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MCSE: Data Management and Analytics

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This certification validates that you have the skills needed to run a highly efficient and modern data center, identity management, systems management, virtualization, storage, and networking.

To earn the MCSE: Data Management & Analytics certification, complete the following requirements:

Skills measured

  • none

Job role: Database Administrator

Prerequisites: 5 certifications

Required exams: 70-464 70-465 70-466

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Certification prerequisites

To become a MCSE: Data Management and Analytics, you must earn at least one of the following: MCSA: SQL Server 2012/2014, MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development, MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration, MCSA: SQL 2016 BI Development, MCSA: BI Reporting certification.

  • MCSA: SQL Server 2012/2014

    This certification demonstrates your skills and breakthrough insights in developing and maintaining the next wave of mission-critical environments.

  • MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development

    This certification demonstrates your skills as a database professional, for both on-premises and cloud-based databases.

  • MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Administration

    This certification demonstrates your skills with database installation, maintenance, configuration, and provisioning tasks.

  • MCSA: SQL 2016 BI Development

    This 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.

  • MCSA: BI Reporting

    This certification demonstrates your expertise in analyzing data with both Power BI and Excel.

Certification exams

  • 70-464: Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases

    Languages: en zh-cn fr de ja pt-br

    Retirement date: **

    This exam is intended for database professionals who build and implement databases across organizations and who ensure high levels of data availability. Their responsibilities include creating database files, data types, and tables; planning, creating, and optimizing indexes; ensuring data integrity; implementing views, stored procedures, and functions; and managing transactions and locks.

    Price based on the country or region in which the exam is proctored.

    We strongly recommend that you register for an exam with a personal MSA account. If you register with an organizational (work/school) AAD account, your exam records will be lost if you leave your organization and they will be unrecoverable.
    for Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases

    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

  • 70-465: Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server

    Languages: en zh-cn fr de ja pt-br

    Retirement date: **

    This exam is intended for database professionals who design and build database solutions in the organization. They are responsible for the creation of plans and designs for database structure, storage, objects, and servers. They create the plan for the environment in which the database solution runs.

    Price based on the country or region in which the exam is proctored.

    We strongly recommend that you register for an exam with a personal MSA account. If you register with an organizational (work/school) AAD account, your exam records will be lost if you leave your organization and they will be unrecoverable.
    for Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server

    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

  • 70-466: Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server

    Languages: en zh-cn fr de ja pt-br

    Retirement date: **

    This exam is intended for business intelligence (BI) developers who focus on creating BI solutions that require implementing multi-dimensional data models, implementing and maintaining OLAP cubes, and creating information displays used in business decision making.

    Price based on the country or region in which the exam is proctored.

    We strongly recommend that you register for an exam with a personal MSA account. If you register with an organizational (work/school) AAD account, your exam records will be lost if you leave your organization and they will be unrecoverable.
    for Implementing Data Models and Reports with Microsoft SQL Server

    All objectives of the exam are covered in depth so you'll be ready for any question on the exam.

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** Complete this exam before the retirement date to ensure it is applied toward your certification. After the retirement date, please refer to the related certification for exam requirements.