Explore fundamentals of large-scale analytics

Explore fundamentals of large-scale analytics

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.

Data Engineer
Solution Architect
Student
Azure

Module Objectives

In this module, you will 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.