Explore core data concepts
Explore core data concepts
- Identify data formats
- Explore file storage
- Explore databases
- Explore transactional data processing
- Explore analytical data processing
Explore data roles and services
Explore data roles and services
- Explore job roles in the world of data
- Identify data services
Explore fundamental relational data concepts
Explore fundamental relational data concepts
- Understand relational data
- Understand normalization
- Explore SQL
- Describe database objects
Explore relational database services in Azure
Explore relational database services in Azure
- Describe Azure SQL services and capabilities
- Describe Azure services for open-source databases
- Exercise: Explore Azure relational database services
Explore Azure Storage for non-relational data
Explore Azure Storage for non-relational data
- Explore Azure blob storage
- Explore Azure DataLake Storage Gen2
- Explore Azure Files
- Explore Azure Tables
- Exercise: Explore Azure Storage
Explore fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB
Explore fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB
- Describe Azure Cosmos DB
- Identify Azure Cosmos DB APIs
- Exercise: Explore Azure Cosmos DB
Explore fundamentals of large-scale data warehousing
Explore fundamentals of large-scale data warehousing
- Describe data warehousing architecture
- Explore data ingestion pipelines
- Explore analytical data stores
- Exercise: Explore data analytics in Azure with Azure Synapse Analytics
Explore fundamentals of real-time analytics
Learn about the basics of stream processing, and the services in Microsoft Azure that you can use to implement real-time analytics solutions.
- Understand batch and stream processing
- Explore common elements of stream processing architecture
- Explore Azure Stream Analytics
- Exercise: Explore Azure Stream Analytics
- Explore Apache Spark on Microsoft Azure
- Exercise: Explore Spark Streaming in Azure Synapse Analytics
Explore fundamentals of data visualization
Learn the fundamental principles of analytical data modeling and data visualization, using Microsoft Power BI as a platform to explore these principles in action.
- Describe Power BI tools and workflow
- Describe core concepts of data modeling
- Describe considerations for data visualization
- Exercise – Explore fundamentals of data visualization with Power BI
In this course, students will gain foundational knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. Students will learn about core data concepts such as relational, non-relational, big data, and analytics, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure. Students will explore fundamental relational data concepts and relational database services in Azure. They will explore Azure storage for non-relational data and the fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn about large-scale data warehousing, real-time analytics, and data visualization.
The audience for this course is individuals who want to learn the fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment, get basic skilling in cloud data services, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure.