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Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
Write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage, and provision resources in the SQL API and SDK with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
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Last Updated
04/20/2026
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Overview
As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.
Your responsibilities for this role include:
- Designing and implementing data models and data distribution.
- Loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database.
- Optimizing and maintaining the solution.
As a professional in this role, you integrate the solution with other Azure services. You also design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements.
As a candidate for this certification, you must have solid knowledge and experience with:
- Developing apps for Azure.
- Working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies.
- Creating server-side objects with JavaScript.
You should be proficient at developing applications that use the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL API. You should be able to:
- Write efficient SQL queries for the API.
- Create appropriate indexing policies.
- Interpret JSON.
- Read C# or Java code.
- Use PowerShell.
Additionally, you should be familiar with provisioning and managing resources in Azure.
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Exam policy
This exam will be proctored. You may have interactive components to complete as part of this exam. To learn more about exam duration and experience, visit: Exam duration and exam experience.
If you fail a certification exam, don’t worry. You can retake it 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes, the amount of time varies. For full details, visit: Exam retake policy.
Assessed on this exam
- Design and implement data models
- Design and implement data distribution
- Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution
- Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution
- Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution
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This exam is offered in the following languages:
English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional), Italian
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