Azure DP-900

You have 45 minutes to complete the assessment. Pricing is not a single global figure - Microsoft states the price is based on the country or region in which the exam is proctored, so check the scheduling page for your location before booking.

A score of 700 or greater is required to pass. Microsoft does not publish a separate scaled-score breakdown on the study guide page, so treat 700 as the single target and use the free practice assessment to gauge whether you are comfortably above it.

You can retake the exam 24 hours after the first attempt. For subsequent retakes the amount of time varies. Microsoft publishes full details in its Exam retake policy, so check that page if you are on your second or later attempt.

Not necessarily. Microsoft states the exam is proctored and that you may have interactive components to complete as part of it, so expect more than straight multiple-choice items. An exam sandbox is available to preview the question types in the same interface used on test day.

It is a Beginner-level certification. Microsoft expects candidates to be familiar with relational and non-relational data concepts and with different data workload types, such as transactional or analytical. If you are new to cloud data services, plan on several weeks of study rather than a weekend.

Microsoft lists English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Indonesian (Indonesia), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Traditional), and Italian. If the exam is not available in your preferred language, you can request an additional 30 minutes to complete it.

Follow the published weights: core data concepts (25–30%) and analytics workloads (25–30%) together make up roughly 55–60% of the exam, while relational data (20–25%) and non-relational data (15–20%) fill the rest. Do not treat analytics as a minor topic - it carries as much weight as core concepts.

No. Microsoft states you can use Azure Data Fundamentals to prepare for other role-based certifications like Azure Database Administrator Associate or Azure Data Engineer Associate, but it is not a prerequisite for any of them.

Schedule through Pearson VUE, or through Certiport if you are a student or educator. Microsoft strongly recommends registering with a personal Microsoft account: if you register with an organizational work or school account, your exam records will be lost if you leave that organization, and they cannot be recovered.

Under-preparing the analytics domain despite its weight, memorizing service names without knowing what each is for, and skipping Power BI data model and visualization basics. Work the objectives listed in the study guide one by one, then take the practice assessment and revisit whichever area scores weakest.