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Most Popular Azure Certifications
Most teams assign Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) first so admins, network engineers, and developers share terms like IaaS, PaaS, and resource groups. Administrators then move into AZ-104 for identity, storage, networking, and compute.
AZ-900
This AZ-900 training prepares your team for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification. It covers the core Azure services, including virtual networking, Azure storage services, and serverless computing, along with the shared responsibility model, cloud pricing models, and the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). The training also covers role-based access control (RBAC) and working in the Azure portal and the Azure CLI. For an IT Director moving workloads to Azure, AZ-900 gives every role on the team, from help desk to procurement, the same vocabulary for Azure services, pricing, and shared responsibility before deeper role-based training begins. IT professionals new to cloud computing earn the same Microsoft certification on the same path.
Knox Hutchinson
Microsoft AZ-104
This entry-level Microsoft Azure Administrator training prepares aspiring Azure administrators to pass the AZ-104 exam — the single exam required to earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification. This training builds hands-on skills for managing Azure resources using the Azure portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. You’ll learn how to implement and manage virtual networking, secure identities with Microsoft Entra ID, automate deployments using ARM templates and Bicep files, and configure Azure storage solutions. The course also covers monitoring with Azure Monitor and ensuring business continuity through Azure Backup and Site Recovery. Whether you're deploying virtual machines, configuring load balancers, or managing costs with Azure Policy, this AZ-104 course equips you to confidently manage core infrastructure across the Azure ecosystem.
Knox Hutchinson
Microsoft Entra ID
This Microsoft Entra ID training will help you build a secure, scalable identity infrastructure from the ground up. This course provides a comprehensive deep dive into Microsoft Entra ID (formerly named Azure Active Directory), giving you the practical expertise to manage identities, enforce Zero Trust security, and streamline access across hybrid environments. You'll move from foundational setup to deploying advanced governance and automated identity protection.
Bob Salmans, James Conrad, John Munjoma, Knox Hutchinson
AZ-800: Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
This AZ-800 course gives IT Directors and Team Leads a standard way to close skill gaps across AD DS, Hyper-V, DNS/DHCP, file services, and Azure-connected workloads. Completion exports in Team Reporting give Training Managers a clear record of who has covered each block. Built for systems administrators and Windows Server administrators with 2–3 years of experience, the training covers installing domain controllers and building trusts, configuring Microsoft Entra Connect Sync and Cloud Sync, and troubleshooting Group Policy by isolating computer-side and user-side settings. Admins also gain the ability to reach servers securely and keep workloads and file services available, so teams handle hybrid connectivity and continuity with fewer escalations and less reliance on outside help, using PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell Direct, SSH, Azure Bastion, Hyper-V Replica and clustering, Azure File Sync, and DFS. Virtual labs let your admins practice domain controller work before it touches production. Microsoft retired the AZ-800 exam on September 30th, 2026, so teams can assign this course for the hybrid administration skills rather than a credential.
James Conrad, Knox Hutchinson, Ben Finkel
AZ-700
Prepare for the AZ-700 exam and earn your Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate certification. This AZ-700 training covers Virtual WAN, Azure Route Server, Firewall Manager, and DDoS Protection. You'll dive into Application Gateway v2, Front Door, and Private Link for secure app delivery, plus ExpressRoute and Azure DNS. Whether designing hub-and-spoke topologies or implementing NSGs, this AZ-700 course equips you to optimize performance and scale. Prove your expertise by utilizing the latest Azure networking features.
Knox Hutchinson
Microsoft SC-900
Cloud adoption spreads security, identity, and compliance work across help desk staff, sysadmins, and compliance stakeholders who often lack a shared vocabulary. When terms like Zero Trust, least privilege, and the shared responsibility model mean different things to different people, risk discussions stall and audit conversations take longer than they should. This entry-level SC-900 course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a single baseline to assign across the team. Learners cover Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) identity concepts, authentication and self-service password reset, Microsoft Defender threat protection, Intune endpoint security, and Microsoft Purview capabilities such as sensitivity labels, DLP, eDiscovery, audit, data lifecycle management, and insider risk. The course stays conceptual, with walkthroughs in Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune, and Purview, so new hires, help desk technicians, and non-technical risk stakeholders can all take part. After completion, your team can explain Microsoft security terminology to technical and non-technical audiences, identify which Microsoft tool fits a given identity, threat, or compliance use case, and route questions to the right platform capability or specialist team. The course also provides a structured review of the fundamentals covered by the SC-900 certification exam. At about 21.7 hours across 25 skills, the course fits an onboarding cohort or a team certification push. Team Leads can bundle it into Playlists, and Training Managers can track per-learner progress and completion with Team Reporting before moving the team on to role-based Microsoft security training.
