HomeLearning paths & certification preparation
Choose a learning path for your target role.
Compare Microsoft learning areas, understand the practical skills behind each role and plan your certification preparation around the work you want to do.
Compare learning areas
These areas guide your enquiry. Exact courses, credentials, prerequisites and availability are confirmed before you enrol.
Business Central functional
Explore finance and operations workflows: company setup, purchasing, sales, inventory and the controls behind everyday transactions.
Business Central development
Explore AL development, extensions, integration, version control and testing changes through Business Central updates.
Fabric and Power BI
Explore data preparation, semantic models, DAX and report design, with attention to access and the questions a report must answer.
Azure and security
Explore cloud infrastructure, identity, permissions and monitoring. Discuss the starting knowledge needed for your intended Azure role.
Microsoft 365 and automation
Explore Microsoft 365 administration and collaboration, plus Power Platform workflows that support everyday team tasks.
Copilot and AI agents
Explore use-case design, knowledge sources, tools and evaluation for Copilot and agents, including responsible operation.
Check the fit before choosing
A useful learning option connects your starting knowledge to a specific next responsibility.
Who it is for
Describe your current role and the role or task you are targeting.
What you already know
List relevant platform experience and any prerequisite knowledge.
What you need to practise
Identify the work tasks you want to handle with greater confidence.
What to confirm
Ask about scope, current credential requirements, delivery format, fees and available dates.
Choose a pathway you can build on
A course title is only the starting point. Match the learning sequence to your current knowledge and the responsibility you want next.
If the platform is new to you, learn its purpose, core terms and common workflows first. A finance background, coding experience or familiarity with spreadsheets can provide a starting point, but each pathway has its own technical gaps to address.
Move from product navigation to the tasks a role owns. A functional learner needs process and configuration practice; a developer needs code, testing and integration; an analyst needs reliable models and a clear explanation of the numbers.
Use the current Microsoft credential page and study guide to check the assessed skills. Compare those requirements with your practice record. Confirm the exam or assessment, language, fees and any renewal requirements before booking.
Retain a sanitised sample of your work and a short explanation of how you tested it. An exam result describes one achievement; a portfolio helps you discuss how you apply the knowledge to a task and recognise its limitations.
Know what you want to be able to demonstrate
Use an observable task to make each learning choice more precise. These examples help you compare the six technology areas above.
Business Central functional
Explain a sales or purchasing process, configure a small scenario and reconcile the resulting entries. Document the setup decisions and user checks so someone else can repeat the process.
Business Central development
Build a small AL extension, keep its changes in version control and test expected and invalid inputs. Explain its permissions, dependencies and how you would maintain it when the application changes.
Fabric and Power BI
Describe where the data comes from, how it is prepared and what a measure means. Demonstrate a model or report, reconcile a sample result and explain access boundaries and refresh expectations.
Azure and security
Explain a sample workload and the identity, network and monitoring decisions around it. Document a routine operational task and a failure response, including what must be checked before declaring recovery.
Microsoft 365 and Power Platform
Map a collaboration or approval requirement to the right tools. Demonstrate a small workflow, handle a rejected or incomplete request and explain ownership, permissions and ongoing support.
Copilot and AI agents
Define a narrow user task, permitted knowledge sources and a clear escalation point. Prepare test questions, inspect inaccurate or incomplete answers and explain how human review protects the workflow.
Certification preparation questions
Plan the learning and the credential as related decisions with different requirements.
Do I need to start with a fundamentals credential?
Start with the knowledge you need, rather than assuming every pathway requires the same exam sequence. Review the current Microsoft prerequisites and assessed skills for your chosen credential. Tell the India desk what you already know so that your enquiry can focus on the actual gap.
How should I choose between Power BI and Fabric learning?
Begin with your intended responsibility. If you need to analyse information and communicate results, focus your brief on preparation, modelling, measures and reports. If you need to build and operate the data foundation, include ingestion, storage, transformation and governance. Some roles need both; describe the work before choosing the scope.
What should I confirm before enrolling?
Ask for the learning objectives, expected prior knowledge, practice environment, delivery format and what is included in the fee. Confirm separately whether an exam, assessment or voucher is included. Course participation should not be treated as proof that a Microsoft credential has been awarded.
Ask about a learning path
Tell us the technology area, your current experience and whether you are seeking certification preparation or broader practical skills.
