Interested in taking your tech skills to the cloud? Join the Cloud Skills Challenge - compete against your peers & showcase your skills with a free, industry-recognized certification from Microsoft.
What is a Cloud skills challenge?
- Learning challenge
- Defined learning paths
- Self-guided training
- Custom gamification
- Cram sessions to help prepare students for certification
Choose your challenge(s)
Choose which challenge - or challenges - you would like to compete and complete. All free! A $99 per test value. Build your employability skills and prepare for the exam to earn your Microsoft Fundamentals certification!
Build your employability skills and prepare for Microsoft Fundamentals certification!
Build your employability skills and prepare for Microsoft Fundamentals certification!
Register Oct. 1 for Azure Fundamentals!
BENEFITS:
- Foundational understanding of core data concepts
- Complete the challenge to prepare for Azure Fundamentals certification
- Showcase industry-recognized credential on LinkedIn, unlock job postings
- Access to Microsoft Learn which includes over 2000+ learning paths to continue your career-ready tech skills after the challenge
Build your employability skills and prepare for Microsoft Fundamentals certification!
Register Oct. 1 for Azure AI Fundamentals!
BENEFITS:
- Foundational understanding of core data concepts
- Complete the challenge to prepare for AI Fundamentals certification
- Showcase industry-recognized credential on LinkedIn, unlock job postings
- Access to Microsoft Learn which includes over 2000+ learning paths to continue your career-ready tech skills after the challenge
Build your employability skills and prepare for Microsoft Fundamentals certification!
Register Oct. 1 for Azure Data Fundamentals!
BENEFITS:
- Foundational understanding of core data concepts
- Complete the challenge to prepare for Data Fundamentals certification
- Showcase industry-recognized credential on LinkedIn, unlock job postings
- Access to Microsoft Learn which includes over 2000+ learning paths to continue your career-ready tech skills after the challenge
Build your employability skills and prepare for Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900) certification!
Register Oct. 1 for Power Platform Fundamentals
BENEFITS:
- Foundational understanding of data visualization & automation concepts
- Complete the challenge to prepare for Power Platform Fundamentals certification
- Showcase industry-recognized credential on LinkedIn, unlock job postings
- Access to Microsoft Learn which includes over 2000+ learning paths to continue your career-ready tech skills after the challenge
Register Starting Oct. 1
- Register Oct. 1 for as many challenges - for free! A $99 per test value.
- Complete the learning path for your challenge(s)
- Schedule for the exam, in-person or online Microsoft Cloud Challenge Certification
Exam.
- Here is the link to schedule your exam
- Select "Certiport" then choose your exam
- If you would like to take more than one exam, repeat this sign up process for each exam.
- Take the certification exam
Questions? Let us help!
See frequently asked questions below, or send us your question and we'll point you in the right direction.
cloud skills challenge Frequently Asked Questions
Microsoft Learn, https://learn.microsoft.com, is a place to learn, discover new skills, find certifications, and complete interactive, hands-on learning paths to advance one’s career.
Cloud Skills Challenges are hosted on the Microsoft Learn platform.
To start a challenge, register by clicking the "Begin now" button on the Challenge
page that will be provided by Microsoft. You'll be asked to log in to your Microsoft
Learn account and will be added to the challenge.
If you don’t have a Microsoft Learn account, that is okay. You can create a free account
by selecting “Create account” from the login screen when joining the challenge.
To complete a challenge, you'll need to finish the designated collection of Learn content before the challenge end date (within 30 days of signing up for the challenge).
In the 'where you stand' section you will see a fraction that equals 100% (i.e., 8/8 or 5/5 or 12/12).
The challenge page and 'where you stand' section take up to a few hours to refresh. Please wait a few hours and check again.
You can find all the challenges you've previously participated in, or are currently participating in, on the challenge tab in your Learn account profile.
Update and save your “Email for notifications” in your Learn account profile.
For all issues with Microsoft Learn content please review the Learn troubleshooting page.
