So, my employer suggested that it would be good for me, professionally, to get my certifications up to speed, and told me to pick a few that I found the most relevant at their expense. As I mainly deal with networks and Linux servers, and have done so for decades at this point, this was easy enough: renewing my CCNA that I took some 20 years ago, as well as getting my CCNP. The latter of which is closely related to what I already do.
However, my employer decided that I must pursue at least one Microsoft certification, and I honestly don’t know where to start, as the only microsoft software I use is Outlook.
I’ve been thinking of my status as the walking embodiment of the “old man yells at cloud”-meme, and thinking it’s probably time to turn into “old man embraces cloud”. I know that a lot of our infrastructure runs in azure (something with which I have no experience. I did use some Oracle cloud VMs at one point, that’s it.), and I know there was a huge ordeal last year that involved doing a lot of dataprocessing on temporary azure architecture, and I figure I should probably get in on that at some point.
Is perhaps something Azure related my best bet?
Take AZ-104. It’s the Azure Admin cert. You can run Linux in Azure! All the training is free on the ms site too.
No idea but looking at this bundle, I’d probably take Azure security out of the MS offerings.
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/professional-it-certification-training-bundle
Az-900 for cloud fundamentals or az-700 for Azure networking specifics.
Seconded, take the fundamentals and then pick a path through their cert scheme. Azure infrastructure probably has a few parts that may interest you. https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE2PjDI