Microsoft Azure For Absolute Beginners

Key Takeaways

[Music] hello everyone welcome back to geeksforgeeks my name is muskana garwal and yes this is a very interesting webinar so i hope all of you must have already seen what this webinar is about from the title of the webinar itself so we have ranga with us who is going to you know tell about microsoft azure for beginners and you know he is also a content creator at udemy and comes with a lot of experience so like even i am a newbie in this field so even i am very interesting interested to you know learn different different things about cloud computing and microsoft is there as well but before i add him to the stream just confirm me in the comment section if i'm perfectly visible and audible because i do not want any network glitches in this particular webinar just give me a thumbs up and i will not waste a lot of your time and will quickly add him to the stream just give me a thumbs up if i'm perfectly visible and audible then we can start thank you yeah thank you for coming to geeksforgeeks and you know sharing about microsoft azure cloud computing devops i am sure that even i have a lot to learn in this field and i'm really looking forward to this webinar it's a pleasure it's a pleasure muslim glad to be here yes so i hope all of like all the viewers that are there will already know about you because you're a content creator at udemy and you know doing such great work but still for the audience who do not know about you can you give us a brief introduction about yourself yeah sure i founded in 28 minutes almost five years back and today we teach almost a million learners on udemy we teach varied range of topics starting from programming spring spring booth java python and like over the last few years we have shifted out to devops and cloud so we teach certification courses on aws azure google cloud and also we have courses on docker kubernetes so almost most of the things which are happening in the uh like in the cloud and devops world today we actually create courses around them so that's basically what i do create content that is really great i hope it is helping a lot of student community that is out there thank you so much for doing it i hope so thanks a lot so talking about cloud computing as a beginner can you tell like if i am like someone who's just started or you know i just know the term cloud computing can you explain what cloud computing is for an absolute beginner absolutely right so cloud computing is nothing but somebody else's computer right usually like what enterprises do is they have their own data center where they deploy applications too but when i'm making use of the cloud or cloud computing as they call it i'm making use of infrastructure which is present somewhere else maybe aws is hosting a few servers or azure restore hosting a few servers or google cloud is hosting a few servers so instead of deploying my applications to my own data center i am deploying my applications to a data center which is present somewhere else right so that's basically what cloud computing is all about deploying applications to some other like uh to to infrastructure which is hosted somewhere else yeah sounds really interesting and also a lot of companies are you know adopting this cloud computing technology so like why do you think cloud computing is necessary and why is everyone shifting towards it absolutely right let's take two very very simple use cases uh number one let's look at a startup right let's say that startup is now let's say having 1000 users but suddenly one day they went viral and they want to now support 100 000 users right so they need infrastructure to support that if they are actually having infrastructure in their own data center it's very very difficult for them to get the infrastructure set it up and support 10 like one lakh users at the same time right that's the reason why you would see a lot of startups today use cloud because they can start small and if they become successful they can easily expand out and increase the number of servers they want also look at the perspective of an enterprise let's look at the use case too right enterprise like for example amazon itself is a very very good use case right during shopping uh peak periods right let's say diwali sale or new year sale there are a lot number of like there are there is much more number of users on the website than let's say at midnight at 12 o'clock so the amount of infrastructure they would need to support a peak volume might be three or four times the amount of infrastructure they need to support the minimum amount of volume right so what enterprises and startups used to do before the cloud was they used to provision servers for peak volume so whatever is the peak they have infrastructure ready for it and that's expensive because you need to have infrastructure bought ahead and what is the guarantee that you are able to guess it right right you might be expecting hundred thousand users but it might end up that you have a million users that you it's very very difficult to predict a lot of times right so like that was the problem the challenge was in like like you were not sure how much infrastructure you want to get and also managing this infrastructure also is a headache you need to have a team to maintain it and it's not like infrastructure can live forever right the computer i'm making use of today is useless five years down the line so the same is the case with infrastructure you need to keep upgrading the infrastructure over a period of time and this is not what the enterprises want to focus on right if there's an insurance business or a shopping business or some other business they want to focus on their business not on infrastructure so that's what that's what cloud enables so cloud enables a lot of flexibility for enterprises and startups and that's why it is becoming really popular these days definitely and i think it is something that you know we should learn like i think it is the need of the future so yeah this is something that everyone should know about different absolutely