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Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

nauman_a_butt — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:56:49 GMT

Hi i am planning on taking my Exam in few weeks, i took the exam in May, 2025 using the Associate_Certification_Learning_Path, which was in a PDF document covering following topics

Foundational Platform Capabilities

Reporting and Analysis

Log Investigation

Traces

Synthetics

Security

Kubernetes Infrastructure

Infrastructure Observability

Cloud Integrations

Business Analytics

User Experience Monitoring

Automation

Dashboards

but now its showing up as interactive online content and not all of the Topics are covered e.g DQL, Automation, Traces, dashboards etc
https://university.dynatrace.com/learn/learning-plans/31/dynatrace-essentials-learning-plan?_gl=1*i7jzjh*_gcl_au*MTEwOTQxNDkzNy4xNzU1NTMxNTc2*_ga*NjY3NTM1MjUzLjE3NTU1MzE1ODA.*_ga_1MEMV02JXV*czE3NTU1MzE1NzkkbzEkZzEkdDE3NTU1MzU3MzYkajYwJGwwJGgw

Can you please help me pointing to the right exam Preparation guide!!

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

p_devulapalli — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:55:56 GMT

@nauman_a_butt That's interesting , looks like it was updated after recent DT University portal update . I don't think taking just that course would be good enough to clear the exam. Not sure why the previous learning path was removed and replace with this course , may be someone from Dynatrace can clarify.

I would still rely on the earlier PDF leaning path as its more detailed and covers a broad set of topics unless the associate certification has been really trimmed down, which I highly doubt 😄

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

deni — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 08:27:08 GMT

I also plan to take this exam in the next few weeks. I suspect that it is really different from the previous ones. I watched also the Foundation For Partners and one of my colleagues told me to check (he used it for his exam some time ago) - dynatrace-associate-certification-exam-practice - but seem that the questions don't much this learning path.

I plan to go to the Q&A session for partners and to ask: Partners Q&A: Office hours

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

nauman_a_butt — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:21:35 GMT

I also had a DT University Support Ticket opened and i got the following response back:
"Thank you for reaching out. All information regarding the Dynatrace Associate Certification exam can be found on the Dynatrace Associate Certification Preparation tab. More specifically the Dynatrace Essentials Learning Plan is listed to complete prior to taking the exam for preparation".

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

deni — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:58:49 GMT

Thanks for the information @nauman_a_butt . So seems that they really changed the certificates content. But I'm sure that there is also this self place training which is required for the live hands-on training. This information can be found here: https://partners.dynatrace.com/#/page/associate-certification

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

deni — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:12:47 GMT

Today I was on the Q&A session ( @nauman_a_butt — if I remember right you were also there, so please correct me or add anything if I’m missing something. I just want to share this for anyone else reading and looking for the answer)

The lecturer explained the following:

To prepare for the certificate, we should follow this path: Associate Certification → Foundation for Partners (self-paced training), and after that Hands-On Foundation for Partners.
The Dynatrace Essentials Learning Plan is for Customers, not for Partners. However, it also covers some of the content from Foundation for Partners.
I’ve watched both, and can confirm what the lecturer said. The nice part is that the Essentials also include labs — very similar to those in the Hands-On Lab — and they can be completed anytime in the Playground.

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

Carl_Me — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:24:02 GMT

Hello, I'm preparing for the certification exam. I attempted it in March 2025, but it seems the certification exam has changed.

I just finalized the "learning path" that is now offered, and some elements are missing in this new version: SLO and Distributed Traces.

Many of us don't really understand the level of learning that is required. Personally, I found the March 2025 exam to be very comprehensive, with very targeted questions. Is this still the case?

In short, do you have any experience with this new version of this exam?

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

Ediennvictor — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:29:39 GMT

Everyone,
Currently, with the new version of the test, the best study material is the Dynatrace Essential Learning Plan courses. Practice in the demo environment. Following the attached PDF will give you a good foundation.

I'll look for some documents I have related to the certification.

But I reiterate that I carefully followed and reviewed the PDF, used the activities at the end, and practiced extensively. This new version is more complex, but with a good study period, it works.

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

Shiva_t — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:51:07 GMT

In the Associate Certification page I find the Dynatrace for Practitioners training that I intend to do in preparation for the certification - I hope that is the correct training. But in point 4 of the prep plan, "Download the official preparation document from the Dynatrace Associate Certification Preparation course" the link does not take me to the official preparation document, but instead takes me to my partner dashboard. Is it possible to share the document please?

Re: Dynatrace Associate Certification Exam Preparation August 2025

t_pawlak — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:51:40 GMT

Hi, when it comes to preparing for the exam, from experience I can say it’s worth practicing DQL in a demo environment. Review how services, key requests, and synthetics work, as well as logs and their parsing. Also brush up on workflow basics.