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Responsibilities Of an Azure Data Engineer?

1. Develop and maintain unique Azure designs


2. Design the architecture of the flow of data and arrange it according to the needs of the
business.
3. Deploy a data warehouse to store the analytical data. This makes it fast and easy to fetch data
for analysis.
4. Data engineer has an important role to extract, transform and load data. They have to extract
data from multiple sources, transform it into a form in which it is easy to mine and process data,
and then store the data in the company’s storage.
5. Ensure that the data is safe and secure at the stage of the data being processed. There should
be no risk of data being leaked or exploited.
6. Create analytical tools that make use of the data pipeline to produce useful insights for
customer acquisition.

How to get an Azure Data engineer job?


A) One must clear Azure Data Engineer Certification

RoadMap for certification?

Note : Microsoft DP-200 and DP-201 exams retired on June 30, 2021, and the new
replacement test is DP-203 Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
DP 203 Road map:

Overall, to become an Azure Data Engineer, you need to have a strong


foundation in
1.SQL
• A. SQL basics
o Introduction to SQL and its uses
o Basic SQL syntax
o Creating tables
o Inserting and updating data
• B. Advanced SQL concepts
o Joins and subqueries
o Aggregate functions
o Indexing and optimization

• C. SQL and data modeling


o Normalization
o Indexing
o Referential integrity

2.Data modeling
• A. Conceptual modeling
o Entity-relationship diagrams
o Data dictionaries
• B. Logical modeling
o Normalization and denormalization
o Object-oriented data modeling
• C. Physical modeling
o Implementation of a data model in a database management system
o Indexing
o Partitioning

3.Data warehousing
• A. Introduction to data warehousing
o Data warehousing concepts
o Advantages and disadvantages of data warehousing
• B. Designing a data warehouse
o Star schema
o Snowflake schema
o Data mart
• C. ETL process
o Extracting data from source systems
o Transforming data to conform to the data warehouse schema
o Loading data into the data warehouse

4.ETL
• A. Introduction to ETL
o What is ETL and why is it important?
o Different types of ETL processes
• B. ETL tools and techniques
o Using Azure Data Factory for ETL
o Building custom ETL pipelines with Python or .NET
• C. ETL best practices
o Error handling and logging
o Performance tuning
o Monitoring and management

5.Azure services
• A. Introduction to Azure services
o Overview of Azure cloud services
o Advantages of using Azure services for data engineering
• B. Azure Data Factory
o Creating data pipelines with Data Factory
o Scheduling and monitoring data pipelines
• C. Azure Synapse Analytics
o Building data warehouses and data marts with Synapse Analytics
o Using Synapse Studio for data exploration and analysis
• D. Azure Databricks
o Creating Spark clusters for data processing and machine learning
o Using notebooks for data exploration and analysis
• E. Azure Analysis Services
o Building and deploying analytical models
o Integrating with other Azure services
6.Data analytics and visualization
• Topics to Learn:
o A. Introduction to data analytics and visualization
▪ Overview of data analytics and visualization tools
▪ Advantages of using Power BI or Tableau for data visualization
o B. Power BI
▪ Creating reports and dashboards with Power BI
▪ Data modeling and transformation with Power Query

What Is the Exam Renewal Policy For DP-203?


Once you get DP-203 certification, it is important to maintain it.
The certification retains for a period of 1 year. You need to renew your certification each year.
Six months before the expiry of your certification, you can take an exam renewal assessment.
The renewal assessment is free of cost.

How to prepare for the Azure data engineer interview?


To prepare for an Azure data engineer interview, one should have a good understanding of Azure data
management services such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Stream Analytics, and
Cosmos DB. Also, it's important to have a good understanding of big data concepts, data warehousing,
and ETL process.

Free practice questions:


• https://www.examtopics.com/exams/microsoft/dp-203/
• https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0AYtrUw-NRQu89sbJNXPEo0dkBVTujY5
• https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyABYqulvUwZA_0g7dVnTxfLGMNEmMW_9

The following are some courses by Microsoft to prepare for this exam.
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-for-the-data-engineer/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/store-data-in-azure/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/data-integration-scale-azure-data-factory/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/realize-integrated-analytical-solutions-with-
azure-synapse-analytics/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/work-with-data-warehouses-using-azure-
synapse-analytics/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/perform-data-engineering-with-azure-synapse-
apache-spark-pools/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/data-engineer-azure-databricks/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/work-with-hybrid-transactional-analytical-
processing-solutions/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/implement-data-streaming-with-asa/

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