According to the LinkedIn Learning Workplace Learning Report 2024, “Tomorrow’s success requires skills agility—harnessing the right skills at the right time for the right work.” And if you’re aiming to earn a Microsoft Certification, you’re building and validating just that—your skills agility.

Earning a Microsoft Certification not only helps you stay current with the latest technology but can also equip you with the skills and best practices to effectively tackle real-world challenges in your chosen role. Certifications align to the job roles that organizations rely on most, enabling them to identify talent like yours and helping them to remain competitive. These Certifications can serve as a powerful testament to your dedication and proficiency and can help open doors to begin or advance your rewarding career in technology.

How can you prepare to pass a Microsoft Certification exam?

Start with Microsoft Learn for Organizations, where you can find Microsoft Learn training opportunities and resources curated for team members who want to skill up to earn Microsoft Credentials—including Microsoft Certifications. From skill-building playbooks and kits to thought leadership articles, Official Plans on Microsoft Learn, e-books, learning hubs, and more, Microsoft Learn for Organizations provides what you and your colleagues need to train and build your skills to earn a Certification. As you prepare for a Certification exam, you can especially benefit from Course Videos on Microsoft Learn.

What do Course Videos offer?

Although they don’t replace the need for training, the free, on-demand videos in this growing library can help elevate your learning as you deepen and reinforce your knowledge, regardless of your experience level, before you take a Certification exam. Recently refreshed with a new look and easier navigation, this collection of video sessions thoroughly covers Microsoft Official Course content. Microsoft Certified Trainers provide expert guidance and insights, offer in-depth explanations, and establish key concepts. Each video maps to specific modules, in manageable segments (typically ranging from 15 to 60 minutes), so you can absorb the information at your own pace, when it fits into your schedule.

Which technology and roles do Course Videos cover?

If you’re new to Microsoft technology, choose from beginner-friendly videos that cover exam content and offer the foundational knowledge you need to get up to speed. Explore the basics, and build fundamental skills on Azure, data and AI, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Microsoft Security.

After you've watched the videos, reinforced your skills, and become familiar with the technology, you can take the associated fundamentals exam. When you pass the exam, you earn a Fundamentals Certification that never expires.

Then dive into more advanced content to deepen your expertise and take your skills to the next level. You can even find Course Videos by product and role. Select your role to discover a series of relevant videos, including:

• Azure infrastructure. Learn how to build and manage applications in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge, whether as an Azure administrator, network engineer, or solutions architect.
• Azure data and AI. Find out how to build large-scale analytics solutions or manage your organization’s data and AI as an AI engineer, data analyst, database administrator, data engineer, data scientist, or developer.
• Azure digital apps and innovation. Discover how to migrate your organization’s applications to the cloud, build cloud-native applications that use cutting-edge technologies, such as AI and IoT, gain insights from data analytics, and quickly develop and deploy new applications as an AI engineer, developer, or DevOps engineer.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out how Copilot can help you efficiently draft documents, analyze data, manage communications, and automate routine tasks as an administrator, business user, or user enablement specialist.
• Microsoft Security. Learn how to plan and implement modern cybersecurity strategies, architecture, processes, and technology as a cybersecurity architect, identity and access administrator, or security engineer.

What else does Microsoft Learn offer? 

In addition to the Certification exam prep, flexibility, and expert guidance offered by the video sessions, Microsoft Learn points you to supplementary opportunities and resources to support and reinforce your learning. These include popular learning hubs, training, community, and more—all aimed at helping you to deepen your knowledge and build confidence in your skills as you prepare to earn a Certification. You can even take Practice Assessments on Microsoft Learn to help gauge your exam readiness and identify further areas of study.

Find more exam prep resources in the Exam Readiness Zone, where experts share tips, tricks, and strategies for your Certification exams. In each episode, trainers help you identify the key knowledge and skills measured on a given exam, explain how to allocate your study time, and point out objectives that test takers might find difficult.

Explore the updated Course videos resources 

This collection of expert-led video content and supporting materials can help you solidify your knowledge and build your skills agility. Discover them at your own pace, and make the most of these curated resources as you gear up to take and pass an exam to earn a Microsoft Certification. Be sure to check out Course Videos on Microsoft Learn.

After you’ve worked through the resources in this post and are prepared to take an exam, find specific exam and Certification information, including exam scheduling, on Microsoft Certifications.

When you’ve passed the exam and earned your Certification, be sure to stay current on the latest technology and keep your Certification up to date by renewing within six months of the Certification expiration date.