Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Overview

To understand Fabric’s main use cases, you will explore various tools in the seven Fabric experiences. Welcome to Microsoft FabricTake your first steps with Microsoft Fabric, an all-in-one platform unifying data engineering, data science, and business intelligence.

This course offers hands-on experience with Fabric’s key features, helping you manage data across teams, automate pipelines, and create insightful dashboards. Explore Fabric’s Seven Experiences Understand the core functions of Fabric’s seven experiences:

Data Factory, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, Power BI, and Data Activator.

Master Data Ingestion & Transformation Learn to use Data Pipelines, Dataflow Gen 2, and Shortcuts to ingest, clean, and transform data in Fabric. Choose the Right Storage SolutionDiscover the differences between Lakehouses and Warehouses, and when to use each for your data storage needs.

Business Intelligence with Power BI Create interactive dashboards and reports using data from your Fabric Lakehouses and Warehouses, fully integrated with Power BI. Certification Preparation This course is your first step toward earning Microsoft’s Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate certification (DP-600), covering key exam topics and skills.

Syllabus

• Introduction to Fabric
In this chapter, we'll introduce you to the seven Fabric experiences and explain the main use cases of Fabric.
• Working with Lakehouses
In this chapter, we'll look at how to add data to a Fabric Lakehouse and query that data.
• Power BI In Fabric
In this chapter, we'll look at how to bring data into Power BI using semantic models.

Taught by

Alex Kuntz

Subjects

Programming