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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 kind of interview questions should I expect when it comes to Fabric at my stage
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Hi IUakpakwu,
Interview questions will very much depend on the role you are interviewing for, the company, and what their current enviornment looks like.
The general Fabric questions I would expect should all be covered in dp-700, but instead of explicitly about X feature, the interviewer will likely give a scenario and ask what your solution might be.
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!
