Let’s Get Certified: DP-600 - Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Event
📅 Thursday, November 12, 2026
⏰ 6:30 – 10:45 AM ET | 7:30 – 11:45 PM PHT | 5:00 – 9:15 PM IST | 12:30 – 4:45 PM WAT
📍 Virtual Event
💰 Free
About This Event
The DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification validates the skills needed to design, build, and manage enterprise-scale analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
This community learning event focuses on the analytics engineering skills measured on the DP-600 exam, including preparing and enriching data, implementing and managing semantic models, and maintaining analytics solutions.
Each session gives you an important building block for your exam preparation, so by the end of the event you'll have a clearer picture of how raw data becomes trusted, governed semantic models and reports in Microsoft Fabric.
This event is part of the Microsoft Student Ambassador community learning series, designed to help students and early-career technologists prepare for Microsoft certifications while building real technical skills.
Who Should Attend
Microsoft Student Ambassadors exploring Microsoft Fabric
Students preparing for the DP-600 certification
Power BI and Excel users expanding into analytics engineering
Data analysts and analytics engineers working with Microsoft technologies
Developers exploring the Microsoft analytics ecosystem
Anyone interested in building modern analytics platforms using Microsoft Fabric
What You'll Learn
How the DP-600 exam is structured and what it measures
How Microsoft Fabric supports end-to-end analytics workflows, from data preparation to reporting
How to prepare and enrich data for analytics in Fabric lakehouses and warehouses
How to design and implement semantic models that support reporting and self-service analytics
How DAX and SQL are used in analytics environments, and where KQL fits for certain scenarios
How to monitor, secure, and maintain analytics assets in Fabric
Practical approaches to preparing effectively for the DP-600 certification exam
Agenda
Opening Session — 30 Minutes
The Fabric Analytics Mindset and DP-600 Overview
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 6:30 – 7:00 AM ET | 7:30 – 8:00 PM PHT | 5:00 – 5:30 PM IST | 12:30 – 1:00 PM WAT
This opening session introduces the role of the Fabric analytics engineer and explains how the rest of the event maps to the skills measured on the DP-600 exam.
Topics include:
Understanding the Fabric analytics ecosystem and core workloads
How analytics engineers collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and stakeholders
How the exam domains—prepare data, implement and manage semantic models, and maintain a data analytics solution—reflect real-world scenarios
Session 1 — 45 Minutes
Preparing Data for Analytics in Microsoft Fabric
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 7:00 – 7:45 AM ET | 8:00 – 8:45 PM PHT | 5:30 – 6:15 PM IST | 1:00 – 1:45 PM WAT
This session focuses on preparing and shaping data for analytics workloads in Fabric.
Topics include:
Working with lakehouses and warehouses in Fabric for analytics scenarios
Querying and preparing datasets using SQL in Fabric
Data transformation strategies that support semantic models and reports
Preparing datasets for star-schema modeling
Ensuring data quality, profiling, and consistency before modeling
Session 2 — 45 Minutes
Designing Semantic Models for Analytics
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 7:45 – 8:30 AM ET | 8:45 – 9:30 PM PHT | 6:15 – 7:00 PM IST | 1:45 – 2:30 PM WAT
Semantic models are the foundation of analytics solutions in Fabric.
Topics include:
Understanding semantic models and datasets in Microsoft Fabric
Designing star schemas for analytics, including fact and dimension tables
Creating and managing relationships between tables
Modeling data for reports, dashboards, and self-service analytics
Avoiding common modeling mistakes that impact performance and usability
Session 3 — 45 Minutes
Analytics with DAX and Data Modeling Techniques
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 8:30 – 9:15 AM ET | 9:30 – 10:15 PM PHT | 7:00 – 7:45 PM IST | 2:30 – 3:15 PM WAT
This session focuses on how analytics engineers use calculations and measures to deliver insights from semantic models.
Topics include:
Core DAX concepts used in analytics environments (measures vs calculated columns, filter context, row context)
Creating measures and calculated columns for business logic
Filtering and aggregation techniques for real analytics scenarios
Using DAX for advanced analytics patterns and time intelligence
Performance considerations in semantic models, including optimization best practices
Session 4 — 45 Minutes
Analytics Experiences with Power BI and Excel
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 9:15 – 10:00 AM ET | 10:15 – 11:00 PM PHT | 7:45 – 8:30 PM IST | 3:15 – 4:00 PM WAT
This session focuses on turning semantic models into usable analytics experiences in Power BI and Excel.
Topics include:
Connecting Power BI to Fabric semantic models and datasets
Designing reports and dashboards that align with business questions
Connecting Excel to Fabric semantic models
Using PivotTables and analytics tools in Excel with Fabric data
Supporting self-service analytics for business users while keeping models governed
Session 5 — 45 Minutes
Maintaining Analytics Solutions and DP-600 Exam Strategy
📺 YouTube Livestream (link + replay available)
🕒 10:00 – 10:45 AM ET | 11:00 – 11:45 PM PHT | 8:30 – 9:15 PM IST | 4:00 – 4:45 PM WAT
The final session focuses on governance, maintenance, and exam readiness.
Topics include:
Monitoring analytics assets and refresh operations in Fabric
Managing performance and optimization for semantic models and reports
Security and governance considerations, including access controls and sensitivity labels
Common pitfalls and misconceptions learners encounter when preparing for DP-600
Effective study strategies, practice resources, and next steps after the exam