I previously blogged about Microsoft certification changes, and since then there have been some new Microsoft Big Data certifications exams released:

Already live:

70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R

70-774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning

70-775: Perform Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure HDInsight

Now in beta:

70-776: Perform Big Data Engineering on Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Stream Analytics)

70-778: Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI

A few other related notes:

• There are Community Guides to help people prepare for the exams for 773-775 on the Learn Analytics Training Portal.
• Many Training Partners provide training on topics leading to certifications.
• 773 and 774 taken together realize the MCSA in Machine Learning
• 775 and 776 taken together realize the MCSA in Data Engineering with Azure
• 778 and 779 taken together realize the MCSA in BI Reporting
• 773, 774, and 775 can be taken to obtain the MCSE: Data Management and Analytics