Microsoft Fabric Updates Blog

New Fabric certification and Fabric Career Hub

Last year was a remarkable one for the Power BI community. We launched Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end analytics platform that brings together data preparation, data warehousing, data engineering, data science, real-time analytics, and business intelligence in one unified SaaS foundation with one copy of data stored in OneLake. We also launched Power BI Copilot, making it easier to find insights and build reports using natural language. And our community of over 2 million members continued to engage on our forums, post ideas, join user groups, helping one another in their data journeys.

New Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification

Our community is looking to swiftly ramp up on Fabric. We heard loud and clear from you that certifications from Microsoft would help you and your teams upskill to Fabric and give you the training needed to deploy Fabric in your organizations. I’m excited to announce the beta availability of Exam DP-600: Implementing Analytics Solutions with Microsoft Fabric, which helps you earn the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification.

Fabric Analytics Engineers transform data into reusable analytics assets, including semantic models, reports, dataflows, data pipelines, notebooks, lakehouses, and data warehouses. Fabric is built on the Power BI experience you are familiar with, making your transition to Analytics Engineering easier and quicker. This certification is ideal for Power BI Data Analysts looking to upskill to data engineering tasks.

To learn how you can be amongst the first to take the certification exam in beta, please read Microsoft Learn’s beta exam announcement.

Announcing Fabric Career Hub

Fabric Career Hub is your one-stop-shop for professional growth! We’ve created a comprehensive learning journey with the best FREE on-demand and live training, as well as access to exam discounts. Our resources are designed to help you get certified easily and cost-effectively. Here’s what you can expect from Fabric Career Hub:

Skills Challenges: Complete Fabric Learn module collections to earn certification discounts and prep for the DP-600 exam. Previous Learn module completions count!

Cloud Skills Challenge

Learn Together & Exam Cram: Join live sessions led by expert MVPs to guide you through the Learn modules, help you prep, and boost your confidence for the certification exam.

Learn Together

Group Learning: Join Hack Together and build innovative AI solutions with Fabric and compete as a team to win exciting prizes. Participate in learning rooms led by experts to dive deep in smaller groups.

Career Insights: Get inspired and guided on your learning journey with candid videos featuring the most successful experts in our community.

Career insights videos

Role Guidance: Understand how modern data roles fit into Fabric and the potential opportunities they can unlock for you.

Role guidance diagrams

We hope you find Fabric Career Hub helpful, give us feedback, and continue to engage with us and each other via the following community spaces:

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