February 2026
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 23m
English
Content preview from Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate Study Guide
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Preface
Microsoft Fabric is the software as a service (SaaS) platform from Microsoft that covers all aspects of building a modern analytics platform. From ingestion to insights, from bulk loading to streaming, and from charts to functions, everything is seamlessly integrated into a unified platform.
Microsoft Fabric was first announced at the Microsoft Build conference back in 2023 as a public preview version of the platform. Before that, the platform had been in heavy testing and private preview under the working title of Trident.
It’s based on previous work on Azure Synapse Analytics, which was the first big release from Microsoft to move the analytics workload from only using Structured Query Language (SQL) server binaries to having a segregated split between compute and storage.
Compute is still based on the base thought of the SQL engine, but with brand-new binaries and features. Storage is now based on Azure Data Lake Storage, which acts as a centralized, flexible storage system to store all kinds of file types. Most often, users will store the open source Parquet file format, but they can also store formats like (but not limited to) CSV, JSON, XML, and Microsoft Excel to be read from the compute engine.
In the first release of Microsoft Fabric, we also saw the name Synapse appear in some services on the platform, but in its latest release, that name is gone. We now have a fully new and standalone platform that embraces everything you need to build a full-blown analytics ...
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