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What is the Azure Solutions Architect Certification?

Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect Experts are those who have taken and passed both the AZ-300 and AZ-301 Exams.

Who should take these exams?

Experienced IT experts with knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services: networking, storage, compute, governance, identity, security, data management, DevOps etc.

In order to take and pass these exams, you must be able to not only administer the Azure environment but advise your customers on direction based on their specific objectives and business environments. Passing this exam implies that you are able to take customer requirements and translate them into solutions based on best practices and experience.

*Core areas of learning include:

AZ-300:

Deploy and configure infrastructure

Implement workloads and security

Create and deploy apps

Implement authentication and security

Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage

AZ-301:

Determine workload requirements

Design for identity and security

Design a data platform solution

Design a business continuity strategy

Design for deployment, migration, and integration

Design and infrastructure strategy

*see in-depth curriculum for this exam at the bottom of this post

What are the main differences between the two exams?

AZ-300 is applied (there are labs!), whereas AZ-301 tests against theory via Azure design.

Once you’ve studied and sat the exam and get that passing score, you’ll now be a rightfully proud Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.