Microsoft - Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty | Exam DP-420

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Just 3 Days

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Classroom / Online / Hybrid

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24/6/2024 (Monday)

Overview

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On this accelerated Microsoft Certified: Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty course, you’ll learn how to design and implement data models and data distribution, load data into an Azure Cosmos DB database, and optimise and maintain the solution.

In just 3 days, you’ll build knowledge on designing, implementing and monitoring solutions that consider security, availability, resilience, and performance requirements. You’ll also learn to:

  • Create applications using the SQL API and SDK for Azure Cosmos DB
  • Write efficient queries, create indexing policies, manage and provisioned resources, and perform common operations with the SDK
  • Interpret JSON, read C# or Java code, and use PowerShell

At the end of this course, you’ll sit Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB and achieve your certification. As a Microsoft Gold Partner for Learning and through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get access to Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOCs), learn from Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs), and train in a distraction-free environment.

Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

  1. You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 3-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
  2. Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
  3. Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
  4. Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134.561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001

Curriculum

Course DP-420T00: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

  • Module 1: Get started with Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 2: Plan and implement Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 3: Connect to Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL with the SDK
  • Module 4: Access and manage data with the Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL SDKs
  • Module 5: Execute queries in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 6: Define and implement an indexing strategy for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 7: Integrate Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL with Azure services
  • Module 8: Implement a data modeling and partitioning strategy for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 9: Design and implement a replication strategy for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 10: Optimize query and operation performance in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Module 11: Monitor and troubleshoot an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL solution
  • Module 12: Manage an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL solution using DevOps practices
  • Module 13: Create server-side programming constructs in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by the Certification Guarantee:

Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

  • Exam code: DP-420
  • Language: English
  • Domains:
    1. Design and implement data models (35–40%)
    2. Design and implement data distribution (5–10%)
    3. Integrate an Azure Cosmos DB solution (5–10%)
    4. Optimise an Azure Cosmos DB solution (15–20%)
    5. Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB solution (25–30%)

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

Before attending this accelerated course, you should have experience in writing in an Azure-supported language at the intermediate level (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java), as well as knowledge and skills in:

  • Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal (AZ-900 equivalent)
  • Writing code to connect and perform operations on a SQL or NoSQL database product (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)

Are you ready to get certified in record time?

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.

Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

If you have any doubts as to whether you meet the pre-requisites please call 21 96 61 82 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants, who can help you with a training plan.

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