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There are 7 challenges available to choose from, select one that's right for you. Once you complete that challenge you will earn a free Microsoft Certification exam that can be applied to your choice from a select list of options.

You can only claim one offer per person, regardless of the number of challenges you complete.

Prior to redeeming your free certification exam, government employees must check with their employers to ensure their participation is permitted, and in accordance with, applicable policies and laws.

This exam offer may be redeemed to take one (1) Microsoft Certification exam, delivered at an authorized Pearson Vue testing center or through a Pearson Vue online proctoring site by February 15, 2023.

This exam offer is exam-specific and only redeemable for select Microsoft exams. Eligible exams include:

  • AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
  • DP-100: Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
  • MB-240: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant
  • MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams
  • MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer
  • PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker
  • SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

To sign up, enroll youself in one of the challenges appearing in the link below when the challenge starts
https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/cloudskillschallenge/ignite/…

If you earn a free Microsoft Certification exam, you will be notified via email when it becomes available. It will be delivered to the contact email for notifications associated with your Microsoft Learn profile.

Your free Microsoft Certification exam offer will be delivered by November 18, 2022 and will expire on February 15, 2023. You must complete your exam before this date.

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  • jv on 30/09/2022 - 11:17
    +5

    Learn Cloud Skills

    Are you being cirrus ???

    • vchoy on 30/09/2022 - 11:20
      +3

      Yes I am being SIRIus

      • jv on 30/09/2022 - 11:32
        +3

        You're a star.

  • justchase on 30/09/2022 - 11:27

    How do we sign up? I can't see a link or anything

    • Phlume on 30/09/2022 - 11:32

      In 11 days, begins on 12/10/2022.

    • jv on 30/09/2022 - 11:33
      +8

      How do we sign up?

      That's part of the test.

    • kamikaze_ozbargain on 30/09/2022 - 17:19

      I've updated the info in the description ^_^.

  • umansPrimitiveNature on 30/09/2022 - 12:15

    Not sure if this news is relevant here, but will share it anyway

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-google-slam-micros…

    • slowmo on 30/09/2022 - 12:31

      what's your thoughts on this, do people really build things that can survive migration across different cloud providers? :)

      • umansPrimitiveNature on 30/09/2022 - 12:39
        +1

        I don't see what is wrong with Microsoft approach. Apple use any means necessary to keep customers in their ecosystem, so does google or any other company.

        • slowmo on 30/09/2022 - 12:42

          i feel that the complaints are a bit rich.

          it's not exactly a 1:1 migration if you tried to move away from sagemaker for example.

          by design, every product is quite niche in each provider.

        • grumpybum on 30/09/2022 - 12:57

          No big surprise that the complaints only seem to be coming from their top competitors haha

          • wormarts on 30/09/2022 - 13:01

            @grumpybum: It’s not just from the top competitors. Smaller players have also complained. Read the article.

        • wormarts on 30/09/2022 - 13:04

          The concepts are complicated, but competition law doesn’t permit certain things.

          The objective is to keep an open market where competitors can still operate. Else we end up with monopolies/duopolies/oligopolies, which are VERY bad, for EVERYONE.

          Microsoft’s strategy, as we can expect, is designed to keep competitors out. But there are limits to how that can legally occur.

          Microsoft’s new reach into all manner of cloud spaces risks choking the market. This is really problematic, even though some may not see it right now.

          • slowmo on 30/09/2022 - 17:16

            @wormarts: hang on, you mean they don't exhibit that sort of behaviour before?
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L…

            it is already a problem, but from my point of view, it's just a bunch of rich powerful people complaining about the slice of the pie they are getting.

            • wormarts on 30/09/2022 - 17:42

              @slowmo: Your point doesn’t logically follow. Many companies have exhibited anti-competitive behaviours before.

              Microsoft has done it before, and they’ve been done for it.

              While they’ve been anti-competitive before generally speaking, the current behaviour is a new scenario. Difference consideration, and arguably more at stake.

              Whether the people are complaining are rich or not is irrelevant. Anti-competitive behaviour is bad. Mob mentality would be to mock Amazon and Google due to anti-rich sentiment, and then be the first to whinge when Microsoft becomes a monopoly and we see negative impacts in the market—only when it’s too late. And again, smaller players have also complained.

              • slowmo on 30/09/2022 - 18:09

                @wormarts: my point is that they are all anti-competitive.

                right now, only regulation can constrain organisations like microsoft. that i think we can agree on.

                from earlier replies, i'm just mocking the feigned outrage by other parties… they would've done exactly the same things if they were to be in microsoft's position.

                just look at the operating systems area. the walls are all coming up. i am just not surprised by all these.

      • LolComputers on 30/09/2022 - 17:09

        containers?

  • iamthecaptainnow on 30/09/2022 - 12:56
    +1

    Had to google the nerdy jokes. Am impress

  • TasJacks on 30/09/2022 - 12:57

    Has anyone from here completed a challenge in previous years. What kind of challenge would it be?

    • next gen on 30/09/2022 - 14:00

      You’ll likely just have to do a bunch of Microsoft Learn modules.

      • kamikaze_ozbargain on 30/09/2022 - 17:09

        Yeah, just have to go through the quick next next next next, finish next next (nec minute) next finish survey.

        Ive done these couple of times in the past. Fairly easy and the instructions are straight forward

  • Wonderfool on 30/09/2022 - 20:45

    Aw, nothing on the fundamentals?

    Should I do the Azure fundamentals before I do any of these?

    • kamikaze_ozbargain on 30/09/2022 - 20:49
      +4

      Fundamentals technically is always free. They always have this offer https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/training-days/azure/fundamen…

      • Wonderfool on 30/09/2022 - 21:25

        Oh! Thanks!

        • slowmo on 30/09/2022 - 21:55

          all the 9xx/fundamentals don't expire btw so go nuts on it, it's easy as. i taught some teams on how to go through that… you just need to have some basic level of aptitude in learning things.

          edit:
          okay. i figured out i should put a disclaimer incase someone may think i'm giving the wrong message: ymmv. people may fail 900s exams.

  • hirkoshinji on 02/10/2022 - 12:30
    +1

    Got the AZ-900 badge, but still hard to find a entry level job.

    Try to get a AZ-104.

  • SiliconBased on 14/10/2022 - 13:04

    Any recommendations for which challenge/exam to choose?

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