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Self-Study Guide: Microsoft Azure

Certi cation DP-200: Implementing an
Azure Data Solution
Shivam Sharma Follow
Jul 24, 2019 · 5 min read

M
icrosoft recently released a certification named Microsoft
Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate. To get this tag you need
to clear two examinations named:

1. Exam DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution

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

Read the article on Exam DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution here.

Clear two of the above examinations to get the Azure Data Engineer
certification

*All images are taken from microsoft.com

Exam DP-200:
Implementing an
Azure Data Solution
Microsoft - “Candidates for this
exam 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
tasks that include 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.”

Skills To Demonstrate: Implementing Data Solution

Candidates for this exam must be able to implement data solutions that use
the following Azure services: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database,
Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory,
Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, and Azure Blob storage.

DP-200: Examination Pattern

Total time 210 minutes will be there for attempting questions & reading
instructions pre & post-examination. Out of 210 minutes, 180 minutes are
there to answer 46 questions. One case studies will be asked as well.

You need a minimum of 700 out of 1000 to clear the examination.

Type of Questions
Below are the type of questions

Single choice based on the scenario

Multiple-choice questions

Arrange in right sequence type questions

A case study with multiple questions.

Questions that cannot be skipped: There will be at least three questions

in a sequence where you have to select from Yes or No. These questions
cannot be skipped or re-answered afterward. (These will be in the
starting itself)

My Experience
Found DP-200 to be easy as compared to many other Azure certifications
like 775, 776, AZ-300 or AZ-301. I comfortably finished it within 100
minutes and had ample time left to recheck stuff. I can not reveal any
questions but will give you the direction to prepare towards.

Case study: You will select suitable solutions for Liteware (company) based
on its existing scenario. It consisted of 8 questions on Cosmos DB, Azure
SQL Server, Azure SQL warehouse, Azure data factory & SSIS. The case
study will be asked at the end.

A lot of questions were on optimizing, operating, loading and reading data

from Azure SQL warehouse, I found them tricky and quite challenging. I
need to work on SQL warehousing more :|

Study Guide
Here is a comprehensive list of study material covering DP-200 scope &
questions.

*All links are either from Microsoft or publicly available blogs that I am just
listing here …credit goes to respective authors

Microsoft is really cool in providing quality content for learning

** I will share links for hands on labs as well, if you do hands

on then DP-200 & DP-201 both are easy-peasy to crack.

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Official Microsoft labs on DP-200 for anyone to learn from:

https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/DP-200-Implementing-an-Azure-
Data-Solution

Azure free account:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Microsoft Learn: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/browse/?

products=azure&roles=data-engineer (Free hands-on-lab
environments)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Scope:

Working with Data Storage

Choose a data storage approach in Azure
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/architecture/guide/technology-choices/data-store-
comparison

Introducing Azure Storage (Just know it exists)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-
account-overview

Introduction to Data Lake Storage

Create an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-
storage-introduction

https://www.blue-granite.com/blog/10-things-to-know-about-azure-
data-lake-storage-gen2 (Good Article)

Enabling Team Based Data Science with Azure Databricks

https://www.blue-granite.com/blog/3-reasons-to-choose-azure-
databricks-for-data-science-and-big-data-workloads

https://www.slideshare.net/databricks/building-an-enterprise-data-
platform-with-azure-databricks-to-enable-machine-learning-and-
data-science-at-scale-at-sams-club

Azure Databricks
Working & concepts with Azure Databricks
Reading Data using Azure Databricks
Performing Transformations with Azure Databricks

https://docs.azuredatabricks.net/getting-started/concepts.html
ETL: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-
databricks/databricks-extract-load-sql-data-warehouse

Globally Distributed Database with Azure Cosmos DB

Create an Azure Cosmos DB database built to scale
Insert and query data in your Azure Cosmos DB database

Build a .NET Core app for Azure Cosmos DB in Visual Studio Code
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/consistency-
levels

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/whitepapers
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/databases-
containers-items

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-multi-
master

Distribute your Data Globally with Azure Cosmos DB

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/global-dist-
under-the-hood

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/a-technical-overview-of-
azure-cosmos-db/ (must read)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-
practices/data-partitioning (Do read)

Azure SQL Database

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/sql-database/ (Read only
concept section on left hand side)

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-
data-warehouse-tables-partition

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-
data-warehouse-best-practices

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sql-
data-warehouse-tables-overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-
warehouse/massively-parallel-processing-mpp-architecture (Do read)

Creating and Querying an Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Using PolyBase to Load Data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse (imp to
understand polybase)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/resources/videos/loading-data-
with-polybase-in-azure-sql-data-warehouse/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/load-
data-wideworldimportersdw

Performing Real Time Analytics with Stream Analytics

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-
analytics-stream-analytics-query-patterns#query-example-send-data-
to-multiple-outputs (one query multiple output possible go through
it)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-
analytics-define-outputs

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-
analytics-streaming-unit-consumption

https://azure.microsoft.com/is-is/blog/maximize-throughput-with-
repartitioning-in-azure-stream-analytics/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-
analytics-parallelization (must read)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/streaming-
technologies (read all concepts from left hand side)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-
analytics-define-inputs#stream-data-from-event-hubs

Orchestrating Data Movement with Azure Data Factory

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/resources/videos/azure-data-
factory-overview/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/concepts-
integration-runtime (super imp: understand when to use what)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-lake-store/data-lake-
store-security-overview

Securing Azure Data Platforms

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/security/azure-security-
data-encryption-best-practices

If you need further help or have a question then write in the comments
below or find me on LinkedIn.

Also, do let me know about any changes in the question pattern that you
get, I will update the article for others. Thanks!!

Microsoft Azure Certi cation Exam Data Engineer Big Data Cosmosdb

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