Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate

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2024-03-13
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Passed

Today I took and passed obtaining the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate accreditation.

Exam

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: plan, implement, and manage a solution for data analytics; prepare and serve data; implement and manage semantic models; and explore and analyze data.

Skills measured

Plan, implement, and manage a solution for data analytics (10–15%)
Prepare and serve data (40–45%)
Implement and manage semantic models (20–25%)
Explore and analyze data (20–25%)

As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in designing, creating, and deploying enterprise-scale data analytics solutions. Your responsibilities for this role include transforming data into reusable analytics assets by using Microsoft Fabric components, such as:

Lakehouses
Data warehouses
Notebooks
Dataflows
Data pipelines
Semantic models
Reports

You implement analytics best practices in Fabric, including version control and deployment. To implement solutions as a Fabric analytics engineer, you partner with other roles, such as:

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

In addition to in-depth work with the Fabric platform, you need experience with:

Data modeling
Data transformation
Git-based source control
Exploratory analytics
Languages, including Structured Query Language (SQL), Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), and PySpark