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I sat the AZ-104 exam and earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate in May 2025. Here's what the credential actually certifies — identity, storage, compute, networking, monitoring — and why an operations credential matters as much as developer skills when you run customer environments for a living.
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (exam AI-900) in February 2024. Here's what the credential actually certifies — AI workloads and responsible AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP and generative AI — and why a foundations credential matters when you build AI features for regulated customers.
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Ignite 2022 ran the whole show under one slogan — 'do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud.' Entra became a real identity family, Defender for DevOps and CSPM previewed, Teams Premium and Syntex landed, and Microsoft slipped DALL·E 2 into Azure and a new Designer app — three weeks before ChatGPT changed everything.
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) in June 2022. Here is what the certification really covers — core data concepts, relational and non-relational data on Azure, analytics workloads — and why a data-foundations credential earns its keep when you ship data-heavy line-of-business systems.
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Build 2021 was three online days, but one of them mattered more than anyone realised: Power Apps shipped Microsoft's first product features powered by GPT-3. Add .NET 6 Preview 4 with Hot Reload, a 64-bit Visual Studio on the way, and Satya Nadella teasing 'the next generation of Windows' — and a quiet conference turned out to be a hinge.
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