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DevOps

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Deliver business value through the optimization of DevOps

With a DevOps competency, you can demonstrate your proficiency in working with people, processes, and different technologies to continuously optimize your customers’ development operations, infrastructure, and deployment.

Requirements

See the requirements for the competency options you’re interested in below.

Competency options

DevOps Partner option

Silver

Gold

Your company must have 2 individuals pass the assessment or exam requirements.

2 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 2 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

2 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Your company must have 4 individuals pass the assessment or exam requirements.

4 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 4 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

4 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Learning option

Silver

Gold

Your company must meet the training requirement.

Your company must reach 200 KPIs through training of Microsoft official Learning Product purchased through the Courseware Marketplace every membership year. Learn More

Your company must have 2 individuals pass the assessment or exam requirements.

2 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 2 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

2 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Your company must meet the training and revenue requirements.

Your company must reach 5000 KPIs through training and generate US $500000 in revenue from sales of Microsoft official Learning Product purchased through the Courseware Marketplace every membership year. Learn More

Your company must have 4 individuals pass the assessment or exam requirements.

4 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 4 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

4 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

DevOps Partner option

Silver

2 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 2 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

2 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Gold

4 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 4 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

4 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Learning option

Silver

Your company must reach 200 KPIs through training of Microsoft official Learning Product purchased through the Courseware Marketplace every membership year. Learn More

2 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 2 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

2 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Gold

4 individuals must each pass one of the following exams:

AND

The same 4 individuals must pass the following exam.

Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

OR

4 individuals must complete the following assessment:

Azure DevOps Assessment*

*Retiring February 28, 2020. This assessment will continue to be accepted for competency qualification until February 28, 2021.

Your company will need to meet the competency requirements, validate required exams and skills each year, and pay the annual fee within your renewal window to retain your competency status and access associated benefits.

Benefits

Once you meet all the requirements and pay the fee, you can access these benefits:

Accentuate your expertise

	Silver Competency	Gold Competency
Competency badge Promote your expertise and technical capabilities with competency badges.	✔	✔
Microsoft co-branded materials Demonstrate your Microsoft partnership and increase your credibility with a partner logo and certified letter. Start creating in Partner Center.	✔	✔
Priority listing in the partner directory Receive prioritized listing in the Microsoft partner directory, connect with more customers, and get the right referrals.	✔	✔

Silver Competency

Gold Competency

Competency badge

Promote your expertise and technical capabilities with competency badges.

✔

Microsoft co-branded materials

Demonstrate your Microsoft partnership and increase your credibility with a partner logo and certified letter. Start creating in Partner Center.

✔

Priority listing in the partner directory

Receive prioritized listing in the Microsoft partner directory, connect with more customers, and get the right referrals.

✔

Silver Competency
Competency badge Promote your expertise and technical capabilities with competency badges.	✔
Microsoft co-branded materials Demonstrate your Microsoft partnership and increase your credibility with a partner logo and certified letter. Start creating in Partner Center.	✔
Priority listing in the partner directory Receive prioritized listing in the Microsoft partner directory, connect with more customers, and get the right referrals.	✔
Gold Competency
Competency badge Promote your expertise and technical capabilities with competency badges.	✔
Microsoft co-branded materials Demonstrate your Microsoft partnership and increase your credibility with a partner logo and certified letter. Start creating in Partner Center.	✔
Priority listing in the partner directory Receive prioritized listing in the Microsoft partner directory, connect with more customers, and get the right referrals.	✔

