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Rafaelo
Copper Contributor
Nov 08, 2024

Applied Skills assessment has been retired - generative AI solutions

Dear Microsoft ,

I hope this message finds you well.

I have thoroughly considered various platforms to educate myself in generative AI, seeking a training that offers an assessment to provide tangible proof of skills acquired. After careful deliberation, I decided to invest my time and effort into Microsoft Learn. I diligently worked through the course, motivated by the prospect of completing the assessment.

However, to my disappointment after completing my coursre, I now discovered that the relevant Applied Skills assessment has been retired in the meantime, with the message: "This Applied Skills assessment has been retired. Explore other Applied Skills to keep building your skills."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/applied-skills/develop-generative-ai-solutions-with-azure-openai-service/#applied-skill-take-the-assessment 

This situation is quite disheartening as I was anticipating being able to validate my newly acquired skills with this assessment. Now, after dedicating considerable effort to this learning path and foundation learning pathes, I find myself unable to demonstrate my proficiency. And there is no other assessment that fits as alternative. That is frustrating and I have doubts about the reliability of Microsoft Learn. The learning material is still up to date und I finished the hands out with the exercise material provided.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance or guidance you can provide regarding this matter. Is there an alternative way to obtain certification for the skills I have developed? Maybe you could reactivate the assessment.

Thank you for your understanding and support.

Since there is now contact mail address I need to ask via the community

Best regards

Rafael

2 Replies

  • You can check the status of Applied Skills here Applied Skills Assessment Status - Training, Certification, and Program Support

    I don't know but I suspect this applied skill has been retired either because provisioning the lab environment is too technically difficult, or more likely there has been so much change in OpenAI service since the Applied Skill was released that is now incorrect and out of date

    I have no prior knowledge, but I suspect there will be new and other Applied Skills for OpenAI

    • Rafaelo's avatar
      Rafaelo
      Copper Contributor

      Many thanks. I appreciate your info.

      I believe it would be very helpful if the retirement of an assessment would be announced several weeks in advance. This way, individuals could either choose to explore another course before starting or they could accelerate their progress.

      "This Applied Skills assessment will retire on..."

      I will try my further learning on another plattform in order to get a certificate about what I have learned