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What are your next steps for certification?

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Well,

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here I just wanted to give you the top three Microsoft role‑based

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certifications that I find most people would go to after earning their

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Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate certification.

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Perhaps the most common choice would be the Azure

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Administrator Associate. This requires one exam,

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AZ‑104, Microsoft Azure Administrator. Now be warned

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this is a very difficult exam.

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It's probably the most difficult of all the Azure exams, and I've

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taken just about all of them at this point.

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Next, we have the Azure Network Engineer Associate. This is AZ‑700,

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Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions.

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This one is just as hard as AZ‑104. I would say 104

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and 700, if you can clear those,

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you've demonstrated that you have a very solid grasp of Azure for sure.

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Now it just occurred to me I probably should have put on graphic on

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this side for AZ‑900, so let me just give that to you verbally, okay?

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If you're kind of behind in your cloud stuff and you want a

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ground‑level introduction to Azure,

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then forget about these associate certifications and go directly to AZ‑900.

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That's Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, and that is where you're going to get some

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basic vocabulary and general familiarity with Azure.

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The 900 fundamentals exams are not technical. They're just

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basically all conceptual information.

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So lastly on this side,

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I'm giving you a heads up on the Azure Security Engineer

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Associate certification. This is AZ‑500.

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So these are all, and again,

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I'm going to verbally give you AZ‑900 Microsoft Azure

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Fundamentals, these are all great next steps for you to consider

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as your next opportunity after you clear the Windows Server

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Hybrid Administrator. Or honestly,

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particularly the AZ‑104 would over qualify you for the Azure coverage that's on AZ‑801 and AZ‑800.