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Introduction to Microsoft Fabric Course

Who should attend

People who want to get started using Microsoft Fabric or who would like an overview of its capabilities.

Course Length

3 days

Pre-requisites

This is a foundation course. Attendees do not need any prior knowledge of Microsoft Fabric or Power BI.

Learning Objectives

Microsoft Fabric is an all-in-one analytics solution that covers everything from data movement to data science, and business intelligence with Power BI. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, including data lake, data engineering, SQL and data integration, all in one place. This is a hand-on introduction to Fabric. During the course we will build the components of a data analysis system in Fabric: data engineering, data science and Business intelligence with Power BI.

Course Content

Introduction

What is Fabric? What are the advantages of Fabric. What problems does it solve?

Whirlwind demo

First look at the main components of Microsoft Fabric.

Fabric concepts and terms explained

Workspace, lakehouse and OneLake, warehouse, semantic model, Power BI, Azure Data Factory (ADF), delta parquet files, shortcuts, The languages and tools: SQL, Python and Spark

Hands-on tutorial

This main part of the course is a guided hands-on tutorial that briefly covers many of the tasks we can do in Fabric. We will

Technical pre-requisites

Since Fabric is a SaaS solution, attendees only need a browser and access to the internet. However, they need to be registered on the classroom Fabric tenant before the course. They will need to provide a work email address, and before the course run a test to check that they have access (this will take 15 - 30 minutes and is part of the learning)