Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate

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2024-01-24
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Passed

Today I took and passed DP-500 obtaining the Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate accreditation.

Exam DP-500

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: implement and manage a data analytics environment; query and transform data; implement and manage data models; and explore and visualize data.

Skills measured

Implement and manage a data analytics environment
Query and transform data
Implement and manage data models
Explore and visualize data

Your responsibilities for this role include performing advanced data analytics at scale, such as:

Cleaning and transforming data.
Designing and building enterprise data models.
Incorporating advanced analytics capabilities.
Integrating with IT infrastructure.
Applying development lifecycle practices.

As a professional in this role, you:

Help collect enterprise-level requirements for data analytics solutions that include Azure and Power BI.
Advise on data governance and configuration settings for Power BI administration.
Monitor data usage.
Optimize performance of the data analytics solutions.

As an Azure enterprise data analyst, you collaborate with other roles, such as:

Solution architects
Data engineers
Data scientists
AI engineers
Database administrators
Power BI data analysts

As a candidate for this exam, you should have advanced Power BI skills, including managing data repositories and data processing in the cloud and on-premises, along with using Power Query and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). You should also be proficient in consuming data from Azure Synapse Analytics and should have experience querying relational databases, analyzing data by using Transact-SQL (T-SQL), and visualizing data.