Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide: A hands-on reference guide to developing your data engineering skills and preparing for the DP-203 exam

I was trying to do the certification in parallel to my existing full time job. I must have easily spent 2-3 months reading concepts and blogs online. I got this book and now I realize it would have been much easier if i had read this book first.There are many topics in the Data security and Optimizations chapters that I just couldn't find enough information online or it was vice versa that there was so much information that I didn't know what to focus on.This book explains the exact concept with just the right amount of information and provides links for additional reading. Perfect for people like me balancing work and certification.

Great book to read. Covers details for every topic asked in the certification, good amount of hands-on and technical details. Must read for folks preparing for this certification

Simply put, this is an 'Excellent' book, probably the best book I have read specifically targeted towards learning & mastering the concepts required for passing, Microsoft Azure Exam DP-203 towards Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate certification.5 salient points:1) Excellent coverage of all relevant topics.2) Clear & precise explanations, and all topics well explained, with notes, and associated screenshots from the Azure portal for one to follow along to do hands-on.3) Personally, I loved the chapter on ‘Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing’ and...4) The chapter on revising the key topics and sample questions for the Certification.5) In short, if you're already a Professional Data Engineer on Azure and yet to clear DP-203, OR an aspiring one, and plan mastering all the topics required to become a Professional Azure Data Engineer, this is a Must-Have book/pdf in your Library.Thanks to Newton Alex for authoring such a fantastic book.

The hands-on chapters are pretty bad. Author skips many steps, e.g. demonstrating how to compress with spark he just presents a a few lines of script without showing how to implement it using the pipeline . Many other issues. i have wasted enough time not to mention the money.A very poorly though out book if it is supposed to be for practical instruction.

This book has a lot of info but has a ton of verifiable errors. Multiple of the practice questions are even incorrect. With so many errors it makes it difficult to trust anything written in the book because it has a decent chance of being incorrect. I’m lucky I had the background experience to recognize the errors. I wasted about a week on this book and had to start from scratch using a Udemy course instead. With the help of that course I cleared the exam with a 93%. Don’t waste your time or money on this

One of the better resources available in the market for the certification exam. Here are my observations after reading the book.Pros:Follows the exact topics listed in the certification, so that gives me the confidence that I didn't miss out on any topics.Easy to follow chapters with enough screen shots and examples.Cons:Since the book follows the syllabus as is, some topics are spread across multiple chapters. So you will end up jumping between chapters.Some examples are very detailed like in the ADF SCD examples, whereas some others it is high level. So you will end up having to do some extra reading from Microsoft documentation.Overall, a useful book that can help you with the certification.

I just completed the first section of the book (Data Storage). Simple language and easy to understand examples made reading a lot easier. The book also provides additional reading material at the end of each section which i find super useful to deep dive on complex topics like Synapse SQL partitioning, indexing etc. I also quickly took a look at the last chapter which contains sample questions which is pretty huge and has a wide variety of questions to prepare. So far good start to the book.

I was curious about the certification and was happy to find this book. I recently purchased this and have been reading this for some time. I really like how comprehensive the book is covering both batch and stream processing solutions and also monitoring and optimization aspects.