Access benefits to help grow your business

	Silver Competency	Gold Competency
Go-to-market resources Speed up time to market, generate demand, and expand your business with a self-service portfolio of best-in-class marketing content and programs.	Marketing content and programs tailored for partners with a silver competency.	Marketing content and programs tailored for partners with a gold competency.
Technical enablement and practice building Build skills to build your business, from readiness assessment to growing your team and digital transformation. Explore enablement resources.	✔	✔
Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD) Build your technical capabilities faster to accelerate sales, deployment and app development. To learn more, visit http://aka.ms/TPD	20 Advisory hours for technical consultations Unlimited technical presales	50 Advisory hours for technical consultations Unlimited technical presales
Microsoft Product Support incidents Use to get technical support for recent on-premises products - learn more Benefits activation	15 support incidents	20 support incidents
Microsoft Signature Cloud Support Use for Technical support for Cloud products - learn more Benefits activation	5 Signature Cloud support incidents	10 Signature Cloud support incidents
Product licenses Review the product licenses included with your competency by downloading the competency benefits table, or sign in to Partner Center to review the programs and licenses currently available.	✔	✔

Silver Competency
Go-to-market resources Speed up time to market, generate demand, and expand your business with a self-service portfolio of best-in-class marketing content and programs.	Marketing content and programs tailored for partners with a silver competency.
Technical enablement and practice building Build skills to build your business, from readiness assessment to growing your team and digital transformation. Explore enablement resources.	✔
Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD) Build your technical capabilities faster to accelerate sales, deployment and app development. To learn more, visit http://aka.ms/TPD	20 Advisory hours for technical consultations Unlimited technical presales
Microsoft Product Support incidents Use to get technical support for recent on-premises products - learn more Benefits activation	15 support incidents
Microsoft Signature Cloud Support Use for Technical support for Cloud products - learn more Benefits activation	5 Signature Cloud support incidents
Product licenses Review the product licenses included with your competency by downloading the competency benefits table, or sign in to Partner Center to review the programs and licenses currently available.	✔
Gold Competency
Go-to-market resources Speed up time to market, generate demand, and expand your business with a self-service portfolio of best-in-class marketing content and programs.	Marketing content and programs tailored for partners with a gold competency.
Technical enablement and practice building Build skills to build your business, from readiness assessment to growing your team and digital transformation. Explore enablement resources.	✔
Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD) Build your technical capabilities faster to accelerate sales, deployment and app development. To learn more, visit http://aka.ms/TPD	50 Advisory hours for technical consultations Unlimited technical presales
Microsoft Product Support incidents Use to get technical support for recent on-premises products - learn more Benefits activation	20 support incidents
Microsoft Signature Cloud Support Use for Technical support for Cloud products - learn more Benefits activation	10 Signature Cloud support incidents
Product licenses Review the product licenses included with your competency by downloading the competency benefits table, or sign in to Partner Center to review the programs and licenses currently available.	✔

Unlock incentives and ways to differentiate

	Silver Competency	Gold Competency
Investment and incentive programs Find out if your competency qualifies you for an investment and incentive program that supports your strategic business and technical goals and rewards your efforts and success.	✔	✔

Silver Competency

Gold Competency

Investment and incentive programs

Find out if your competency qualifies you for an investment and incentive program that supports your strategic business and technical goals and rewards your efforts and success.

✔

Silver Competency
Investment and incentive programs Find out if your competency qualifies you for an investment and incentive program that supports your strategic business and technical goals and rewards your efforts and success.	✔
Gold Competency
Investment and incentive programs Find out if your competency qualifies you for an investment and incentive program that supports your strategic business and technical goals and rewards your efforts and success.	✔

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DevOps

Deliver business value through the optimization of DevOps

Requirements

Competency options

Benefits

Competency badge

Microsoft co-branded materials

Priority listing in the partner directory

Competency badge

Microsoft co-branded materials

Priority listing in the partner directory

Competency badge

Microsoft co-branded materials

Priority listing in the partner directory

Go-to-market resources

Technical enablement and practice building

Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD)

Microsoft Product Support incidents

Microsoft Signature Cloud Support

Product licenses

Go-to-market resources

Technical enablement and practice building

Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD)

Microsoft Product Support incidents

Microsoft Signature Cloud Support

Product licenses

Go-to-market resources

Technical enablement and practice building

Technical Presales and Deployment Services (TPD)

Microsoft Product Support incidents

Microsoft Signature Cloud Support

Product licenses

Investment and incentive programs

Investment and incentive programs

Investment and incentive programs