Some of you out there are either too busy to ramp up, or too fearful of prodding your company’s IT department with a cloud strategy.  Maybe you recently got offered a job at Microsoft!  Note: We’re hiring!

As part of Microsoft’s technical sales force, we were advised to ramp up on Azure, and to get certified.  This is not news: In 2007, Microsoft required technical sales people to get certified.

To ramp up quickly on Azure, I took the road of self-study.  Microsoft virtual academy has wonderful video courses, with quizzes, to help teach you.

I also worked through a few virtual online labs, to gain some hands-on experience.

At the end of that, I took the 70-534 Azure architecture exam and passed!

More courses are coming out as the cloud and our on-premises products keep evolving.

Take this moment to act, and take some small amount of time each day to nibble through this training.  You will be better prepared when the time comes to know it.

Once you do the above training, get a trial of Azure to play hands-on!

As always, feel free to reach out to me on twitter!