John Munjoma, James Conrad, Bob Salmans
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Azure Certifications by Level
The most popular Azure courses at each certification level — from first credentials for new team members through expert and specialty tracks.
Certification tier
Tier 1 — Entry Certifications
First credentials for new team members and cross-trained roles — the on-ramp before vendor specialization.
AZ-900
This AZ-900 training prepares your team for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification. It covers the core Azure services, including virtual networking, Azure storage services, and serverless computing, along with the shared responsibility model, cloud pricing models, and the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). The training also covers role-based access control (RBAC) and working in the Azure portal and the Azure CLI. For an IT Director moving workloads to Azure, AZ-900 gives every role on the team, from help desk to procurement, the same vocabulary for Azure services, pricing, and shared responsibility before deeper role-based training begins. IT professionals new to cloud computing earn the same Microsoft certification on the same path.
Knox Hutchinson
Microsoft SC-900
Cloud adoption spreads security, identity, and compliance work across help desk staff, sysadmins, and compliance stakeholders who often lack a shared vocabulary. When terms like Zero Trust, least privilege, and the shared responsibility model mean different things to different people, risk discussions stall and audit conversations take longer than they should. This entry-level SC-900 course gives IT Directors and Training Managers a single baseline to assign across the team. Learners cover Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) identity concepts, authentication and self-service password reset, Microsoft Defender threat protection, Intune endpoint security, and Microsoft Purview capabilities such as sensitivity labels, DLP, eDiscovery, audit, data lifecycle management, and insider risk. The course stays conceptual, with walkthroughs in Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune, and Purview, so new hires, help desk technicians, and non-technical risk stakeholders can all take part. After completion, your team can explain Microsoft security terminology to technical and non-technical audiences, identify which Microsoft tool fits a given identity, threat, or compliance use case, and route questions to the right platform capability or specialist team. The course also provides a structured review of the fundamentals covered by the SC-900 certification exam. At about 21.7 hours across 25 skills, the course fits an onboarding cohort or a team certification push. Team Leads can bundle it into Playlists, and Training Managers can track per-learner progress and completion with Team Reporting before moving the team on to role-based Microsoft security training.
John Munjoma, James Conrad, Bob Salmans
DP-900
This DP-900 certification training covers how to use Microsoft Azure data services to work with cloud-based data, whether relational or non-relational, in different workloads. This course prepares you for Microsoft's Azure Data Fundamentals certification by explaining relational and non-relational data, different data workloads and the core concepts of data in the cloud.
Ben Finkel
Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
Business units are already asking IT about AI, but many teams lack a shared vocabulary for what Azure AI services do, what they cost, and how to use them responsibly. This Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) training gives IT Directors and Team Leads a common baseline before AI projects reach production. The early skills cover machine learning workloads, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and Microsoft's six responsible AI principles. These suit managers, non-developers, and cloud or operations staff. Later skills are hands-on. Practitioners work in Azure Machine Learning Studio and AutoML, build no-code regression and classification pipelines in the Designer, and train Custom Vision models. They also call Cognitive Services with Python, PowerShell, and SDKs, run services in Docker containers, and consume a custom Form Recognizer model through its REST API. Governance is built in. Content on responsible AI, handling facial and other sensitive data, and Form Recognizer billing helps teams set guardrails and anticipate costs before adopting AI tools. The course runs about 19 hours across 20 skills. Plan for developers to take the full path while non-coders focus on concepts and Designer pipelines, and use team reporting to track progress and completion. Microsoft retired the AI-900 exam on 30 June 2026, so the course is assigned today for the Azure AI baseline it builds. To see how it fits your team's training plan, Book a Demo.
Trevor Sullivan, Knox Hutchinson
Certification tier
Tier 2 — Associate Certifications
Core role credentials — the level most teams standardize on for day-to-day operations.
Microsoft AZ-104
This entry-level Microsoft Azure Administrator training prepares aspiring Azure administrators to pass the AZ-104 exam — the single exam required to earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification. This training builds hands-on skills for managing Azure resources using the Azure portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. You’ll learn how to implement and manage virtual networking, secure identities with Microsoft Entra ID, automate deployments using ARM templates and Bicep files, and configure Azure storage solutions. The course also covers monitoring with Azure Monitor and ensuring business continuity through Azure Backup and Site Recovery. Whether you're deploying virtual machines, configuring load balancers, or managing costs with Azure Policy, this AZ-104 course equips you to confidently manage core infrastructure across the Azure ecosystem.
