I recently took and passed the DP-700 exam, which is required for the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification. It’s the second Fabric certification, and it focuses more on the data engineering aspect of Fabric, as well as a bit of governance and administration. My preparation for this exam is probably fairly atypical, because:
So what did I do to prepare myself? I went over the blog posts written by Reitse and Nikola for the general Fabric stuff, and Kevin Chant‘s posts for the CI/CD stuff. I also went through the entire Fabric learning path where I did the exercises and answered the questions. For every topic where I’m not 100% confident, I read the documentation. This is important, as the documentation goes deeper than the learning modules and often lists limitations or restrictions.
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