Passed DP-600, Advice! · Learn Microsoft Fabric

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Passed DP-600, Advice!

Howdy fellow Fabricators! I'm happy to report that I passed the DP-600 exam on the first try after two months of studying 15-30 minutes per day. My background is Data Engineering in Azure Synapse. Here are my takeaways.

1) Will's videos are a great base!

2) The practice tests from Microsoft are MUCH easier than the actual exam! Do not get complacent if you're doing well on those.

3) #1 BIGGEST TAKEAWAY: Learn how to Navigate Microsoft Learn! Seriously, this saved me, no doubt. I spent about an hour just learning how Microsoft Learn is structured and how to navigate from one set of documentation to the other. You need to learn how to navigate to Fabric documentation, PBI, DAX, M, and PowerQuery. You can go to Databricks for any PySpark you might not understand, too. You also need to understand the major keywords you'll need to search for based on the questions.

4) The was MUCH more about DAX than I expected, probably 6 questions. Same with M, probably 4 questions. Power Query was a solid 8 questions, with 3 of them being about data profiling.

5) Understand was query folding is important to know (or at least that it's part of Power Query so you search for it)

6) With the case study! You need to IMMEDIATELY know that there are a bunch of tabs that you need to review for each question. For example, the question will reference "Data requirements" but not state what they are. That's because they're in the data requirements tab.

Will Needham! If you read this, I think a VERY valuable video would be to show yourself going through a few practice test questions and showing how to find the answers in MS Learn. I'm happy to collaborate with you on that if you'd like.

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