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Let's inspect Microsoft role‑based certifications in the

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Windows Server Hybrid Administrator job role.

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You should understand, first of all,

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that Microsoft certifications nowadays are aligned not to their products,

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but to job roles,

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and those job roles are aggregated into four tiers as you can see on the slide.

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The Fundamentals level are the exams and certifications that give

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you ground level general familiarity with a job.

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For example, AZ‑900 is Azure Fundamentals.

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Now the thing with the Fundamentals certification is

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that there's no experience required,

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and Microsoft even aims these at non‑technical people,

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so they're a great place to start if you're brand new to one of these job roles.

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Most of the Microsoft certifications are at the Associate,

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or Practitioner, level.

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This is where we have the Hybrid Cloud Administrator.

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There are fewer expert certifications.

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These normally have prerequisites associated with them.

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The Microsoft DevOps Expert and Microsoft Azure Architect Expert are

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two expert‑level certs that are pretty popular.

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And lastly, Microsoft has a number of one‑off specialty certifications.

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There's one on Cosmos DB database development,

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for example, and another on SAP database on Azure.

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If you're sensing a theme here, yes,

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it's true that with the exception of this Hybrid Administrator certification,

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all of the other Microsoft role‑based certifications are

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squarely and 100% in the Microsoft Cloud Platform.

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I don't know how far back you date with Microsoft certification,

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but Microsoft has never been particularly gifted at labeling their exams.

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They've got it down pretty well nowadays,

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I will say, to where the exam IDs have a prefix that's actually meaningful.

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AZ exams are focused on Azure, at least principally Azure.

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DP is data platform.

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MS is the Microsoft 365 family.

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SC is security compliance.

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AI, artificial intelligence.

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The exam ID will also have a numeric counterpart.

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For example, AZ‑900 is Azure Fundamentals, DP‑900 is Data Platform Fundamentals.

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You see, so the 900 exams are aligned to the fundamental certifications.

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And then there is some variability to a degree,

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but Microsoft Worldwide Learning tries to be consistent here.

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The 100 exams are administrator, 200 developer,

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300 architect, 500 security,

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and then when we're talking about Windows Server Hybrid Administrator,

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it's 800, so you make sense of that if you can or if you want to.

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I'm just going to quietly continue.

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So, for example, like I said, to put the exam ID rubric together,

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DP‑900 we can see must be a Data Platform Fundamentals,

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and it is.

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AZ‑104 would be Azure Administrator Associate.

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MS‑500 would be the Microsoft 365 Security certification. Make sense?