1. Microsoft Learning Resources

2. Create your Azure free account today
Get started with 12 months of free services!
With your Azure free account, you get all of this—and you won’t be charged until you choose to upgrade.
What can I do with my free account?
Here are just a few ideas of all you can do with Azure

3. Microsoft Azure Training and Certifications
Role-based
Technical skills required to perform a job
Apps & Infra
Data & AI
Azure Solution Architect
Expert
Azure DevOps Engineer
Azure Administrator
Azure Data Scientist
Azure Developer
Azure AI Engineer
This is our complete portfolio of training and certification for Azure, designed to meet industry and market needs, with roles, skills and capabilities needed for the job, including specializations, hands-on experience and practice requirements.
Associate
Azure Security Engineer
Azure Data Engineer
Fundamentals
Foundational understanding of technology
Azure Fundamentals

4. Skilling Plan Components
What’s in a skilling plan
Approach: Build skills in phases
Fundamentals
Training & certification
-for everyone
Role based
-for a targeted sub-set
Specialty
Workload training
-based on project need
Events
Free local events to learn Azure Fundamentals 3
Digital skilling
Free on-demand training 2
Instructor led training
In person & virtual classes from MSFT Trainers & Learning Partners
Digital Skilling - Build practical job skills with easily accessible, free self-paced courses
Events - Choose from workshops, conferences, and other events 
ILT - Attend in-depth training taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers
Certifications - Validate skills with Microsoft fundamentals, role-based and specialty certifications
Certifications
Azure certifications to validate knowledge 1

5. Introducing Microsoft Learn
Step-by-step training to fit your schedule
Interactive coding environments for hands-on experience
Earn achievements and recognition for your Azure skills
We provide free Azure sandboxes, free virtual machines, etc. so there is nothing to setup ahead of time.
Introducing Microsoft Learn – the Best place to start learning Microsoft technologies – Free!
Quickly build skills:  interactive, step-by-step bite-size tutorials
Learn by doing: browser-based interactive coding environments for hands-on experience. Free fixed-time access to create and manage Azure resources - no credit card required.
Earn recognition: Track progress, check knowledge, and validate deployments to earn points, levels, achievements, and trophies
Learning aligned to new role-based certifications: easier for you to prepare for certification and be recognized as a leader in Microsoft technologies
Multiple modes of learning: learn in way best for you. select from free self-paced quick tutorials and hands-on learning, to structured online courses free from Pluralsight and instructor led classes from learning partners. Get started by selecting a Learning Path that is closest to your role, e.g. Business Analyst , Azure Developer , Azure Solution Architect . Regarding the individual modules: You can start with the basics such as Tour Azure services and features  or go deep with something like Create serverless applications.

6. Microsoft Learning Paths
Build practical job skills you can start using right away. Provided free in partnership with Pluralsight.

8. https://openhack.microsoft.com/
Microsoft OpenHack is a developer focused event where a wide variety of participants (Open) learn through hands-on experimentation (Hack) using challenges based on real world customer engagements designed to mimic the developer journey.
OpenHack is a premium Microsoft event that provides a unique upskilling experience for customers and partners.

9. Microsoft Cloud Workshops
Hands-on experience led by Microsoft with Whiteboard Design Session and Labs. Full catalog available on GitHub
Application Development
Infrastructure
Data
AA/AI
Application Modernization
Azure security, privacy, and compliance
Data Platform upgrade migration
Big data and visualization
Continuous delivery in Azure DevOps
Optimized architecture
Migrate EDW to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Cognitive Services and deep learning
Azure Blockchain
Enterprise ready cloud
SQL Server hybrid cloud
Cosmos DB real-time advanced analytics
OSS DevOps
Azure resource manager
Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 R2 end of support planning
Internet of Things
Linux lift and shift
Building a resilient IaaS architecture
Internet of Things for Business
OSS PaaS and DevOps
Lift and shift/Azure resource manager
Intelligent vending machines
Media AI
Enterprise class networking in Azure
Microservices Architecture
Business continuity and disaster recovery
Mobile app innovation
Big Compute
Securing PaaS
Azure Stack
Serverless architecture
SAP NetWeaver on Azure
Containers and DevOps
SAP Hana on Azure
Modern cloud apps

