Course Summary
This certification offers the foundation you need to build your technical skills to start working with data in the cloud. Mastering the basics can help you jump-start your career and prepare you to dive deeper into other technical opportunities Azure offers.
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals certification could be a great fit for you if you’d like to:
Validate your foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they’re implemented using Azure data services.
Reinforce your basics for other Azure role-based certifications, like Azure Database Administrator Associate, Azure Data Engineer Associate, Power BI Data Analyst Associate, or Azure Developer Associate, but it’s not a prerequisite for any of them.
Describe core data concepts (25–30%)
• Describe ways to represent data
• Describe features of structured data
• Describe features of semi-structured
• Describe features of unstructured data
• Identify options for data storage
• Describe common formats for data files
• Describe types of databases
• Describe common data workloads
• Describe features of transactional workloads
• Describe features of analytical workloads
• Identify roles and responsibilities for data workloads
• Describe responsibilities for database administrators
• Describe responsibilities for data engineers
• Describe responsibilities for data analysts
Identify considerations for relational data on Azure (20–25%)
• Describe relational concepts
Identify features of relational data
• Describe normalization and why it is used
• Identify common structured query language (SQL) statements
• Identify common database objects
• Describe relational Azure data services
• Describe the Azure SQL family of products including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Identify Azure database services for open-source database systems
Describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure (15–20%)
• Describe capabilities of Azure storage
• Describe Azure Blob storage
• Describe Azure File storage
• Describe Azure Table storage
• Describe capabilities and features of Azure Cosmos DB
• Identify use cases for Azure Cosmos DB
• Describe Azure Cosmos DB APIs
Describe an analytics workload on Azure (25–30%)
• Describe common elements of large-scale analytics
• Describe considerations for data ingestion and processing
• Describe options for analytical data stores
• Describe Azure services for data warehousing, including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure HDInsight, and Azure Data Factory
• Describe consideration for real-time data analytics
• Describe the difference between batch and streaming data
• Identify Microsoft cloud services for real-time analytics
• Describe data visualization in Microsoft Power BI
Identify capabilities of Power BI
• Describe features of data models in Power BI
• Identify appropriate visualizations for data
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