AZURE FUNDAMENTALS - Customer Ready deck - Cloud Skills Challenge

Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge
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Why take the Cloud Skills Challenge?
Creates a ‘learning culture’
Keeps skills current
Allows for cross training
A ‘learning culture’ may be the single biggest
competitive advantage you have as an
organization. Culture eats strategy for
breakfast.
Nearly every IT publication in existent has
named cloud skills as a top five in-demand
skill for the next five years. Your employees will
want and need these skills.
As digital transformation takes hold in your
organization, your roles will transform with it.
Cross training from Developers and Admins
for example can pay dividends at the end of
that process.
Helps identity skill gaps
Provide internal promotion opportunities
Provide an incentive to learn
The path and unit/module selection of your
staff will give you insight into where your
people are focused and learning (and
where they are not!).
Microsoft Learn will prepare your employees
for cloud certification exams. Cloud
certification generally leads to higher
performing employees with knowledge worth
promoting and rewarding.
The Cloud Skills Challenge gives you a vehicle
to incentivize your employees with rewards for
the top performers in the challenge.
Challenge Overview
Learn
Self-paced, online, FREE through
Microsoft Learn
Compete
Track progress through the CSC
leaderboard
Earn
Top Learners earn bragging rights
(and/or prizes) against their
competition
No subscription required
Challenge Types
Customize your challenge by choosing from 4 challenge types
XP Growth Challenges
Collection Challenges
Participants learn as much content as they can over the duration
of the challenge, measured in experience points gain.
1 - Solo
Competes as an individual
 Winner is the participant
who completed the most
Learn Content during the
challenge
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Prescriptive learning challenge - participants complete a predefined full collection of Microsoft Learn content.
2- Teams
Competes as a team
 Winner is the team that has
completed the most Learn
Content (averaged across
all members of the team)
during the challenge

3 - Solo
Competes as an individual
 There is no defined winner
– all participants that
complete the collection win

4- Teams
Competes as a team
 Winner is the team that has
the highest percentage of
team members with
completed collections.

Pick a start-date/end-date
Running a
Challenge
Choose a challenge type
Create your challenge
Schedule a kick-off meeting to show participants Microsoft
Learn & explain the challenge
Invite participants to the challenge
Use the leaderboard to encourage participation
Recognize participants & winners
Pre-defined Collection Categories
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Azure fundamentals
Azure Apps & Infra
Azure Data & AI
Azure Enablement
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Dynamics 365 & Power Platform fundamentals
Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement
Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations
Power Platform
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Microsoft 365 fundamentals
Microsoft 365 Development & IT Management
Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance
Microsoft Modern Work
Azure Collections
Azure fundamentals:
Azure Apps & Infrastructure
Azure Data & AI
• Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-100)
• Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
• Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
• Azure Database Administrator (DP-300)
• Azure Data Fundamentals (DP -900)
• Azure IoT Developer Specialty (AZ-220)
• Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP200/201)
• Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty (AZ120)
Azure Enablement:
• Azure Well-Architected: Overview*
• Azure Well-Architected: Architectural
Reliability*
• Azure Well-Architected: Operational
Reliability*
• Azure Well-Architected: Security*
• Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure:
Governance & Landing Zones*
* Collections based on scenarios, not certifications
• Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100)
• Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Data Analyst Associate (DA-100)
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ303/304)
• Migrating data to Azure*
• DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Migrating apps to Azure*
• Windows Server and Azure hybrid cloud*
• Linux on Azure*
• Cloud Native Application Development*
• Understanding Apache Spark with Azure
Databricks*
Azure Fundamentals
Core Cloud Services
- Azure networking
options
28 min / 800 XP
Predict costs and optimize
spending for Azure
1 hr 14 min / 1400 XP
Core Cloud Services - Azure
compute options
38 min / 800 XP
Security, responsibility
and trust in Azure
1 hr 3 min / 1000 XP
Create an Azure
account
39 min / 800 XP
Core Cloud Services Manage services with
the Azure portal
1 hr 13 min / 1000 XP
Apply and monitor
infrastructure standards
with Azure Policy
46 min / 900 XP
Control and organize Azure resources
with Azure Resource Manager
46 min / 900 XP
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/users/msusdev/collections/zpwzt2x3nnqop
Free, interactive tutorials
Learning Path:
Azure
fundamentals
Core Cloud Services Azure data storage
options
25 min / 700 XP
Core Cloud Services Azure architecture and
service guarantees
45 min / 1000 XP
Microsoft Learn
Cloud Concepts Principles of cloud
computing
1 hr 2 min / 1100 XP
Demo Cloud Skill Challenge
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