Introduction
Microsoft Azure AZ-300 and AZ-301 are the new exams for the Azure Solution Architect Expert certification. The AZ-300 and AZ-301 exams replace the older 70-535 exam, which was retired on December 31, 2018. These two exams are part of Microsoft’s new role-based certification program. Candidates who pass both exams will earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
I have successfully completed both exam on August 2019 and Received mail from Microsoft saying “Congratulations on achieving your Microsoft certification Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and taking your career to the next level! A Microsoft certification can help you advance your skills, demonstrate clear business impact, and get hired or promoted”.
In this article, I will share with you all some of my thoughts about the exam, how I was preparing and some tips that can be helpful for you.
Learning Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification
There are total of 2 exams required to pass in order to earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
You need to pass both of the above individual exams, then you will earn the Azure Solutions Expert certification.
AZ-300 - Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
The AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Architect around Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps; among a list of specific expertise categories within each of these. The following image is very high-level list of the skills and objectives measured on this AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. The percentages next to each objective area represents the number of questions on the exam in that objective area.
AZ-301- Microsoft Azure Architect Design
The AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Architect around Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps; among a list of specific expertise categories within each of these. Here's a very high-level list of the skills and objectives measured on this AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. The percentages next to each objective area represents the number of questions on the exam in that objective area.
Microsoft Leaning and Labs
Microsoft Learning are publishing the lab instructions and lab files on GitHub. There is a GitHub repository for the
AZ-300, Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies, and
AZ-301, Microsoft Azure Architect Design, courses.
Within each repository there are lab guides in PDF format. If appropriate, there are accompanying zipped files with any additional files that are needed to complete the lab.
Pluralsight courses
I strongly recommend that you take a look at Pluralsight courses for all Azure Solutions Architect topics out there, they are high quality and really helpful. App Dev Manager
Priti Kalani shares some tips on preparing for AZ-300 and AZ-301 using Pluralsight training content.
Microsoft and Pluralsight have partnered to give Azure learners access to 46 Pluralsight video courses. Anyone who
redeems this benefit can use all Pluralsight features available to individual subscribers, including paths, Skill IQ, channels, and notes.
MICROSOFT AZ-301 and AZ-302 Dumps
Mindhub official partners with Microsoft to offer study materials, practice tests and special offers designed to help candidates prepare for Microsoft Certified Professional exams.
I also recommend you to buy a prep test, I am really happy with measureup prep tests. Using prep tests there is no guarantee that you will pass the exam, but they can represent a good learning material which you can use to learn and to test yourself about and see how much knowledge you have about
AZ-300 and
AZ 301 before you take official one.
Exam Result Day
The process of preparing for this exam was very interesting for me, sometimes stressful but at the end it was worth the effort and time. The best part is that I realized even I have good experience with Azure. There are always some topics that you are not good at, and you will need to learn and take a lot more time to understand them.
I passed the exam on my first attempt; I could have scored higher but at the end of the day passing the exam is the only important thing.
Certificate is only the proof that you took some time to learn and practice certain topics and that you have some knowledge in them, nothing else.
You can see my badge on my Acclaim profile page
here.
I hope this article was helpful for you in some way, if you are preparing for the Azure Solutions Architect Exam. All the Best 😊