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7 Lessons Learned from Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge

carlarjenkins
3 min readOct 5, 2020

Over the period of September 22 ndand October 7 thI have completed two Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills challenges. I have completed the Azure Apps and Infrastructure and the Azure Data and AI challenges. These are my 7 lessons learned from these two Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenges.

FYI — Microsoft gives me only 1 free certification exam voucher for completing my first challenge. I only receive an additional sweepstake entry for completing my second challenge. Here’s Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge

Why Did I Select These Two Challenges?

Initially I was only going to do the Azure Apps and Infrastructure challenge. However, after finishing it within 24 hours, learning that I can add these challenges on my resume and seeing that I was interested in passing both the Azure Data Fundamentals and Azure AI certifications, I decided to go ahead and do the Azure Data and AI challenge.

Have the right account/read the instructions

Read the instructions and use the right account. If you are taking the Azure Apps and Infrastructure challenge, you will use the sandbox and…

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carlarjenkins
carlarjenkins

Written by carlarjenkins

2X Amazon bestseller. I write about IT, cloud and project management. www.carlarjenkins.com/work

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