Microsoft Azure Database Administrator Associate: the honest guide
Everything Microsoft Azure publishes about DP-300, in one place: what the exam asks, how the domains are weighted, and what it takes to be ready.
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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.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
- Hot area
- Case study
The highlighted formats are the ones you cannot answer from memory alone. Microsoft Learn, exam duration and question types ↗
Domain breakdown and official weightings
From the official Microsoft Learn study guides. Implement a secure environment is the heaviest domain at 22 percent, followed by Monitor, configure, and optimize database resources at 22 percent.
- Plan and implement data platform resources17%
- Implement a secure environment22%
- Monitor, configure, and optimize database resources22%
- Configure and manage automation of tasks17%
- Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery environment22%
What comes after passing
Role-based certifications last one year and renew free through an online assessment on Microsoft Learn. The only cost is the hour it takes.
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the Azure Database Administrator cost page.
Frequently asked questions
Which SQL platforms does DP-300 cover?
Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure virtual machines, compared constantly: which tier fits, what each supports for auditing or failover, and when the answer is the VM because only it allows a feature.
How much T-SQL appears?
Enough to read. Dynamic management views, index and query store commands and backup statements appear in questions, and knowing what a shown query returns is tested more than writing one cold.
Note on domain weightings
Microsoft publishes weightings as ranges. The figures here use midpoints of the official ranges from the current DP-300 study guide.
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