Certification exam updates and dates

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What's coming

1. 31 December 2026 Exam retiring Italian version of SAA-C03 retiring AWS will retire the Italian language version of the Solutions Architect - Associate exam after December 31, 2026. The certification itself, its exam code and its objectives are unaffected, and AWS names no successor exam. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · AWS · Read more

What changed

October 2026

1. 29 October 2026 Documentation updated SAA-C03 · SAA-C03 exam guide 1.1: Amazon Elastic Transcoder leaves the in-scope list Version 1.1 of the SAA-C03 exam guide, dated October 29, 2026, removes Amazon Elastic Transcoder from the in-scope services and drops five services from the out-of-scope list. Domains and objectives do not change. AWS says guide updates appear about a month before the exam reflects them. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · AWS · Read more
2. 29 October 2026 Documentation updated AIF-C01 · AIF-C01 exam guide 1.2: out-of-scope service list trimmed Version 1.2 of the AIF-C01 exam guide, dated October 29, 2026, removes six services from the out-of-scope list. The in-scope services, domains and objectives do not change. AWS Certified AI Practitioner · AWS · Read more
3. 19 October 2026 Objectives updated DP-600 · DP-600 objectives updated on October 19, 2026 Microsoft's study guide for DP-600 now lists skills measured as of October 19, 2026, and that is the version the English exam measures from today. It replaces the objectives dated July 21, 2026. The guide's change log rates every change as minor or none. Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate · Microsoft · Read more
4. 19 October 2026 Objectives updated DP-700 · DP-700 objectives updated on October 19, 2026 Microsoft's study guide for DP-700 now lists skills measured as of October 19, 2026, and that is the version the English exam measures from today. It replaces the objectives dated July 21, 2026. The guide's change log rates every change as minor or none. Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate · Microsoft · Read more
5. 19 October 2026 Objectives updated DP-750 · DP-750 objectives updated on October 19, 2026 Microsoft's study guide for DP-750 now lists skills measured as of October 19, 2026, and that is the version the English exam measures from today. It replaces the objectives dated March 11, 2026. The guide's change log rates every change as minor or none. Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Azure Databricks · Microsoft · Read more
6. 15 October 2026 Exam retiring AIF-C01 · Italian and German versions of AIF-C01 retired AWS retires the Italian and German language versions of the AI Practitioner exam after October 15, 2026. The certification itself and its objectives are unaffected: the exam guide is still version 1.1, dated April 30, 2026. AWS Certified AI Practitioner · AWS · Read more

August 2026

1. 28 August 2026 Documentation updated SAA-C03 · SAA-C03 exam guide 1.0 published AWS started versioning the SAA-C03 exam guide with version 1.0, dated August 28, 2026. The domains and objectives are the ones in force since August 30, 2022. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · AWS
2. 6 August 2026 Documentation updated Data Engineer Associate · Data Engineer Associate exam guide revised on August 6, 2026 Databricks replaced the exam guide for the Data Engineer Associate with a revision dated August 6, 2026. The exam version is unchanged (May 4, 2026), and so are the seven sections and their weights. The revision renames some products, adds unscored items and a renewal exam to the exam details, and replaces the sample questions. Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate · Databricks · Read more

July 2026

1. 24 July 2026 Objectives updated PL-900 · PL-900 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for PL-900 lists its current objectives as of July 24, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals · Microsoft · Read more
2. 21 July 2026 Objectives updated DP-600 · DP-600 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for DP-600 lists its current objectives as of July 21, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate · Microsoft · Read more
3. 21 July 2026 Objectives updated DP-700 · DP-700 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for DP-700 lists its current objectives as of July 21, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate · Microsoft · Read more
4. 21 July 2026 Objectives updated DP-900 · DP-900 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for DP-900 lists its current objectives as of July 21, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals · Microsoft · Read more
5. 20 July 2026 Objectives updated AZ-900 · AZ-900 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for AZ-900 lists its current objectives as of July 20, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Azure Fundamentals · Microsoft · Read more

May 2026

1. 4 May 2026 Objectives updated Data Engineer Associate · Exam guide dated May 4, 2026 Databricks' exam guide for the Certified Data Engineer Associate states it covers the exam version as of May 4, 2026. That is the version the exam measures today. The guide carries no revision table, so earlier versions have no published dates. Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate · Databricks

April 2026

1. 30 April 2026 Objectives updated AIF-C01 · AIF-C01 exam guide 1.1 published AWS published version 1.1 of the AIF-C01 exam guide on April 30, 2026. AWS notes that guide updates appear about a month before the exam reflects them. AWS Certified AI Practitioner · AWS · Read more
2. 20 April 2026 Objectives updated PL-300 · PL-300 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for PL-300 lists its current objectives as of April 20, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate · Microsoft
3. 17 April 2026 Objectives updated AZ-104 · AZ-104 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for AZ-104 lists its current objectives as of April 17, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Microsoft Azure Administrator · Microsoft
4. 16 April 2026 Objectives updated AI-103 · AI-103 objectives published Microsoft's study guide for AI-103 lists its current objectives as of April 16, 2026, across five domains: planning and managing an Azure AI solution, generative AI and agents, computer vision, text analysis, and information extraction. Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure · Microsoft

March 2026

1. 26 March 2026 Objectives updated AIF-C01 · AIF-C01 exam guide 1.0 published AWS published version 1.0 of the AIF-C01 exam guide on March 26, 2026. AWS Certified AI Practitioner · AWS
2. 11 March 2026 Objectives updated DP-750 · DP-750 objectives updated Microsoft's study guide for DP-750 lists its current objectives as of March 11, 2026. Anything the exam measures today comes from that version. Implementing Data Engineering Solutions Using Microsoft Azure Databricks · Microsoft

August 2022

1. 30 August 2022 Objectives updated SAA-C03 · SAA-C03 objectives in force since August 30, 2022 AWS dates the current SAA-C03 objectives to August 30, 2022, in its own announcement of that update. The exam guide carries no change history and the certification page states no date, so this announcement is the only official surface that fixes it. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · AWS

Exam status

Where each exam stands today. «Not published» means the vendor doesn't state a date for its objectives, not that we haven't looked.

Dates come from each vendor's published documentation, linked on every row. Last checked: 8 November 2026.