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MICROSOFTMicrosoft Certified:Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
The Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification validates your expertise in designing, creating, and deploying enterprise-scale data analytics solutions. It is ideal for professionals responsible for managing analytical assets and working with stakeholders to meet business requirements. Earning this certification demonstrates your ability to implement and manage semantic models and analyze data using SQL, KQL, and DAX.
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
DeliveryPearson VUE
Passing score700
Free questions240
Content last reviewed 21 July 2026 · Up to date
The certification
What DP-600 proves, and what it asks of you
What this certification covers, who it is written for, and what the exam itself looks like on the day.
3domains
7objectives
68concepts
US $165exam fee
What it is
What this certification is
What it validates, who it is written for, and the experience it assumes.
About this certification
The Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification confirms your skills in designing, creating, and managing analytical assets such as semantic models, warehouses, or lakehouses. This certification is aimed at professionals who prepare and enrich data for analysis, secure and maintain analytics assets, and implement and manage semantic models.
Candidates for this certification work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and collaborate with architects, analysts, engineers, and administrators. They are proficient in querying and analyzing data using SQL, KQL, and DAX, ensuring that data analytics solutions are robust and scalable.
Who it’s for
This certification is designed for data engineers and data analysts who are responsible for designing and deploying enterprise-scale data analytics solutions. Candidates should have expertise in managing analytical assets and working with various stakeholders to meet business requirements. Ideal candidates are those who can query and analyze data using SQL, KQL, and DAX, and who are comfortable working with semantic models, warehouses, and lakehouses.
Recommended experience
Candidates should have experience in designing and managing analytical assets and be proficient in SQL, KQL, and DAX. Experience in preparing and enriching data for analysis; Ability to secure and maintain analytics assets; Proficiency in implementing and managing semantic models
The syllabus
What you’ll learn
Every domain and objective Microsoft measures, with the weight they carry on the exam.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 21 July 2026 · See the source
Maintain a data analytics solution
- Implement security and governance
- Maintain the analytics development lifecycle
Prepare data
- Get data
- Transform data
- Query and analyze data
Implement and manage semantic models
- Design and build semantic models
- Optimize enterprise-scale semantic models
On the day
The exam itself
Everything Microsoft publishes about sitting it, and nothing we inferred.
Prerequisites
No mandatory prerequisites — this certification has no required predecessor exam or credential.
Exam codeDP-600
CertificationFabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Exam formatMultiple choice and interactive components
Duration100 minutes
Passing score700
DeliveryPearson VUE
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)
PricingUS $165
Certification levelAssociate
After you pass
Where this credential goes next
The path Microsoft lays out, how the credential is kept, and where to book.
Step-by-step path to Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Credential earnedMicrosoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Associate level certification Renewal and maintenance
Renew your certification annually at no cost by completing a short online assessment. Stay current with the latest technologies and maintain your certification.
Learn more about renewal requirements Lifecycle status
This certification is currently active and available. Microsoft maintains this certification to validate current skills and industry relevance.
Exam status: ActiveMaintained by Microsoft
Exam registration
Register for the exam through Pearson VUE, Microsoft’s authorized testing partner.
Schedule your examVisit the official Microsoft certification page for exam policies and requirements.
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And when you are serious, your coach Pip takes over
Your coach in the app reads what you have answered with the book closed and tells you one thing to do tonight. It will not count an answer you gave with the page open, and it will tell you when you are not ready.
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Questions people ask
Is any part of the DP-600 exam hands-on or lab-based?
Yes. The exam includes interactive components where you complete tasks related to data analytics solutions.
If I fail DP-600, when can I retake it?
You must wait 24 hours after a first failed attempt, and 14 days before each subsequent attempt.
What job roles does the Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate credential map to?
It aligns with roles such as data engineer and data analyst, focusing on designing and deploying data analytics solutions.
Can I recertify by passing a different Microsoft exam?
No. You must complete the online renewal assessment to maintain your certification.
Information freshness · Content last reviewed on 2026-07-21 Up to date
Practice free questions 240 questions, free, no account needed.
