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>> Welcome back to
the Azure Enablement Show and our series on learning resources.
I'm April Edwards, your host for the series.
Now we'll continue our tour of resources ready
to help you become a better Azure professional.
Without further ado, let's head off to our first destination.
>> Coming up. We're going to Microsoft Certifications.
>> Hello, my name is Sandra Marin and
I am part of the Microsoft learning organization.
I am their go to market lead for
Azure training and certifications.
>> When someone is thinking about Microsoft certifications,
how should they get started?
>> You go to Microsoft.com/certifications and
the first thing is to identify your business and career goals.
With that, you can get
the associated role jobs on the specific section.
This will allow you to find the right set of
certifications for your or for your team.
We have a variety of
Microsoft certifications for Azure across fundamentals,
role ways, and specialties.
Some certifications are better for IT pros,
some for developers, some for data and AI professionals.
Some are actually good for different professionals.
Depending on your goals,
you'll will have different options.
>> What is unique about Microsoft certification?
>> Certification is a key component of a learning culture,
not only as a proof of its skills and expertise,
but also with real benefits to individuals and companies.
For accompany Azure certifications help
people achieve more business value,
build a track record of increased productivity and
for companies is very good to simplify talent identification.
And for innovators
Azure certifications are great because they allow you to
advance your career and recognition and most importantly,
validate your technical knowledge and
ability around Azure solutions.
>> What is something that makes Microsoft Certifications great?
>> Microsoft certifications and Azure certifications
are aligned to relevant industry job roles.
They need industry and market needs with skills and
capabilities that are required for
the job and these include specializations,
hands-on experiences, practice requirement.
Azure certifications help validate knowledge and
ability required to perform current and future industry job roles.
That's the great thing about them.
They help people to get hired,
to stay ahead, to be productive,
to receive the recognition they
deserve for what they know on their experience.
>> How are Microsoft Certifications organized?
>> I would talk about type of certifications.
We have three types of certifications in Microsoft,
and each type validates different aspects of
how you use technology to solve business problems.
We have fundamentals certifications to validate
foundational understanding of Microsoft technologies.
We have role-based certifications that focus on
solutions rather than on products.
Role-based certifications
validate the technical skills required to
perform industry job roles
using Microsoft platforms and technologies.
We have specialty certifications to validate
deep technical skills and
the ability to manage industry solutions,
including third-party solutions on or with Microsoft platforms.
>> What are some tips and tricks when it
comes to Microsoft certifications?
>> The best tip or the most important thing that you need to know
about Microsoft certifications in
general is that they allow to demonstrate real-world skill.
We emphasize in our certifications
on doing skills over knowledge or at
some we'll ask you to demonstrate
the skills rather than just answering questions about them.
Our testing evaluates the ability to solve problems,
to integrate information from multiple sources,
to implement solutions within business constraint.
All exams are related on how to apply
technology to solve real business problems.
Training is a good start for certifications.
But really to earn our certifications,
you will always need experience in the role and with the platform,
training is not enough.
>> What's something most people don't
know about Microsoft certifications?
>> I think people don't know that we
have plenty of resources to help prepare for certifications.
For every one of our certifications,
you will always find
Microsoft official curriculum developed directly by Microsoft,
delivered by Microsoft Learning Partners
and taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers.
These official courses are designed based on
the same blueprint that we use to create our certification exams.
Our official courses actually help
you prepare for your certification.
Additionally, every certification has
free online training on Microsoft Learn.
You have all the interruptive learning,
step-by-step tutorials and all this stuff
that is very cool about Learn.
You have all these resources so you can
prepare with instructor led training,
with online training, and complement on the job experience.
>> How do Microsoft certifications
help people succeed in what they're trying to do?
>> Azure certifications allow you to validate the skills to
cover all the aspects of
digital transformation, managing on-premises,
hybrid, or Cloud infrastructure,
innovating with the best in class applications,
supporting Azure infrastructure with data and analytics,
everything with security from the beginning.
Azure certifications will have you prepare for this digital world.
>> Our next stop is instructor led training.
>> Hi, my name is James Seymour.
I manage the Azure absent
infrastructure technical content in worldwide learning.
>> When someone is thinking about instructor-led training,
how should they get started?
>> To get started in instructor led training,
I think the best thing to do is to go
look for your local learning partner.
They can really help you set up a learning path.
They can customize training for whatever your needs are.
They give you personal attention
and we also keep the content up to dates,
you know that everything you're getting from them,
is the latest and greatest.
>> What makes instructor led training great?
>> What makes instructor led training great are
MCTs, Microsoft Certified Trainers.
They're the folks that can walk you through the course,
they'll teach you everything you need to know,
they'll hold your hand along the way.
Really the whole point of instructor
led training is to prepare you to do a job.
That's how we make the courses.
Azure administrator course is
designed to teach you everything you need to
know to do the job of being an Azure Administrator.
>> What is unique about the instructor led training experience?
>> I would say what's unique about instructor
led training is that in-person,
although today it's virtual but still in-person experience
of an instructor that's leading you
through the content and helping you to understand
exactly what you need to
know to do the job that we're teaching for.
>> What's something most people don't
know about instructor led training?
>> What people don't know about instructor led training is that it
is customized to them in their local language.
For example, if you're in Germany,
you'll take instructor-led training
from a German instructor teaching in German.
