Microsoft Workshops That End in Something You Can Actually Do
One focused day, one working outcome. Each workshop maps to a Microsoft Applied Skills credential — a lab-based, exam-free Microsoft badge your delegates earn by doing the work, not sitting a written exam. Delivered live by an AZ-305 & AZ-104 certified Microsoft Certified Trainer, online worldwide or in-person across South Africa.
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AI Fast-Start
The fastest route from “we should do something with AI” to a team that has actually built one. Three back-to-back workshops that leave each delegate with a working AI agent, the skills to keep it safe, and the automation to put it to work — plus two Microsoft Applied Skills credentials.
Tell us about your AI Fast-Start needs- Build an Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio — leave with a working, published no-code AI agent
- Secure AI Solutions in the Cloud — the guardrails and governance that keep AI safe to deploy
- Automate Processes with Power Automate — wire the agent into the flows that run the business
- Two free Microsoft Applied Skills credentials earned across the programme — Microsoft retired the Copilot Studio assessment in July 2026, so that day is skills-only
- All practice runs in free Microsoft trial environments — nothing to license up front
Private team option. Run the whole programme in-house for one team of up to 6 — R37,500 for all three days (saves R6,000 against booking the days separately), scheduled around your calendar. Additional delegates R1,450 each per day.
Payment. Invoiced on booking — EFT or card/Instant EFT via PayFast for South African clients, or card via Payoneer for international clients.
Per Delegate
Join a scheduled online cohort. Ideal for individuals and one or two people from a team.
- Live, instructor-led full day (~7 hours)
- The free Microsoft credential, where the workshop carries one
- Session recording & follow-up resources
- Minimum 4 delegates to run a public date
- Founding-cohort rate — held at R2,950 to 31 December 2026
AI Fast-Start
The three AI workshops as one programme — the quickest way to make a team genuinely AI-capable.
- Copilot agent + Secure AI + Power Automate
- Two Microsoft credentials earned
- Saves R1,900 vs booking singly
- Private team of 6: R37,500 for all three days
Private Team Day
One workshop delivered just for your team, online or on-site, tailored to your environment.
- Dedicated full day for your team alone
- Content tuned to your real estate & examples
- Free Microsoft credential for every delegate, where the workshop carries one
- Additional delegates beyond 6: R1,450 each
Choose Your Workshop
Fourteen hands-on workshops across the skills South African and international teams are actually hiring for. Every price shown is per delegate for a public date — the same workshop runs as a private team day at R14,500 for up to 6. Prices exclude the Microsoft credential, which is always free.
Build an Agent in Microsoft Copilot Studio
The flagship AI skill. Go from an empty canvas to a working, published no-code agent tied to a real business process.
- Build, test and publish a working agent in the day
- Design topics, actions and knowledge sources
- Connect the agent to Teams and publish it to real users
Secure AI Solutions in the Cloud
The conversation every board is now having: how do we deploy AI without opening a hole? Guardrails and governance, done hands-on.
- Configure AI security controls with Defender for Cloud & Foundry
- Apply guardrails, monitoring and compliance posture
- Earn the free APL-5009 credential
Automate Processes with Power Automate
Kill the repetitive work. Build automated flows that connect the apps a business already runs on — and give your AI agent something to actually do.
- Build multi-step automated flows end to end
- Connect Microsoft 365, approvals and business systems
- Earn the free APL-7002 credential
Accelerate Development with GitHub Copilot
AI pair-programming that actually ships. Explain, document, refactor and test real code with Copilot Chat alongside you.
- Drive Copilot Chat through real coding tasks
- Explain, refactor, document and generate tests
- Earn the free APL-2007 credential
Build AI Solutions with Azure PostgreSQL (RAG)
The pattern behind every serious AI product: retrieval-augmented generation. Build it hands-on with embeddings and semantic search.
- Implement embeddings, semantic search and RAG
- Ground an AI model in your own data
- Earn the free APL-3019 credential
Microsoft Sentinel Foundations for Azure Teams
Get Sentinel deployed properly on an Azure estate — connected to the right data sources, with ingestion costs under control and your first analytics rules working.
