Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate
The DP-700 exam is designed for professionals who implement and configure Azure. It validates your ability to implement and manage an analytics solution, ingest and transform data, and monitor and optimize an analytics solution.
Exam details
- Certification
- Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate
- Exam code
- DP-700
- 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
Implement and manage an analytics solution (30–35%)
- Configure Fabric workspace settings for Spark, OneLake, domains, and Apache Airflow.
- Implement lifecycle management with version control, database projects, and deployment pipelines.
- Configure security, sensitivity labels, audit logs, and orchestration with pipelines and notebooks.
Ingest and transform data (30–35%)
- Design full, incremental, dimensional, and streaming load patterns.
- Ingest and transform batch data with pipelines, PySpark, SQL, KQL, mirroring, and shortcuts.
- Process streaming data with Eventstreams, Spark structured streaming, and windowing.
Monitor and optimize an analytics solution (30–35%)
- Monitor ingestion, transformation, semantic model refresh, and alerts.
- Resolve pipeline, Dataflow Gen2, notebook, Eventhouse, Eventstream, and shortcut errors.
- Optimise lakehouse tables, pipelines, warehouses, Spark, Eventstreams, and queries.
Study resources & practice tests
Frequently asked questions
Who should take DP-700?
DP-700 is for Fabric data engineers, data engineers, and analytics engineers. Most work on data platforms, at Microsoft partners, or in finance, retail, and healthcare.
What is the average salary for a Fabric Data Engineer?
As of 2026, US Azure and Fabric data engineers commonly earn about $125,000 to $160,000 at mid level. In the United Kingdom, Azure Data Factory and related data engineering jobs have advertised medians around £80,000 in some remote samples, with broader Azure data roles often £65,000 to £85,000. Western European data engineers in Germany typically earn about €70,000 to €100,000. 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-700 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-700 on Microsoft Learn. Those questions are examples only, not the live exam. 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-700 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-700T00 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-700 exam labs. The Microsoft exam sandbox shows traditional question types only. It does not give you the lab virtual machine.