Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals Practice Questions (Free Sample)

Roughly 40 to 60 items in about a 60-minute window. Microsoft does not commit to a fixed count for DP-900, so the number varies from sitting to sitting, set your pacing against the clock rather than against a question total. Microsoft Learn shows the current format and duration for the version you are booking.

700 out of 1000 on Microsoft’s scaled scoring. That is not a raw 70%: Microsoft weights questions by difficulty and adjusts across forms, so a candidate who clears the easy items and drops most of the harder ones typically lands in the low-to-mid 600s. The practical implication is that you have to know the harder edge cases in each domain, the five Cosmos DB APIs, the five consistency levels, the three-tier Azure SQL spectrum, the Data Factory vocabulary, the Synapse pool types, rather than betting on the fundamentals-only questions to carry you through.

Core Data Concepts (25-30%) and Analytics Workload (25-30%) are the two heaviest and together account for more than half the exam. Relational Data on Azure sits in the middle at 20-25%. Non-relational data is the lightest at 15-20%, but it is also the most compressed, because Cosmos DB alone brings five APIs and five consistency levels, so the cost per hour of study there is unusually good. If you skim anything, do not skim Domain 1: its vocabulary is the vocabulary the other three domains assume.

There are no prerequisites, and DP-900 does not demand hands-on production experience. What it does demand is that you can talk fluently about structured versus semi-structured versus unstructured data, relational versus non-relational stores, the difference between transactional and analytical workloads, and where the major Azure data services fit: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Blob and Table storage, Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Fabric, and Power BI. If you can hold that map in your head, you can pass.

$99 USD. Regional pricing and local taxes vary, so check the current figure for your country on Microsoft Learn before booking. The credential renews annually and the renewal is free, which makes DP-900 cheaper to hold over time than certifications that require a paid recertification exam.

They are siblings. DP-900 is Microsoft’s entry-level data certification and sits alongside AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals) and AI-900 (AI Fundamentals) as the three 900-series fundamentals aimed at people newer to the platform. DP-900 is the one that goes deep on the data estate specifically (the storage choices, the workload types, and the analytics pipeline) where AZ-900 stays on general Azure and pricing concepts. Treat DP-900 as a foundation rather than a destination: it establishes the vocabulary the associate-level data exams build on.

The sample is a fixed 15-question set spread across the four domains at blueprint proportions, with no account needed. The full Certifym DP-900 offering is a 1,000-question original bank organised around ten vertical themes, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, federal, retail, SaaS, higher education, energy, generic enterprise, and a mixed simulator. Each attempt draws 50 randomised items at blueprint proportions of 28% Domain 1, 24% Domain 2, 18% Domain 3, and 30% Domain 4, and every item carries a written explanation of why the best answer beats the strongest distractor. None of the paid-bank items appear in this sample.

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