I’m pleased to say that I recently passed DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution. I did this a week after the DP-200 exam and gained my Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification as a result.

As I mentioned in my post about DP-200 the learning paths are identical on the exam pages for DP-200 and DP-201 but one thing I discovered after DP-200 is that the certification page has additional learning paths which were helpful in augmenting my knowledge.

I found the exam slightly easier going and the score (which means little) was higher than I received for my DP-200 pass. I think this is fair on a number of levels, I don’t work with Azure Data every day so implementation was always going to be tougher.