Have Azure Certifications and Looking for an MCT Course? The Professional Opportunity Is Now Much Bigger.
Your Professional Opportunity Is Bigger Now.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
Build professional teaching, facilitation, coaching, and knowledge-transfer capabilities that extend your subject expertise.
Your Azure certification establishes technical expertise
Your Azure certification establishes technical expertise. Now build the professional instructor capability to explain, demonstrate, facilitate, coach, and transfer that expertise to other people.
You Already Have the Expertise. Now Build the Capability to Transfer It.
Technical Certification Is the Foundation. Professional Capability Expands What You Can Do With It.
Azure certification can demonstrate what you know about cloud technology. Professional instructor development strengthens your ability to make that knowledge useful to other people.
The Question Used to Be: “What MCT Course Comes After My Azure Certification?”
The Question Used to Be: “What MCT Course Comes After My Azure Certification?”
Today there is a larger professional question: How do you turn Azure expertise into professional instructor capability that remains valuable wherever your career takes you?
Microsoft controls the Microsoft Certified Trainer program, including its current eligibility, enrollment, renewal, and credential requirements.
FDTEC focuses on the professional capability underneath the credential conversation—the ability to communicate, facilitate, coach, present, solve problems, engage people, and transfer expertise effectively.
That capability can complement your Microsoft expertise without being confined to Microsoft
That capability can complement your Microsoft expertise without being confined to Microsoft.
You Earned the Azure Certification. Now Develop the Professional Behind the Certification.
Technical credentials can validate expertise. Professional instructor capability determines how effectively that expertise can move from you to someone else.
Explain cloud architecture, services, security, data, AI, and operations with greater clarity.
Structure technical demonstrations so people understand both the process and the reasoning behind it
Structure technical demonstrations so people understand both the process and the reasoning behind it.
Guide discussion, practice, scenarios, and technical problem solving instead of relying on passive delivery.
Use purposeful questions to uncover understanding and develop stronger technical reasoning.
Help professionals work through uncertainty, errors, technical decisions, and application challenges.
Adjust communication for engineers, administrators, customers, managers, and other professional audiences
Adjust communication for engineers, administrators, customers, managers, and other professional audiences.
Help people understand how Azure decisions connect with security, data, operations, cost, and business requirements.
Move beyond presenting information toward building understanding, application, and capability.
FDTEC recognizes that serious professional expertise can be demonstrated through both credentials and real-world professional experience.
Azure and other Microsoft certifications can provide a strong subject-matter foundation for professional…
Azure and other Microsoft certifications can provide a strong subject-matter foundation for professional instructor development.
FCI then develops the professional capabilities required to transfer that expertise effectively.
Professional expertise is not demonstrated by certification alone. Relevant real-world professional experience can also provide the foundation for FCI.
FDTEC was the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
For more than two decades, FDTEC worked at the intersection of technical expertise and professional…
For more than two decades, FDTEC worked at the intersection of technical expertise and professional instruction—helping technology professionals develop the communication, facilitation, presentation, coaching, questioning, problem-solving, and knowledge-transfer capabilities required to teach other professionals effectively.
That experience revealed something that remains true regardless of which technology is being taught: knowing the technology and teaching the technology are different professional capabilities.
Azure changes. Microsoft changes. Technology changes. The human capability required to transfer expertise remains.
Brand recognition is one thing. Twenty-five-plus years of professional instructor-development experience is another.
FDTEC's professional instructor-development perspective has been shaped through experience across major…
FDTEC's professional instructor-development perspective has been shaped through experience across major technology and professional ecosystems.
Expertise Creates Value. The Ability to Transfer Expertise Multiplies It.
Azure certification and professional cloud experience establish what you know and what you can do.
Communication, facilitation, coaching, questioning, presentation, feedback, adaptability, and problem solving strengthen your ability to develop other people.
Candidates Qualify Through One Accepted Pathway
One accepted pathway means you need only one of these three.
1. Relevant Certification
A recognized technical, industry, professional, occupational, or other relevant certification.
2. 1+ Year Relevant Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience in the candidate’s field of expertise.
3. Employer Verification
Employer verification confirming relevant professional expertise.
Certification OR Experience OR Employer Verification
Questions About Professional Instructor Certification
Who can qualify for FDTEC Certified Instructor™?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a recognized relevant certification, one or more years of relevant professional experience, or employer verification of relevant expertise.
Is AI training included?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included.
What is the difference between Standard FCI and Capstone Verified?
Standard FCI includes the self-paced certification program and assessment. Capstone Verified adds applied performance validation.
How long is FCI valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months, with a streamlined renewal process.
Professional Instructor Development for a Larger Market
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.