Microsoft Applied Skills — Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft have recently launched a new way to learn and become certified — Microsoft Applied Skills. What are they and how can they help your career?

Let’s take a look at some frequently asked questions.

What are Microsoft Applied Skills?

Launched this spring, Applied Skills are brand-new professional certifications developed by Microsoft to validate specific job skills.

These courses help you demonstrate your proficiency by completing real-world tasks in interactive labs. They end with product-specific assessments that lead to credentials.

How are Microsoft Applied Skills delivered at Firebrand?

At Firebrand, we specialise in accelerated training.

Our Microsoft Applied Skills are delivered live online by seasoned instructors who help you prepare for the assessment labs. The courses cost just £149.

At Firebrand, we are proud to be one of the few companies in the world designated a Microsoft Cloud Partner. Our courses are delivered by Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) and feature the latest Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC), so you know your training is in good hands!

Should you take a Microsoft Applied Skills course?

Microsoft Applied Skills are short, affordable courses that lead to official Microsoft certification. They're a great way to add expertise to your CV (especially in new technology such as Generative AI), learn new skills without committing to longer programmes, or enhance your training for Microsoft exams with a broader focus.

Which Microsoft Applied Skills are trending at the moment?

The most sought-after Microsoft Applied Skills courses are:

1. Configure SIEM security operations using Microsoft Sentinel (SC-5001)

Created for Security Engineers, Microsoft Applied Skills SC-5001 helps you develop the skills you need to create and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace, deploy a content hub solution, and configure analytics rules and automation—in just one day! 

To attend this course, you need a basic understanding of Microsoft Sentinel and experience using Kusto Query Language (KQL). Find out more.

2. Developing Generative AI Solutions with Azure OpenAI Service (AI-050T00)

This course is ideal for AI Engineers. In just one day, you'll understand how Azure OpenAI Service provides access to OpenAI's powerful large language models such as ChatGPT, Codex, and Embeddings. You will learn to deploy an Azure OpenAI resource and an Azure OpenAI model, generate natural language responses and code, apply prompt engineering techniques, and more.

This learning path also helps you prepare for the official Microsoft Exam AI-102: Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution. Find out more.

3. Deploy and configure Azure Monitor (AZ-1004)

If you're familiar with the basic functionality of Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, AZ-1004 will teach you to use Monitor to collect, analyze, and act on monitoring telemetry from Azure environments. You will learn to configure and interpret monitoring for virtual machines, networking, and web applications. Find out more.

4. Build collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams (MS-4001)

This course is ideal for Developers with a basic understanding of Microsoft Teams apps and their components.

In just one day, you'll learn to build and distribute Microsoft Teams apps that retrieve user information using Microsoft Graph API. You will build a bot, build webhooks, integrate Microsoft Graph into a Teams app, and more. Take a look.

5. Create and manage canvas apps with Power Apps (PL-7001)

Finally, last but not least, this course is ideal for App Makers: it teaches you to solve business problems by creating canvas apps with Microsoft Power Platform. In just one day, you'll learn to create your own data model and canvas app to support a scenario for a fictional company. You will create a canvas app from scratch, connect a canvas app to a data source, configure a gallery, details screen, input screen, and more. Register for the course.

Which Microsoft Applied Skills do we offer at Firebrand?

• Create an intelligent document processing solution with Azure AI (AI-3002)
• Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language (AI-3003)
• Deploy containers by using Azure Kubernetes Service (AZ-1001)
• Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure networking (AZ-1002)
• Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage (AZ-1003)
• Implement security through a pipeline using Azure DevOps (AZ-2001)
• Develop an ASP.NET Core web app that consumes an API (AZ-2002)
• Deploy cloud-native apps using Azure Container Apps (AZ-2003)
• Migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL Database (DP-3001)
• Train and deploy a machine learning model with Azure Machine Learning (DP-3007)
• Create and manage automated processes by using Power Automate (PL-7002)
• Create and manage model-driven apps with Power Apps and Dataverse (PL-7003)
• Secure Azure services and workloads with Microsoft Defender (SC-5002)
• Implement a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
  
  

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