absolutely then talking about microsoft seo what this webinar is about can you tell what microsoft azure actually is and like if you have to explain it to the beginner because i'm sure like most of the viewers are watching this are just getting into this field absolutely yeah azure like if you look at the cloud platforms which are popular right the most popular one today i would say is a competition between aws and azure and the other one which is popular is google cloud these are the three top cloud providers and azure is offering from microsoft and uh azure is like uh as good as all the other two right so azure provides you with a lot of services around 200 plus services it provides you variety of services whether you're talking about compute services storage databases machine learning data engineering so whichever field you talk about azure offer services in that specific niche right so azure uh like since the time satya nadella took over i would say azure has started doing really really well before satya nadella it was not so much like aws was really the leader but since the time satya nalala came in he started focusing a lot more on the cloud and azure started becoming uh one of the top two if now i think i would say competing for top one so like for a beginner i think the important thing for you to know is that there are three cloud platforms aws azure and google cloud and it does not matter which one you which one you learn right all these three cloud platforms will do really really well because like we're talking about aws versus azure i see a lot of videos on youtube you know azure versus aws and so like what do you think are the pros and cons like if you have to specify any three cons of microsoft azure what will it be yeah see um uh the way we would need to look at it muskan is like two perspectives right one is enterprise second is learners uh how do learners make a choice learners make the choice based on okay how many jobs will be available is that an interesting job is that something i like right so that those would be like some of the factors that a beginner would take into consideration before they would choose which cloud platform and as far as i am concerned i teach both like all three aws azure and google cloud because i think all three will be among the top five even 10 years down the line right it does not matter which cloud it is aws azure google cloud i mean the order might change it might be like instead of aws being number one azure might be like maybe google cloud is number one nobody knows that right so the order of which cloud platform is more frequently used will change but the number of jobs in each of these will be only going up so from a learner's perspective i don't think it's very very important for them to really worry about the differences between these when they are choosing which one to learn right let's look at it from an enterprise perspective right from when you are an enterprise and you are choosing whether you want to go for google cloud or you want to use azure or you want to use aws right one of the main factors that people take into consideration is are they a microsoft shop or not a lot of enterprises use only microsoft technologies if you are using microsoft technologies like microsoft sql server and all the tooling around that then the recommended cloud for them to go to is azure right so if you are using microsoft related things already you are a microsoft shop go for azure does not it's a very simple thing however like let's say if you're looking for analytics or if you're looking for machine learning and things like that and also if you're looking at running kubernetes when it is one of the popular content orchestration platforms those are the places where uh it like google cloud is good at right so other than that for most of the other cases i think i would say all the three cloud platforms are really good in terms of features it's mostly like the decisions enterprise mostly make decisions based on not actually the features not just the features but also in terms of cost and a lot of other factors which will go into picture right so the decision for an enterprise is pretty complex but the reason for a learner is very simple choose one of them it does not matter which one choose one of them and you will not be wrong yeah definitely ah right also is it easy to shift from one like uh like suppose i'm learning aws right now and then i have to shift to azure so how easy it is to shift from one platform to another right this is another frequently asked question for me right so a lot of people are interested in moving between the clouds right for beginners probably the comparison would be between languages right let's say you learn java very well and you want to learn python you would see that if you know java really really well shifting to python is very very easy however if you don't know java well and you try to shift to python you'll only be confused so so the way i think about it is you should know a cloud very very well before you move into another cloud so i would say if i'm working on aws today right i would want to work on aws for at least a year couple of years go have a good understanding of all the services which are present in there have a good understanding of how you can practically use aws before you move into any other cloud but once you learn aws really really well moving to azure or google cloud is very easy it's not difficult but it's important to focus on one it's just the terminology which is different the concepts are pretty similar you should not shift very frequently otherwise it will be like you're trying everything but like your master of none right so yeah master one and then sure and also you will not be able to make sense right so one of the key things when you want to learn something well and you want to remember it for a long time right whenever you're trying something new repeating doing it again and again over a period of time is very very important for you for your brain to register something it takes time it's not like i read aws today i cleared a certification