Course Overview
Unlock opportunities with Azure Cosmos DB.
This DP-420T00: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB course teaches developers how to create application using the SQL API and SDK for Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn how to write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage and provisioned resources, and perform common operations with the SDK.
What are the skills covered
- Create and configure Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account, database, and container
- Use the .NET SDK to manage resources and perform operations
- Perform queries of varying complexity
- Design a data modeling and partitioning strategy
- Optimize queries and indexes based on characteristics of an application
- Use the Azure Resource Manager to manage accounts and resources with CLI or JSON and Bicep templates
Who should attend this course
Software engineers tasked with authoring cloud-native solutions that leverage Azure Cosmos DB SQL API and its various SDKs. They are familiar with C#, Python, Java, or JavaScript. They also have experience writing code that interacts with a SQL or NoSQL database platform.
Course Curriculum
What are the Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
- Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal (AZ-900 equivalent)
- Experience writing in an Azure-supported language at the intermediate level. (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java)
- Ability to write code to connect and perform operations on a SQL or NoSQL database product. (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)
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Course Modules
Learn about the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and how to get started with your first account, database, and container.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should already have:
- Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal.
- Experience programming with C#. If you have no previous programming experience, we recommend you complete the Take your first steps with C# learning path before starting this one.
Plan for configuration options and provisioning choices with a new Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Use the Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos library from NuGet to connect to an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account from a .NET application.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Use the .NET SDK for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL to perform common operations on databases, containers, and items.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Create SQL queries for the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL using the Data Explorer and the .NET SDK
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Create custom indexing policies for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL containers.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Integrate Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL with Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Functions, and your own solutions.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
In this learning path, you’ll learn how Azure Cosmos DB uses partitioning to scale containers and how spending some time thinking about your data model helps to meet the performance needs of your applications.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should already have:
- Familiarity with Azure and the Azure portal.
- Experience programming with C#. If you have no previous programming experience, we recommend you complete the Take your first steps with C# learning path before starting this one.
Plan and implement techniques to replicate data across the globe in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Optimize the performance of your queries and operations using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Review the common Cosmos DB administrative tasks of monitor, performance metrics, backup and security used in Azure.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Use the command line and Azure Resource Manager to automate common management tasks for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
Use JavaScript to author server-side stored procedures, user-defined functions, and triggers.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Prerequisites
Before starting this learning path, you should have experience of building cloud applications with Microsoft C# or a similar programming language.
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Training Options
- ILT: Instructor-Led Training
- VILT: Virtual Instructor-Led Training
Exam & Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty
This new certification is a key step for developers who are ready to prove their expertise supporting their organization’s business goals with modern cloud apps. IT environments where application infrastructure is dated, rigorous, and specialized often cost developers valuable time and resources. Business-critical modern apps require scale, speed, and guaranteed availability, and they need to store ever-increasing volumes of data—all while delivering real-time customer access. Developers who work with Azure Cosmos DB find the tools and security they need to meet these requirements and more to meet today’s business challenges.
Training & Certification Guide
Candidates for the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification should have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.
Responsibilities for this role include designing and implementing data models and data distribution, loading data into an Azure Cosmos DB database, and optimizing and maintaining the solution. These professionals integrate the solution with other Azure services. They also design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements.
Candidates for this certification must have solid knowledge and experience developing apps for Azure and working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies. They should be proficient at developing applications by using the Core (SQL) API and SDKs, writing efficient queries and creating appropriate index policies, provisioning and managing resources in Azure, and creating server-side objects with JavaScript. They should be able to interpret JSON, read C# or Java code, and use PowerShell.
This exam will be available on or around November 30, 2021. This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design and implement data models; design and implement data distribution; integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution; optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution; and maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution.
Skills measured
- Design and implement data models
- Design and implement data distribution
- Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution
- Optimize an Azure Cosmos DB solution
- Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution
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Frequently Asked Questions
You’re a great candidate for the Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty certification if you have subject matter expertise designing, implementing, and monitoring cloud-native applications that store and manage data.
Typical responsibilities for developers in this role include designing and implementing data models and data distribution, loading data into a database created with Azure Cosmos DB, and optimizing and maintaining the solution. These professionals integrate the solution with other Azure services. They also design, implement, and monitor solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements.
Professionals in this role have experience developing apps for Azure and working with Azure Cosmos DB database technologies. They should be proficient at developing applications by using the Core (SQL) API and SDKs, writing efficient queries and creating appropriate index policies, provisioning and managing resources in Azure, and creating server-side objects with JavaScript. They should also be able to interpret JSON, read C# or Java code, and use PowerShell.
Developers interested in earning this new certification need to pass Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, which will be available on November 30, 2021. If you’re a skilled Azure developer who has experience with Azure Cosmos DB, we encourage you to participate in the beta. Stay tuned for the announcement.
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