- Deploy Sentinel and connect Azure and M365 data sources
- Design ingestion scope and keep log costs predictable
- Build your first analytics rules and workbooks
Defender for Cloud & Compliance
Prove your cloud is compliant. Secure Azure services and workloads against real regulatory controls, with the posture reporting to show it.
- Secure workloads with Defender for Cloud
- Map to regulatory compliance controls
- Earn the free APL-5002 credential
Information Protection & DLP with Purview
Find the sensitive data you already hold, label it, and stop it walking out the door. The practical answer when someone asks what you are actually doing about POPIA.
- Discover and classify sensitive data across Microsoft 365
- Build sensitivity labels and auto-labelling policies
- Create DLP policies that hold up in practice
- Earn the free APL-5003 credential
Deploy & Configure Azure Monitor
See what your cloud is actually doing. Build the metrics, logs, alerts and workbooks that keep an Azure estate honest.
- Configure metrics, logs, alerts and workbooks
- Build dashboards that surface real problems early
- Earn the free APL-1004 credential
Secure Access with Azure Networking
Lock down how workloads are reached. Network security groups, private access and segmentation done the way a review would want to see it.
- Configure NSGs, private access and segmentation
- Secure workload access end to end
- Earn the free APL-1002 credential
Entra ID Identities & Access
Who can reach what, and why. Users, groups, roles, MFA and conditional access in Microsoft Entra ID — the layer every other control depends on.
- Manage users, groups, licences and role assignments
- Configure SSPR, password protection and MFA
- Review and test conditional access policies
- Earn the free APL-0501 credential
Secure Azure Files & Blob Storage
Company data sits in storage accounts long after everyone forgets who opened them. Lock them down properly — access, tiers, encryption, networking and data protection.
- Configure storage accounts, redundancy and secure transfer
- Set blob tiers, lifecycle management and data protection
- Add encryption, private endpoints and storage firewalls
- Earn the free APL-1003 credential
Administer Active Directory Domain Services
The domain most South African businesses still run on. Domain controllers, users, groups, OUs and group policy — plus the security housekeeping that keeps AD healthy before it ever syncs to the cloud.
- Deploy domain controllers and transfer FSMO roles
- Manage users, groups, OUs and the AD recycle bin
- Create GPOs and apply fine-grained password policy
- Earn the free APL-1008 credential
Create Canvas Apps with Power Apps
The fastest win for non-developers in any organisation: build and publish a working business app, no code required.
- Build and publish a working canvas app
- Connect data and design a usable interface
- Earn the free APL-7001 credential
What every delegate needs. A laptop, a current browser and stable broadband — nothing more. The hands-on labs run in Microsoft’s own cloud, so your machine doesn’t need to be powerful. A second screen (or a phone/tablet as a second screen) makes the hands-on courses far easier, letting you keep the lab instructions in view while you work.
What’s included. Live instructor-led delivery, all practice environments on free Microsoft trials, a session recording, follow-up resources, and guided preparation for the free Microsoft Applied Skills assessment — which each delegate completes in a free, Microsoft-hosted lab.
How the credential works. Applied Skills are earned by completing real tasks in a lab, not by sitting a written exam. The credential and the assessment are free and never expire — the workshop is the guided path to earning it with confidence.
Payment & scope. Invoiced on booking — EFT or card/Instant EFT via PayFast in South Africa, or card via Payoneer internationally. Private team days assume up to 6 delegates and one organisation; additional delegates are R1,450 each, and larger cohorts are quoted after a quick call.
No VAT is charged — Bam Cloud AI is not a VAT vendor, so the price shown is the price you pay. Rates are per delegate for a public date unless stated otherwise. Any on-site travel is quoted and agreed before you book. Microsoft Applied Skills credentials are provided free by Microsoft and are subject to Microsoft’s catalogue, which is refreshed periodically — this page is reviewed quarterly. Rates valid for 2026.