In this course, the student will learn how to implement and manage data engineering workloads on Microsoft Azure, using Azure services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, and others. The course focuses on common data engineering tasks such as orchestrating data transfer and transformation pipelines, working with data files in a data lake, creating and loading relational data warehouses, capturing and aggregating streams of real-time data, and tracking data assets and lineage.

Course objectives

• Explore compute and storage options for data engineering workloads in Azure
• Run interactive queries using serverless SQL pools
• Perform data Exploration and Transformation in Azure Databricks
• Explore, transform, and load data into the Data Warehouse using Apache Spark
• Ingest and load Data into the Data Warehouse
• Transform Data with Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Pipelines
• Integrate Data from Notebooks with Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Pipelines
• Support Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing (HTAP) with Azure Synapse Link
• Perform end-to-end security with Azure Synapse Analytics
• Perform real-time Stream Processing with Stream Analytics
• Create a Stream Processing Solution with Event Hubs and Azure Databricks

Audience

The primary audience for this course is data professionals, data architects, and business intelligence professionals who want to learn about data engineering and building analytical solutions using data platform technologies that exist on Microsoft Azure. The secondary audience for this course includes data analysts and data scientists who work with analytical solutions built on Microsoft Azure.