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AZURE DEVELOPER LEAGUE

Learn Faster – Upskill on new tech – Achieve Higher Goals

Are you ready to join the league of India's extraordinary developers?

Join the league to advance your career, earn recognition, and validate your technical knowledge for current and future industry job-roles. Develop in-demand technical skills on AI, DevOps, IoT, Security, Cloud Native, Kubernetes and take the next step in becoming a subject matter expert.

Sign up today to participate in some fun and friendly learning competition and to receive access to an exciting calendar of virtual events, SME sessions, career guidance chats with Microsoft leadership, and opportunity to work on industry inspired projects.

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Learning can be fun and rewarding.

At different stages of the competition, you also stand a chance to win exclusive collectibles, free exam vouchers, surface devices, cool swag including gaming consoles and a cash prize.*

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Check out the rules and regulations for more competition and prizing details.*

Learn. Build. Win.

Master the most in-demand skills and advance your career.

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Round One in the competition includes completing a set of learning modules under the Cloud Skills Challenge and updating your Microsoft Azure skills on LinkedIn.

Invest in your learning and get started on cloud-centered certification learning path with seven individual challenges within the Azure Developer League Cloud Skills Challenge contest. Each challenge is a curated collection of Microsoft Learn modules featuring topics on AI, DevOps, IoT, Security, Cloud Native, Kubernetes and related tech.

Register for and complete as many of the challenges as you'd like. With every challenge you complete, you’ll earn an entry into the monthly sweepstake for a chance to win a Surface Go, free exam vouchers to help you on the certification path and exclusive Azure Developer League Jersey.*

Get started in 6 simple steps:

Create a Microsoft Learn Account

Choose your Cloud Skills Challenge

Complete the Challenge and update your skills on LinkedIn

Share your updated LinkedIn url here.

Qualified participants will earn entry into the monthly sweepstake

To sign up for multiple challenges and stay up to date with Azure Developer League leader boards, make sure to opt-in to program emails under the registration form.

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Ready to stretch those learning muscles and apply your skill set?

Round Two in the League is a Hackathon Challenge which will take place on the HackerEarth platform and is sponsored by Microsoft.

In this Hackathon challenge, we are looking for solutions focusing on industries that kept India moving during the pandemic and to celebrate the spirit of sustainability and social entrepreneurship that was at the forefront during the crisis.

Join the Azure Developer League and hack to empower India.

There are cash prizes worth INR 10.5 lacs to be won. Plus, a chance to own an exclusive Azure Developer League Jersey and cool spot awards including gaming consoles and smart watches*. You could also get an opportunity to host your own session at a Microsoft virtual event.

For more details and to sign up for the Hackathon challenge click here

To stay up to date with upcoming events and spot awards, make sure to opt-in to program emails under the registration form.

Cloud Skills Challenge Collection for Azure Developer League 2021

Azure Administrator

Learn how to administer your cloud environment effectively across compute, networking, storage and security.

DevOps and GitHub

Learn the fundamentals of GitHub and design strategies for collaboration, infrastructure, source control, security, CI, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

Cloud Security

Learn how to implement security controls and threat protection, manage identity and access, protect data, applications, and networks in the cloud.

Well-Architected Applications

Learn how to design and build secure, scalable, high-performing solutions in Azure.

Data Science and AI

Learn the basics of data science and how to design and implement machine learning models in Azure.

Cloud Native Development

Learn how to build scalable cloud-native apps with Azure fully managed services and microservice based cloud-native architecture.

Azure for Developers

Learn about deploying web apps on the cloud, accelerating development via serverless and interacting with different kinds of data & storage. Get the essential knowledge and skills you need for a career in cloud development.

Sign up for the Azure Developer League Program:

To unlock full benefits of the program, please provide your Microsoft Learn Username
Changing your username during the challenge will break the journey and you may lose your progress

Register today

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About Azure Developer League
Round 1 | Cloud Skill Challenge
Round 2 | Hackathon
Rules & Regulations

The program is divided into two rounds.
- In Round 1 – the participants have to complete the learning modules under “cloud skills challenge.”
- In Round 2 – the participants will choose any one of the Hackathon problems statements and hack on it.

The Cloud Skills Challenge is hosted on Microsoft Learn, which provides free, interactive learning through a combination of bite-sized tutorials, browser-based coding/scripting environments, and task-based badges and trophies.

Get started in 4 easy steps:

Step 1: Sign up for the Azure Developer League program Upon submission of the form, you will be redirected to the cloud skills challenge page.
Step 2: Add yourself to the leaderboard by joining any one of the given challenges.
Step 3: Start your learning journey.
- Complete all modules within your selected challenge.
- Use the leaderboard specific to your challenge to track your progress of the required modules.
Step 4: Update your LinkedIn skills and earn bragging rights. Once you complete your first Azure Developer League challenge, update your Azure skills on LinkedIn and share your LinkedIn url here for a chance to enter the monthly sweepstake.

All valid entries qualify for the monthly sweepstake for a chance to win either one of the Surface Go devices, limited-edition Azure League jersey, free exam vouchers.
With every challenge you complete, you’ll earn an entry into the sweepstake for a chance to win one of mentioned prizes. T&C apply

The Hackathon Challenge is hosted on HackerEarth platform. For participating in the hackathon challenge you will be redirected to the HackerEarth microsite.

In this round you will apply your skills and learning from Round 1 to solve any of the problem statements listed on the hackathon challenge microsite.