i'll remember everything about it a week down the line or a month long down the line right we tend to forget and the only way you can remember that over a long time is to use it over a long time so if you use the knowledge you gained on aws for a long time one year or two years then it would ensure that all the knowledge you have gained will be useful for later part of your career otherwise it might just be useful for a certification and you forget it it will not be useful for it anymore also as you mentioned that you know azure is growing day by day so like what could be the possible reasons for it like what are what what are all the changes that they have made or like what are the reasons basically why azure is growing exponentially yeah i won't say azure is growing faster than other cloud providers but azure is growing fast let's put it that way right azure is definitely going fast because in my opinion actually google cloud is the fastest growing cloud right so the reason why azure is going fast is because cloud is growing really really fast a lot of enterprises today are moving towards the cloud right today almost i would say 70 to 80 of the enterprises are already making use of the cloud and like even the other ones will use the cloud very very soon and even the enterprises which are making use of the cloud today maybe they are making use of the cloud only for five or ten percent of their applications but going forward it would increase 20 30 and i would say in another five to ten years almost 80 to 90 percent of all the enterprises and 80 80 to 90 percent of all the applications will be running in the cloud and this is irrespective of the kind of workload right whenever we talk about applications typically we think it's web application or full stack application right it's not just that you can also think about machine learning workloads you can also think about data engineering workloads you can think of any other kind of iot things right lot of those are finally like the servers for them are finally hosted on the cloud and that's the reason why like uh cloud is growing very very fast because it's not just the infrastructure but also let's say you want to implement something like machine learning or iot or data engineering cloud is providing you with so many services that implementing machine learning in the cloud is much easier than implementing machine learning without using the cloud and also there is a lot of additional infrastructure benefits which are provided by the cloud which makes it very very easy to run things and that's the reason why enterprises are adopting cloud and that's the reason why each of the cloud platforms is growing right azure has a big advantage in terms of a lot of people already are using microsoft technologies azure also has azure is part of microsoft right and microsoft has a lot of enterprise startups with large enterprises so those are another couple of factors which really really work in favor of azure yeah so like if i have to get started with working on microsoft azure so what are the prerequisites or what are few of the things that i should already know before you know i start using it right so if you want to get started with the cloud i would recommend you to be uh like i'm talking about technical folks right so let's say you want to be developing applications and deploying them in uh azure or you if you want to architect applications for azure so we are talking about technical roles right i mean azure can be used by technical people and non-technical people as well like there are people like business analysts there are people like sales people testers those also can make use of the cloud and for them there is hardly any prerequisite but if you would want to be able to deploy applications to the cloud if you want to make use of devops services in that kind of a scenario it's good to have experience developing applications before right if you have programming experience if you have applications like experience building applications web applications or full stack applications that is very very useful when you go to the cloud you don't need to be master like that but any programming that you have will really be useful when you go to the cloud okay i can see there are a lot of questions in the comment section so yeah maybe let's try to take a few of the questions sure yes so uh people are asking what is the benefit of cloud computing i think you have already taken up this question but still if you want to tell any three points three of the benefits of using cloud computing exactly like typically low cost like allowing you to focus on your business and not on infrastructure and also making implementation of uh very difficult things easier for example machine learning or like if you want to run kubernetes or if you want to implement a data engineering workload those kind of things are much more easier in the cloud okay then there's a question around azure versus aws again i think we've already discussed about it like if you're a beginner choose anyone instead of you know deciding which one to choose exactly if you're not sure look at what kind of support you have right so if you know seniors who have done a specific cloud and who are doing well and you you're sure you'd be able to get their help when needed go for it go for that specific cloud it does like it's about finding out in your circle where can you find help for which cloud do you think you will get really good support for because then your job search also will become easier right then i had this one question that if you have to state any three commonly made mistakes that you know you see that students make when they are getting started with cloud computing or when they are learning it in their initial phases what are they yeah number one is the one which we already talked about switching from one cloud to another cloud without knowing a specific cloud really really well so i would recommend you to focus on a specific cloud understand it really really well before you move into another cloud so spend some time making that choice but