Reviewing Azure's Data Engineer Certificate DP-203 - Is It Worth Your Time And What Will You Learn?

There are a lot of different data engineering certificates out there. I would say picking one of the big three cloud provider certificates is always a great place to start.

The azure data engineering certificate is one great example of this. The question is, what will you have to know to get said certificate?

Here is a pdf of what the exam will cover.

Also, you can check out the course here - Azures certificate preparation course

0:00 Intro To Azures Data Engineering Certificate
1:27 Overview Of Azure Data Engineering Certificate Prep Course
3:37 Azure Data Engineering Sections
6:16 Github, Alerts and Optimization
8:47 Comparing Azure To GCP Data Engineering Certification
9:37 My Recommendation - Should You Get The Azure Data Engineering Certification?

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[robertocalzadilla]

Hey, I just wanted to say that I just passed my azure data fundamentals certification two hours ago . It's not much but it's a beginning and I'm happy for that

[ianfelton]

As someone who up until recently worked as a DE with Azure technologies, this is really good information. It is realistic too. Thanks again, and congrats on hitting 30k.

[SalamiBobby]

By the way, all three Azure Fundamentals certs are free to take just by signing up and attending the corresponding Microsoft Virtual Training day

[osmanbaba]

Just passed my DP-203 a couple weeks back. If you have no knowledge of SQL do not expect to pass this.

[ajv]

Thanks for this video. I have just started as a data analyst at a FAANG company, but I want to prepare to become a data engineer in the next couple of years.

[oresttokovenko]

Hey Ben, the AWS cert hasn't been called Big Data since two years ago! It's now called the Data Analytics - Specialty. I think it's important to mention other(although less important) certs like Airflow, Terraform, Spark, snowflake and dbt (coming out in the fall)

[JustBigdata]

Finding right communities and Networking is something that can help you excel ij your career at a faster rate. Well said !!!!

[milindranjan]

As far as I have seen having this certificate is good for those applying in Microsoft or other companies that rely on Azure for their DE purposes. There is a preference for candidates having knowledge on Azure so I guess you're more on the highlight to get shortlisted. The rest about clearing the interview solely depends on your skillset and communication, certificate only acts as a passport to get you there.

[nicky_rads]

Nice video, thanks !
I think certs are a good way to get book/domain knowledge but nothing beats hands on experience.
Certs can definitely help start the conversation and open some doors.

[enriquecortines]

You posted this on the day I took and passed the exam 😅

[karangadgil]

Such a helpful video. Covered so many importants points.

[brunosantana]

Excelente! Parabéns pela explicação. Principalmente no final sobre a possibilidade "mágica" de contratação que as pessoas acreditam que existe.

[julies]

Thanks Ben. It was a much helpful video. :)

[xx]

I have auditory issues.. the high pitches and energy triggers my rhythm.. :( at least I can kind of follow along with the CC subtitles..

[codestrap]

Open a PR for the online curriculum! This is gold!

[karthicajadhav]

Hello - am a seasoned QA, let me know if I can shift to data engineer?
Any tip related to this will be helpful

[aenima_]

Hi Ben! Thank you for your suggestions on your last live. After rewatching your GCP/IBM and Azure certification videos I decided to ditch GCP and go for Azure as I believe it's better suited for my Data Analyst background (also I work a ton with Microsoft's PBI). Have you noticed any important differences between Coursera prep and the free Microsoft prep? Main differences I see are practice questions at the end of each course on Coursera and the 10th course is an overall exam prep on Coursera while Microsoft has a Data Streaming course. Planning on going for the free Microsoft prep and enroll on coursera to tackle all test preps at the end.

[cosmicgyan]

I have az 900 and dp 900 but when i searched in LinkedIn they want these certificates along with 3+ years of experience.

[shubhampawade]

I have been building Data solutions on Azure for more than a year now and parallelly I work a lot on Power BI. I was thinking to go for this certification so that I get more overall understanding of different ways to especially transform the data. I have mostly used SQL (Synapse SQL serverless pool ) and data flows to do my transformations but now I want more control and flexibility while I do transformations and I believe I can get that using Python/Scala on Databricks. Will this certification help me with learning practical scenarios involving Python and scala? I don't want just basics, I want to solve some real problems. Any suggestions on whether I should invest time on DP 203?

[chessopenings]

Hey ben great video, I highly suggest jorge’s udemy course too for DP-203 it helped me a lot