It's not just Microsoft in very English focused,
it is courses taught around the world by thousands,
tens of thousands of instructors
every day teaching you what you need to know.
They can also customize the training to
meet exactly your learning needs.
>> Can you share a tip on how to
get the most out of instructor led training?
>> I would say the biggest tip for jumping into
instructor led training is figuring out where to start.
A lot of folks that are experienced
IT professionals and developers can jump right into a role.
For example, if you're an Azure administrator today,
you can go out and take
the Azure Administrator or track the course,
the certification exam, and it's
really tailored to the job that you do.
If you're aspiring to be a DevOps engineer,
you can go take that and learn those skills.
But a lot of folks don't know where
to start or they might not have
quite the skills needed to jump into a role like administrators.
Starting with fundamentals is a great opportunity to level set,
give you the broad ecosystem of Azure,
and can really help you succeed in the long run.
>> Next, we visit Microsoft Docs.
>> My name is David Berry,
I'm a Program Manager in
Microsoft Docs for Azure developer experiences.
>> Hi. I'm Ornella Altunyan.
I'm a Content Developer for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
>> When someone is getting started with
Microsoft Docs, what should they know?
>> Microsoft Docs are one-stop-shop for
all Microsoft products and services.
This content is built by
the product managers and engineers and
content developers who actually build the product.
You really can't get more official than that.
If you go to our page,
you'll see a documentation section.
This will bring up a huge product directory
of all of the things we offer.
For example, if you want to look at Azure,
then you'll be taken to all of the Azure products.
Each one of these has its own table of
contents with a lot of content.
There's reference content, tutorials,
quick starts, all of
these different types of ways that you can learn.
For products that have multiple versions, so for example,
if we go to something like Visual Studio here,
you'll see that if you click
on any content in the upper left-hand corner,
you'll get a version picker.
You'll be able to see
that same content for multiple versions of the product.
>> What are some tips and tricks for using Microsoft Docs?
>> Something that a lot of people don't know about is
you actually can download our docs as a PDF.
Where you do that is down here in
the lower left-hand corner with this download PDF link.
This is something I used before when
I had a flight that I'm getting on or
I'm not going to have WiFi access if there's
a technology that I want to brush up on,
I'll download the entire doc set as a PDF onto my tablet and then
I'll have some reading material for those times that
I don't have Wi-Fi or connectivity.
Another thing that a lot of people don't know about
our docs is that all our docs are open source,
meaning that if you as a member of the community,
see something that's wrong,
like a spelling or grammatical error,
or maybe you read something and you feel
like this could be explained a little bit more clearly,
you can actually go in and you
can actually make that change yourself.
The way you do that is by going up here
to the Edit button once you're signed into Docs.
That actually will take you to a page where you
actually can edit the actual doc in Markdown,
right in the browser.
You make your edits, those will go to
the content developer that's responsible for the page.
They'll look over those edits,
they'll within a couple of days approve
those edits and then those will
actually be part of the live Doc set.
This is a great way that if you want to
help out the rest of the community by improving the docs,
you actually can do that very easily,
right in the browser.
>> How does Microsoft Docs help people succeed?
>> When I think about how these Docs help people succeed,
if you look through our docs,
we all have quick starts on tutorials.
We have a lot of sample scenarios and
a lot of sample code that are built-in there.
Those can get you experience actually building something
with our products and our technologies.
But they also can provide the basis
for the things that you need to build yourself.
You can take some of that sample code or some of
those commands and right out of the document,
and then use that to form your solution.
That really can speed up
your success when using our products and using our docs.
>> Coming up, we visit GitHub.
>> Hi everybody. My name's Dave Burnison.
I'm a Technical advocate with the GitHub and Azure DevOps team.
>> When someone is getting started with
GitHub, what should they know?
>> GitHub is the home for all of your DevOps tools.
Everything from source control,
security checks for your code,
continuous integration and continuous deployment tools,
and so much more.
You can get started by going to the GitHub learning lab.
>> What makes GitHub a great learning resource?
>> GitHub is a great learning destination because it's the home
for over 56 million developers.
You can learn about
all the DevOps tools you need for you and your enterprise.
>> What makes GitHub a unique learning resource?
>> GitHub is unique and it is the home for most,
all of open source such as Kubernetes, TensorFlow, GraphQL, etc.
You can leverage the same tools as the world's developers.
>> Does GitHub have
organizational structures or concepts
that people should know about?
>> At both Microsoft Learn and GitHub,
there are learning paths that include
multiple modules for you to learn all about GitHub,
whether it's learning how to
use GitHub to manage your source control,
complete with all the security features,
or learning how to use Markdown
effectively to track issues and projects.
>> What's something non-obvious about GitHub?
>> Something that's not real obvious about how to use GitHub
is that GitHub can be used by any in every role.
The power of using Markdown in issues can provide
rich content for [inaudible] and everyone on your development team.
>> What's one thing most people don't know about using GitHub?
>> One thing that people may not know about GitHub is
just the way GitHub has grown over the last year to two years.
It's gone from being just a source control and
issue management system to a complete suite of DevOps tools.
>> How does GitHub help people
succeed in what they're trying to do?
>> Learning GitHub is going to enable you to create
that software assembly line that we call
DevOps so that you can deliver value to your customers faster,
more efficiently, and in a more resilient manner.
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>> I hope you've enjoyed our tour across Azure learning resources.
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Enjoy your learning and see you next time.
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