Knox Hutchinson
AZ-700
Prepare for the AZ-700 exam and earn your Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate certification. This AZ-700 training covers Virtual WAN, Azure Route Server, Firewall Manager, and DDoS Protection. You'll dive into Application Gateway v2, Front Door, and Private Link for secure app delivery, plus ExpressRoute and Azure DNS. Whether designing hub-and-spoke topologies or implementing NSGs, this AZ-700 course equips you to optimize performance and scale. Prove your expertise by utilizing the latest Azure networking features.
Knox Hutchinson
SC-300
This Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (SC-300) training prepares you to become a Microsoft identity and access admin. Expert-led training will teach you to implement and manage secure identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and hybrid identities. You’ll set up and manage users, groups, devices, and custom roles. You’ll learn to configure passwordless and multifactor sign-in, apply conditional access policies, and use tools like PIM to support a zero-trust strategy. You’ll also manage app access with registrations, service principals, and entitlement controls. Bring on-prem and cloud together using Azure AD Connect and Active Directory Federation Services, and monitor and protect identities using Defender for Cloud Apps, Sentinel, Identity Protection and Identity Secure Score. With practice exams and real‑world scenarios, this course maps to the SC‑300 exam blueprint, giving you the skills and confidence to get certified and secure access to your organization’s cloud resources.
Bob Salmans, James Conrad
DP-300
This Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate (DP-300) course prepares you to master the DP-300 exam and earn your professional credential. While SQL fundamentals, T-SQL, and implementing data platform resources are core to the role, knowing how to integrate these in the cloud sets a database administrator apart. Start training today to get access to the course and unlimited DP-300 practice exams.
Knox Hutchinson
Microsoft SC-200
Advance your cybersecurity analyst career. This Microsoft SC-200 training prepares you for the Security Operations Analyst Associate certification exam. Validate your ability to detect, investigate, and remediate real threats across cloud and on-prem environments. Using SC-200 practice exams, you’ll prepare for real-world incident response, threat hunting, and risk reduction using Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, and Security Copilot. You’ll learn to write KQL queries, configure detections, manage playbooks, and automate investigations so you can move from alert triage to confident remediation.
Bob Salmans
Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP-600)
Microsoft Fabric rollouts stall or create risk when nobody owns tenant settings, capacity, workspace creation, or data export controls. This DP-600 course gives IT Directors a structured way to prepare the people who will administer Fabric and build the analytics that run on it, so governance and performance are decided before rollout instead of after an incident. Built for analytics engineers, Power BI specialists, BI administrators, and senior data practitioners, the course covers Fabric licensing and the admin portal, security and governance controls such as sensitivity labels and sharing settings, and operational readiness topics like outage notifications, item recovery, and capacity usage. It then moves through getting and transforming data with Dataflows Gen2, querying warehouse data, and creating, modeling, and optimizing semantic models with DAX. At 9.3 hours across 11 skills, the course can be assigned over a few focused weeks while production work continues. Training Managers can pair it with CBT Nuggets Playlists, Practice Exams, and Team Reporting to sequence the path, support DP-600 readiness, and track completion across the team.
Knox Hutchinson
Certification tier
Tier 3 — Professional Certifications
Advanced credentials for the engineers who own design, escalation, and complex environments.
AZ-800: Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
This AZ-800 course gives IT Directors and Team Leads a standard way to close skill gaps across AD DS, Hyper-V, DNS/DHCP, file services, and Azure-connected workloads. Completion exports in Team Reporting give Training Managers a clear record of who has covered each block. Built for systems administrators and Windows Server administrators with 2–3 years of experience, the training covers installing domain controllers and building trusts, configuring Microsoft Entra Connect Sync and Cloud Sync, and troubleshooting Group Policy by isolating computer-side and user-side settings. Admins also gain the ability to reach servers securely and keep workloads and file services available, so teams handle hybrid connectivity and continuity with fewer escalations and less reliance on outside help, using PowerShell Remoting, PowerShell Direct, SSH, Azure Bastion, Hyper-V Replica and clustering, Azure File Sync, and DFS. Virtual labs let your admins practice domain controller work before it touches production. Microsoft retired the AZ-800 exam on September 30th, 2026, so teams can assign this course for the hybrid administration skills rather than a credential.
James Conrad, Knox Hutchinson, Ben Finkel
AZ-140
This AZ-140 training prepares you to design, implement, and manage Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) environments and remote apps for any device. Earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty certification validates your expertise in configuring host pools, session hosts, and FSLogix storage. Whether you are migrating on-premises VDI to the cloud, or optimizing existing virtual desktops, this course provides the hands-on training needed to earn Microsoft’s premier desktop virtualization certification and pass the AZ-140 exam.