10. Azure Migration Program (AMP)
Best practice guidance
Offers & incentives
Technical skill building
Infrastructure & data foundations
Migration planning & execution
Specialized partners
Each customer receives the following in-person, instructor-led training at customer or MSFT facility:
1. Project initiation
2. Migration planning
3. Project conclusion
Microsoft’s offers a comprehensive collection of training options to empower technical professionals to learn in a style that fits best to be ready for the job and to prepare for certifications.
Our different learning experiences support the complete learning journey, and can be combined for optimal results
Digital Skilling to build practical job skills with easily accessible, free, self-paced courses
Training events that provide unique upskilling experience, combining traditional presentation-based conferences, with demonstrations, discussions and practical, applicable workshops and hands-on coding experiences
In-depth classroom and on-demand training delivered by Microsoft Learning Partners and taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers
All these training options are the foundation to skills validation and recognition through Microsoft Certifications
All our content is created based on real business needs, aligned to roles, combining modalities, as you follow a learning path
Azure Fundamentals
1-Day MSFT delivered
Up to 50 students
50 certification vouchers provided
Migration workshop
2-Day MSFT delivered
Windows Server or SQL Focus
Up to 20 students
Advanced role-based training
(Azure Administrator)
5-Day Learning Partner delivered
Up to 20 students
20 certification vouchers provided

11. Microsoft Azure Training Day: Fundamentals
Event Overview
Free one-day technical training event appropriate for all technical roles who want to get started with Azure and provides guidance on getting started and insight directly from the experts.
Targeted Roles
Developer
Architect
Topics
General cloud computing concepts, models, and services such Public, Private, and Hybrid cloud; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS; security, privacy, compliance, and trust.
This course will prepare you to take the AZ-900 exam and received the Azure Fundamentals certification.
Get skilled and certified for free at Microsoft Azure Training Day: Fundamentals events
Free Azure Fundamentals training
Free Azure Fundamentals certification exam code to individuals that attend training
Take the exam following the training – either on-site or at a testing center*
Roles targeted:
Beginner
Developer
Solution Architect
Administrator
AI Engineer
Business Analyst
Business User
Data Engineer
Data Scientist
*proctored on-site exam testing rooms not available at all events

12. Pluralsight Training

13. edX - Access to high-quality education for everyone
(Free Online Courses, Advance Your Career. Improve Your Life.)

14. Azure Foundation Educational Workshop
The primary goal of the Azure Foundation Educational Workshop is to accelerate a customer’s fundamental knowledge of the Azure platform. Starting with a general overview of Azure and its components, the workshop then drills down into four specific areas that cover:
What will you learn in each segment?
Governance. Assist organizations in understanding the Azure Enterprise Scaffold, the importance of implementing governance in Azure and how their organization might go about developing their internal Governance plan. We go through each component of the Enterprise Scaffold from Azure subscription controls, access controls, using policies to control Azure, the importance of naming conventions and tagging and much more.
Monitoring and Management. Assist organizations in how they can monitor and manage Azure. We will review built-in Azure options such as Azure Monitor, Azure Advisor, Security Center and Log Analytics. We will also provide an overview of monitoring needs, management options and reporting.
Security. Assist organizations in understand the services available in Azure to assist with locking down and hardening their environment.
Networking. Assist organizations in understanding the networking options in Azure from ExpressRoute to within Azure and in a Hybrid scenario. We will also review Azure (and partner) components for networking such as gateways, firewalls, load balancers etc.

