Certification

Over the years, I’ve seen so many discussions regarding the certification process and exams. I’ve seen posts from many people that are very experienced with products saying they can’t see any point in the certification exams and also argue that competencies in the Microsoft Partner program shouldn’t be based on exams. They feel these people should somehow just be recognised for their other contributions.

Grandfathering

Regarding the certification process, I don’t agree that anyone should be just grandfathered in. Any of the people that have a great deal of knowledge and experience really should be able to just take the exams and be done with it.

2026-03-17

I took AI-102 yesterday. It was the first exam that I’ve taken where Learn content was available. There’s an icon at the bottom centre of the screen, beside the one that lets you take a break. (I haven’t used that break option yet but that was also a great recent additon).

Did it help?

There were a couple of places where I found it helped. It’s not going to teach you the content, even though the training parts of Learn are available. That would mostly take far too long. What it worked well for, was to confirm the purpose of a specific option, etc.

2023-09-30