Knox Hutchinson
AZ-400
This expert Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert training covers the objectives in the AZ-400 exam, which is required to earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification. This Azure DevOps course teaches the skills needed to design and implement a DevOps strategy.
Knox Hutchinson
AZ-801
Build your team's Windows Server 2025 hybrid advanced services capability with this course, which follows the AZ-801 objectives Microsoft retired on 30 September 2026. Through guided lessons and real-world scenarios, you’ll gain hands-on practice with security, hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and Windows Defender tools. Learn clustering, storage, and disaster recovery while mastering the migration of servers and workloads. The result is a team that can run secure, resilient Windows Server environments across on-premises and Azure.
Knox Hutchinson
Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103)
This AI-103 course gives your Azure development team one common method for securely building with Microsoft Foundry. Built for Python-proficient Azure developers and engineers, the training covers Foundry platform foundations and automated AI infrastructure, generative apps with the Foundry SDK, and retrieval, grounding, and RAG pipelines with document extraction. It also covers single-agent builds and multi-agent orchestration with observability, then text, speech, image, and video workloads with visual safety. By the end of the course, your team will know how to secure, govern, and monitor AI workloads. Assign this course as part of an AI proficiency Playlist, and use Team Reporting to track per-learner progress and completion as your team prepares for the AI-103 exam.
Knox Hutchinson
Certification tier
Tier 4 — Expert & Specialty Certifications
Expert tracks and specialty credentials for architects and niche platform owners.
AZ-305
Prepare for the AZ-305 certification exam by learning to design resilient, scalable enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure. This course focuses on complex architecture, teaching you to balance cost, performance, and security across the Cloud Adoption Framework. You will explore how to integrate core services (from Compute and Networking to Identity and Governance) and ensure your infrastructure meets modern business requirements for high availability and seamless migration. This AZ-305 training is perfect for cloud engineers and IT pros who want to master the art of building enterprise infrastructures, and earn their Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
Knox Hutchinson
SC-100
This Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100) training covers how to design a large network's protective security architecture, grounded in the Zero Trust strategy. You'll master the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and Zero Trust principles to design resilient security strategies for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments. As you learn to translate complex requirements into technical safeguards (from Entra Global Secure Access to advanced identity and data protection) you'll gain the high-level skills necessary to secure enterprise infrastructures and pass the SC-100 exam.
Bob Salmans
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Frequently asked questions about Azure training
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Azure training for their team.
Which roles and experience levels do these Azure courses serve?
Fundamentals courses such as AZ-900, DP-900, AI-900, and SC-900 suit professionals new to Azure and mixed-skill teams. Associate courses like AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-700, AZ-500, DP-300, and AZ-140 fit admins, developers, network engineers, DBAs, and security engineers with about a year or more of Azure experience. Expert courses such as AZ-305, AZ-400, and SC-100 are aimed at senior staff moving into architect or lead roles.
Which Microsoft certifications do the courses prepare a team for?
The courses prepare learners for current Microsoft exams including AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-700, AZ-140, AZ-400, DP-900, DP-300, DP-600, SC-900, SC-200, SC-300, and SC-100. Microsoft issues the certification; CBT Nuggets prepares the learner for it. Microsoft has since retired AZ-204, AZ-500, AZ-800, AZ-801, AI-900, and SC-400; those courses stay in the catalog for the skills they teach, and each course page shows the retirement date.
How should a Training Manager sequence an Azure path for the team?
A common sequence starts with AZ-900 as a shared baseline, then AZ-104 for administrators. From there, Team Leads branch staff into AZ-700 for networking, AZ-500 for security, AZ-204 for developers, or DP-300 for database work, with AZ-305 reserved for senior engineers moving into architecture roles.
How much time should we plan per learner?
It varies by course. DP-900 runs about 8.8 hours, AI-900 about 19 hours, AZ-801 about 20 hours across 23 skills, and AZ-800 about 39 hours across 37 skills, so longer courses work best spread over several weeks alongside regular duties.
Do the courses include hands-on practice?
Yes. The platform pairs on-demand video with virtual labs, practice exams, and pre- and post-assessments. Course content is applied as well: AI-900 has learners call Azure AI services with Python, PowerShell, and SDKs and run them in Docker containers, while AZ-801 covers building failover clusters and protecting workloads with Azure Backup.
How can we track progress and support audit or compliance needs?
Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion, cohort and group views, and completion exports you can use as audit evidence. Security and governance coverage in courses like AZ-500, AZ-305, SC-300, and SC-400 also helps standardize how the team handles identity, access, and information protection.