Overview

Attend Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate training in Calgary. NetCom Learning classes in Calgary are designed to help you get the most out of your Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate class.

Note: This certification & exam has retired on March 31, 2025.

As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured, unstructured, and streaming data systems into a suitable schema for building analytics solutions.

As an Azure data engineer, you help stakeholders understand the data through exploration and build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques. You use various Azure data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis. This data store can be designed with different architecture patterns based on business requirements, including:

  • Modern data warehouse (MDW)
  • Big data
  • Lakehouse architecture

As an Azure data engineer, you also help to ensure that the operationalization of data pipelines and data stores are high-performing, efficient, organized, and reliable, given a set of business requirements and constraints. You help to identify and troubleshoot operational and data quality issues. You also design, implement, monitor, and optimize data platforms to meet the data pipelines.

As a candidate for this certification, you must have a solid knowledge of data processing languages, including:

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Scala

You need to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns. You should be proficient in using the following to create data processing solutions:

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Azure Event Hubs
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Databricks

Skills Measured:

  • Design and implement data storage (15–20%)
  • Develop data processing (40–45%)
  • Secure, monitor, and optimize data storage and data processing (30–35%)

Passing Criteria: 

  • A passing score is 700 or greater.

Exam Duration:

  • 120 Minutes

Recertification:

  • Previously, Microsoft role-based and specialty certifications were valid for two years.
  • Starting June 2021, certifications are valid for one year, but they can be renewed online for free at Microsoft Learn.
  • The renewal window begins six months before the certification expires. During this window before the cert expires, you can take a free online assessment and get the certification extended by one additional year from the current expiration date.
  • Want the best of both worlds old and new? Certifications earned before June 2021 will be valid for two years and eligible for the new renewal process.

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