Azure for the Data Engineer

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Free Online Course: Azure for the Data Engineer provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
    • Module 1: Discover how data systems and roles are evolving and explore the differences between on-premises and cloud data solutions using sample business cases.
    • In this module you will:

      • Learn which key factors are driving changes in data generation, roles, and technologies.
      • Compare on-premises data technologies to cloud data technologies.
      • Outline how the role of the data professional is changing.
      • Identify use cases that apply these changes.
    • Module 2: Explore the broad array of Azure technologies that analyze text or images and relational, nonrelational, or streaming data.
    • In this module you will:

      • Contrast structured data with nonstructured data.
      • Explore common Azure data platform technologies and learn when to use them.
      • Understand technologies that support the common Azure data platform technologies.
    • Module 3: Learn about the responsibilities of a data engineer, how they relate to the jobs of other data and AI roles, and explore common data engineering practices.
    • In this module you will:

      • List the roles involved in modern data projects.
      • Outline data-engineering practices.
      • Explore the high-level process for designing a data-engineering project.

Syllabus
    • Module 1: Understand the evolving world of data
      • Introduction
      • Data abundance
      • Understand the difference between on-premises and cloud-based servers
      • Understand job responsibilities
      • Use cases for the cloud
      • Summary
    • Module 2: Survey the services on the Azure Data platform
      • Introduction
      • Explore data types
      • Understand data storage in Azure Storage
      • Understand data storage in Azure Data Lake Storage
      • Understand Azure Cosmos DB
      • Understand Azure SQL Database
      • Understand Azure Synapse Analytics
      • Understand Azure Stream Analytics
      • Understand Azure HDInsight
      • Understand other Azure data services
      • Summary
    • Module 3: Identify the tasks of a data engineer in a cloud-hosted architecture
      • Introduction
      • Identify job roles
      • Identify data engineering processes
      • Analyze a data engineer's tasks
      • Summary