Thanks for your interest in learning on my beta experience. It turns out it was the first certification exam I have ever taken and had no idea what to expect. To prepare for the exam, given that there were no practice assessment questions available until recently, I reviewed all the suggested Learning Paths in the certification webpage as well as the modules of a Fabric Analytics Engineer challenge I had completed earlier.
Anyway, my exam took place in a testing center. I was given erasable pad and marker that I didn't end up using. The desktop PC where I took my exam had a couple of tools available: calculator and access the Microsoft Learn documents. The latter was quite a surprise and very useful because, while I probably could answer about half of the questions that I was sure about the answer without consulting it, the other half, I needed to consult the documents given that I had the answer down to between two options and it was a matter of a small detail that made one or the other the correct option.
Regarding question format, I first had two use cases that had some details about the current environment and expected solution for them. Each had 5 questions each. The remainder of the questions where either single questions that had a single answer, a predetermined number of answers or you had to choose among all options the correct ones, other that had a paragraph of concepts or code and you had to select among several answers (either matching in amount the number of blanks or having one more possible answer) and then there were some that gave you a scenario and you had to other the given steps to solve the problem (this I found the hardest among all of them).
I think I did better on the questions involved code that I expected, but was surprised that there were at least 6 questions that involved the External Tools of Power BI.
The exam took about 2 hours and 59 questions total. I marked some questions to return to later. Since I finished my first run with about 5 minutes left, I proceeded to answer or give a second look to those I had marked. I finished with about 40 seconds to spare. It has been a while since I have been so mentally drained 😰 ... You are given a chance to give some feedback on the exam questions but I skipped that part for obvious reasons.
Finally, the last screen before I left said I would get the results in two weeks, which seems to have been a mistake. As I understand, my actual result could take up to 12 weeks. I will surely get them by the time the exam becomes official.