once you make that choice stick to it that's number one uh number two i would say is a lot of people think learning cloud is difficult actually learning cloud is very very easy if you are able to learn programming like i would like i am a believer that learning programming takes years however learning cloud takes a few months right so to be really really good at programming takes a long time but cloud is nothing but somebody else's computer you need to understand security you need to understand networking and you need to understand some of the services which are present in the cloud but using the cloud is much much more easier learning cloud is much much more easier so that's number two and number three is not going hands-on with it very very soon right so a lot of beginners just focus on the certifications certifications are good but it's very very important to have hands-on knowledge you should know how to deploy applications to the cloud you should build a github profile for yourself so it's very very important to demonstrate your experience with using a cloud provider and that's where i think github profiles really really help so if you have a github profile where you actually have a list of projects you have deployed to cloud and you made use of them i think that would be a great thing to add so in addition to certification certifications do help but don't stop with certifications go further and actually deploy applications to the cloud and learn that you're learning while doing i think this helps me also a lot like if i have to learn something i'll try to make a smallest project in that and that is how i learn absolutely that and also it helps you to remember things for a long time right thing is if you don't do it and uh like if you like they say like this is my favorite quote kind of right so if you read something uh you might remember it for a few days but if you read and do it then you will remember it for a few weeks if you read do it and you revise it once every few days then you will remember it forever right so it's about do like if you do it and you kind of revise it quickly once in and off like very often then it really really helps for example today like i like one of my tasks i set myself is to remember all the aws services google cloud services and azure cloud services so what i do is i have a printout and this is a 25-page printout so i keep looking at it once in a while so that i remember that so if somebody says what is the kubernetes service in aws i can immediately say it's eks right so that's like that's what i want to be able to build and because i do it repeatedly now i know almost all the cloud services names which use case what is the right scenario to use them across multiple clouds without a confusion and that's only possible because i started with one cloud and now like i added slowly otherwise in and i continuously revise that also talking about learning i think there are so many uh courses available online on you know for cloud computing devops and different aws microsoft azure and as a student sometimes it is very overwhelming like i do not know what course to choose so what will you suggest and also there are like paid courses and there are free courses so like how should i differentiate between the two which one should i take and which one should i not exactly right so one of the most important things that somebody who's getting into i t need to learn is what works for them what kind of learning approach works for them is the most important thing that you can figure out right earlier like when i was starting my career as you said the only things which i had was books and that's what i used to read right i use books even today most of the times i use books to read that that's what makes me happy and also that's what i like so that's the thing which i worked out for myself if i want to go and see some kind of demo and that kind of stuff i go online but most of the other times i go for books but that's something which works for me similar to that you need to figure out what works for you right it's not a question of free or paid course the most important question you need to ask is how much time you are investing right a lot of people don't take the their own time and the cost associated with their own time right so if i was working for eight hours i would be able to earn x amount of amount instead of that i'm learning right if i'm using a free course and i'm spending additional 10 hours or 20 hours because of that then i'm wasting my time right so that also is a balance that you need to start thinking about right it's not about if you think something is really really good and you learn the fastest that way you should not hesitate to invest a little bit of money and go towards that but that does not mean that all paid courses are better than free courses right so there are there is amazing free content out there whether we talk about youtube whether we talk about azure documentation itself there is a lot of amazing documentation for example microsoft learn offers amazing documentation on each of the azure certifications if you want to do az 900 dp900 or ai 900 any of the beginner certifications or even in the advanced azure certifications the azure learn portal provides you with a lot of things right and the second thing is azure also offers a free tire like each of the cloud platforms offer a free tire azure also offers you with a free tire so you can use azure for free uh like if they provide you with almost 200 of free credit you create an account give them credit card and debit card details and you would be able to use azure uh for a for almost a month without paying anything right so that's another opportunity with every beginner can make use of now like what works like i think the options are very very easy right so the options are documentation reading like the microsoft learn like documentation that's one place you can start a lot of videos on youtube these days there is amazing content out there if you just search for az900 you'd see a lot of really good videos related to that you can go to