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Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Analytics engineering on Microsoft Fabric: workspaces, layered security and the deployment lifecycle, ingesting and transforming data into a star schema across the medallion layers, and building semantic models with Direct Lake, DAX and the optimisations that keep them fast.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Maintain a data analytics solution | 25-30% |
| Prepare data | 45-50% |
| Implement and manage semantic models | 25-30% |
Two sample questions
1. Which risk follows from files with inconsistent schemas?
- A workspace that cannot be opened
- A capacity that can no longer be assigned at all
- A report that loses its formatting
- A load failing or silently losing columns — correct
Why: A file with an extra column can be read wrongly or rejected.
2. Why shouldn't Read without Build be used to protect sensitive model data?
- Read users get Write permission through apps
- Build is granted to every Read user nightly
- Read users can still access and query the data — correct
- Read users can republish the model to change it
Why: Build is a discoverability feature; users with Read can still access and interact with the model's data.
The real DP-600 exam
| Length | 100 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | Not published by Microsoft; commonly reported as 40-60 |
| Pass mark | 700 of 1000 |
| Price | $165 USD |
| Recommended before you sit it | None, though experience with SQL, DAX and Power BI is assumed. |
| Valid for | 1 year, renewed free online |
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