Standardize your team on Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) with a structured Microsoft training path — a blueprint-weighted practice exam and team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.
Exams
Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$99
Every engineer on the Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) path takes DP-900.
Skills your team builds
Training path
One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.
Microsoft career ladder
The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.
AI-900
DP-900
AB-900
AZ-900
PL-900
SC-900
DP-300
AZ-700
AZ-500
MD-102
MO-310
DP-600
SC-300
MS-721
MS-700
AZ-104
PL-300
PL-200
SC-200
AB-730
AB-731
AZ-140
AI-103
AZ-400
MO-211
MO-110
MO-210
MO-111
Assign the Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see Microsoft skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.
Team capability
Standardizing your team on DP-900 gives leadership a clear picture of Microsoft skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.
Credential: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) training for their team.
IT leaders often cite DP-900 when documenting that staff who touch Azure data services share a common baseline in relational, non-relational and analytics workloads. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion, and completion exports that can serve as training evidence, while the auditor's control crosswalk decides how the credential maps to any formal framework requirement.
DP-900 suits analysts, junior database administrators, cloud administrators and developers who are starting to work with data on Microsoft Azure. A certified team shares a working vocabulary for relational Azure data services, non-relational data workloads, introductory SQL, the big data components of Azure and data visualization in Power BI. That vocabulary lets the team handle basic management tasks for relational and non-relational data and scope workloads before an associate-level specialist takes them further.
CBT Nuggets Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to Microsoft's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.
From the admin console, managers assign the Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.
The linked CBT Nuggets training runs about 9 hours of video, which gives Training Managers a concrete figure to plan assignments around. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with data concepts, SQL and Azure services.
CBT Nuggets updates Microsoft course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When Microsoft restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.
