Azure fundamentals: AI-900 vs AZ-900 vs DP-900, which one first?
A side-by-side breakdown of Microsoft's three Azure fundamentals exams — who each is for, difficulty rank, and whether all three are worth the time.
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Practical guides to cloud, AI, security, Kubernetes, and Terraform certifications — written by engineers who have taken the exams.
A side-by-side breakdown of Microsoft's three Azure fundamentals exams — who each is for, difficulty rank, and whether all three are worth the time.
Microsoft Fabric launched in 2023 and Microsoft added two role-based certs in 2024: DP-600 (Analytics Engineer) and DP-700 (Data Engineer). Here's how to choose.
HashiCorp retired Terraform Associate 003 on January 8, 2026 and replaced it with the 004 version. Here's what's new and what to study.
SC-100 is one of Microsoft's harder expert exams and a strong signal for senior security architecture roles. Here's when it pays off and when AZ-500 is enough.
AZ-500 is for cloud engineers configuring Azure security. SC-200 is for SOC analysts living inside Sentinel. Here's which one actually fits your job.
PCD covers Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE, App Engine, and the developer-side of GCP. Worth taking? Depends on what you do all day.
PCDOE tests SRE and DevOps practices on GCP — Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, GKE pipelines, SLO design, incident response. Here's what to expect and how it compares to AZ-400 and DOP-C02.
PCNE is GCP's networking cert, roughly equivalent to AWS ANS-C01 in difficulty. Here's a 6-week plan and what the role pays.
PCSE and SCS-C03 are the cloud-specific security certs for GCP and AWS. Here's how they differ, what each pays, and when to take both.
ADP launched in late 2024 as the associate-level GCP data cert, sitting below PDE. Here's what it covers and who should take it.