Hi everyone, I was thinking for the last couple days about a post on this topic, as I was personally really concerned about the change in the study guide that took place on the 15th of November (I took an exam a week after). Like, what exactly has changed? Does deletion of pyspark mean increase in expected proficiency of SQL, or rather DAX? If Real-Time Intelligence (RTI) is not a part of the examination, why should I know KQL? Since admin governance has been almost completely deleted, what should I still need to know in that regard? To get one thing out of the way: I believe it still doesn't hurt to know a bit about all Fabric tools/experiences, even if it is more of an "overview" (Data Science is probably the exception and can be ommited). I got 1 or 2 pyspark questions in my exam, but they were general. Same with capacities - I got one question there, relatively general as well (not sure even which of these were graded, as MS continuously assess "psychometrics" by including some questions that are still in test phase). I heard some people had RTI-related questions, even though it is out of the study guide for quite some time. So, focus on study guide, but have an overview of all the Fabric infrastructure, even if it means that you know it exists and have basic knowledge how it works. ------ Now the "perspective": I believe that it is important to look from a higher vantage on 3 exams: DP-700 DP-600 and PL-300. While PL-300 remains a PBI-centered exam and will most likely stay constant due to maturity of PBI and a vast userbase, I believe DP-exams are evolving to create a sort of spectrum for "Fabric other than PBI". Evolving is key here: DP-500 and DP-600 (till November 15th) were sort of "Fabric-all" middle-level examinations, that tried to cover pretty much everything apart from data science. Due to the scope, questions had to be relatively general. My (subjective) guess is that with the rollout of DP-700 (still in beta) Microsoft is shifting DP-600 to be more analytical in scope. Admin governance, PySpark and RTI were moved to DP-700.

Hi everyone, Can someone more experienced explain in practical terms what has changed and how it affects the exam questions? From my perspective, it seems that there is less emphasis on ETL (especially with Spark notebooks), and more on the querying with SQL or KQL. I heard the exam can be heavy with DAX, but do you think it will be even heavier? How much KQL could we expect? I assume some of these changes were influenced by introducing DP-700 (still in beta) and MS will try to clearly separate these two exams on skillset. DP-600 will lean toward data analytics, while DP-700 toward data engineering. What do you think? Thanks in advance for any feedback!

Hi everyone, I followed steps while creating a Fabric Trial account. It went smoothly, but at the end I was disappointed to see that several features are not available (most importantly Data Engineering environment). Attached screenshot shows how it looks on my side. I will add that I'm located in Poland. Irony lies in the fact that I'm working with Fabric on a daily basis as a user, mostly with Data Engineering tools. I wanted to upskill for the DP-600 exam, but for that believe I would need a full admin sandbox account. Can you help me? Thank you in advance for any feedback. Best regards, Jakub