coursera you can go to udemy right my courses are hosted on udemy uh but i would say all the platforms offer amazing courses right so it's about working out what works for you because cloud or like programming or devops is just the first thing you are learning over a period of your career like if you are getting into it the learning is never ending right like when i started off my journey probably if i knew java that was more than sufficient but today the expectation are if you want to get into industry there are a lot of things you would need to know and the only way you can learn all that is by learning on your own that's the fastest way and you need to work out what is the best thing that works for you so i would rather say try and figure it out for yourself uh i would say uh like one of the best approaches i would suggest is like take a week one day like if i'm learning something azure right uh azure is something which is really really important for mac career it's not something if i choose to learn azure then it means i would want to use azure for a long period of time so i would be ready to invest a little bit of time to choose what works for me so what i'll do is i'll spend two hours reading the documentation i'll spend two hours next day looking at youtube videos maybe i'll trial a udemy course i'll trial a course error course right and see what is the thing which i learned the most from what is the thing which kept me engaged what is the thing that interested me and then continue with that approach because unless you trial all you don't know what is the advantage of which one right so just go give it a try and see what works for you so figuring that out is very very important and as a learner as a beginner as somebody who's starting off their computer science careers right that's the number one thing you would want to focus on what is the thing which works for you do you like reading books do you like watching videos courses or is there a specific instructor you like right so try and figure that out and if you are able to find an instructor who you like and if they are covering a lot of subjects related to what you are trying to learn that's the best thing because you don't after that you don't really have a problem right so that's the question right figuring out what is the most efficient way to learn for you and that's difficult that's not easy right it takes a few months typically for you to figure out um i think you are on mute yeah really sorry about that yeah i'm saying i was saying that something might that will work for us might not work for you so like each and every one have to try it on their own right exactly okay so then priya is asked also is it mandatory to practice to buy the subscription um actually uh to buy is not needed actually you will get a free subscription if you actually uh create a new account so if you create a azure account you get a free subscription and the free subscription i think will be valid for 30 days and after that if you'd want you can buy a subscription then priya has asked that she's a java back-end developer with 10 years of experience so what azure courses would be good for her she has worked on azure app services logic apps and function apps awesome awesome i think that means she has really good experience on azure like i would recommend like i i think you can skip the fundamental level certifications i don't think az 900 dp900 and ai 900 would have any value for you i would recommend you to go with either the developer or the architect certification so like i think those one of those certifications might be a really good starting point for you priya i think because you are experienced you don't want to go to the fundamentals unless you are interested in going towards data or other things i think it's better to go towards architecture because you have significant experience so i would say probably i would recommend architect certification azure architect certification might be the best fit for you so then uh the questions are repetitive guys we have already uh like whatever question i can see in the comment section we've already answered those in the initial half so maybe you can watch the video after the stream has ended on youtube and yes your questions are answered so people are asking what are one of the tops like three of the top skills for a cloud engineer that the company is looking for when they are hiring for these roles right so i think the uh first thing is like having some demonstrable experience right so having a applications that you have deployed on the cloud and making them as part of your github profile so that's number one so having real time experience using the cloud and being able to demonstrate that so that's number one uh typically if you look at most of the beginners they would be playing with compute services like basically like compute services are basically like your virtual machines right so you would like for example if i would want to deploy an application the first thing i would need is a computer and uh like typically like the servers are huge and on the same server you can create a number of uh virtual servers virtual machines and that's why these are called virtual machines so virtual machine is the most basic compute service other than that uh azure also provides you with a number of manage services like priya was saying app services azure app services is one of the many services azure also provides a kubernetes service right so those might be some of the best places for people who are building applications to start and another area where you might want to dive deeper it's into databases right a lot of us have played with a lot of in databases like mysql oracle and things like that so you can create a database in the cloud you can like azure also has nosql databases so you can play with nosql database as well cosmos db in azure so those might be some of the places where you can start one of the important things is when you are going towards the cloud it's very very important to understand how the security of the cloud works and also how networking