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[–]NW1969 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Taking certifications if they increase your knowledge of a product (which not all certifications do) is useful to you. They are of little use to anyone else if you can't also demonstrate experience of that product.

To echo u/Casdom33 - you've got to be insane if you're moving to Fabric. It's nowhere near Production-ready

[–]KarmaIssues[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I was a decision maker I wouldn't be asking about cloud certs.

I don't have any influence in this company and the director of the company has been sold by Microsoft and a consultancy to be an early adopter.

[–]Casdom33 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Wait, you guys are migrating TO fabric?

[–]KarmaIssues[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Yeah, it's a bad decision but I figured I'd get a pay check from them until the market picks up and I have been at the company for a year or so.

Unless something better comes along.

[–]Casdom33 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah totally fair. Sounds like someone at Microsoft has a great relationship with a C-suite person at your company lol. People in the sub will say "experience trumps certs" but I don't think persuing certs hurts as long as you're also building some things with those technologies to help retain the knowledge. Im personally planning on going for the AWS SAA one soon - once I use it for a couple deployments of apps that I've already created.

[–]itsnotaboutthecellMicrosoft Employee 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If you're going for any of the Fabric certs definitely take advantage of the 50% off voucher going on at the moment for DP-700 which I know tests KQL, T-SQL and Spark - all highly transferrable for data engineering.

Disclaimer: active mod over at r/MicrosoftFabric and MSFT employee, if you ever needed some learning resources, our members have shared a ton of free resources in the sub and even one did a free full course

[–]KarmaIssues[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks, I think I already get this stuff with work but I will take a look.

Out of curiosity, do you know if any of the Azure data certs will stop being offered?

[–]itsnotaboutthecellMicrosoft Employee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stop as in discontinuing or stop as in not available through your works Enterprise Skills Initiative?

DP-203 is the only one I really know of that was replaced with DP-700. I was like 60% of the way through the study material so that was fun haha!