Certifications
Professional Certifications
GitHub Copilot
First certified: May 2026
The GitHub Copilot certification validates expertise in using AI-driven code completion across programming languages and development workflows. Candidates demonstrate the ability to use GitHub Copilot to improve software development productivity, quality, and security, including responsible AI use, prompt engineering, and privacy safeguards at the enterprise level.
Key skills validated by this certification include:
- Configuring and managing GitHub Copilot across individual, team, and enterprise plans
- Applying prompt engineering techniques to guide effective code generation
- Understanding Copilot’s data pipeline and context model for informed, secure use
- Applying GitHub Copilot across the software development lifecycle, including testing, debugging, and legacy code modernisation
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
First certified: August 2025
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification validates advanced expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions on Azure. Candidates must demonstrate subject matter expertise across compute, networking, storage, security, business continuity, and governance, and must manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution.
Key skills validated by this certification include:
- Designing identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
- Designing data storage solutions
- Designing business continuity solutions
- Designing infrastructure solutions aligned to the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
First certified: August 2025
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification validates expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring Azure environments. Candidates demonstrate the ability to manage Azure identities and governance, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage compute resources, configure and manage virtual networking, and monitor Azure resources.
Key skills validated by this certification include:
- Managing Azure identities, governance, and subscriptions
- Implementing and managing storage and compute resources
- Configuring and managing virtual networking
- Monitoring, backing up, and recovering Azure resources
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
First certified: April 2023
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification validates foundational knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Azure. Candidates demonstrate a fundamental understanding of cloud concepts, Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support.
Key skills validated by this certification include:
- Cloud computing concepts, models, and services, including public, private, and hybrid cloud, and IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- How Azure supports security, privacy, compliance, and trust