Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Study Guide

Chapter 1. Introduction to Microsoft Fabric and the Certification Content

In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to the Microsoft Fabric platform and give you an overview of all its bits and pieces. We’ll give you a high-level view of the internal services in Microsoft Fabric, and we’ll also introduce you to the certification path from Microsoft. In the subsequent chapters, we’ll dive into specific details of each service as needed for the exam.

Key Components and Architecture

The Microsoft Fabric platform includes a list of services, as you’ll see in Figure 1-1. These services are, as a joined group of services, the catalog of things you can do.

Tip

Some people are overwhelmed by the list of services and capabilities within Microsoft Fabric. But you don’t need to use them all; they’re merely options for you to choose from when building your own solutions, based on your specific needs.

Figure 1-1. The complete Fabric platform with all services

Here, we list the icons in Figure 1-1 and provide a high-level description of the service each icon represents:

	Data Factory This service lets you access dataflows and pipelines, with which you can ingest, prepare, and transform data from a long list of sources, such as the built-in lakehouse, warehouse, and eventhouse.
	Analytics ...