done faster, take your skills to the next level, and imagine and build tomorrow's applications.
- If you're an IT administrator, Azure cloud infrastructure helps you simplify management, reduce costs, rapidly adjust to changing business demands, and enhance security.
- If you're a data specialist, Azure can help you unlock the potential of data. Azure enables rapid growth and innovation with a portfolio of secure, enterprise-grade database services supporting open-source engines.
- If you're an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist, Azure offers your application an edge over the competition. Just imagine what you can build—an app that translates speech in real-time as you're speaking or an app that helps you identify parts of a motor in mixed-reality training. The possibilities are endless.
Get the Azure training that fits your background and interests
Interested in Azure and want to learn more? Use our training offerings to explore the fundamentals of the cloud platform, foundational database concepts in Azure, and the basics of Azure AI. To help you start this foundational training, we've curated the Microsoft Azure Certification collection.
Use Azure fundamentals training to learn the essentials of Azure—architectural components, core Azure services and solutions, management tools, compliance, security, and data protection. Then, learn how to get the best out of Azure by growing your skills in cloud computing concepts, models, and services, including public, private, and hybrid cloud. In this training, explore cloud concepts, such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery, and get strategies for transitioning to the cloud.
Use Azure database training to learn the fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment, get basic skilling in cloud data services, and build your foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Azure. Learn core data concepts, such as relational, nonrelational, big data, analytics, and roles, plus tasks and responsibilities in the world of data.
Use Azure AI training to explore how Azure provides easy-to-use services to help you get started with building AI solutions. Learn about many areas of AI, including machine learning, which is at the core of AI, and how many modern applications and services depend on predictive machine learning models. Explore computer vision, an area of AI in which software systems are designed to perceive the world visually through cameras, images, and video. Plus, get the details on natural language processing (NLP), which supports applications that can see, hear, speak with, and understand users, and conversational AI, which deals with dialogs between AI agents and human users.
Choose the proper certification for you
Combine your training with a certification that announces your proficiency to the world. A comprehensive path forward for your Azure learning might begin with the foundations of cloud services and could be followed with core data concepts, after which it might move to common machine learning and AI workloads.
If you're a system administrator, developer, or data and AI professional just starting with Azure or the cloud, consider the Azure Fundamentals certification. This validates your basic knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Azure. It can also help to prepare you for other Azure certifications, but it's not a prerequisite for any of them. Check out the blog Master the basics with the Azure Fundamentals certification.
Are you looking to grow your cloud database expertise? If you're a developer or a data and AI pro—or even beginning to work with data in the cloud—the new Azure Data Fundamentals certification can help you prove your knowledge of core data concepts and how they're implemented using Azure data services. Get more details in the blog Master the basics with the Azure Data Fundamentals certification.
If you're starting in the AI world, consider the Azure AI Fundamentals certification. Use this certification to demonstrate your knowledge of common AI and machine learning workloads and how to implement them on Azure. You don't need to be a technical professional to take this exam. General programming knowledge will help, but data science or software engineering experience isn't required. Don't miss the blog Master the basics with the Azure AI Fundamentals certification.
Although not part of the Azure portfolio, the Power Platform Fundamentals certification can help data analysts and Azure developers validate their understanding of core Microsoft Power Platform capabilities, including Power Apps and Power BI. Get more information to help you find the right Microsoft Power Platform Certification for you in our blog.
Time to start mastering the basics!
It's time to start growing your skills and building your reputation as an Azure expert. Go to Microsoft Learn, and explore the fundamentals training and related certifications: Azure Fundamentals. . . checked? Azure Data Fundamentals . . . checked? Azure AI Fundamentals. . . checked? Excellent. You're on the path to getting the recognition that you deserve.
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