This is your one-stop hub with information for preparing for the DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric certification exam. Upon successful completion of the exam, you earn the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification.

This hub provides information directly here, links to a number of external resources, tips for preparing for the exam, practice tests, and section questions to help you prepare. Bookmark this page and use it as a guide to ensure that you are fully covering all relevant topics for the exam and using as many of the resources available as possible. We hope you find it convenient and helpful.

Why do the DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric exam to gain the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification?

Important DP-600 resources:

• In the section below this one, titled “DP-600: Skills measured as of October 31, 2025“, you will find the “skills measured” topics from the official study guide with links to exam preparation content for each topic. Bookmark this page and use that section as a structured topic-by-topic guide for your prep.
• Link to the Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Certification page
• Link to the Microsoft DP-600 study guide page.
  • This page provides information for preparing for, practicing for, and registering for the exam. The skills measured content in the guide is also what is used to form the “Skills Measured as of …” outline below.
• About the exam:
  • Cost: US $165
  • Number of questions: approximately 60
  • Time to do exam: 120 minutes (2 hours)
• To Do’s:
  • Schedule time to learn, study, perform labs, and do practice exams and questions
  • Schedule the exam based on when you think you will be ready; scheduling the exam gives you a target and drives you to keep working on it
  • Use the various resources above and below to learn
  • Take the free Microsoft Learn practice test, any other available practice tests, and do the practice questions in each section and the two practice tests available in this hub.
• Link to the free, comprehensive, self-paced course: Microsoft Learn course for a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer. It contains 4 Learning Paths, each with multiple Modules, and each module has multiple Units. It will take some time to do it, but we recommend that you complete this entire course, including the exercises/labs. To help you work through your preparation in a structured manner, we will point you to the relevant sections in the training material corresponding to each of the sections in the skills measured section below.
• YouTube videos that you will find useful:
  • DP-600 Exam Full Course (6+ hours) | Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer by Learn Microsoft Fabric with Will
  • Learn the Fundamentals of Microsoft Fabric in 38 minutes by Learn Microsoft Fabric with Will
  • Microsoft Analytics Fabric Engineer course by Microsoft Learn
  • How To Prepare for the DP-600 Microsoft Fabric Certification Exam [Full Course] by Pragmatic Works
  • How to pass Exam DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft Power BI
  • DP-600 | Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Exam | 109 Practice Questions With Explanation by Learn With Priyanka
  • What is Microsoft Fabric? by Pragmatic Works
  • Learn Together: Get started with end-to-end analytics and lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft Power BI
  • Learn Together: Get started with data warehouses in Microsoft Fabric by Microsoft Power BI
    • Note: There are quite a few “Learn Together” videos about Fabric. Check out as many as you can.
• Additional Microsoft links:
  • https://aka.ms/GetCertified/dp600
  • https://aka.ms/IamReady/DP600Prepare
• Microsoft Fabric Community Blog
• Microsoft Community Blog post you might find useful. It is titled “Step-by-Step-Strategy-to-Ace-the-Microsoft-Fabric-Analytics“
• Microsoft Fabric Career Hub – includes information for (1) Data Engineer and (2) Analytics Engineer
• Reddit DP-600 Mega Thread
• Books you might be interested in:
  • Exam Ref DP-600 Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric
  • Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric—DP-600 Exam Study Guide: Boost your skills with expert insights and certification-ready strategies for Microsoft analytics
• Courses you might be interested in:
  • Udemy: Microsoft DP-600 prep: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
    • Note: There are multiple, highly rated DP-600 courses available on Udemy
    • Tip: await the occasional Udemy sale to buy
  • Coursera: Exam Prep DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer

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DP-600: Skills measured as of October 31, 2025:

Here you can learn in a structured manner by going through the topics of the exam one-by-one to ensure full coverage; click on each hyperlinked topic below to go to more information about it:

Skills at a glance

• Maintain a data analytics solution (25%-30%)
• Prepare data (45%-50%)
• Implement and manage semantic models (25%-30%)

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Maintain a data analytics solution (25%-30%)

Implement security and governance

• Implement workspace-level access controls
• Implement item-level access controls
• Implement row-level, column-level, object-level, and file-level access controls
• Apply sensitivity labels to items
• Endorse items

Maintain the analytics development lifecycle

• Configure version control for a workspace
• Create and manage a Power BI Desktop project (.pbip)
• Create and configure development pipelines
• Perform impact analysis of downstream dependencies from lakehouses, data warehouses, dataflows, and semantic models
• Deploy and manage semantic models using XMLA endpoint
• Create and update reusable assets, including Power BI template (.pbit) files, Power BI data source (.pbids) files, and shared semantic models

Prepare data (45%-50%)

Get Data

• Create a data connection
• Discover data by using OneLake catalog and Real-Time Hub
• Ingest or access data as needed
• Choose between a lakehouse, warehouse, or eventhouse
• Implement OneLake Integration for eventhouse and semantic models

Transform Data

• Create views, functions, and stored procedures
• Enrich data by adding new columns and tables
• Implement a star schema for a lakehouse or warehouse
• Denormalize data
• Aggregate data
• Merge or join data
• Identify and resolve duplicate data, missing data, or null values
• Convert column data types
• Filter data

Query and analyze data

• Select, filter, and aggregate data by using the Visual Query Editor
• Select, filter, and aggregate data using SQL
• Select, filter, and aggregate data by using KQL
• Select, filter, and aggregate data by using DAX

Implement and manage semantic models (25%-30%)

Design and build semantic models

• Choose a storage mode
• Choose a storage mode – additional information
• Implement a star schema for a semantic model
• Implement relationships, such as bridge tables and many-to-many relationships
• Write calculations that use DAX variables and functions, such as iterators, table filtering, windowing, and information functions
• Implement calculation groups, dynamic format strings, and field parameters
• Identify use cases for and configure large semantic model storage format
• Design and build composite models

Optimize enterprise-scale semantic models

• Implement performance improvements in queries and report visuals
  • Practice Questions: Implement performance improvements in queries and report visuals
• Improve DAX performance
• Configure Direct Lake, including default fallback and refresh behavior
• Choose between Direct Lake on OneLake and Direct Lake on SQL endpoints
• Implement incremental refresh for semantic models

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Practice Exams:

We have provided 2 practice exams with answers to help you prepare.

DP-600 Practice Exam 1 (60 questions with answer key)

DP-600 Practice Exam 2 (60 questions with answer key)

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Good luck to you passing the DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Fabric certification exam and earning the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification!