Today, I spent 20mins of my Monday morning renewing my Microsoft Certification: AZ-204 for another year and it will be the last after being a certified Microsoft Azure Developer Associate for at least 6 yrs!
I scored almost perfect 96% on my renewal exam for AZ-204 in 20mins which made me pretty satisfied that I have a pretty good technical knowledge about what's new and relevant in cloud development of Azure these days.
Make sense because I work with it everyday. I also wrote/write books, teach and speaking about
@Azure all the time :)
Due to the acceleration and evolution of learning with AI, this certification and
@MicrosoftLearn Credentials, Azure Developer Associate (Exam AZ-204) will be facing out and will be replaced by Azure AI Cloud Developer Associateย (Exam AI-200) start July 31, 2026 this year.
If you are someone or a developer who is certified on AZ-204, you need to start preparing and planning your studies for certifying yourself with AI-200 which is actually one of my goals this year, including the renewal of my existing certification AZ-400 Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, I highly recommend all to checkout the recent updates on the Microsoft Credentials if any of your certifications are affected.
I recommend this recent blog from the Skills Hub blog about what's new and coming
techcommunity.microsoft.com/โฆ
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