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Accelerate your Designation Attainment with Skilling
Solutions Partner designations help identify your broad technical capabilities and experience in high-demand Microsoft Cloud solution areas. They also showcase your demonstrated ability to deliver successful customer outcomes. Success is measured by performance, skilling, and customer success.
We want to help you grow your business and to recognize your success and continued commitment to our partnership. By attaining Solutions Partner designations, you'll demonstrate your organization's breadth of capabilities to deliver customer success in the solution areas where we notice customer demand and where you can scale to meet customer needs.
There are six Microsoft Cloud designations including:
- Solutions Partner for Business Applications
- Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)
- Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)
- Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure)
- Solutions Partner for Modern Work
- Solutions Partner for Security
To earn the Microsoft Solutions Partner designations, you must meet the qualification requirements on your partner capability score for each of 3 categories including partner performance , skilling , and customer success , and attain a minimum of 70 points.
Skilling is a key component of earning a designation, and below will help provide some guidance on how to achieve the requirements for skilling.
Step 1: Determine which Microsoft Cloud Designation your company wants to attain
Start here to review the designations available, determine the requirements for each designation, and check your progress.
Step 2: Cloud Fundamentals
Build your foundational knowledge with these free Microsoft classes available online with a live instructor. Discounted fundamental exam vouchers for attendees based on an availability basis. New dates and time continue to be added.
Step 3: Build on your knowledge with role-based trainings
You can leverage Cloud Week for Partners to help prepare for advanced role-based certifications and enable your organization to meet the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program (MCPP) skilling requirements. The Partner Enablement Guides (technical & sales) can help you find upcoming events, preparation for role-based exams, learning journeys and other resources
Step 4: Plan your next Microsoft Certification
No matter your experience level, you can advance your career and demonstrate your achievements through industry-recognized Microsoft certifications. Explore all Microsoft certifications by solution area, in the Microsoft Certification Guide. View certification details and schedule your exam.