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4Analytics Workloads on Azure

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  • 4.1The Analytics Pipeline, Data Warehouse, and Data Lake

    Understand the typical analytics pipeline (ingest → process → store → visualize), the difference between a data warehouse and a data lake, and ETL/ELT.

  • 4.2Azure Analytics Services

    Understand the Azure services behind the analytics pipeline—Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, and Azure Stream Analytics—and their roles.

  • 4.3Power BI and Batch vs. Stream Processing

    Understand data visualization with Microsoft Power BI (reports/dashboards) and the difference between batch and stream processing.

  • 4.4Microsoft Fabric (Unified Analytics Platform)

    Understand Microsoft Fabric, which became the center of the DP-900 analytics domain in the 2026 update. Fabric is a SaaS unified analytics platform bundling ingestion, data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics, data science, and Power BI—all running on a single data lake, OneLake.