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How to Add Your Microsoft AI Certification to LinkedIn in 2026 (and What Happened to Credly)
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Examinotion Team21 Aug 2026

How to Add Your Microsoft AI Certification to LinkedIn in 2026 (and What Happened to Credly)

How to add your Microsoft AI certification to LinkedIn in 2026 using Microsoft Learn, why Credly is no longer the badge path for Microsoft exams, and how employers verify your credential.

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How to Pass Microsoft AB-620 on Your First Attempt (2026 Guide)
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How to Pass Microsoft AB-620 on Your First Attempt (2026 Guide)

A first-attempt preparation guide for Microsoft AB-620, the AI Agent Builder Associate exam. Covers the three weighted skill domains, exam format and scoring, in-exam Microsoft Learn access, the retake policy, and a hands-on Copilot Studio study plan.

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Examinotion Team
13m19 Aug 2026
AB-650 Exam Guide 2026: How to Pass the Microsoft 365 AI Services Administrator Beta
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AB-650 Exam Guide 2026: How to Pass the Microsoft 365 AI Services Administrator Beta

Stepping into the world of AI administration is an exciting career move, but beta exams can certainly feel a bit daunting! The new AB-650: Administering Microsoft 365 and AI Services exam is Microsoft's forward-looking credential, effectively replacing the MS-102 (which retires in October 2026).

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Examinotion Team
14m17 Aug 2026
AB-620 vs AB-410: Which Microsoft AI Builder Certification to Take in 2026
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AB-620 vs AB-410: Which Microsoft AI Builder Certification to Take in 2026

AB-620 builds and integrates the agent; AB-410 builds the low-code app the agent lives inside. A 2026 guide to choosing between Microsoft's two associate AI builder certifications.

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Examinotion Team
15m14 Aug 2026
AB-650 Exam Guide 2026: Administering Microsoft 365 and AI Services
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AB-650 Exam Guide 2026: Administering Microsoft 365 and AI Services

AB-650 is Microsoft's new AI Services Administrator Associate exam, currently in beta. This guide covers the skills measured, the three exam domains and their weightings, the 700 passing score, prerequisites, how AB-650 compares with AB-900 and AB-620, and how to prepare.

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Examinotion Team
14m12 Aug 2026
AB-410 Practice Questions and Answers: 2026 Intelligent Applications Builder Prep
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AB-410 Practice Questions and Answers: 2026 Intelligent Applications Builder Prep

Seventeen original AB-410 practice questions with worked answers, grouped by the three official 2026 Intelligent Applications Builder exam domains.

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Examinotion Team
22m10 Aug 2026
AB-620 Practice Questions and Answers: 2026 Sample Exam Walkthrough
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AB-620 Practice Questions and Answers: 2026 Sample Exam Walkthrough

Ten original AB-620 practice questions with worked answers, covering agent planning, Copilot Studio integration and lifecycle management, plus the question formats, open-book rules and scoring facts you need before booking.

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Examinotion Team
20m7 Aug 2026
AZ-204 Has Retired: The AI-200 Migration Guide for Azure Developers (2026)
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AZ-204 Has Retired: The AI-200 Migration Guide for Azure Developers (2026)

AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure retired on 31 July 2026, replaced by AI-200: Developing AI Cloud Solutions on Azure. A domain-by-domain comparison of both skills outlines, what your existing credential is still worth, and how to redirect a part-finished study plan.

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Examinotion Team
25m5 Aug 2026
AB-410 Exam Guide 2026: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate
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AB-410 Exam Guide 2026: Intelligent Applications Builder Associate

Everything Microsoft publishes about Exam AB-410, plus what it does not. Domain weightings, the 31 August 2026 PL-200 deadline, the AB-100 path and a four-week plan.

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Examinotion Team
23m3 Aug 2026
AI-500 Exam Explained: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert (2026)
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AI-500 Exam Explained: Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert (2026)

Microsoft's AI-500 beta exam earns the Multi-Agent AI Solutions Expert certification. Skills measured, the AI-103 prerequisite and how to prepare.

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Examinotion Team
19m31 Jul 2026
Microsoft Exam Passing Score Explained: What 700 out of 1000 Really Means in 2026
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Microsoft Exam Passing Score Explained: What 700 out of 1000 Really Means in 2026

Every Microsoft certification exam passes at 700 out of 1000, but that is a scaled score, not a percentage. This 2026 guide explains scaled scoring, partial credit, unscored trial questions, the score report bar chart and the retake clock, sourced entirely from Microsoft Learn.

