As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Azure environment, including:

• Virtual networks
• Storage
• Compute
• Identity
• Security
• Governance

As an Azure administrator, you often serve as part of a larger team dedicated to implementing an organization's cloud infrastructure. You also coordinate with other roles to deliver Azure networking, security, database, application development, and DevOps solutions.

You should be familiar with:

• Operating systems
• Networking
• Servers
• Virtualization

In addition, you should have experience with:

• PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• The Azure portal
• Azure Resource Manager templates
• Microsoft Entra ID

As a candidate for this certification, you should have subject matter expertise in integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from various structured, unstructured, and streaming data systems into a suitable schema for building analytics solutions.

As an Azure data engineer, you help stakeholders understand the data through exploration, and build and maintain secure and compliant data processing pipelines by using different tools and techniques. You use various Azure data services and frameworks to store and produce cleansed and enhanced datasets for analysis. This data store can be designed with different architecture patterns based on business requirements, including:

• Modern data warehouse (MDW)
• Big data
• Lakehouse architecture

As an Azure data engineer, you also help to ensure that the operationalization of data pipelines and data stores are high-performing, efficient, organized, and reliable, given a set of business requirements and constraints. You help to identify and troubleshoot operational and data quality issues. You also design, implement, monitor, and optimize data platforms to meet the data pipelines.

As a candidate for this certification, you must have solid knowledge of data processing languages, including:

• SQL
• Python
• Scala

You need to understand parallel processing and data architecture patterns. You should be proficient in using the following to create data processing solutions:

• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure Stream Analytics
• Azure Event Hubs
• Azure Data Lake Storage
• Azure Databricks

You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification exam. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.