A big congrats to the following top contributors in the community for the month of December: 🥇 @Amir Kaviani 🥈 @Unmesh J.n. 🥉 @Lori Keller Thank you all for your contributions to the community, you have all won a free pass to Fabric Dojo for the month of January 🥳 If you're new to the community, every month, we give away three one-month passes to Fabric Dojo for the top 3 contributors in the community, as per the 30-day leaderboard! How do you climb the leaderboard? Read this. Well done to everyone 💪

Microsoft has released the official self-paced course for DP-700. Check it out here👉🏽 Course DP-700T00-A: Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer This course will eventually become the recommended self-paced material on the Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification page. So, if you plan on taking the exam once it goes GA, you might as well take advantage of this course and start preparing now. Also, find some helpful DP-700 discussions below: - DP-700 beta exam experiences and tips (by Ali Stoops) - DP 700 - Study Guide & Learn Collection When are you planning to take the DP-700 exam? Let us know how you’re preparing below👇🏽

Happy Friday everyone! It's Will here, just a short message - I'm seeing people make great progress in their Fabric learning and in their career, which is incredible. Lots of people getting new jobs, or getting certified, or building their first PoC in Fabric! Learning new skills is a long journey, so I think it's important to celebrate the small wins you have along the way. Let's use today to pause and reflect on what YOU'VE done recently - no matter how big or small - and celebrate these wins as a community. Post your Fabric Wins of this week (or recent weeks), maybe you: - Completed a lesson or module? - Built something new in Fabric? - Passed a certification? - Landed a new job? Let's hear about it! Let's spread some positive vibes going into the weekend!!💪

I passed the facelifted DP-600 exam! :) and it was far from easy! Many thanks to the whole community and especially to @Will Needham for his noble teaching skills, joy of sharing and the great learning materials he has created. Some points from my exam experience with OnVUE: >> Using MS Learn during the exam I mastered the structure of MS-Learn and how to use it to find what I was looking for, but to be honest I didn't feel I needed it and didn't use it at all during the exam. The exam tested the theoretical knowledge by providing many practical scenarios. In fact, about 70% of the questions were put into practice by chaining the situations together so that I had to understand the glue between the joints. >> Case Study The first 8 questions were about a given practical case study. A bit tedious, but easy to understand without reading all the details of the story. The important details were given here as extra bullet points and lists of requirements, and they were sufficient to answer the given questions. In fact, skimming the use case and reading the questions first and then coming back and reading the use case in detail helped me to answer in time. >> Common questions in the exam - (T-)SQL: in combination with Spark made up the majority of the questions (data ingestion, aggregation, cleansing, etc.) - Permission concepts at various levels (fabric items, warehouse, CLS, OLS, RLS) - Visual and Power Query to perform a transformation or generate a target table - Semantic and large semantic models in practice were in about 8 questions - Generally what can be found where in Fabric/PBI/Admin Portal/Azure Portal/Data Pipelines/etc. - Where to find specific monitoring related stuff (Fabric Monitoring, Metrics App) - Where to set XMLA endpoint-specific settings and for what purpose - KQL statements was questioned only once - DAX formulas were not asked! - Real-time intelligence was not examined! Some tips for those who have an exam date coming up:

Sharing a recording of the 2.5hr DP-600 Exam Cram (aligned to the new study guide) I participated in alongside lots of awesome presenters! Hope you enjoy! I have also added it to the DP-600 classroom: #2.5hr DP-600 EXAM CRAM (new study guide)