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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

By : Newton Alex
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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

By: Newton Alex

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading cloud providers in the world, providing numerous services for data hosting and data processing. Most of the companies today are either cloud-native or are migrating to the cloud much faster than ever. This has led to an explosion of data engineering jobs, with aspiring and experienced data engineers trying to outshine each other. Gaining the DP-203: Azure Data Engineer Associate certification is a sure-fire way of showing future employers that you have what it takes to become an Azure Data Engineer. This book will help you prepare for the DP-203 examination in a structured way, covering all the topics specified in the syllabus with detailed explanations and exam tips. The book starts by covering the fundamentals of Azure, and then takes the example of a hypothetical company and walks you through the various stages of building data engineering solutions. Throughout the chapters, you'll learn about the various Azure components involved in building the data systems and will explore them using a wide range of real-world use cases. Finally, you’ll work on sample questions and answers to familiarize yourself with the pattern of the exam. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to pass the DP-203 exam with ease and land your dream job in data engineering.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Azure Basics
3
Part 2: Data Storage
10
Part 3: Design and Develop Data Processing (25-30%)
15
Part 4: Design and Implement Data Security (10-15%)
17
Part 5: Monitor and Optimize Data Storage and Data Processing (10-15%)
20
Part 6: Practice Exercises

Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics

With all the initial formalities now behind us, let's start our journey in Azure. Our journey starts here: https://azure.microsoft.com.

Azure is one of the most important cloud platform providers in the market today. It provides several cloud, hybrid, and on-premises services such as VMs, networks, compute, databases, messaging, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and many more services while focusing on security and compliance. You could use these services to build anything from web pages to mobile apps, from data analytics solutions to IoT solutions and more.

In Azure, users have the flexibility to choose from completely hosted no-code solutions to completely build-your-own solutions ground up using the basic building blocks like VMs and VNets, where the users have full control over each and every aspect of the system. And most of these technologies come prebaked with the cloud advantages, such as geo-replication, high availability, data redundancy, scalability, and elasticity.

Let's quickly review the basics of Azure. The following sections will focus on brushing up on the fundamentals of Azure. If you already have a working knowledge of Azure and know how to spin up resources in Azure, then you can safely skip this chapter and go directly to the next one.

In this first chapter, we'll provide an overview of Azure, including introducing some common Azure services. We'll get a good grounding in the basics, such as accounts, virtual machines (VMs), storage, compute, and networking. We'll also walk through how to spin up services using both the Azure portal and the CLI.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing the Azure portal
  • Exploring Azure accounts, subscriptions, and resource groups
  • Introducing Azure services
  • Exploring Azure VMs
  • Exploring Azure storage
  • Exploring Azure networking (VNet)
  • Exploring Azure compute

Let's get started!