How to Prepare for Microsoft DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals exam? Professional Guide

The Microsoft DP-900 is an Azure Data Fundamentals exam. According to the exam guide here, Candidates for this exam should have a foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they are implemented using Microsoft Azure data services. Candidates should be familiar with the concepts of relational and non-relational data, and different types of data workloads such as transactional or analytical. Azure Data Fundamentals can be used to prepare for other Azure role-based certifications like Azure Database Administrator Associate or Azure Data Engineer Associate, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.

The following are the skills measured for this exam. These are not exam questions and only for practice. You can validate your knowledge by going through this post before the exam.

• Describe core data concepts (15–20%)
• Describe how to work with relational data on Azure (25–30%)
• Describe how to work with non-relational data on Azure (25–30%)
• Describe an analytics workload on Azure (25–30%)
• Describe core data concepts (15–20%)

There are some Steps to Prepare the Microsoft DP-900 Certification:

Good preparation is the key to any success. To perform well in this exam, the candidates need to prepare well by going through the information provided by Microsoft. The best way to prepare for this
exam is to go through the following steps…

Collect Information: You will find hundreds of blogs and other information on the internet related to this certification. Some may be useful and some may be misleading. The best way to collect information is to go through the official website of the certification and find the basic information. To know more about the skills and specific points to be covered in every particular skill, you can go through the exam skills outline provided by Microsoft.

Go through the tutorials and blogs of Microsoft: You can find around more than 3000 learning lessons provided by Microsoft & CertMagic that are based on different types of implementations around all the required skills in this exam. Along with that, there are around a thousand blogs and tutorials available in CertMagic. You can go through these blogs and tutorials and learn different skills related to AI, Machine Learning and Azure.

Go through the product descriptions and use cases: You can go through the descriptions of all the relevant Azure products and services and read about those along with different use cases and applications.

Conclusions:

This is not a very difficult exam as it aims to assess and certify the fundamental knowledge of the candidate in AI and Machine learning related to Azure. The most important points to be focused on are very good planning, the right strategy and perfect preparations. Once you have the required information and learning resources as discussed above, you can do good preparation. All the time during your preparation, you can assess your knowledge by taking the mock and then again you can plan adequately for further preparation.