Updated competency exams and certifications Data Platform and Data Analytics for 2020

Month: March 2020

by Erwin | Mar 20, 2020

Retiring and new exams and certifications as of June 30 2020

A lot of Exams and certifications for Data Platform and Data Analytics are retiring on June 30 2020. All retired Exams and certifications will remain eligible for competency attainment and renewal until June 30 2021, if taken before they are retired. What does that mean for Data Platform and Data Analytics competencies ?

Data Analytics

Competency Option(s) Level Exams retiring June 30 2020 New qualifying exams Remarks
 
Data Analytics Specialist option

AND

Learning Partner option

Silver/Gold Exam 70-767: Implementing a SQL Data Warehouse

Exam 70-768: Developing SQL Data Models

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Other new exams will be made available to partners before June 30 2020. Please continue to check Partner Center.
Power BI option Silver/Gold Exam 70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI New exams will be made available to partners before June 30 2020. Please continue to check Partner Center

 

Data Platform

 

Competency Option(s) Level Exams retiring June 30 2020 New qualifying exams Remarks
SQL Server Specialist option

AND

Learning Partner option

Silver/Gold Exam 70-761: Querying Data with Transact-SQL

Exam 70-762: Developing SQL Databases Exam 70-764: Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure

Exam 70-765: Provisioning SQL Databases

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate New exams will be made available to partners before June 30 2020. Please continue to check Partner Center

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SQL SERVER KONFERENZ 2020

SQL SERVER KONFERENZ 2020

SQL SERVER KONFERENZ 2020

Date: 4-5 March

Location: KongressCenter Darmstadt

 

Speaking Dinner

The speaker dinner on Tuesday evening was held in Restaurant Sitte. And yes what do you eat when you are in Germany a delicious Schnitzel with baked potatoes. It was a nice evening that we closed in the bar of the Hotel.

Event

The event started on Wednesday with a Keynote in which many speakers participated. After the Keynote it was time for the sessions. The agenda was very well filled with 30 sessions on Wednesday and 36 sessions on Thursday, 6 tracks at the same time and a high diversity of different topics (mix of English and German sessions). Both days lunch was taken care of to perfection. The evening ended on Wednesday with a Monster Party.

Thank you

Thanks again to the organisation and the crew, and of course all sponsors because without sponsors it is almost impossible to organise such a big event. As usual, it was another top event and I am already looking forward to next year.

The presentations of SQL SERVER KONFERENZ 2020 and sample code can be found here.

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