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As a for-profit entity, you’re doing your best to maximize yearly profit. And much of that profit relies on the productiveness of your employees.
February 27, 2018
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Track Your Certifications, Point to Your Success
Whether you're an individual user of our platform or part of a large enterprise team, we’ve learned that a majority of people using Cloud Academy are quite an ambitious bunch. Many of you are constantly working towards certifications, and often multiple certifications at that! But once ...
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Here at Cloud Academy, we have recently been evolving our back-end architecture. We took the path toward a microservices architecture, and we’re still working on some pillars that will enable us to become faster in development while gaining overall reliability and stability. Many pr...
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The Path You Take Depends on Where You Want to Go: Introducing Career Paths
The Cloud Academy training library is full of excellent training materials to help a wide variety of people achieve an even wider variety of career goals. It’s good to have choices, but sometimes having so many choices of what to learn about is overwhelming. Where do you start when all ...
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Training Tip #007: Build a Strong Foundation We have 780+ courses and 1,400+ lab steps in the Cloud Academy library, so it can be overwhelming when you first see it. Let me provide you with a few tips to help you navigate and find what you need. First off, head straight to our Train...
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New Content: Get Ready for the CISM Cert Exam & Learn About Alibaba, Plus All the AWS, GCP, and Azure Courses You Know You Can Count On
This month our team of intrepid certification specialists released five learning paths, seven courses, 19 hands-on labs, and three lab challenges! One particularly interesting new learning path is Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Foundations. After completing this learn...
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Google Cloud Platform Certification: Preparation and Prerequisites
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17 Hours of Dog Food: How I Passed the Azure DevOps AZ-400 Exam
Taking the Azure AZ-400 exam I want to tell you how I ate dog food to pass the Microsoft Azure DevOps AZ-400 exam. I’m not talking about wolfing down a punnet of premium beef mince for dogs, but I’m referring to the practice of a company using its own product. (Coincidentally, back in ...
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Jump Into Cloud Academy’s Tech Skills Assessment
Let’s say you’re trying to build a new software product in the cloud. You might be a C-level, a VP, or a Director or Product Manager. For this little exercise, your role doesn’t really matter because you’ve shipped products before, so you know how to get things done. But when your te...
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Which Certifications Should I Get?
The old AWS slogan, “Cloud is the new normal” is indeed a reality today. Really, cloud has been the new normal for a while now and getting credentials has become an increasingly effective way to quickly showcase your abilities to recruiters and companies. With all that in mind, the s...
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The 12 Microsoft Azure Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
Cloud computing is one of the fastest-growing technology in this modern era. According to the IDC report, “public cloud spending will grow from $229 billion in 2019 to nearly $500 billion in 2023.” Therefore, nobody can deny the rapid growth of cloud computing in recent years. Many b...
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As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in cloud computing. As the market leader and most ma...
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: A Study Guide
Want to take a really impactful step in your technical career? Explore the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certificate. Its new version (SAA-C02) was released on March 23, 2020. The AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification (or Sol Arch Associate for short) offers some ...
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