Next steps – DP-900

Congratulations for completing this DP-900 course.

What’s the next step for you? Here are some resources which can help you in your future learning journey.

Bonus videos

If you would like more videos about Microsoft Azure, then please have a look at our Azure Fundamentals Playlist.

It contains topics which used to be required for the AZ-900 and DP-900 exams, but are no longer needed. Please enjoy.

The official Practice test

What is a good way to prepare for the DP-900 exam? Why not redo all of the quizzes and the Practice Test in this course.

After that, then please have a look at the official Microsoft Practice Test and assessment.

The Microsoft DP-900 Practice Test* is around US$100 (full price – it may be on sale). It has 120 questions, and gives you detailed explanations for your answers. This enables you to get used to the style of questions asked and improve on your answers. I would keep doing the Practice Test until you get over 90% right before doing the actual exam. You can do the Practice Test as many times you want for 30 days (for an additional cost, you can extend it to 60 or 365 days, or you can download it onto your computer). We recommend the Practice Test if you are going to do just this one exam.

If you are going to do multiple Microsoft exams, then you may save money getting Measureup.com’s Subscription plan for individuals*. It costs around the price of 2 Practice Tests, and gives you 365-day online access to over 120 tests. It covers all the practice tests from MeasureUp’s catalog, including Windows Server, Azure, Office 365, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange Server, and more (including from CompTIA, Cisco, AWS, VMware, and PMI).

To avoid multiple users using this individual plan, you can only have one practice test active at once, and once you activate another practice test, you won’t be able to go back to the previous one for the rest of the subscription period. If you have multiple users, there is a Company version available.

The Microsoft DP-900 Assessment* is around US$20 (it may be on sale). This is good if you want a small sample of the questions so that you can say “yes, I’m ready”. However, it only includes 30 questions, you can only use it once (or twice, if you pay extra). It also doesn’t include any explanations or references.

Additional resources

Don’t forget – you can rewatch our video course as much as you would like. However, we know that some students buy courses from additional providers, to provide additional ways of learning. If you would like additional e-learning, then please look at the DP-900 CertKit*. It includes 365 days access to online elearning, tips and information. It also includes the Practice Test for 60 days after its first use.

To find out more about the PL-300 CertKit, please click here.If you would a book about the DP-900, then please have a look at Microsoft’s DP-900 Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals. It is available in both Paperback and Kindle. Please note – as a printed book, it may not reflect the latest version of the DP-900 exam.

You can also look at the official Microsoft Learning Path. There is 1 Learning Path with around 4 modules, which contain 5-15 web pages. Please note: these Learning Paths may not reflect the latest version of the DP-900 exam.

The exam requirements and how to schedule the exam

To see the exam requirements, please go to the Resources section in our course, where you can download a copy. Alternatively, go to Microsoft’s DP-900 Study Guide. Microsoft checks the requirements every couple of months, to ensure that they are up-to-date.

To schedule the exam, please go to the Microsoft DP-900 exam page and click on “Schedule exam”. You can then schedule the exam with Pearson Vue, either in person at a test center, or online. If you are doing your test on line, then you will need a webcam, an internet connection, a private, distraction-free place, and a government-issued ID.

Other video courses you might be interested in

You have just completed a fundamental video course on Azure. Therefore, you might be interested in going deeper in Azure, or exploring other fundamental topics.

My courses follow the requirements of the official Microsoft exams or assessments, and there are plenty of quizzes or practice activities (as appropriate), so you can be sure that you are learning.

Our 5 hour AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals course concentrates on compute and storage services, and the wider features of Azure. You will:

  • Cloud concepts, core Azure services, and core solutions and management tools on Azure,
  • General Security and network security features,
  • Identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features, and
  • Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements.

Our 9 hour PL-900: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals course is an introduction to the Power Platform. You will be able to:

  • Describe the business value of Microsoft’s Power Platform,
  • Identify the Core Components of Power Platform, including Dataverse (CDS), Connectors and AI Builder, and
  • Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate.

Our 6 hour SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals course is an introduction to security using cloud-based and related Microsoft services. We will look at:

  • Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity,
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions,
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions, and
  • Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions.

Our Azure courses which follow a Microsoft Applied Skills curriculum

Develop generative AI solutions with Azure OpenAI Service

  • Generate natural language responses, apply prompt engineering techniques and generate and improve code using an Azure OpenAI resource, and the portal, C# or Python.
  • You’ll also use OpenAI on your own data, and generate images with DALL-E.

  • This allows you to use Artificial Intelligence to analyse images, create captions, retrieve text, tag images, and much more.

Create an intelligent document processing solution with Azure AI Document Intelligence

  • Read text from images (OCR – Optical Character Recognition), using general-purpose models, and other models such as those designed especially to read invoices.

Build a natural language processing solution with Azure AI Language

  • Analyse text, identifying the language, extracting key phrases, recognise entities (such as dates, addresses and recipients) and sentiment, and more.

  • Store your images and files in the cloud using Azure Storage, and then secure them so that only permitted people can access them.

Udemy Certificate of Completion

If you have watched all of the videos, then you should shortly be able to download your Udemy certificate of completion.

If you have any trouble downloading it, then please go to this website.

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