Detailed path guides

Choose a path that fits the work

Compare role fit, study focus, original practice, current provider context, and the portfolio evidence that makes learning useful. These independent guides do not predict exam or hiring outcomes.

25 curated paths

High-demand certification and skill routes

For the complete 455-path catalog, use the Learner Toolkit.

Azure

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Use AZ-900 to build a vendor-specific cloud vocabulary before choosing an administrator, developer, data, AI, security, or architecture route.

Open learning path

Azure

Microsoft Azure Administrator

Choose AZ-104 when your target work includes identity, governance, compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backup, and day-two Azure operations.

Open learning path

Azure

Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Choose AZ-305 when you can already operate Azure workloads and need to justify architecture decisions across identity, data, continuity, infrastructure, and governance.

Open learning path

Azure

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Choose AZ-400 when you need to connect source control, continuous delivery, security, observability, experimentation, and team flow in Microsoft-centered environments.

Open learning path

Azure

AI-901 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

Use AI-901 to learn the current Microsoft AI fundamentals vocabulary, responsible-AI expectations, and service-selection patterns before moving into app, agent, or operations work.

Open learning path

Azure

Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure

Choose AI-103 when your work requires grounded applications, agents, multimodal services, evaluation, safety, and operational integration on Azure.

Open learning path

Microsoft

Microsoft Operationalizing Machine Learning and Generative AI Solutions

Choose AI-300 when you need to operationalize machine learning and generative AI with governed delivery, evaluation, observability, security, and recovery.

Open learning path

Microsoft

Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

Use DP-900 to understand relational, non-relational, analytics, and data-processing choices before committing to a deeper engineering, database, or analytics route.

Open learning path

Azure

Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer

Choose DP-600 when you need to design, prepare, secure, optimize, and operate analytical assets across OneLake, semantic models, SQL, KQL, and Power BI.

Open learning path

Azure

Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Use SC-900 to build Microsoft security, compliance, and identity vocabulary before moving into operations, identity, information protection, or architecture.

Open learning path

Azure

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate

Choose SC-200 when your target work involves investigating threats, building detections, managing incidents, and using Microsoft Sentinel and Defender evidence.

Open learning path

AWS

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Use CLF-C02 to understand AWS cloud value, security, services, billing, and support before selecting an architecture, developer, operations, data, or AI path.

Open learning path

AWS

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Choose SAA-C03 when you need broad AWS architecture judgment across resilience, performance, security, and cost rather than deep operation of one service.

Open learning path

AWS

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Use AIF-C01 to understand AI and generative AI concepts, AWS managed services, responsible use, security, and business-value decisions before deeper engineering.

Open learning path

AWS

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

Choose MLA-C02 when you need production-oriented AWS data preparation, model development, deployment, monitoring, security, and generative AI operations.

Open learning path

GCP

Cloud Digital Leader

Use Cloud Digital Leader to connect Google Cloud capabilities to transformation, data, AI, infrastructure, security, sustainability, and operating decisions.

Open learning path

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Choose Associate Cloud Engineer when you need to deploy, secure, monitor, and operate Google Cloud workloads with practical command-line and console fluency.

Open learning path

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Choose Professional Cloud Architect when you need to translate business and technical requirements into secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-aware Google Cloud designs.

Open learning path

HashiCorp

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (003)

Choose Terraform Associate when you need a solid workflow for declarative infrastructure, state, modules, providers, plans, lifecycle, and collaborative delivery.

Open learning path

CNCF / Linux Foundation

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Choose CKA when you need hands-on cluster operation across workloads, scheduling, networking, storage, maintenance, security basics, and troubleshooting.

Open learning path

CNCF / Linux Foundation

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Choose CKAD when you need to design, configure, observe, and troubleshoot cloud-native applications rather than administer the entire cluster.

Open learning path

CNCF

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Choose CKS after Kubernetes administration foundations when you need supply-chain, cluster, workload, runtime, network, and incident-response security.

Open learning path

GitHub

GitHub Copilot

Choose GH-300 when you need responsible Copilot use across IDEs, CLI, agents, prompting, context, testing, privacy, security, and organizational adoption.

Open learning path

GitHub

GitHub Advanced Security

Choose GH-500 when you need to operate code scanning, secret scanning, dependency security, remediation workflows, and governance across GitHub repositories.

Open learning path

Databricks

Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate

Choose Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate when your target work combines data, retrieval, models, agents, evaluation, governance, and production delivery on the Databricks platform.

Open learning path