Explore fundamentals of large-scale analytics

Beginner
Data Engineer
Solution Architect
Student
Azure

Organizations use analytics platforms to build large scale data analytics solutions that generate insights and drive success. Microsoft provides multiple technologies that you can combine to build a large scale data analytics solution.

Learning objectives

In this module, you learn how to:

  • Identify common elements of a data analytics solution

  • Describe key features for data ingestion pipelines

  • Identify common types of analytical data store and related Azure services

  • Describe platform-as-a-service (PaaS) data analytics solutions in Azure

  • Provision Azure Synapse Analytics and use it to ingest, process, and query data

  • Describe features of Microsoft Fabric - a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for data analytics

  • Use Microsoft Fabric to ingest and analyze data

Prerequisites

Before starting this module, you should have a conceptual understanding of data and databases, and be familiar with Microsoft Azure services for data workloads such as Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos DB.