Demonstrate your essential skills as a database professional, for both on-premises and cloud-based databases. (New to IT? Learn about MTA certification for new entrants.)
Earning an MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development certification validates your skills in building and implementing databases across organisations, and will qualify you for a position as a database developer.
Step | Title | Optional training | Required exam | Certification earned |
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1 | Querying Data with Transact-SQL | Take course 20761 | Take exam 761 (in development) | ![]() |
2 | Developing SQL Databases | Take course 20762 | Take exam 762 |
Earning an MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration certification validates your skills with database installation, maintenance, configuration, and provisioning tasks, and will qualify you for a position as a database administrator or infrastructure specialist.
Step | Title | Optional training | Required exam | Certification earned |
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1 | Administering a SQL Database Infrastructure | Take course 20764 | Take exam 764 (in development) | ![]() |
2 | Provisioning SQL Databases | Take course 20765 | Take exam 765 |
Earning an MCSA: SQL 2016 Business Intelligence Development certification validates your extract, transform, and load (ETL) and data warehouse skills, along with those for implementing BI solutions using multidimensional and tabular data models and online analytical processing (OLAP) cubes. This certification will qualify you for a position as a BI developer.
Step | Title | Optional training | Required exam | Certification earned |
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1 | Implementing an SQL Data Warehouse | Take course 20767 | Take exam 767 (in development) | ![]() |
2 | Developing SQL Data Models | Take course 20768 | Take exam 768 |
New options to earn your MCSE certification are coming in Summer 2016.