Microsoft Applied Skills

Microsoft Applied Skills are scenario-based credentials that provide learners with validation of targeted skills. These credentials are an efficient and trusted way to identify and deepen proficiency in scenario-based skillsets. The interactive training and validation enable learners to demonstrate proficiency by completing real-world tasks.

Applied Skills can help students prepare for the workforce by providing them with real-world problem-solving experience and validation of their skills.

This course is for Data Engineers.

Fundamental knowledge of data analytics concepts.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Provision an Azure Databricks workspace
• Identify core workloads and personas for Azure Databricks
• Describe key concepts of an Azure Databricks solution
• Describe key elements of the Apache Spark architecture
• Create and configure a Spark cluster
• Describe use cases for Spark
• Use Spark to process and analyse data stored in files
• Use Spark to visualise data
• Describe core features and capabilities of Delta Lake
• Create and use Delta Lake tables in Azure Databricks
• Create Spark catalog tables for Delta Lake data
• Use Delta Lake tables for streaming data
• Create and configure SQL Warehouses in Azure Databricks
• Create databases and tables
• Create queries and dashboards
• Describe how Azure Databricks notebooks can be run in a pipeline
• Create an Azure Data Factory linked service for Azure Databricks
• Use a Notebook activity in a pipeline
• Pass parameters to a notebook

• Explore Azure Databricks
• Use Apache Spark in Azure Databricks
• Use Delta Lake in Azure Databricks
• Use SQL Warehouses in Azure Databricks
• Run Azure Databricks Notebooks with Azure Data Factory