Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
Design and implement Azure data services to satisfy business needs.
The Azure Data Engineer collaborates with business stakeholders to identify and meet the data requirements to design and implement data solutions using Azure data services.
They are responsible for data-related design and implementation tasks that include:
- Provisioning data storage services
- Ingesting streaming and batch data
- Transforming data
- Implementing security requirements
- Implementing data retention policies
- Identifying performance bottlenecks
- Accessing external data sources.
- Designing Azure data storage solutions that use relational and non-relational data stores
- Batch and real-time data processing solutions
- Data security and compliance solutions
The Azure Data Engineer must be able to design and implement data solutions using the following Azure services:
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Azure Data Factory
- Azure Stream Analytics
- Azure Databricks
- Azure Blob storage
Prerequisites
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Required Exams
Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203T00)
Recertification
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