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Prepaid $50 Visa Gift Card - Microsoft Azure Challenge

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Microsoft is running a Azure Challenge. You will have to do some labs on Azure and answer a question at the end. Each Lab has 50 points and after earning 250 points you can claim a $50 prepaid visa card as a reward. Nice learning new skills plus some money. The challenge will end in 16 hours so hurry up.
If you complete more labs there are other prizes on offer while stocks last.

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  • +2

    how long did it take you to complete?

    • +1

      Also do you have to pay attention to the lab or can you just skip to the end and attempt the question/s?

    • Part skill, part race – complete short 20 minute labs and a question to get your points. Redeem your points for amazing prizes – but you have to be fast, *prizes are limited.

    • About 3 hrs. Azure is slow sometimes, some lab instructions are quite detailed and takes time to follow.

    • +1

      I managed to get 250 points in about 10 minutes, you can work out the answers to some of the pretty easily if you just skim read the notes given.

  • +1

    Is the gift card emailed online or shipped?

    • +1

      Shipped

  • +5

    Who wants to post answers to the labs and help OZb out :p

    • +1

      the questions and answers change for different users

  • +2

    Shouldn't this be in the competition forum?

  • cool. will do it at work :p

  • +2

    $50 is USD or AUD?

    • +1

      USD but not sure whether it's eligible for Australian residents.

  • Guessed 3 out of 5 answers so far!

  • You need an azure subscription right?

    • +1

      not to answer the questions! Gift card redeemed

      • what about to redeem the reward?

  • Got it. 4 out of 15 multiple choice with educated guesses and a bit of help from google. The odds are in your favour.

  • (ships in 4-6 weeks )

  • +1

    REWARDS
    There are a limited supply of each Reward, available on a first come first served basis based on the time / date stamp when the redemption request was received. Limit 1 of each Reward per person, email and household.

    Reward Supply
    Azure Pass ($100/1 month) 500
    Azure Pass ($250/1 month) 100
    PrePaid Visa Gift Card 200
    Azure Pass ($500/1 month) 50
    BoomPods Bluetooth Airpod Headphones 175
    Zoom Folding Bluetooth Keyboard 175
    Solo Bluetooth Headset 100
    Jabra Speakerphone 75
    Surface 3 5

  • Started doing it, but decided it's not worth it for a $50 prepaid credit card in 4-6 weeks.

  • +5

    Its out of stock…

  • Definitely not worth doing it and getting it all correct for the Surface. But guessing 5 out of 15 questions was a piece of piss (and you could do it with just random guessing)

    • Surface is out of stock anyway.

      • There were only 5 available - I bet they were all gone within the first few minutes.

  • yeah, when in doubt put B, worked like a charm, but out of stock already… pity

    • Lol I chose B for 5/8 questions and they we're all wrong! Not worth my time

      • pity, we must have gotten different questions…. haha i redeemed the Boompods Bluetooth Travel Headphones

        • +1

          I started doing it properly, then gave up and semi-educated guessed my way to 7/15. Got the headphones as well.

  • +1

    On lab one, trying to create a Ubuntu VM and it won't let me select a virtual machine size.

    "Unable to display virtual machine sizes".

    Stupid Azure.

  • +3

    At least Azure was nice enough to indicate what prizes are out of stock before everyone wastes their time for a bag of MS branded jelly beans at the end.

  • +1

    gift cards out of stock

  • Questions were fairly straightforward if you knew what was going on.

  • +1

    This trick was to best guess you way through as many questions as you can to get the 250 points then claim the card before they're gone.

  • I only have 100 points

    :/

  • +1

    That sucks. Ordered the travel headphones instead

  • Your Resource Group VMinCode contains all the resources you created. How many resources are in this group at the end of the lab?

    • +1

      5

  • Got a keyboard to help fill up my junk draw…

  • All gone

  • went for the keyboard, thanks op

  • gift cards gone

  • -1

    How Many Runbooks do you have in your automation account?

    • Guessed three.. Wrong..

      • Guessed 4, wrong.

        So you have a 50% chance now ccwwayne.

        • Guessed one; wrong.

  • the trick is to Ctr F a key word in the LAB…ended with 500

    • :) did the same thing. got the headphones.

  • Out of stock about 2min before I finished the 5th module :(

  • Went for the ugly headphones, are you supposed to get like a confirmation email or anything?

  • Same here, went for the Bompods Bluetooth Travel Headphones.

    The questions aren't hard, just open the pdf and you will find the answers in most of the pics.

    I am not from an IT background but I can still manage to get 500 pts.

  • first time got only 250 points and out of stock.
    signed up again and got the travel headphones.

    google images helped.

