New Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Path and Exam (AZ-305)!

hey everyone i want to create a really quick video just going over the new azure solutions architect expert certification path because they have announced some changes to how we get that certification as always if this is useful please like subscribe comment and share and hit that bell icon now if we think about the azure solutions architect certification this is kind of that end goal for many people is that three-star certification and basically what's happening is the path to get there is changing historically to get the certification we would take two exams we would take the az303 and we would take the az304 and what these get us is that architect expert certification now for many people along the way they would get other certifications for example you might take the azure administrator certification the az-104 and then you would go and take those there's actually quite a lot of overlap between them so what's happening they're introducing a new exam so they're introducing az305 so az305 is going to be available in beta on the 16th of november now remember if you take it in beta you don't get the results straight away but if you pass it still counts as just a regular exam you just have to wait a little bit to get your results so introducing this new exam so now what's going to happen is to get that architect expert certification you're going to combine that exam with the az104 ie the associate administrator exam so that az104 would give you the azure administrator as associate certification so that gets you a certification there and then once i've got that i then take az305 to get my architect expert so this is kind of this future path on how we get our architect expert certification so what's happening with these exams they're actually going to retire so they're going to retire on the 31st of march 2022 so if i'm already going down this path if i've taken this i'm studying for this no problem you have until the end of march to do that but what i can also do is i could actually combine that az303 so if i'm taking if i've already maybe passed my az303 i can combine that with the az305 to also get my architect expert certification before it retires remember this retires on the end of march basically so at this precise moment in time well in a week when this becomes not a week and a while when this becomes available you could combine that with az303 to get my architect server this is the future direction hey i get my associate admin certification and then i take the az305 to get that azure solutions architect expert certification if i'm currently on the path of doing the 303 and the through four great carry on you have until the end of march to do that if maybe i've taken 303 already or i'm planning to take it great again just do that before the 31st of march and then take ac305 when it becomes available so those are my new paths to get to architect expert i like this because there was a lot of overlap between it so now hey go and get your associate admin certification and then take one more exam and get your architect expert certification so you have those three paths to basically get to the azure architect expert two of them involving 305 or can kind of stay on that current path until it retires and a really important note this does not impact you if you already have your architect certification if you are already an azure solutions architect expert this does not impact you they're not retiring your current sir now you have to go and take 305 or you have to go and get a social admin nope if you already have your architect expert you just maintain it like you do today with that annual assessment that's all you do so nothing is changing if you already have your architect expert this does not impact you you do that annual renewal assessment as you already have been this is only for new people who do not have the architect expert then yes they potentially now have a different path if they haven't done all this before this retires in kind of six months time end of march so that that's really it i mean that that's all this is about the path is changing more in line with hey what people are doing where there is that overlap now get my associate admin ac104 or that who knows but whatever it is to get the azure admin certification and then i take az305 again available in beta 16 for november but i still have time if i'm on this path or if i want to combine it before the end of march and then you'll just maintain it using that annual assessment if you already have it none of this impacts you you'll just carry on doing your annual assessments as you have been already so that was it that's kind of the changes just want to make sure people were aware and not panicking oh i'm gonna lose my cert nope if you've got it nothing changes you just do that annual assessment as you've already been doing so until next video take care you

Channel: John Savill's Technical Training

Views: 13,229

Keywords: azure, azure cloud, microsoft azure, microsoft, cloud, azure architect, certification, az-305

Id: eY2YmF6W7Ts

Length: 7min 2sec (422 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 11 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/johnthornx]

Great info as always!

[u/SoftwareArchitect21]

I wonder why any one would buy any course on Udemy when your Az videos are quite comprehensive.....how did you go with az-700 ?