Today (9AM PST), Microsoft are launching a new AI Skills Fest Challenge thing. It seems quite complicated, but I've done my best to condense all the required knowledge for you, to explain how this thing will work. You can potentially win a 100% exam discount voucher for DP-600 or DP-700, so might be worth it! 1/ Start by registering (here, click on Register Now) for the AI Skills Fest. 2/ Participate in one of the Challenges (you do not even need to complete it): - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Create agentic AI solutions with Azure AI Foundry - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Become a Fabric Data Engineer: Prep for the DP-700 Certification Exam - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Migration essentials for Azure and AI workloads - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Architecture Recipes for AI-Powered Applications - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Protect Data in the Age of AI - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Extend Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft Teams with agents and apps - AI Skills Fest Challenge: Prevent and respond to cyberattacks at the speed of AI 3/ After participating in a challenge, visit https://aka.ms/aiskillsfest/challengesweepstakes to complete an official entry form. For doing this, you will receive one (1) entry into the corresponding weekly Prize Period drawing. There is a limit of one (1) entry per person overall. 4/ Then, Microsoft will run a sweepstake picking random entrants to win a voucher. Every 7 days, for the next 7 weeks, prizes will be drawn. If you won the sweepstake, you should get an email. In total, there are 50,000 vouchers being given out. You only need to apply once, if you don't win on Week 1, your entry will automatically be rolled into the next week's draw.

using custom endpoint on eventstream to log telemetry data from your app to Fabric is a game changer.

Thanks to Will I passed my DP700 this morning. I found the exam challenging as it tests more hands on knowledge than theory unlike DP600

I would like to schedule a pipeline to run every hour between 8am to 8pm daily. Whats the best way to approach this.

Hi Everyone, I am Akos and I have 15 years experience in data engineering, reporting and analysing. I also have 8 years experience in business process and data process automations. I started in the old school world like automating excel reports with VBA and or VBS using SQL server jobs to schedule data processes, etc... Now I'm working in a MS environment with Power BI but no Fabric enabled, we are using databrics to run notebooks and do ETL/ELTs. I am using Power Automate for most of the process automations. So I am working with MS tools but not using complex cloud solution. I hope MS Fabric knowledge will be a big boost not only for my career but for the business ares I working with. Honestly I wasn't aware about Will's youtube content until this wednesday. I started my Fabric journey back in April with the Microsoft Learn AI Skill Challenge where I got my free exam voucher. So I read everything related on MS Learning and did all the labs and exercises. I have lots of experience with Data / Automation / Reporting including Power BI but only a little in cloud environment. So I signed up for the exam, what I did yesterday. The day before it I wasn't sure in my knowledge so I started to look around what can I find about DP-600 on youtube. Actually I watched the whole 12 parts of the DP-600 preparation which was helpful to put some missing pieces in place. My exam was succesful however it was everything but not what I expected. I got 56 questions with 9 in case study and 3 grouped at the end without moving back possibility. 100 minutes it's easy I thought but it wasn't. I had 3 questions marked for review and still had 3 before me when the time counter was at 8 minutes. Luckily the 3 grouped question at the end has no long decripiton and was about the same function so I did them fast and I had a few minutes to check the marked questions and submit. I don't say you don't have time because still 100 min is enough but you can't freeze so if you don't know the answer check something mark for review and move on.