    • done the same.
      signed up again and picked the fold up keyboard, everything was out of stock.
      i hope they get through the mail. i took my time and i hope everyone gets their prizes quick before they run out.

      google helped a bit, thanks :)

  • Was tossing between the keyboard and the headphones. Those headphones retails for more so was an easy decision in the end.

  • Ah man there was a Surface 3 to be won! If only I knew sooner :(

  • What is the list price of “Touring-1000 Blue, 46

    anyone know?

    EDIT: well its not $2999…

    • quick google search shows its the 2nd option

  • Cheers got the bluetooth headphones

  • yay free headphones .. thanks op.

    http://www.gadgetspeak.com/gadget/article.rhtm/758/835602/BO…

    sounds cheap but cant complain cause its free!

  • went for the bluetooth headphones as that is the only item still in stock

    • Same here, it was either the keyboard or the headphone.

  • Got the crappy keyboard. ah well not bad for free took me about 20 mins using ctrl+f and google images to get 350 points

  • I have got 550, got a keyboard. Don't know what to do with 200 points!

    • Just get a azure pass, probably can sell it.

  • Got the keyboard - thanks :)

  • Yep scored one Keyboard although Bluetooth Headphone would have been good deal (you snooze you lose)

  • Will be really handy for my Apple TV

  • Congratulations, you have redeemed Zoom Gridlock Bluetooth Folding Keyboard.
    Thanks OP

  • Thanks man, i got a keyboard

  • Awesome, got myself foldable keyboard. Would have liked the Surface, but those would have gone quick!

    • I'd say within the first few minutes.

  • Also got the keyboard.
    Search tutorials for keywords, check the images in the tutorials, sometimes google searches, sometimes guessing.
    did 12 tutorials, 8 correct in about 45 minutes. good enough - going home.

  • Scored a keyboard, thanks OP

  • +2

    Don't bother all gone.

  • Note: rewards are first come first served, T&Cs state only 200 gift cards available.

  • Thanks, managed to grab a pair of 'travel headphones', one of the last in stock by 'educated guessing' about 9/15 questions!

  • Email received today:

    Hello and thank you for participating in the AzureCon Challenge. You are receiving this email because you redeemed one or more rewards during the challenge. This is simply a courtesy email to let you know that all the rewards are being processed right now, the items have been purchased and are being branded. We expect shipping to start next in the next two weeks. There has been a little delay with the speakerphone, which will ship in 3-4 weeks.

    Cheers OP :)

  • +2

    anyone received anything yet?

    • Was just wondering the same thing. Nothing received by me yet (although headphones are supposed to be delayed).

    • I got the keyboard, havent heard anything or got it yet

  • Anyone else get an email saying their address was incorrect?

    • yeah, I got that. Then another email saying we are sorry and we apologize. Please send us your shpping address.

      • Yep same, so replied to that email, but the email address was the same one they said not to reply to! :/

        • yeah ikr. I updated my address on the azure page as well just in case ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯

        • @spawnpoint:

          I emailed back this morning to see if they got my address, and if I'd receive it, got a short and sweet reply saying yes I'll receive it :)

    • Yes they emailed me the same thing and also said I will not be receiving the prize :(

      • Did you get an email asking for your address as well? Might have been bundled in with the 'conversation' because they sent me 3 emails all with the same title.

  • +3

    No email received here

    • Ditto

  • Merged from Microsoft Azure Challenge - Prizes

    The challenge was posted on here 30/09, and since posting on the original deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/213421 has been shut off. So this here to see if anyone has actually received their prizes after almost 2 months. I know I havent

    • Email received the other day, international prizes are getting sent out next week :)

      • Weird, i havent recieved one email since the comp. :/

    • +1

      Anyone receive yet?

    • +2

      Many of you have requested an update on shipping as you have not received your prizes yet, so rather than reply individually, sending you all an update.

      The prizes were handed off to Microsoft shipping dept on Dec 17th and then these started leaving for the destination countries that week/following week – a shipment goes to each country every week, but it could take an additional week if that country shipment already happened. Unfortunately, we do not have tracking information for each prize or the batch of prizes to a particular country. Extra time should also be allowed because of the holidays. They are all on their way though. Please let us know if you have not received your prize by Jan 11th.

      Would love to hear from non-US based folks if you have received your prize already.

      Happy New Year.

      AzureCon Challenge Support.

    • Good, hope to receive it (finally) in e next few days

    • +1

      Well nothing arrived for me? Time for another email to them

    • +1

      I have an update for you all – thanks for the emails about receiving prizes. There were a large number of you who have said over the last week nothing has been received, so we double checked with Microsoft shipping. It appears that very little actually went out over the holiday period, but they have started shipping the prizes last week. So thanks (once more) for your patience – I know it’s super frustrating to have won something over 3 months ago and not having got your prize yet. Sorry again – we are really trying

      Patience people :)

      • Haha they really don't have a clue do they, starting to think it will never arrive

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