Get Free Microsoft Advance Level Certification Vouchers in 2023 for Azure DevOps, Azure Security Engineer, Data Scientist, etc.

Richards Okiemute
3 min readMar 14, 2023
Microsoft Certifications

Certifications open a vista of opportunities for us because “When we are skilled, we know it, but when we are certified, everyone knows it.” Having advance level certifications from Microsoft in Azure technologies cutting across Azure Administration, DevOps Engineering, Security Administration, etc., goes a long way to make you more confident and more appealing to top level employers in the tech space.

Having advance level certifications be a tedious, demanding, and expensive in terms of the associated financial cost in sitting for the examinations. For this reason, Microsoft and the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria setup the Digital Skills Nigeria program to opportunity for Nigerian residents to be certified in Advance level Microsoft technologies.

About Digital Skills Nigeria

This is a skill empowerment program by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in partnership with several institutions (including Microsoft) to enable Nigerian students to acquire cutting edge digital skills.

It comprises of building foundational and advance skills across the following categories:

  1. Administrative Professionals: Develop essential skills needed for administrative roles, including communication, writing, time management, and must-have software skills.
  2. Project Manager: Discover how to manage projects effectively with scheduling, budgeting, and communication, and explore PM tools in Microsoft 365, etc.
  3. Business Analyst: Explore foundational business analysis concepts and understand key processes. Practice using software tools for common business analysis tasks.
  4. Systems Administrator: Learn about this multifaceted role — from managing on-site, cloud, physical, and virtual implementations, as well as storage security.
  5. Data Analyst: Explore foundational concepts used in data analysis and practice using software tools for data analytics and data visualization.
  6. Software Development: Understand the core concepts and structure of programming languages and learn how they’re applied.

Advance Certification Exams

Besides these, there are selected advanced Certification Exams you can also write for FREE which are listed below:

Security Administrator: Microsoft 365 Security Administration (MS-500): Demonstrate your real-world knowledge of Microsoft 365 security implementation and administration, including identity, access, threat and information protection, governance, and compliance. Designed for professionals with Microsoft security experience.

Azure Data Scientist: The Azure Data Scientist DP-100 applies their knowledge of data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure; in particular, using Azure Machine Learning Service. This entails planning and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads on Azure, running data experiments and training predictive models, managing and optimizing models, and deploying machine learning models into production.

Power BI Data Analyst: The Power BI data analyst PL-300 delivers actionable insights by leveraging available data and applying domain expertise. The Power BI data analyst collaborates with key stakeholders across verticals to identify business requirements, cleans and transforms the data, and then designs and builds data models by using Power BI.

Azure Security Engineer: This course will explore how to manage identities, provide role-based access, and secure data within an Azure ecosystem.

What will be covered?

Microsoft Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500): You will learn how to implement secure infrastructure solutions in the Microsoft Azure platform, Azure security core services, capabilities, etc.

Azure Administrator: It manages Azure identities and governance; Exam AZ-104 implement and manage storage; deploy and manage Azure compute resources; configure and manage virtual networking; and monitor and back up Azure resources.

Azure DevOps Engineer: Designing and Implementing DevOps Solution (AZ-400): Configure processes and communications, Design and implement source control, Design and implement build and release pipelines, develop a security and compliance plan and implementing an instrumentation strategy.

How to Participate

See full article with instructions here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/free-microsoft-associate-and-expert-certification-vouchers-in/ba-p/3695976

Reference:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/free-microsoft-associate-and-expert-certification-vouchers-in/ba-p/3695976

https://aka.ms/learnstudent for Microsoft offerings for students.

http://digitalskillsnigeria.gov.ng/advanced/

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Richards Okiemute

A Tech Advocate and an Engineer, who is passionate about helping youths get into tech.