Partner Competencies

Hi @Ben Rooke

They can all be viewed here

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/membership/competencies

You need people within your organisation to pass the exams as a part of earning competencies, and typically also need seats and a cash payment to Microsoft.

As already mentioned, several have been updated for next year, some remain to be refreshed. Key exams which hit multiple competencies are MS-100 and AZ-103. For the new security competency it is MS-500 and AZ-500 - both security exams.

As already said communication hasn’t been updated yet. This may be MS-300 which covers Teamwork (also required for collaboration) however more than likely it will be a new exam - likely MS-400 - for Voice which should be released in the future and which has been frequently delayed with frequent updates to voice over the past six months. This has been on previous MCT town hall slides over the course of the last year. If it is delayed longer it could mean passing a course on Microsoft Partner Academy, which has long been the case with EMS (although I fully expect them to update this to MS-101 and MD-101).

Hope that helps. There are many reasons to go do the 70- Skype exams both out of personal and professional interest, but there would also be reasons to wait until the competency is refreshed

Hope that helps!

Best, Chris