All participants of Microsoft Ignite who complete at least one collection in the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge are eligible for a free certification exam, to help you continue skilling up and prove your technical expertise to employers and peers.

Participate in the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge to earn a free Microsoft Certification exam and a chance to win prizes! Choose up to six different challenges to complete on Microsoft Learn. After you’ve completed your first challenge, you’ll earn a free Microsoft Certification exam. For each challenge you complete, you’ll earn five entries into a sweepstakes. One grand prize winner will receive a chance to meet with a Microsoft leader and invite up to four friends.

All you will have to do is register and complete one of the challenges.

The free certification exam is available for redemption starting October 12, 2020 and is valid until March 31, 2021. If you do not schedule and take your eligible exam within that timeframe, you will not be able to redeem your offer.

Sign up for Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge

Sweepstakes

Each challenge you register for and complete will earn you entries into a sweepstakes, where winners will be randomly selected.

One grand prize winner will receive a chance to meet with a Microsoft leader and invite up to four friends.

One hundred first prize winners will receive an opportunity to select 1 of 4 virtual experiences with a select group of Microsoft personalities from Microsoft Ignite. The experience times and personalities will be predetermined and each is limited to 25 attendees, managed on a first come, first served basis.

After the challenge has closed October 6, 2020 at 11:59PM PDT, the random sweepstakes drawing will be completed and winners will be contact directly by Microsoft with details about claiming their prize. The list of sweepstakes winner will appear on this page on October 14, 2020 at 12:00AM PDT.

Eligible exams

Eligible exams include all Microsoft fundamentals, role-based, and specialty certification exams. The eligible exams are listed below.

By Product	Exams
Azure	AI-100: Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI DP-100: Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
Dynamics 365 and Power Platform	MB-200: Microsoft Power Platform + Dynamics 365 Core MB-210: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales MB-220: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing MB-230: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service MB-240: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service MB-300: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Core Finance and Operations MB-310: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance MB-320: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management MB-400: Microsoft Power Apps + Dynamics 365 Developer MB-500: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer MB-600: Microsoft Dynamics 365 + Power Platform Solution Architect MB-700: Microsoft Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect MB-901: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals
Microsoft 365	MD-100: Windows 10 MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security MS-203: Microsoft 365 Messaging MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration MS-600: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Terms and conditions

This exam offer is available to eligible individuals who attend Microsoft Ignite and complete one collection in the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge.
This exam offer may be redeemed to take one (1) Microsoft Certification exam, delivered at an authorized Pearson Vue testing center or through a Pearson Vue online proctoring site.
This exam offer is exam-specific and only redeemable for select Microsoft exams.
This exam offer redemption window starts October 12, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2021.
This exam offer expiration date cannot be extended under any circumstances.
This exam offer may only be redeemed once.
This exam offer may not be redeemed or exchanged for cash, credit or refund.
This exam offer is nontransferable and is void if you alter, revise or transfer it in any way.

Happy testing,

@deltadan

About the Author

Dan Patrick

Dan Patrick is the Chief Infrastructure Architect for Solliance and a 15 year veteran at Microsoft. He has an extensive background in IT Infrastructure and Operations. Dan has both architected and lead teams building and supporting some of the largest service providers in North America with as many 15,000 Windows Servers and 120 million endpoints. Dan has worked with Azure IaaS solutions extensively since 2012. He has a passion for Virtualization with deep experience leveraging Hyper-V, Vmware, and Citrix. He is also a Clustering specialist focusing on large host clusters and SQL Always On Availability Groups. Recently Dan, authored the Networking, Azure Active Directory and Containers portion of the 70-533 Exam Reference for Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter @deltadan

2 Comments

Daniel on September 30, 2020 at 5:57 am

What is one collection? Would it be one module or a whole learning path composte of several modules?
- Chris Pietschmann on September 30, 2020 at 10:29 am
  
  Basically a “collection” is a defined combination of modules and learning paths Microsoft has defined for a specific topic area of the challenge. If you dig into the site they have is explained.