Azure Certification - Worth it ?

[willendure]

I have AWS Certifications and I would say one a couple of occasions they got me the job - particularly where a certified person was needed to qualify for some discount or other AWS accreditations on a project. But I also found the training material to be reasonably interesting and I learned a lot through passing these exams too.

Much to my frustration, there is usually more work out there on Azure, and I have a lot less experience with that. So maybe some certs might help, worth it or not ?

[hobnob]

I don't know whether it will help with getting contracts, but you can do free training for the exams via Microsoft's website. I've done AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals), and it was fairly straightforward. The main challenge I found is that Microsoft keep re-branding stuff and/or moving things around on their websites. That's a lifetime cert; the higher certs have to be renewed every year, but Microsoft don't charge for the renewal exam (which is a lot more generous than Cisco etc).

[ladymuck]

I would say it's worth the exam fee if it helps get you the next gig.

As hobnob says, there's loads of free training on the M$ website: https://learn.microsoft.com