Other Products– Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Here are some additional storage products that may be included on the exam. Even if they do not appear on the exam, it is good practice to know most of the Azure products, what they do, and why you would use them.
Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer (ADE) has been referred to often as a Kusto cluster, which is a datastore, typically an RDBMS, that is query‐able using Kusto Query Language (KQL) syntax, which is very similar to SQL. There is tight integration between Azure Data Explorer and Azure Monitor logs and Application Insights. Therefore, if you enable those features and place the data into the Kusto cluster, you can analyze the logs using KQL. ADE can also be hooked into a data analytics process, where you can learn behaviors and find opportunities that exist using the logs generated by your applications.
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Explorer is a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides features for managing your Azure Storage features like Blob Storage, Azure Files, Storage Queues, and Table Storage. You can also set ACLs on files within your ADLS Gen2 container.
Azure Data Share
This product lets you pull data from numerous sources, create a dataset, and then share that dataset with partners or suppliers. Supported datastores include the following:
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Gen2
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure Synapse Analytics
Once your datasets are added to the Azure Data Share, you then set up a snapshot schedule. The snapshot schedule will update the datasets with the most current data on the scheduled frequency. A Data Share Invitation is sent to the data consumer, which must be accepted to access the data. The invite contains the agreed terms and conditions of how the data can be used.
Azure Databases
Azure has data service products that support most of the popular RDBMS and NoSQL databases. There are many of them, and you need to know details about each. Read on to learn more.
Here are some additional storage products that may be included on the exam. Even if they do not appear on the exam, it is good practice to know most of the Azure products, what they do, and why you would use them. Azure Data Explorer Azure Data Explorer (ADE) has been referred to often as…
