Find your starting point
Review your current skills, your goal and the topics you already know. Use that starting point to shape your preparation.
Ingest, transform and validate data. Design pipelines, storage and data models.
Connect data preparation, semantic modelling and analytics delivery. Work through the decisions behind a solution, then practise explaining why it works.
Build your understanding step by step, then apply it to work you can explain.
Explore the inputs and the steps that make them useful. Practise profiling, preparing and validating data before building on it.
Work through the structure behind a solution. Practise organising data, choosing relationships and checking how your design behaves.
Work through realistic access, security and responsibility scenarios. Explain the safeguards you choose and the risks they address.
Review your current skills, your goal and the topics you already know. Use that starting point to shape your preparation.
Work through the topics with guided explanations, demonstrations and hands-on exercises. Ask questions as you apply each idea.
Bring the skills together in a practical scenario. Review the result, explain your choices and revisit the parts that need more practice.
Use the official objectives and available provider practice resources to identify gaps. Review mistakes and plan your next round of practice.
Work through an analytics solution: prepare data, shape a semantic model and explain how you would maintain and govern it.
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Start with the preceding roadmap foundations; practical experience is recommended for later stages.