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IUakpakwu
New Member
3 days ago

Fabric Engineer

Hi all, I have been a data analyst within the London insurance market for over a decade. I am now transitioning by learning Microsoft Fabric. I plan to sit the DP700 exam in early September. What ki...
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ShivekMaharaj
Impactful Individual
3 days ago

Hi IUakpakwu,

 

I agree that the exact questions will depend on the role and environment, but I would prepare for scenario-based questions rather than just definitions of individual Fabric features.

 

One useful guide is the current DP-700 skills measured, which were updated for July 2026. I would be comfortable explaining things like:

  • when you would choose a Lakehouse, Warehouse or Eventhouse
  • full vs incremental loading patterns
  • when to use a pipeline, notebook, Dataflow Gen2, SQL or KQL
  • how you would orchestrate dependencies, parameters and failures
  • workspace/item/OneLake security
  • how you would troubleshoot and optimize a slow pipeline, Spark workload or query
  • how you would approach streaming data with Eventstreams/KQL

I would also expect some SQL and possibly PySpark/KQL depending on the position. Microsoft currently includes all three in the Fabric Data Engineer role profile.

 

Given your insurance background, I would practice taking a data problem you already know well and explaining how you would implement it end-to-end in Fabric. That lets you combine your existing domain experience with the engineering skills you are building.

 

Good luck with DP-700 in September!