15. Azure Application Modernization Workshop
The primary goal of the Azure Application Modernization Workshop is to accelerate a customer’s fundamental knowledge of developing applications that are cloud centric and the tools available to do so. This workshop covers three specific areas:
What will you learn in each segment?
Modern Application Development. Assist organizations in understanding developing applications for Azure is a seamless integrated experience in the IDE you know and love! We will discuss back-end APIs, PaaS capabilities, scaling and DR/HA options, and how you can analyze your existing environment to move to Azure.
Automated Builds and Deployments to Azure. Assist organizations in understanding the tools that are available around the build and release process of application development, to include automation. Here we will also explore Application Telemetry and the importance to the release cycle.
Development Governance and Management. Assist organizations in understanding the importance of implementing governance around an Azure Dev/Test environment. This includes how you can control what developers have access to and how you can tag resources for project and cost management. We will also discuss how to protect and backup your Azure App/Dev environment natively within Azure.

16. Visual Studio Subscriptions Formerly Visual Studio with MSDN
They are a bundle of 2 things:
Includes many items to complement software development
Like a “magazine subscription” – you have access to them while your subscription is active
The Developer IDE/Tool
Installed like an Office product
Licensed Per Person
IDE
Microsoft +
Microsoft
Subscription
Key Subscription Items
Product Use Rights benefit to MSFT software for non-production use
Extends to usage in Azure
Software download site for past, present and future MSFT software
Other: Azure Monthly Credit, Pluralsight Training, Tech Support and more
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17. DevOps FastTrack Onsite Engagement
Focused on improving your DevOps practices.
2 week engagement
delivered by DevOps experts.
TFS to VSTS Migration 
Mobile Apps
Web Apps/Web Services

18. FastTrack for Azure FastTrack for Microsoft 365
“Working closely with your internal teams and Microsoft partners, we’ll help you move to Microsoft completely, efficiency, and at your own pace.“
FastTrack for Dynamics 365
“We’re committed to making your experience with Dynamics 365 a success through our set of best practices, tools, resources, and experts.”
Move to the cloud with confidence
The customer success service designed to help you realize business value faster with the Microsoft Cloud
Benefits
Direct assistance from Azure engineers
Hand-in-hand with partners
Best practices and tools from real customer experiences
FastTrack for Azure
Key Phases
Plan: Develop a vision and plan for customer- specific need
Test: Setup Azure platform and a proof-of- concept
Use: Deploy Azure solutions in production
“Provides direct assistance from Azure engineers, working hand-in-hand with partners, to help customers build Azure solutions, quickly and confidently”.

19. Microsoft Certifications
Get hired, demonstrate clear business impact, and advance your skills with Microsoft certifications. Delivering a wide range of online certification programs we can help you take your career to the next level.
Select a certification level:

20. Azure DevTest Labs Fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments
Quickly provision development and test environments
Minimize waste with quotas and policies
Set automated shutdowns to minimize costs
Build Windows and Linux environments

21. Azure DevOps
DevOps brings together people, processes, and technology, automating software delivery to provide continuous value to your users.
The services span the breadth of the development lifecycle to help developers ship software faster and with higher quality. They represent the most complete offering in the public cloud. Azure DevOps includes:

22. Azure DevOps Resources
Start using Azure DevOps
@AzureDevOps
Start using Azure DevOps

23. Azure DevOps Demo Generator

24. Pricing for Azure DevOps & Pricing Calculator
Open Source Projects
Small Teams
Teams of any size
Free
Unlimited users and build time
Azure Pipelines: 10 parallel jobs with unlimited minutes for CI/CD
Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
Azure Repos: Unlimited public Git repos
Free
Start free with up to 5 users
Azure Pipelines: Run 1 Microsoft-hosted job for 1,800 minutes per month and 1 self-hosted job for any amount of time
Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
Azure Repos: Unlimited public Git repos
Azure Artifacts: package management
Unlimited stakeholders
Starts at $6 per user, per month for Boards & Repos*
Easy pricing that grows with your team
Azure Pipelines: Run 1 Microsoft-hosted job for 1,800 minutes per month and 1 self-hosted job for any amount of time
Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
Azure Repos: Unlimited public Git repos
Azure Artifacts: package management
Unlimited stakeholders
Boards & Repos included for Visual Studio subscribers *
5 Boards & Repos users and 5 Artifacts users free. Pipelines with unlimited minutes, Test Plans users and additional Artifacts users also available. Please see the Azure pricing calculator for details. 