works in a cloud typically we don't worry about them if we are not using the cloud because like a lot of times those are automatically taken care of for you but when you're going to the cloud you need to have a good understanding of networking and security as well so i would start with compute storage databases networking and security so those would be the services i would want to start off with so that i can build applications deploy and play with it yeah so i hope your question was answered priya then alfred is asked that cloud engineering is becoming a top skill and he needs to add it to his skill set so where should he start and azure or aws again and what is the best path for this exactly right so if i would say if uh like either of them aws or azure is the best place to start right there's no one answer to it right if you look at it a lot of things are like like that right aws azure or google cloud java or python or javascript like there are if you are good at any of those you have jobs waiting for you full stack or web application or mobile or artificial intelligence or machine learning data engineering any of these if you are in the top five percent of people you will get jobs you will get really really good jobs but the question is always it's not about uh what to choose but what do you like what do you think you can be in the top five percent for right that's the question you need to ask yourself uh if there are 100 people pursuing something which of these can you be in the top five percent for and that's that's how you need to choose right let's say you chose that and let's say the answer came out to be azure right in that case i would say if you have no idea about azure i would say the azure fundamental certifications would be the best place to start with azure az 900 azure fundamentals az dp900 azure data fundamentals and ai 900 azure ai fundamentals those would be the three certifications you can start with i think the great thing about those certifications is that they give you a complete overview of the cloud they give you a complete overview of the technology landscape as well you will understand what are containers container orchestration what is data engineering what is artificial intelligence what is machine learning like and the entire landscape and then you can deep dive into any of the things which interests you so after doing these three certifications if you think okay i would want to go deeper into data there are data certifications you if you think okay no i would want to go into compute there are specific certifications related to that or if you think architecture is what you like you can go towards architect certifications so yeah start with the fundamental certifications and then go into like one of the deeper areas and most importantly whether you're pursuing certifications or not it's very very important to make sure that you are doing hands-on so whatever applications you are building so if you are building a web application or if you are building a full stack application if you are building a mobile application you need to know how to put it to azure how to deploy it to azure right so that skill you need to definitely have yes and talking about certifications i can see a lot of questions like where can they practice questions for az 900 certification exam if you can suggest cool so i think there are a lot of practice tests which are available for az 900 right so if you go and udemy and just search for practices there are huge number of practice tests which are available in az900 even our course like at the end of our course there is a practice test which is available uh typically i would say az900 is a easy exam right so if you understand so if you understand like whatever is taught as part of the course or if you completed the azure learn website completely it is very very difficult to fail that exam then uh neeraj is asked that as a data engineer which cloud database should he learn as a beginner okay so i would say like if you are starting off from zero and if you have no uh like knowledge about uh data engineering at all i would say dp900 azure data engine data fundamentals would be the best place to start and like uh one of the most important things that you need to learn is how to choose a database so like depending on the use case you would want to go for a relational database analytical database or a nosql database so you need to learn how to make that choice if i would have to pick one database probably you can start with a nosql database cosmos db i think that might be a good place to start exploring all the nosql options which are present in especially because today nosql is becoming much more popular definitely then if you have to suggest any best book or documentation for aws for beginners or any online course that you can suggest for it i doubt uh like i i have not actually like i've read certification books on aws but i don't think they are the best books for a beginner to start they expect you to have certain knowledge and then they take you to like much more expertise so i doubt if there are any really good books on aws for beginners um but as far as the online courses go i think aws has a good uh like course on its own like if you just search for aws cloud practitioner on google you should land up on the energies course for cloud practitioner uh and obviously i have my own courses as well so we have our courses on udemy which you might want to try you can see if you like them right so yeah i think uh there are a lot of options out there uh i would recommend you to actually try and figure out what works for you yeah as you already mentioned try everything and then in the end choose whatever you find the best different exactly then ask do network management and cloud go together absolutely absolutely i think cloud when you go to cloud networks is very very important because think about this right earlier enterprises used to have their own data center therefore if i am deploying my application on a specific machine i can be sure that that machine only has applications running from my