DP-750 study plan

Week 1chapters 1–3 · about 7 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 1. Compute for Azure Databricks workloads
  • 2. Organising data in Unity Catalog: catalogs, schemas, volumes, tables and views
  • 3. Securing Unity Catalog objects and credentials
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Azure Databricks access modes: standard vs dedicated compute, Unity Catalog managed vs external tables, Row filters and column masks in Unity Catalog.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment · 15–20%Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects · 15–20%Prepare and process data · 30–35%

Week 2chapters 4–6 · about 7 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 4. Governing data: metadata, retention, lineage, auditing and OpenSharing
  • 5. Designing data models and table layout
  • 6. Ingesting data into Unity Catalog
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Delta time travel retention: logRetentionDuration and deletedFileRetentionDuration, Choosing a slowly changing dimension type on Azure Databricks, When to partition Delta tables, and when to use liquid clustering instead.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects · 15–20%Prepare and process data · 30–35%

Week 3chapters 7–11 · about 9 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 7. Cleansing, transforming and validating data
  • 8. Building Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
  • 9. Orchestrating with Lakeflow Jobs
  • 10. Development lifecycle and Declarative Automation Bundles
  • 11. Monitoring, troubleshooting and optimising workloads
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Lakeflow pipeline expectations: warn, drop or fail.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Prepare and process data · 30–35%Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads · 30–35%

Week 4review Done

• Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
• Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
• Check the exam coverage map against Microsoft’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
• Take Microsoft’s free practice assessment, if your exam has one, from the official DP-750 study guide page. Revisit the chapters behind any weak area.
• Try the exam sandbox to get used to the exam’s screens and question formats.
• Get the free exam-day checklist and work through it a few days before your exam.

Week 1chapter 1 · about 2 hours Done

• Read chapter:
  • 1. Compute for Azure Databricks workloads
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Azure Databricks access modes: standard vs dedicated compute.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment · 15–20%

Week 2chapter 2 · about 3 hours Done

• Read chapter:
  • 2. Organising data in Unity Catalog: catalogs, schemas, volumes, tables and views
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Unity Catalog managed vs external tables.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Set up and configure an Azure Databricks environment · 15–20%Prepare and process data · 30–35%

Week 3chapter 3 · about 2 hours Done

• Read chapter:
  • 3. Securing Unity Catalog objects and credentials
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Row filters and column masks in Unity Catalog.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects · 15–20%

Week 4chapter 4 · about 2 hours Done

• Read chapter:
  • 4. Governing data: metadata, retention, lineage, auditing and OpenSharing
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Delta time travel retention: logRetentionDuration and deletedFileRetentionDuration.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Secure and govern Unity Catalog objects · 15–20%

Week 5chapters 5–6 · about 4 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 5. Designing data models and table layout
  • 6. Ingesting data into Unity Catalog
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Choosing a slowly changing dimension type on Azure Databricks, When to partition Delta tables, and when to use liquid clustering instead.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Prepare and process data · 30–35%

Week 6chapters 7–8 · about 4 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 7. Cleansing, transforming and validating data
  • 8. Building Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Free study notes for this week: Lakeflow pipeline expectations: warn, drop or fail.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Prepare and process data · 30–35%Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads · 30–35%

Week 7chapters 9–11 · about 4 hours Done

• Read these chapters:
  • 9. Orchestrating with Lakeflow Jobs
  • 10. Development lifecycle and Declarative Automation Bundles
  • 11. Monitoring, troubleshooting and optimising workloads
• After each chapter, cover its key takeaways and explain each one out loud. Re-read any you can’t.
• Look up any unfamiliar term in the DP-750 glossary.

Exam skill areas this week: Deploy and maintain data pipelines and workloads · 30–35%

Week 8review Done

• Go back through every chapter’s key takeaways. Anything you can’t explain without looking, re-read that section.
• Re-read the common-trap callouts: they mark the answers that look right but aren’t.
• Check the exam coverage map against Microsoft’s own outline, in case it has changed since the book was checked.
• Take Microsoft’s free practice assessment, if your exam has one, from the official DP-750 study guide page. Revisit the chapters behind any weak area.
• Try the exam sandbox to get used to the exam’s screens and question formats.
• Get the free exam-day checklist and work through it a few days before your exam.