Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals: the honest guide
Everything Microsoft Azure publishes about DP-900, 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 and hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot.
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Drag and drop
- Hot area
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. Describe core data concepts is the heaviest domain at 29 percent, followed by Describe an analytics workload on Azure at 29 percent.
- Describe core data concepts29%
- Identify considerations for relational data on Azure23%
- Describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure19%
- Describe an analytics workload on Azure29%
What comes after passing
Fundamentals certifications do not expire, so there is no renewal cost at all.
Where people go next
Costs across the full renewal cycle are on the Azure Data Fundamentals cost page.
Frequently asked questions
Who is DP-900 for?
Anyone working near data on Azure who needs the vocabulary: what structured against semi-structured means, when SQL Database fits against Cosmos DB, and what the analytics services each do. It is the data sibling of AZ-900.
Does DP-900 require SQL knowledge?
Only reading-level familiarity. A question may show a simple SELECT or describe a table, and the exam cares that you recognise relational concepts rather than write production queries.
Note on domain weightings
Microsoft publishes weightings as ranges. The figures here use midpoints of the official ranges from the current DP-900 study guide.
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