Track Microsoft AI, Fabric, Azure developer, and cloud-security certification transition pages with IT Mastery availability guidance.
Microsoft’s 2026 certification lane is shifting toward AI-first developer, operations, security, and Fabric data roles. This hub collects the new or transition-heavy Microsoft routes that do not fit cleanly into the older Azure-only list.
| If your target is… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry | AI-103 |
| The post-AI-900 fundamentals route | AI-901 |
| Azure developer work with AI-driven applications | AI-200 |
| MLOps and GenAIOps on Azure | AI-300 |
| Cloud and AI security controls | SC-500 |
| Microsoft Fabric data engineering | DP-700 |
| Microsoft Fabric analytics engineering | DP-600 |
| Older Azure AI Engineer search intent | AI-102 replacement status |
| Older Azure Data Scientist search intent | DP-100 replacement status |
| Older Azure Security Engineer search intent | AZ-500 replacement status |
| Current live Azure fundamentals practice | AI-900 and AZ-900 |
| Route | What it is really testing |
|---|---|
| AI-103 | Azure AI apps, agents, Microsoft Foundry, RAG, multimodal solutions, responsible AI, and Python-backed implementation judgment |
| AI-901 | Updated Azure AI Fundamentals scope after AI-900, including AI concepts, workloads, Foundry basics, and implementation awareness |
| AI-200 | Azure cloud development for AI-driven applications: compute, containers, Functions, events, data services, security, and observability |
| AI-300 | MLOps and GenAIOps infrastructure, lifecycle operations, model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and optimization |
| SC-500 | Security controls across Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, Defender, cloud infrastructure, and AI workloads |
| DP-700 | Fabric data engineering: ingestion, transformation, security, management, monitoring, and optimization |
| DP-600 | Fabric analytics engineering: semantic models, lakehouses, warehouses, data preparation, governance, and analytics delivery |
| AI-102 / DP-100 / AZ-500 | Legacy or retiring Microsoft routes that should redirect learners toward AI-103, AI-300, or SC-500 depending on the original target |