Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
The DP-600 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Azure. It validates your ability to maintain a data analytics solution, prepare data, and implement and manage semantic models.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Exam code
- DP-600
- Level
- Associate
- Duration
- Approximately 100 minutes
- Questions
- Typically 40–60 questions
- Passing score
- 700 out of 1000
- Cost
- USD $165 — typical price; the exact fee varies by country/region and currency, and local taxes may apply.
- Prerequisites
- None required
- Languages
- English (also available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Spanish and Portuguese (Brazil))
- Delivered by
- Pearson VUE
- Renewal
- Free online assessment, every 12 months
Skills measured
Maintain a data analytics solution (25–30%)
- Implement workspace, item, row, column, and file-level access controls and sensitivity labels.
- Configure version control, deployment pipelines, XMLA, and reusable Power BI assets.
Prepare data (45–50%)
- Connect to and ingest data from OneLake, Real-Time hub, Eventhouse, and semantic models.
- Transform data into a star schema, including merge, aggregate, type conversion, and duplicates.
- Query and analyse data with SQL, KQL, DAX, and the Visual Query Editor.
Implement and manage semantic models (25–30%)
- Design semantic models with star schemas, relationships, DAX, calculation groups, and composite models.
- Optimise enterprise models, Direct Lake, incremental refresh, and DAX performance.
Study resources & practice tests
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Frequently asked questions
Who should take DP-600?
DP-600 is for Fabric analytics engineers, analytics engineers, and senior Power BI developers. Most work in business intelligence teams, at consultancies, or in data offices in finance, retail, and manufacturing.
What is the average salary for a Fabric Analytics Engineer?
Microsoft Fabric analytics engineers are paid as Power BI and analytics engineers. As of 2026, US analytics and Power BI-focused roles commonly pay about $80,000 to $130,000. In the United Kingdom, Power BI developer median advertised pay is about £55,000, and Power BI Analyst median is £52,500. In Germany, comparable analytics professionals often earn about €55,000 to €85,000. There is no single published EMEA average.
Where do I find exam questions to practice?
You will find websites selling exam dumps or brain dumps that claim to be real DP-600 questions. Those materials are not official. Microsoft treats using brain dumps as cheating. It can invalidate your score, revoke certifications you already hold, and ban you from future exams. Microsoft publishes a free Practice Assessment for DP-600 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. MeasureUp also sells the official practice test linked in the study resources on this page. You can try the Microsoft exam sandbox to see the question types and timer, but it does not use real exam questions. Practise the skills measured in a real product environment rather than memorising leaked items.
Does the exam include official labs I can use to practice?
Microsoft does not publish a stable list of which certification exams include labs, and a lab can be dropped for a candidate if the live environment is unavailable. Role-based Azure and security exams such as DP-600 may include performance-based labs in a live cloud environment. You only find out at the start of your sitting. For practice, Microsoft Learn modules for this exam often include a free Azure sandbox, and official instructor-led DP-600T00 training delivered by a Microsoft Learning Partner includes labs. Those labs are for the course, not a copy of the exam. Applied Skills assessment labs are a separate Microsoft credential, not DP-600 exam labs. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.