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Examinotion Team
16m29 Jul 2026
AB-900 Data Protection and Governance: Microsoft Purview, Copilot Oversharing and DSPM for AI Explained (2026)
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AB-900 Data Protection and Governance: Microsoft Purview, Copilot Oversharing and DSPM for AI Explained (2026)

Data protection and governance is the largest AB-900 domain at 35-40% of the exam, and the one Microsoft Learn covers least. This 2026 guide explains Microsoft Purview, how Copilot respects permissions, DSPM for AI and SharePoint oversharing remediation, sourced entirely from Microsoft documentation

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Examinotion Team
24m27 Jul 2026
Microsoft AI Exam Updates, 22 July 2026: What Actually Changed
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Microsoft AI Exam Updates, 22 July 2026: What Actually Changed

Microsoft refreshed four AI certification skills outlines on 22 July 2026: AB-730, AB-731, AB-900 and AB-100. Every logged change is terminology rather than new content, verified against archived copies of each study guide from before the refresh.

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Examinotion Team
21m24 Jul 2026
How to Study for AB-100 in 30 Days: A Study Plan for the Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect Exam (2026)
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How to Study for AB-100 in 30 Days: A Study Plan for the Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect Exam (2026)

A structured 30-day study plan for Microsoft's AB-100 Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect exam. Four weekly blocks cover the Plan, Design and Deploy domains, weighted to the exam blueprint, plus prerequisites, open-book strategy and timed revision.

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Examinotion Team
14m22 Jul 2026
Microsoft Copilot Types Explained (2026): M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot and More
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Microsoft Copilot Types Explained (2026): M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot and More

Microsoft attaches the Copilot name to several separate products. This 2026 guide maps every major Microsoft Copilot type, from M365 Copilot and Copilot Studio to GitHub Copilot and Security Copilot, and the certification that covers each.

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Examinotion Team
14m20 Jul 2026
AB-100 Prerequisites: The Real Path to Microsoft's Agentic AI Architect Certification (2026)
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AB-100 Prerequisites: The Real Path to Microsoft's Agentic AI Architect Certification (2026)

What you actually need before Microsoft AB-100, the Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect certification: the required Associate prerequisite, why AB-730 and AB-731 do not qualify, and the AI-103 route that does.

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Examinotion Team
15m17 Jul 2026
AB-900 30-Day Study Plan: Pass Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals in 2026
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AB-900 30-Day Study Plan: Pass Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals in 2026

A structured 30-day study plan for Microsoft's AB-900 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals exam. Four weekly blocks cover core Microsoft 365 objects, Microsoft Purview governance, Copilot and agent administration, and timed mock exams.

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Examinotion Team
16m15 Jul 2026
How to Build a RAG Application on Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry (AI-103 Hands-On Guide, 2026)
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How to Build a RAG Application on Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry (AI-103 Hands-On Guide, 2026)

A hands-on 2026 AI-103 tutorial for building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline on Azure AI Search and Microsoft Foundry. Index and chunk your data, run vector, hybrid and semantic search, ground a Foundry model, then evaluate, all mapped to the exam skills outline.

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Examinotion Team
20m13 Jul 2026
Copilot Studio vs Azure AI Foundry: Which to Use to Build AI Agents (2026)
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Copilot Studio vs Azure AI Foundry: Which to Use to Build AI Agents (2026)

A 2026 comparison of Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry (now Microsoft Foundry) for building AI agents: low-code versus pro-code, models, data grounding, channels, governance and pricing. Covers when to use each, their integration, and related AI-103 and AB-620 certifications.

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Examinotion Team
17m10 Jul 2026
AI-901 in 30 Days: A Week-by-Week Azure AI Fundamentals Study Plan (2026)
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AI-901 in 30 Days: A Week-by-Week Azure AI Fundamentals Study Plan (2026)

A realistic four-week AI-901 study plan for Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals. It maps the new two-domain skills outline and the free official Microsoft Learn paths onto a week-by-week schedule, weights the hands-on Microsoft Foundry work correctly, and covers scoring, fees and exam-day logistics.

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Examinotion Team
14m8 Jul 2026

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