enterprise i know that uh it does not have any applications which are running from uh which belong to some other enterprise but today that's not the case right my uh the server which i am deploying my application to might be having uh like virtual machines belonging to other customers as well and therefore security is very very important and network management is very very important part of ensuring security so creating vnets creating subnets understanding how routing works that's very very important this is not like very deep networks like switching and all that stuff might not be needed but having a high level overview of network management is very very important uh i've taken all the questions that were there in the comment section we will wait for another 10 seconds if there will be any other question also like i'm also a beginner so i'm also getting to learn a lot like i don't know much about this field so yeah this was very helpful for me as well thank you yeah i think like cloud is something which is uh really here to stay right so it's very very important uh i mean if you are looking at from somebody who wants to build a technical career i would say programming is the number one thing that they would want to focus on right you want to be good at developing applications you want to be able to good you want to be good at solving problems so that's what you need to focus on initially but once you're good at it i think then cloud helps you really really like to take your profile to the next level right and as you mentioned initially that students generally think that you know learning cloud is difficult i think i also think the same but yeah like you you said that if you learn programming then like you can learn cloud in one month i think that has really motivated me and i will try to learn it from now i mean uh like my courses like for example my a 900 course is titled az900 in a weekend dp900 in a weekend a 900 in a weekend that's how confident i am that people can complete them in a weekend right so i'm saying if you work for 20 hours you should be able to get one of those certifications those are not difficult at all especially if you have a little bit of technical knowledge if you know how computers work if you know little bit of programming knowledge uh i'm pretty confident that you'll be able to easily get those certifications but important thing to realize is that there's the starting point certifications are just the starting point but once you get that knowledge you need to use that to get the practical thing definitely i think we have taken all the questions so before i end this webinar if lastly you would want to give any three tips to the students who are planning to start with cloud computing or any tips you have for them yeah see if you are choosing a technical career number one thing you need to understand is that things will change uh if i'm saying azure is popular today five years down the line something else might be popular so the important thing that you need to understand is that if you're getting into technical careers you are setting yourself up for lifelong learning you have to keep learning uh almost continuously throughout your career and therefore it's very very important to work out what learning approaches work for you right so try and figure out what works for you what is the most efficient approach that works for you so that's the number one thing number two uh whenever you're learning something whenever you're trying to choose something try and spend some time and choose one thing right if i'm let's say choosing between aws azure and google cloud spend some time while you make the decision uh like typically like i divide it into two phases right whenever i want to learn next thing the first thing is the decision making phase the second thing is the learning phase suppress the decision making phase from the learning phase right decision making making phase let's say i give five days so in those five days i find all the information i need like spend all the time talk to people figure out what i want to learn but once i figure out what to learn i don't worry about it the next thing is getting into the learning phase lot of people actually mix these two faces continuously decision making learning decision making learning decision making learning you end up learning nothing right so it's very very important to be clear about what you want to learn you cannot learn everything which is out there you cannot learn hundred different tools which are popular today the important thing for you to understand is that whichever things we talked about in this today or whichever things we are talking about on the gfg channel right any of those topics if you are in the top five percent for you will get a job you will get a really really good job but the important thing for you to decide is which one of them is something which interests you and something you can be in the top five percent for once you make that decision focus on it and become the top five percent you don't switch a lot from here to there so yeah those would be the two things i would uh recommend people to follow right so spend some time choosing once you choose be stable with that decision thank you so much for you know for your valuable advice i hope it helps out a lot of students who are you know getting started in this field or you know they were working professionals as well whose doubts were solved thank you so much for doing it thank you thanks a lot muskan thanks for having me thank you thank you so much guys who are watching this for staying till then i can see a lot of student a lot of students and people who are still there so thank you so much for joining with us we will see you in the next webinar thank you yes thank you so much again guys for joining and yes we have provided the link for the course though so do not forget to register for the cloud computing course and it covers a lot of different aspects of cloud computing devops it is really amazing do not forget to register for that and yes i will see you in the next webinar till then bye