Exam format
DP-100What the Azure Data Scientist exam looks like
DP-100 has 40 to 60 questions in 100 minutes, multiple choice, drag-and-drop, hot area, and case studies. Every figure on this page is read from the official exam page and linked to it.
How many questions, and how long
Microsoft Azure states 40 to 60 questions for DP-100, with a time limit of 100 minutes. That is about 2.5 minutes a question, including the time it takes to read the stem and the options.
Microsoft Azure publishes a range rather than a fixed count, so the pace above assumes the low end of it. At the top of the range you have less time a question.
What the questions look like
Multiple choice and multiple response, plus drag-and-drop ordering, hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot, and case studies that hold one scenario across several linked questions.
What passes
The passing score for DP-100 is 700 on a scale of 1 to 1000.
If you do not pass
A retake costs another $165.
What this means for practice
Our Azure Data Scientist practice exams are assembled to the published domain weightings and sat against a 100-minute clock, in exam conditions or in study mode. Every answer shows the official page it was checked against.
Keep reading
- Azure Data Scientist exam overview
The format, the domain weights and the renewal terms, sourced line by line.
- Azure Data Scientist passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
- How hard is Azure Data Scientist?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.