Microsoft Azure certifications for Developers

This page shows what Microsoft Azure certifications are available for Developer-minded people. I intend to focus as much on the developers as possible, although this is not my primary subject. I did some research and i didn’t find it very clear what to do, where to start etcetera.

Table of Contents

• The certification poster
• Certification types
• The certification list for developers
• Developer certification path on Azure
• Summary

The certification poster

Microsoft has an monthly updating certification poster available to have an overview for each solution category and the certifications of that category. You can find the poster here:

Certification types

Certifications in the Microsoft world consist of 4 categories/levels:

1. Fundamentals: Foundational certifications to learn the overview of the category
2. Intermediate: Intermediate certification to learn how a solution works and to manage it
3. Expert: Expert certifications to learn to how to architect a solution
4. Specialties: These are add-ons designed for specific solutions like Azure Virtual Desktop, SAP workloads, Cosmos DB and such. (not included below)

Microsoft wants you to always have lower certifications before going up the stairs. It wants you if you take an expert certification, you also have the knowledge of the fundamentals and intermediate certification levels. Some expert certifications even have hard pre-requisites.

The certification list for developers

There are multiple certifications for Azure available that can be interesting for developers (at the time of writing):

1. Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
2. Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
3. Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
4. Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
5. Azure AI Engineer (AI-102)
6. Azure Developer (AZ-204)
7. Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305)
8. Azure DevOps Expert (AZ-400)
9. Azure Database Administrator (DP-300)

For specific solutions like Power Platform and Dynamics, there are different certifications available as well but not included in this page.

Microsoft has given codes to the exams, they are called AZ-900 or AI-900 and such. By passing the exam you will be rewarded with the certification.

Developer certification path on Azure

No further clarify the paths you can take as developer, I have created a topology to describe the multiple paths you can take:

I have seperated the list of Developer-interesting certifications into the layers, and created the 4 different paths to take at the top. Some certifications are interesting for multiple paths and having more knowledge is always better.

Some certifications also have overlap. Some knowledge of the AZ-104 and AZ-204 are the same. In AZ-305 and AZ-400, the information also can be similar but are focussed on getting you to the level of the job title, without having to follow multiple paths.

Summary

I hope I helped you to clarify and decide what certification to take as developer with interest in Azure. Thank you for reading this guide.

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