The curriculum
The whole exam, mapped and written
Every domain, every objective, and every concept Microsoft measures — each one written out.
3domains
7objectives
68concepts
51free pages
The domains, and what sits inside them
Every objective below is a page you can open and practise now, without an account.
The official Microsoft exam outline · checked 21 July 2026 · See the source
1Maintain a data analytics solution78 questions
2Prepare data123 questions
3Implement and manage semantic models39 questions
Not a table of contents
Every line on this map already opens
In front of every objective the practice pages are already there, free and without an account. This is one objective, opened.
Implement security and governance8 pagesOpen →
Free in front of it
36 questions on this objective, five to a page. Every range above is a real page, open now, with no account.
Reading the map is not the same as knowing the ground
The curriculum tells you what is on the exam. Proving you know it is a different job — and it is the one the closed-book run does.
Free questions
240 questions. No account, no card.
The whole bank is open. 5 questions to a page, every answer explained, and a discussion thread on each one.
240questions
51pages
7objectives
Freealways
Browse by domain
Every objective, and every page range, is a link — so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
1Maintain a data analytics solution78 questions
2Prepare data123 questions
3Implement and manage semantic models39 questions
What a practice page gives you
1Five to a page
Short enough to finish, long enough to matter.
2Every answer explained
Not only which one is right — why the others are wrong.
3A discussion on each
Ask, answer, and vote. Every question has its own thread.
A question, and the idea behind it
Every question comes from a concept
These are not trivia. Each one is written against a concept in the book, so when you get one wrong there is somewhere to go and find out why.
The visual book
See it once. Carry it into the exam.
The pages shown here come from our AI-900 book — an example of how each concept is written in plain language and, where the idea needs one, drawn as a full page you can take in at a glance.
68concepts
240free questions
Why a picture, and not another paragraph
Three reasons, and each one is a real finding rather than a slogan.
You can see it againThe whole idea at onceWhere it starts, what happens in the middle, what comes out, and the mistake to avoid.
Multimedia principle · MayerThe look-alikes sit togetherThe pairs the exam tests are drawn side by side, so the difference is seen, not told.
Dual coding · PaivioWhat one page is made of
You are never asked to read a poster here — only to see how one is built. After that, every other page is legible at a glance.
1A numbered strip on top
The idea as a sequence, followed with a finger before a word is read.
2Panels for the parts
What it is, how the machine learns it, when it is the right tool.
3The trap, framed
The distinction the exam tests, given its own box instead of buried in prose.
4One line at the bottom
The sentence to carry into the exam room.
Open book, on purpose
Answer it with the picture beside you
This is the part that teaches. The illustration and the written explanation stay where they are while you work, so a scenario stops being a memory test and becomes something you can simply look at.
It teaches · it does not count
A smartphone uses AI to unlock when the owner looks at the camera. Which AI capability is being used?
AImage classification
BFacial recognition
COptical character recognition
DObject detection
Look at the five steps. Detect finds a face, align straightens it, encode turns it into numbers, search compares it with a stored face, and decide answers one question: is this the same person? Classification would only say “a face”. Detection would only draw a box. Neither decides whose.
Then the page shuts, and it starts counting
The same questions come back with the book closed — that run is the one that counts. After it, your coach picks one thing for tonight, sized to the time you have, and brings pages back before you lose them.
Testing effect · Roediger & Karpicke 2006 · spacing effect · Cepeda et al. 2006
Official resources
Straight from Microsoft
Where the exam is defined, scheduled and scored.
2official links
68concepts mapped
The source
Microsoft’s own pages
We link to them rather than repeat them, so nothing here goes stale behind them.
Checked against the source
Every objective on the official Microsoft outline already has questions here
We build from the official skills outline, not from a summary of it — 7 objectives, 68 concepts written under them, and free questions against every one. When Microsoft changes the outline, this page changes with it.
7objectives on the outline→68concepts written→240free questions
An official page tells you what will be asked. It cannot tell you what you will get right.
That is the only question worth answering the night before, and no link answers it. You answer it by taking the questions with the book closed, and seeing what comes back.