Forum Discussion
Prior knowledge or background with Azure Certifications
NndnG if you're looking to get started in Azure certifications, I would start with one of the Fundamentals certificates, Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900). This will give you a good basic understanding across the Azure portfolio and is a good foundation for building on when looking at the other Azure certs. The other good thing about the Fundamentals range is they are great for someone working in management/exec level who needs to understand what the technology is but is going to have a subordinate doing the configuration and administration.
After that, your choice in certification depends on what area you are planning to focus on - these are all role-based, so they are each designed to fit with a particular range of job skills. For example, if you want to work with Azure infrastructure (building and configuring VMs, networks, and so on) look to the "Azure Administrator". If you're looking for opportunities in IT Security then the "Azure Security Engineer" (possibly prefaced with the new Security Fundamentals) might be more suitable.
Https://Aka.ms/TrainCertPoster is a good resource- this poster shows the certifications available.
ChrisBradshawThank you for replying and giving your time.
Yes, AZ-900 is optional. It's not a pre-requisite of any of the other qualifications so you can skip past it if you want to.
Having said that, I personally found it worth going through the MS Learn material and taking the AZ-900 exam early on my Azure journey as it confirmed that I had the foundations in place before proceeding to other certificates.
If I am right, AZ-900 is optional for all Azure Certifications, I mentioned in the question.
Therefore, if anyone have knowledge of AZ-900, he can earn any of above certifications skipping AZ-900.
I gone through topics of AZ-900. It's just an basic understanding of cloud and Azure.
Except AZ-900, I noticed, prior knowledge have been utilized in rest certifications.
That's why I asked my question.