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Microsoft Certified: MTA Database Fundamentals (98-364)

What you'll learn

Learn how to create, manipulate and administer a database on this Microsoft MTA Database Fundamentals course. You'll learn the basics of relational databases, data security concepts and how to implement T-SQL.

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

  • Understand Core Database Concepts
  • Create Database Objects
  • Manipulate Data
  • Understand Data Storage
  • Administer a Database

Curriculum

19 modules

Module 1: Understanding Core Database Concepts

  • Understand how data is stored in tables
  • Understand what a relational database is, the need for relational database management systems (RDBMS), and how relations are established
  • Work with the data manipulation language (DML)
  • Study data definition language (DDL)
  • Utilise T-SQL to create database objects, such as tables and views

Module 2: Creating Database Objects

  • Learn what data types are, why they are important and how they affect storage requirements
  • Understand and create tables
  • How to create and use views by using T-SQL or a graphical designer
  • Create stored procedures and functions

Module 3: Manipulating Data

  • Utilise SELECT queries to extract data from one table, extract data by using joins, combine result sets by using UNION and INTERSECT
  • Understand how data is inserted into a database, how to use INSERT statements
  • Update data in a database and learn how to write the updated data to the database by using the appropriate UPDATE statements, update by using a table
  • Delete data from single or multiple tables, ensure data and referential integrity by using transactions

Module 4: Understanding Data Storage

  • Understand the reasons for normalisation, the five most common levels of normalisation, how to normalise a database to third normal form
  • Choose appropriate primary keys, select appropriate data type for keys, select appropriate fields for composite keys and understand the relationship between foreign and primary keys
  • Learn the purpose of clustered and non-clustered indexes in a database

Module 5: Administering a Database

  • Learn database security concepts
  • How to secure a database: what objects can be secured, what objects should be secured, user accounts and roles
  • How to implement various backup types, such as full and incremental

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this entry-level course.

Exam info

You'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your certification guarantee:

  • Microsoft Exam 98-364: Database Fundamentals

Course Dates

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