Get Started with Microsoft Fabric in 2025.

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Microsoft Fabric is tagged as the next-generation analytics because it allows you to easily set up your experience and power all your workloads using a single resource pool. A study on Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Fabric by Forrester Consulting in June 2024 identified it has a 379% Return on Investment (ROI) for enterprises that deploy Microsoft Fabric.

Here is what a Business Intelligence Analyst from the Study says:

“The value proposition from Fabric is that you have everything under one roof. If you’ve made it available in OneLake, it will be easy for team members to find, browse, and activate it.” — Adept from Total Economic Impact™ (TEI).

This is a good indicator for you to start exploring every facet of Microsoft Fabic and below is a detailed study guide with hands-on projects combined with an Exam Prep for DP-600 — Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Certification.

Where do I Start? What resources do I need?

If you prefer reading:

The single source of truth is Microsoft Learn: Take the Microsoft Learn Challenge path that I have curated below.

1. Microsoft Learn Challenge 30 Days to Learn Plan: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer — Get ready for Exam DP-600.
2. Microsoft Fabric Documentation: Microsoft Fabric Documentation.
3. Microsoft Fabric Terminology — All Microsoft Fabric Terminology Get used to all Fabric Terminologies like Fabric Data Warehouse, Fabric Data Engineering, Fabric Data Science, Real-Time Intelligence, Data Factory and Power BI.
4. Microsoft Fabric Exercises — Over 30 Practice Exercises.
5. Check out 50 Practice Exam Prep Questions: Microsoft Fabric Exam Prep.

If you prefer Videos:

If you prefer videos, I have got you covered below.

1. Microsoft Fabric Learn Together Series: Learn Together Series.
2. Exam Cram for DP-600: 2 Hours Microsoft Fabric Cram Session.

Note that the Video Learn path below might not be updated to the latest resources as Microsoft Fabric is continuously been updated with New Features by the Microsoft Fabric Team.

So, I highly recommend other popular Creators below to add to your study plan.

1. Will Needham: DP-600 Exam Preparation Course.

Some Cool MVP resources to check out.

2. Nikola Ilic — DP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer FREE workshop!

3. Christopher Wagner, MBA, MVP (Kratos BI) — Microsoft Fabric Playlist.

4. Francis Folaranmi — Microsoft Fabric Videos

What About Projects?

It’s time to get our hands dirty.

If you prefer to Read:

Beginner Projects

1. Lakehouse — Ingest, transform, and load the data of a Wide World Importers Retail Company.
2. Data Science — Build a Machine Learning Model to Predict the Trip Duration of a Taxi Cab Semantic Model.
3. Real-Time Intelligence — Explore the streaming and query capabilities of Real-Time Intelligence to London bike share data.
4. Data Warehouse — Build an end-to-end data warehouse for the Wide World Importers retail company.
5. Fabric SQL Database — Explore SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric.
6. Fabric Activators — Use sample eventstream to explore Activator: Create your own object, rule, and activator.

Intermediate Projects

Below are some industry-specific projects you can try your hands on:

1. Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Project — with Shortcut, Data Pipeline and DataFlow.
2. Power BI — Build a dataflow and pipeline to bring data into a lakehouse and also create a dimensional model with compelling reports.
3. Data Factory — Ingest data pipelines and transform data with dataflow. Utilize the data integration scenario using automation and notification.
4. Data Science end-to-end AI samples — Utilize different Data Science experience capabilities and use ML models to address business problems.
5. Data Science — Price Prediction with R — Use R to build a machine learning model to analyze and visualize avocado prices in the US and predict future prices.
6. Application lifecycle management: Explore deployment pipelines and git integration to enhance collaboration with others in the development, testing, and publication of your data and reports.

Advanced Projects

1. Smart Chatbot Architecture: Build a Smart Chatbot with SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, LangChain and Chainlit.
2. Bing News Search — An End-to-End Azure Data Engineering Project in Microsoft Fabric.
3. Hackathon Projects — Access over 83 Microsoft Fabric and AI Learning Hackathons. An opportunity to upskill and build the next generation of Data + AI solutions with Microsoft Fabric.

If you prefer Videos:

If you prefer videos, I have got you covered below.

1. Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Project — Create a Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Project.
2. Dataflow End-to-End project in Microsoft Fabric — Create a Dataflow End-to-End project with Lakehouse and Power BI.

Additional Resources:

Fabrics Notes — aka.ms/FabricNotes – Understand the main concepts of Microsoft Fabric with simple drawings. See a snapshot below;

Finally, you can submit an idea on how to improve Microsoft Fabric here.

In conclusion, this article summarizes some useful resources to get you started with Microsoft Fabric which includes videos, articles, blogs hands-on projects and Hackathons to get started with Microsoft Fabric and also pass your DP 600 — Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Certification and DP 700 — Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Certification.

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About the Author

Musili Adebayo

Reference:

Adebayo, M (2025). Get Started with Microsoft Fabric in 2025. Available at: Get Started with Microsoft Fabric in 2025. | LinkedIn [Accessed: 1st February 2025].