Whizlabs Blog - Online Learning Place for Cloud Professionals

From cloud certification to real skills and capabilities

Go From Cloud Certification Ready To Building Real Capabilities

Why Passing an Exam is the Beginning of Career Transformation, not the End! Congratulations, you passed! Maybe it was AWS. Maybe Azure. Maybe an AI cloud certification you spent three months preparing, putting your heart and soul into it. Spending your evenings after work, and practising tests until the questions stopped surprising you. You passed. You posted it. Updated your LinkedIn profile. And… Then, when you walked into an interview, or a new role, or your first real production environment, something felt different from what you expected. The questions the interviewer asked didn’t look like practice questions. The environment didn’t […]

Go From Cloud Certification Ready To Building Real Capabilities Read More »

Microsoft's latest AI launches: Are we entering agent era?

Microsoft’s Latest AI Launches: Are We In the Agent Era?

Cloud Computing / By Hamsha Vhardhni R

Microsoft’s latest AI launches arrived fast. In a matter of weeks in 2026, it shipped five: Copilot Cowork Microsoft Scout Agent 365 Microsoft IQ New Microsoft 365 E7 AI announcements have become a daily occurrence, so one new tool from Microsoft would be easy to shrug off as background noise. But Microsoft did not ship one. It shipped five in about a month, and all five are about the same thing: AI agents and the systems to run them. When a company moves this fast, all in one direction, it is not random. Rather than looking at these launches in

Microsoft’s Latest AI Launches: Are We In the Agent Era? Read More »

Cloud Training Costs: AWS, Azure & GCP Team Budgeting

Cloud Computing / By Ragul Prakash

Six weeks into your team’s cloud certification training program, your finance department forwards you a cloud invoice with a one-line question at the top: “What is the excess cloud cost?” It’s a couple of thousand dollars heavier than last month, and nobody can say why. Two days of digging later, you have your answer. It’s a single instance, one of your cloud engineers spun up to practice for an exam and never switched off. That invoice is the real cost of cloud training, and it’s the one no spreadsheet saw coming. The exam fees were budgeted. The study subscription was

Cloud Training Costs: AWS, Azure & GCP Team Budgeting Read More »

Best Data Engineer Certification in 2026: Full Guide

Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databricks, Microsoft Azure / By Prabhu Subramanian

Let me ask you something straight. If a recruiter called you today and asked “which data engineering platform are you strongest in?“ What would you say? Most people pause at that question. Not because they don’t have experience. But because they’ve never actually stopped to think about which direction they want their career to go. AWS? Azure? Databricks? You’ve probably already searched this. Read the comparison posts. Watched the YouTube videos. And you’re still not sure which certification is actually worth your time in 2026. Here’s the truth nobody tells you clearly: most people compare certifications the wrong way. They

Best Data Engineer Certification in 2026: Full Guide Read More »

What Career Does MLA-C01 Lead To? Read This Before You Start

Machine Learning / By Hamsha Vhardhni R

What is Machine Learning? Before you commit weeks to MLA-C01, it helps to know what the certification actually leads to. To get there, we need to start by understanding what machine learning is. Normally, when we want a computer to do something, we write out the exact rules. If this, then that. Machine learning flips that. Instead of giving the computer the rules, you give it a lot of examples and let it work out the pattern on its own. Say you run a food delivery app and you want to suggest to people the food they are likely to

What Career Does MLA-C01 Lead To? Read This Before You Start Read More »

How to Pass AWS SOA-C03 CloudOps Engineer Associate Exam?

AWS CloudOperations / By Mythili Sivakumar

If you work in cloud operations: managing infrastructure, keeping systems healthy, automating deployments, handling incidents, the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate (SOA-C03) is one of the most directly relevant certifications you can earn. The exam doesn’t validate you for theories but analyses your AWS services knowledge and experience to test whether you can operate, monitor, automate, secure, troubleshoot, and recover in real-world conditions that cloud operations professionals deal with every day. In this guide, let’s walk you through everything you need to know to prepare for and pass the AWS SOA-C03 exam – from what the exam covers, how the

How to Pass AWS SOA-C03 CloudOps Engineer Associate Exam? Read More »

DP-900 vs AZ-900 vs AI-901: Which Should You Take First?

Microsoft Azure / By Prabhu Subramanian

Let’s be honest when you first Google “Azure certifications for beginners,” you end up more confused than when you started. Three exams. Similar names. Same beginner level. All from Microsoft. All under $200. So what’s actually different between them, and more importantly, which one should you start with? That’s exactly what this guide answers. No fluff, no jargon overload, just a clear breakdown of DP-900 vs AZ-900 vs AI-901 so you can make a confident decision and actually move forward. Why These Three Certifications Confuse Everyone Here’s the thing: AZ-900, DP-900, and AI-901 look almost identical on paper. All three

DP-900 vs AZ-900 vs AI-901: Which Should You Take First? Read More »

AZ-700 vs AZ-104: Which Should You Take First?

Microsoft Azure / By Prabhu Subramanian

You’ve spent years working with firewalls, VPNs, network connectivity, and routing. And now your organisation is moving to Azure, which puts you in an interesting position. You know networking inside out, but the cloud version of it feels like a different language. So you start looking at certifications. AZ-700 jumps out immediately. It’s an Azure networking certification. That’s exactly what you do. Why would you look at anything else? But then someone tells you to take AZ-104 first. And suddenly you’re confused, because AZ-104 is for Azure administrators not network engineers. Why would you study storage accounts and virtual machines

AZ-700 vs AZ-104: Which Should You Take First? Read More »

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations CCA-F Exam Guide

Claude / By Mythili Sivakumar

Anthropic’s First Architecture Certification CCA – F: What’s it, What It Tests, Who Should Take, and How to Prepare. AI adoption isn’t slowing down. But the gap between teams that deploy AI and teams that architect it responsibly is getting wider. The new Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam bridges this exact gap. The certification is built to validate candidates’ system thinking, strategic AI adoption decisions, and build the kind of enterprise architecture that holds up in production. This guide breaks down what the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations Exam tests, who it’s built for, skills, exam format, preparation strategy

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations CCA-F Exam Guide Read More »

What Is Agentic AI? And Why NCP-AAI Is the Cert for It

Nvidia / By Hamsha Vhardhni R

We all have used AI and we all think we know AI at this point. It summarises emails, answers questions, creates documents and more. It has become part of how a lot of us work and honestly, some of us have started seeing it like a coworker and would love to CC it on our emails. Most of us have a working understanding of AI. That understanding is accurate. But it is incomplete. The AI that is being built and deployed inside enterprises right now works differently from the AI most of us interact with daily. It does not just

What Is Agentic AI? And Why NCP-AAI Is the Cert for It Read More »