AWS DevOps Engineer Professional: The Study Path
A practical study plan for the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam, covering prerequisites, the topics that actually carry weight, and how to prep without wasting weeks.
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A practical study plan for the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional exam, covering prerequisites, the topics that actually carry weight, and how to prep without wasting weeks.
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Microsoft retired DP-203 (Azure Data Engineer Associate) on March 31, 2025. Here's what Microsoft actually recommends instead, what DP-700 covers, how it differs from DP-203, and where DP-750 fits.
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AZ-204 retired on July 31, 2026. Its replacement, AI-200, keeps the developer job but rebuilds the outline around containers, vector databases, event-driven pipelines and OpenTelemetry. Here's what was added, what was removed, and who it's for.
Microsoft retired AI-900 on June 30, 2026 and replaced it with AI-901. Same certification, very different exam: the machine learning domain is gone, and more than half the exam is now hands-on Microsoft Foundry work.
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A practical framework for building your AWS certification study plan - whether you're going for Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Professional. Includes timelines, resources, and the mistakes that waste your time.