Course Objective & Scope
Microsoft Fabric unifies data integration, data engineering, warehousing, real-time analytics and Power BI in a single SaaS platform built on OneLake. The programme explains what each component does, the workspace and capacity concepts, and which item to choose for which scenario.
Hands-on, participants create a Lakehouse, load data with a Data Factory pipeline and Dataflow Gen2, build medallion (bronze-silver-gold) layers and publish a Power BI report in Direct Lake mode. The output is a draft Fabric starter architecture suited to the organisation.
Who Should Attend?
- BI and data teams evaluating Fabric
- Power BI developers and reporting analysts
- Software and IT specialists getting started with data engineering
- Technical managers involved in data platform decisions
Key Takeaways
- Explain Fabric components and the OneLake architecture
- Choose between Lakehouse and Warehouse by scenario
- Build a data loading flow with pipelines and Dataflow Gen2
- Organise data with medallion layers
- Publish reports on a Direct Lake semantic model
Curriculum
Fabric Architecture and OneLake
- Workloads, workspaces and capacity concepts
- OneLake, shortcuts and the Delta Parquet format
Lakehouse and Data Warehouse
- Lakehouse tables and the SQL analytics endpoint
- T-SQL-based modelling with Warehouse
Data Integration with Data Factory
- Pipelines and the Copy activity
- Low-code transformation with Dataflow Gen2
Notebooks and Medallion Architecture
- Basic transformations with Spark notebooks
- Bronze-silver-gold layer design
Power BI with Direct Lake
- Direct Lake vs Import vs DirectQuery
- Semantic models and report publishing
Governance and Starter Architecture
- Access roles, Purview integration and monitoring
- Draft starter architecture for the organisation
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