This 4-day course covers methods and practices for performing advanced data analytics at scale. Students will build on existing analytics experience and will learn to implement and manage a data analytics environment, query and transform data, implement and manage data models, and explore and visualize data. In this course, students will use Azure Purview, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI to build analytics solutions.
Learning Objectives
At course completion, you should be able to
- Implement and manage a data analytics environment
- Query and transform data
- Implement and manage data models
- Explore and visualize data
Audience
This course is intended for business users who have been using Power BI to build analytic solutions and are ready to take advantage of the power and flexibility that DAX provides. Learning DAX is a very common for experienced Power BI users.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, it is recommended that students have:
- A foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they’re implemented using Azure data services.
- Experience designing and building scalable data models, cleaning and transforming data, and enabling advanced analytic capabilities that provide meaningful business value using Microsoft Power BI.
Course Outline
- INTRODUCTION TO DATA ANALYTICS ON AZURE
- Explore Azure data services for modern analytics
- Understand concepts of data analytics
- Explore data analytics at scale
- GOVERN DATA ACROSS AN ENTERPRISE
- Introduction to Microsoft Purview
- Discover trusted data using Microsoft Purview
- Catalog data artifacts by using Microsoft Purview
- Manage Power BI artifacts by using Microsoft Purview
- MODEL, QUERY, AND EXPLORE DATA IN AZURE SYNAPSE
- Introduction to Azure Synapse Analytics
- Use Azure Synapse serverless SQL pool to query files in a data lake
- Analyze data with Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics
- Analyze data in a relational data warehouse
- PREPARE DATA FOR TABULAR MODELS IN POWER BI
- Choose a Power BI model framework
- Understand scalability in Power BI
- Optimize Power Query for scalable solutions
- Create and manage scalable Power BI dataflows
- DESIGN AND BUILD SCALABLE TABULAR MODELS
- Create Power BI model relationships
- Enforce model security
- Implement DirectQuery
- Create calculation groups
- Use tools to optimize Power BI performance
- IMPLEMENT ADVANCED DATA VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES BY USING POWER BI
- Understand advanced data visualization concepts
- Customize core data models
- Monitor data in real-time with Power BI
- Create and distribute paginated reports in Power BI report builder
- IMPLEMENT AND MANAGE AN ANALYTICS ENVIRONMENT
- Provide governance in a Power BI environment
- Facilitate collaboration and sharing in Power BI
- Monitor and audit usage
- Provision Premium capacity in Power BI
- Establish a data access infrastructure in Power BI
- Broaden the reach of Power BI
- Automate Power BI administration
- Build reports using Power BI within Azure Synapse Analytics
- MANAGE THE ANALYTICS DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE
- Design a Power BI application lifecycle management strategy
- Create and manage a Power BI deployment pipeline
- Create and manage Power BI assets