Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Azure Data Engineers design and implement the management, monitoring, security, and privacy of data using the full stack of Azure data services to satisfy business needs.

Skills measured

To fulfill the requirements and needs for this certification candidates must be able to:

• Implement data storage solutions
• Manage and develop data processing
• Monitor and optimize data solutions
• Design Azure data storage solutions
• Design data processing solutions
• Design for data security and compliance

Exams

1. Exam DP-200: Implementing an Azure data solution

The exam tests the following skills:

• Implement data storage solutions (40-45%)
• Manage and develop data processing (25-30%)
• Monitor and optimize data solutions (30-35%)

Requirements

For this exam, candidates are Microsoft Azure data engineers who collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and meet the data requirements to implement data solutions that use Azure data services.

Azure data engineers are responsible for data-related implementation tasks, including provisioning data storage services, ingesting streaming and batch data, transforming data, implementing security requirements, implementing data retention policies, identifying performance bottlenecks, and accessing external data sources.

Candidates for this exam must be able to implement data solutions that use the following Azure services:

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL DW)
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Blob storage

2. Exam DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution

The exam tests the following skills:

• Design Azure data storage solutions (40-45%)
• Design data processing solutions (25-30%)
• Design for data security and compliance (25-30%)

Requirements

Candidates for this exam are Microsoft Azure data engineers who collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and meet the requirements to design data solutions that use Azure data services.

Azure data engineers are responsible for data-related design tasks, including designing Azure data storage solutions that use relational and non-relational data stores, batch and real-time data processing solutions, and data security and compliance solutions.

Candidates for this exam must design data solutions that use the following Azure services:

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Blob storage