The Cloud Skills Challenge is a fun, competitive way to complete the interactive, learning paths and modules from Microsoft Learn’s online learning platform.
Microsoft and the Maricopa Community Colleges have partnered to bring you these free non-credit courses to help prepare you for Microsoft Fundamentals certifications through short step-by-step tutorials, browser-based interactive coding and scripting environments, and task-based achievements.
The Maricopa Community Colleges have IT Institutes across the Valley that exist to train the future IT workforce for excellence in emerging technologies.
With four certifications to choose from, you can take just one or challenge yourself to complete all four!
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
AZURE FUNDAMENTALS
Azure Fundamentals will help you learn and demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. If you have both non-technical and technical backgrounds, this course will validate your foundational-level knowledge of cloud services. Technical IT experience is not required; however, some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial. As part of this course, it is expected that you will take the AZ900 Certification Exam.
With this learning path, you will:
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➤ Understand cloud concepts
➤ Learn core Azure services
➤ Understand security, privacy, compliance, and trust
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➤ Explore Azure pricing and support
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AZURE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FUNDAMENTALS
Artificial intelligence has been a revolutionary technology in the IT industry. The demand for AI-related job roles is increasing at an unbelievably fast rate, and the demand for Azure AI engineers is at an all-time high. The Azure AI Fundamentals AI-900 certification requires you to have foundational knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts and related Microsoft Azure services.
With this learning path, you will:
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➤ Understand machine learning
➤ Learn anomaly detection
➤ Understand computer vision
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➤ Learn about natural language processing (NLP)
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➤ Study conversational AI
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➤ Understand responsible AI
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➤ Explore responsible AI in practice
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POWER PLATFORM FUNDAMENTALS
You can prove you understand the core capabilities of Power Platform – from business value and core product capabilities to building a simple Power Apps canvas app, connecting data sources, automating basic business processes with Power Automate, creating a Power BI dashboard, and creating powerful chatbots with Power Virtual Agents. You will take the PL-900 certification exam.
With this learning path, you will:
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➤ Learn the business value and product capabilities of Power Platform
➤ Create a simple Power App
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➤ Connect data with Common Data Service
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➤ Build a Power BI dashboard
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➤ Automate a process with Microsoft Automate
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AZURE DATA FUNDAMENTALS
Azure Data Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications like Azure Database Administrator Associate or Azure Data Engineer Associate, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them. You will take the DP-900 certification exam.
With this learning path, you will:
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➤ Learn core data concepts
➤ Understand how to work with relational data on Azure
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➤ Know how to work with non-relational data on Azure
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➤ Understand an analytics workload on Azure
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