Silver
Complete the following three steps to attain the Silver Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions Competency.
1. Meet the performance requirements
You must increase your customer base by four new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*
To qualify, you will need to be associated as the Office 365 Delegated Administrator, Transacting Partner, or Digital Partner of Record. Get more
information.
*A new customer is defined as a customer that starts a new cloud subscription for the first time with Microsoft within the previous 12 months. Existing customers that are not retained by the Partner will count against the new customer calculation regardless of when the customer subscription start date began.
2. Pass the skills validation
No exams or assessments required.
3. Pay the fee
The fee is due one time per year—no matter how many competencies your organization earns. The fee varies by location.
According to the URL that you are currently visiting, your fee would be $1,670, not including applicable local taxes and
fees. The fee will be presented to you during the enrollment process. Your actual fee will be based on the physical location of your company. This fee will also be presented to you during the enrollment process. Your actual fee will be based on the physical location of your company. You can pay the fee here.
Gold
Complete the following three steps to attain the Gold Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions Competency.
1.
Meet the performance requirements
You must increase your customer base by 25 new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*
To qualify, you will need to be associated as the Office 365 Delegated Administrator, Transacting Partner, or Digital Partner of Record. Get more
information.
*A new customer is defined as a customer that starts a new cloud subscription for the first time with Microsoft within the previous 12 months. Existing customers that are not retained by the Partner will count against the new customer calculation regardless of when the customer subscription start date began.
2.
Pass the skills validation
Two individuals must pass the following exam:
*This exam retires on June 30, 2019 for partners, but will be valid for competencies until June 30, 2020. It will be replaced by Exam MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services on July 1, 2019. Until that date partners interested in taking Exam 70-347: Enabling Office 365 Services should use the below link and access codes to schedule their exams:
Retired exams continue to be accepted for competency qualification a year after retirement. Click here for a list of recently retired exams.
Training content for the exams and certifications can be found on the Partner University learning paths.
If your employees or contractors pass the competency exams, you can count those exams toward attaining multiple gold competencies.
3.
Pay the fee
The fee is due one time per year—no matter how many competencies your organization earns. The fee varies by location.
According to the URL that you are currently visiting, your fee would be $4,730, not including applicable local taxes and
fees. The fee will be presented to you during the enrollment process. Your actual fee will be based on the physical location of your company. This fee will also be presented to you during the enrollment process. Your actual fee will be based on the physical location of your company. You can pay the fee here.