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Microsoft Azure Certification: Overview And Career Path

by Mosimilolu Odusanya on October 5, 2020

Introduction

The global COVID-19 pandemic has forced individuals and organizations to adopt new ways of doing daily tasks, from working to learning. It has also accelerated the journey to the cloud for many organizations; for others, it has made them more reliant on the cloud. With that move comes a demand for professionals with cloud computing skills. One of the highly demanded certifications today is the Microsoft Azure certification.

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is the second-largest cloud provider in the world behind AWS. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, with more than 100 services available in over 60 regions and 140 countries. IT professionals and developers use the platform to build, develop, deploy and manage applications in the cloud using different tools and frameworks. It is estimated that Azure is used by more than 95% of the Fortune 500 companies.

What is Microsoft Azure used for?

Microsoft Azure is a global cloud computing platform that allows you to gain access to services and resources — compute, storage, databases, web, networking — to meet your current and future business needs. Microsoft Azure offers four (4) models of services: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and serverless. It provides a range of services which allows you to:

  1. Build, deploy and scale applications — web, mobile and API in the cloud with support for various languages and frameworks
  2. Host applications and services via its Compute services (e.g., virtual machines, Kubernetes services and container instances)
  3. Maintain an accessible offsite backup storage location where you can store, back up and restore data securely and cost-efficiently
  4. Process, store and analyze big data using services such as machine learning and artificial intelligence
  5. Reduce application development cost and time by using cloud infrastructures that can easily be scaled up or down

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