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Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge

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The challenge has ended

The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge ended on January 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM (16:00) UTC.

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You will receive one (1) entry for each Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge that you completed. There is a limit of 12 entries per person – one entry per completed challenge. View the list of eligible challenges here.

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If you completed a Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge, confirmation of your sweepstakes entry will be sent to you via email. Confirmation will be delivered to the email address associated with your Microsoft Learn profile. Confirm or add a contact email here to ensure emails are delivered.

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Microsoft Ignite: Microsoft Fabric 

Learn about Microsoft Fabric, the analytics platform for the era of AI. Connect, ingest, store, and report on data with Data Factory, notebooks, lakehouses, data warehouses, and Power BI. Whether you are a data analyst, data engineer or analytics engineer, Fabric helps you upskill and advance your career.

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Microsoft Ignite: Generative AI with Azure OpenAI 

Azure OpenAI Service provides access to powerful large language models such as ChatGPT. Generative AI trains models to generate original content based on natural language input. You should already have familiarity with the Azure portal and experience programming with C# or Python. Assessment coming soon.

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Microsoft Ignite: Azure AI Vision 

Use Azure AI Vision Studio to create a custom object detection model. Computer vision is an area of artificial intelligence (AI) in which software systems are designed to perceive the world visually, through cameras, images, and video. Aligns to assessment: Build an Azure AI Vision solution.

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Microsoft Ignite: Power Automate and Copilot

Create and Manage Automated Processes by using Power Automate. Explore how to create your first approval flow and how to manage flows you have created. Discover how to create integrations with other data sources and practice creating a flow end-to-end. Lastly, discover the new Copilot capability! Aligns to assessment: Create and manage automated processes by using Power Automate.

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Microsoft Ignite: Azure Infrastructure 

Learn how to use monitoring services on Azure to bring operational excellence to your infrastructure. Deploy monitoring for workloads on virtual machines, use built-in tools in Windows Server to monitor performance, monitor Azure Arc-enabled servers, and enable Azure Monitor in hybrid scenarios. Assessment coming soon.

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Microsoft Ignite: Optimize Azure with Defender for Cloud

Learn how to incorporate optimization best practices and security into your architecture and workloads, and discover the tools that Azure provides to help you create a secure environment through all the layers of your architecture. Aligns to assessment: Secure Azure services and workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance controls.

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Microsoft Ignite: Azure AI Language 

Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language. Natural language processing (NLP) solutions use language models to interpret the semantic meaning of written or spoken language. You should already have familiarity with the Azure portal and experience programming with C# or Python. Aligns to assessment: Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language.

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Microsoft Ignite: Azure AI Document Intelligence

Show off your smarts with Azure AI Document Intelligence Solutions. Natural language processing (NLP) solutions use language models to interpret the semantic meaning of written or spoken language. You should already have familiarity with the Azure portal and experience programming with C# or Python. Aligns to assessment: Create an intelligent document processing solution with Azure AI Document Intelligence.

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Microsoft Ignite: Azure Machine Learning

Machine learning operations (MLOps) applies DevOps principles to machine learning projects. Learn about which DevOps principles help in scaling a machine learning project from experimentation to production. Learn about how to connect to data from the Azure Machine Learning workspace. You'll be introduced to datastores and data assets. Assessment coming soon.

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Microsoft Ignite: Security with Azure DevOps

Implement security through pipelines with Azure DevOps. Hone hands-on skills like setting up secure access to pipeline resources, validating permissions, and organizing project structures. Master extending pipelines and manage identities across projects, pipelines, and agents. Assessment coming soon.

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Microsoft Ignite: Prepare Your Organization for M365 Copilot 

AI capabilities like Microsoft 365 Copilot are built with a comprehensive approach to security, compliance, privacy, and identity plus a commitment to responsible AI practices. This challenge helps ensure that Microsoft 365 tenants are setup and configured for AI so that future AI features can be integrated seamlessly.

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Microsoft Ignite: Intelligent Apps with Azure Cosmos DB

In this challenge, discover how to use Azure Cosmos DB to build intelligent apps that can take advantage of cloud scalability and high-performance for your data. By the end of this learning path, you will be able to build and deliver intelligent, cloud-native apps and modernize existing apps to add AI capabilities. Assessment coming soon.

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The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge ended on January 15, 2024 at 4:00 PM (16:00) UTC.


When is the next challenge?

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When and how will I be notified if I have won the prize?

If you are one of the 5 lucky winners, you will be notified via email within 7 (seven) days of the challenge end date. Confirm or add a contact email here to ensure emails are delivered.

If your question was not answered above or in the official rules, contact the Cloud Skills Challenge support team: ChallengeSupport@Microsoft.com and we will respond to you within 3 business days.


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If your question was not answered above or in the official rules, contact the Cloud Skills Challenge support team: challengesupport@Microsoft.com.