DP-600 Practice Test

The DP-600 Practice Test is a free advanced-level, 25-minute skill test from Science of Apps. It tests readiness for Microsoft's DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate exam — maintaining and securing Fabric workspaces, ingesting and transforming data with pipelines, dataflows and notebooks, working with lakehouses and warehouses, building semantic models in Direct Lake, and optimising and deploying solutions. Score 70% or more on its 25 questions to earn a verifiable DP-600 Exam Readiness certificate (SOA-DP60). Every question is based on published standards and research — including What is a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric? (Microsoft Learn), Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric (Microsoft Learn), Introduction to deployment pipelines (Microsoft Learn) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Read the five skill areas on this page, then take the 25-minute test online — no fee, course or sign-up. You see every answer explained when you finish. Score 70% or more and you get a DP-600 Exam Readiness certificate straight away, on screen, as a PDF and by email, with a credential ID anyone can verify.

Yes. The questions are original scenarios written by Science of Apps, and each one is based on a public source you can read: What is a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric? (Microsoft Learn); Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric (Microsoft Learn); Introduction to deployment pipelines (Microsoft Learn); What is Microsoft Fabric? (Microsoft Learn); What is data warehousing in Microsoft Fabric? (Microsoft Learn); Row-level security (RLS) with Power BI (Microsoft Learn). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Five skill areas with five questions each, drawn from a bank of 10 per area so a retake brings new questions: Workspaces, Security and Governance (Workspace roles, Data security and Governance); Getting and Transforming Data (Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2 and Notebooks and Spark); Lakehouse, Warehouse and SQL (Lakehouse vs warehouse, T-SQL and Delta table maintenance); Semantic Models and DAX (Direct Lake and storage modes, Model design and Calculation groups); Deployment and Lifecycle (Deployment pipelines, Git integration and Optimisation in production). Every question is an original scenario based on a published standard, official documentation or research, named under the question.

Analytics engineer, BI developer, Power BI developer, Data engineer and Data analyst moving to Fabric. It suits anyone who wants a quick, verifiable way to show DP-600 skills, from students and career switchers to experienced professionals.

Yes. The DP-600 Practice Test is free and covers all of these: 25 scenario questions in 25 minutes, each answer explained with the source it comes from, so it works as interview and exam practice. It isn't a full course, so use the areas you miss as your study list. Scoring 70% or more earns a verifiable certificate.

No. It is an independent practice test written to the publicly available DP-600 content outline, for checking your readiness before you book the real exam. Science of Apps is not affiliated with Microsoft, and passing earns a Science of Apps certificate rather than the official credential.

Yes. The test is online, in English and free everywhere — people take it from India, the US, the UK, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Your certificate is dated with your own local date and can be verified from anywhere at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/.

25 questions — 5 from each of 5 skill areas — with a 25-minute limit. You need 70% (18 of 25) to pass and 90% for distinction.

We rate it Advanced: assumes years in the role or deep specialist knowledge. It has 25 scenario questions — 5 from each of 5 skill areas — and a 25-minute limit. You need 70% (18 of 25) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Nothing. There is no fee to take a test, to receive the certificate, to have it emailed or to verify it, and no sign-up.

On our server, not in your browser. The answers never reach the page until you submit, so a certificate can only be earned by passing. Each certificate gets a unique credential ID stored by Science of Apps.

You see your score for each area and every question with the correct answer and why, with the published source behind it. You can retake after 30 minutes, and the retake draws questions you haven't seen yet.

No. Every certificate is dated, so it always shows when you passed. Retake a test any time for a newer date or a higher score.

Yes. After you pass, Add to LinkedIn opens the Licenses & certifications form with the certificate name, Science of Apps as the issuer, the issue date, your credential ID and the verification link filled in. You can also download it as a PDF or PNG, and it's emailed to you as a PDF.

Every certificate has a credential ID and a QR code. Scanning it, or entering the ID at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/, shows the holder's name, the certification, the score and the issue date from our records.

No. They are Science of Apps' own assessments of applied skill. They aren't issued by a university or standards body, and they work best alongside a portfolio that shows the skills in real work.