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Excel at the role of Azure Developer by completing a sequence of training courses focused on Azure - you will start with fundamentals and proceed to Azure Developer Associate and DevOps Engineer Expert. In parallel, you are recommended to attend the short modules on Agile & Consulting Core Competencies to help you master essential consulting skills.
If your responsibilities include all phases of cloud development — from requirements definition and design, to development, deployment, and maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring — this is the training journey for you.
Course: AZ-900T00-A Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (2 days)
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This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure. This audience wants to learn about our offerings and get hands-on experience with the product. This course primarily uses the Azure portal and command line interface to create resources and does not require scripting skills. Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator. This course combines lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. This course will also help prepare someone for the AZ-900 exam.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ AZ-900 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Course: DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (1 day)
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In this course, students will gain foundational knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. Students will learn about core data concepts such as relational, non-relational, big data, and analytics, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure. Students will explore fundamental relational data concepts and relational database services in Azure. They will explore Azure storage for non-relational data and the fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn about large-scale data warehousing, real-time analytics, and data visualization.
This course is suitable for individuals who want to learn the fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment, get basic skilling in cloud data services, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ DP-900 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Course: AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure (5 days)
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This course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ AZ-204 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Course: PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker (4 days)
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This course will teach you how to build apps with low-code techniques to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform. This course may contain a 1-day Applied Workshop that is in preview. This workshop will allow you to practice your App Maker skills by creating an end-to-end solution to solve a problem for a fictitious company. The solution will include a Microsoft Dataverse database, Power Apps canvas app, and Power Automate flows.
The App Maker builds solutions to simplify, automate, and transform tasks and processes for themselves and their team where they have deep expertise in the solution business domain. They have basic data modeling, user experience design, requirements analysis, and process analysis skills. The App Maker creates and enforces business processes, structures digital collection of information, improves efficiency of repeatable tasks, and automates business processes. The App Maker uses the Maker tools of Power Platform to solve business problems. They may use advanced features of Microsoft apps and third-party productivity tools. The App Maker is aware of the capabilities and limitations of available tools and understands how to apply them. The App Maker is self-directed, and solution focused. They may not have formal IT training but are comfortable using technology to solve business problems with a personal growth mindset. They understand the operational need and have a vision of the desired outcome. They approach problems with phased and iterative strategies.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ PL-100 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Course: AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions (4 days)
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This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ AZ-400 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Course: PL-200 Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant (4 days)
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This course will teach you to use Microsoft Power Platform solutions to simplify, automate, and empower business processes for organizations in the role of a Functional Consultant. A Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant is responsible for creating and configuring apps, automations, and solutions. They act as the liaison between users and the implementation team. The functional consultant promotes utilization of solutions within an organization. The functional consultant may perform discovery, engage subject matter experts and stakeholders, capture requirements, and map requirements to features. They implement components of a solution including application enhancements, custom user experiences, system integrations, data conversions, custom process automation, and simple visualizations.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ PL-200 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
(Optional) Course: MS-600 Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services (5 days)
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The Building applications and solutions with Microsoft 365 core services course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft Teams Application Developer role. In this course, students will learn how to build collaboration solutions leveraging 4 central elements of the Microsoft 365 platform: implementing Microsoft identity, working with Microsoft Graph, extending and customizing Microsoft 365 with SharePoint Framework, and building applications for Microsoft Teams. In Implement Microsoft identity, students will learn to implement Microsoft identity including registering an application, implementing authentication, configuring permissions to consume an API, and creating a service to access Microsoft Graph. In Work with Microsoft Graph, students will learn how to access user data, explore query parameters, manage a group lifecycle, access files, and optimize network traffic using Microsoft Graph. In Extend and customize Microsoft 365 with SharePoint Framework, students will learn about SharePoint Framework web parts, extensions, and how to package and deploy a SPFx solution. In Build apps for Microsoft Teams, students will look at the components of a Teams App, work with webhooks, tabs, conversational bots, and other Microsoft Teams app capabilities. They will also learn to deploy Microsoft Teams apps.
+ Exam Preparation and Q&A Session (1 day)
+ DP-600 Certification Exam
Delivery formats:
Online instructor-led
Self-paced
Throughout the program, we will be organising a series of internal events (such as project case studies and guest speaker slots) to support internal knowledge-sharing and encourage the conversation on how KPMG professionals are translating industry best practices in successful customer consulting projects.
After completing the sequence of Microsoft technology courses, you will be granted a digital certification badge and a training program completion certificate to serve as proof of the focused time and effort you have invested in your professional Cloud Consulting development.
Successfully obtaining the corresponding Microsoft Certifications through certification exams is expected to be an individual responsibility of the participants. This is an important component of the program as professional certification help you stand out and be recognised for your expertise.
At the registration point you can choose from a drop-down menu between calendar dates for training with a trainer or a self-paced learning for some or all of the courses.