Hi there!

Welcome to my personal blog! My name is Karl and I am a developer with many (strange?) opinions.

I rarely write anything, but when I do, I mostly write about technology related topics. My main topics of iterest is Microsoft Azure and systems programming. I dont think they could be more different than that.

My latest blog posts:

AZ-301 to AZ-304 Exam Changes


February 17, 2020

Fourth one out in this little series about the 2020 Azure certification exam changes is the new AZ-304 exam that will be replacing the old AZ-301 exam. The new Skills Measured document that currently are under development can be read at Microsoft’s Certification pages. A link to that document can be found here: Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design - Skills Measured This new exam has one less section than the old AZ-301.
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AZ-300 to AZ-303 Exam Changes


February 16, 2020

Third one out in this little series about the 2020 Azure certification exam changes is the new AZ-303 exam that will be replacing the old AZ-300 exam. The new Skills Measured document that currently are under development can be read at Microsoft’s Certification pages. A link to that document can be found here: Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies - Skills Measured Right of the bat there is one change that I would have expected, but that did not happen.
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AZ-203 to AZ-204 Exam Changes


February 15, 2020

Second out in this little series of the 2020 Azure certification exam changes is the new AZ-204 exam that will be replacing the old AZ-203 exam. When I was reading trough the new AZ-204 Skills Measured I quickly noticed that this new exam has a lot of changes from the old AZ-203 exam. There are however some strange changes in my opinion: requirement for Azure SQL and Azure Table Storage knowledge has been removed.
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AZ-103 to AZ-104 Exam Changes


February 14, 2020

First out in this little series of the 2020 Azure certification exam changes is the new AZ-104 exam that will be replacing the old AZ-103 exam. First of the bat when I skimmed trough the new Skills Measured document I could see that there are some large changes from the AZ-103 exam. It is not a total revamp, but there are some changes to important areas like Monitoring and Networking.
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2020 Azure Certification Changes


February 2, 2020

On the 24th of January 2020 Microsoft announced changes to some of the more known Azure certification exams. The announcement was given with this blog post: Updates to Several Azure and Data & AI Certifications are Coming Soon As many might already know, the norm for Microsoft is to revise the the exams every 2 months and have a look at the syllabus once a year. This revision of the syllabus warranted a change in the exam numbers for some exams.
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