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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 goes to Microsoft
Certifications for the first time,
what will they find and how did 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 a specific location.
This will allow you to find the right set
of certifications for you or for your team.
We have a variety of
Microsoft Certifications for Azure across fundamentals,
role-based, and a specialities.
Some certifications are better for IT browse, some for developers,
some for data and AI professionals,
and some are actually good for different professionals.
Depending on your goals,
you'll have different options.
>> Why should developers seek out certifications?
>> We have certifications that are
designed specifically for developers.
These certifications validate these skills developers
need to innovate with best in class applications.
>> How should developers get started with certification?
>> The first certification that I recommend for
developers is the obvious one is Azure Developer Associates.
Every developer that wants to prove
their skills on Azure should go for that one.
From there, you'll have more alternatives to keep growing,
like Azure IoT Developer Specialty or DevOps Engineer expert.
>> Are there any non-obvious certifications
that developers might want to pay attention to?
>> There is one certification that
doesn't seem obvious for developers,
but it's a perfect fit,
and it's the Azure AI Engineer Certification.
This certification lives in the intersection
of apps and data and AI solutions,
and it's all about embedding the skills required to
embed Artificial Intelligence capabilities into applications,
cognitive services, natural language processing.
This is a very cool certification for developers,
that sometimes goes below
the radar because the name doesn't suggest developers.
>> Are there any things that developers might not
know about Microsoft Certifications?
>> There are two interesting things about
certifications that are not necessarily well-known.
First, if you are preparing for any Microsoft Certification,
there is a document that must be your first step,
it's called the Skill Southline document.
You will find it in every certification and exam pages.
This document is key to understand
what knowledge domains are covered in exam.
This is your guide to prepare.
The second thing is Microsoft official practice tests.
We have for almost every exam we'll have a practice test.
They are a great trial run for the actual exam.
All the objectives scoring
the exams are covered in a practice test,
so you will find that this is a good resource to prepare.
>> Our next stop is Instructor Led training.
>> Hi, my name is James Seymour.
I manage the Azure Apps and Infrastructure technical content.
>> How do you get started with Instructor Led Training?
>> Well, 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 the dates,
you know that everything you're getting from
them is the latest and greatest.
>> Why should developers go to Instructor Led Training?
>> Developers should go to Instructor Led Training because it
gives them that personalized attention that they need.
Because you might be focused on
one particular area of development or
just generally a need to understand
the broad ecosystem or platforms,
and Instructor Led Training course can help you understand
exactly what you need because it's
led by people that have been developers.
It's taught by experts
that really understand what you need to know.
>> How should developers plan their Instructor Led Training?
>> I think the best way for a developer to jump into
Instructor Led Training is to really
figure out what it is that they need to know.
Where are they in their learning journey?
If you're new to development,
it might be a good idea to start with fundamentals,
which gives you a broad view of what the Azure Platform is,
and then go into the specific focus that you want.
Whether that's Azure Developer or
DevOps Engineer or IoT Developer,
or whatever that is.
But really, the place to start
depends on where you are in your current learning journey.
>> Are there any tips for getting the
most from Instructor Led Training?
>> The best tip I could give to
a developer that's wanting to start,
is again, figuring out where they are in their journey.
If they're new, they should take fundamentals with
understand the broad ecosystem of Azure,
or they can jump straight into whatever their particular focus is.
If that's IoT or SAP or whatever it is in Azure,
we have training that meets their needs.
>> What's one thing that most developers
probably don't know about Instructor Led Training?
>> I would say, the biggest thing that developers don't know
about Instructor Led Training is really the scope of it.
We have tons of tracks that really can often meet their needs,
but even beyond that,
there's tons of supplemental material on Microsoft Learn.
It's pretty common to have a course that's
customized by a Microsoft certified trainer,
that not only teaches Azure Developer,
but may also have several ancillary products
or different technologies that can go hand in hand,
that's really what you're looking for
because that's what you use in your business.
Then I would say, in addition to Instructor Led Training,
Microsoft Learn can really help you round
out those skills and give you a broad perspective.
>> Next, we visit Microsoft Docs.
>> Hi, 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.
>> What is Microsoft Docs and how do you get started with it?
>> 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,
and each one of these has
its own Table of Contents with a lot of content.
There's Reference content, tutorials,
Quickstarts, all of these different types
of ways that you can learn.
For products that have multiple versions,
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,
and so 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 that you can
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.
There's something I've used before when
I've had a flight that I'm getting on,
or I'm not going to have Wi-Fi 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 in to Docs.
That actually will take you to a page where you actually can
edit the actual doc in Markdown right into 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 doc,
you actually can do that very easily right in the browser.
>> How does Microsoft Docs help developers succeed?
>> When I think about how does Docs help people succeed?
If you look through our docs through
all our Quickstarts or our 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 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.
>> What is GitHub, and how should developers get started using it?
>> 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.
>> Why should developers go to GitHub?
>> Developers should go to GitHub because it is the home of
open source for projects like
Kubernetes, TensorFlow, GraphQL, etc.
There are over 56 million registered users on GitHub.
You can use the same tools and
systems that the world is using for open source software today.
>> How should developers get started using GitHub?
>> A developer can get started right away
by going to GitHub and GitHub Learning Lab,
and leverage the introductory learning paths and modules to
learn how to use GitHub for source control and security,
and everything, and get
started with all the DevOps tools they need.
>> Is there any GitHub content that
developers might want to pay particular attention to?
>> There are some non-obvious sections in both Microsoft Learn
and GitHub Learning Lab that will help developers get started.
Section such as learning how to use
Markdown in issues and pull requests, and everything,
to create rich content for
your audience and everyone involved on your team.
>> What's one thing that many developers
might not know about GitHub?
>> One thing that developers may not know about
GitHub as a learning destination is the way in
which GitHub has grown over the last couple of
years to become much more than
just source control and simple issue management.
GitHub has grown to become a complete set
of DevOps tools, including continuous integration,
continuous delivery,
discussions, and many other tools for all of your DevOps needs.
>> 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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