A Little Thoughts on DP-203: MS Azure Data Engineering Associate Exam

The evolution of cloud computing over the past years has been becoming the most impacted event in both technology and business world. More and more companies from almost all industries such as financial, manufacture, education, Hi-Tech have migrated or are deploying their computing platform onto cloud, cloud provides the capabilities to be able to integrate company’s all resources into a focal place, which breaks the isolations and obstacles on all kinds of business operations and implementations, one of the most important digital assets among those resources is data. In that circumstance, data engineer with cloud computing background and experience becomes highly demanded in workplace and job market, and a shortcut to crack into this career path is getting a certification in the subject.
Each cloud provider like Amazon, Microsoft and Google offer a certification specialized to their data engineering services, a very first question is which one should we choose to start with, my answer is Microsoft Azure. Here are some reasons why I draw that conclusion

• Microsoft almost dominates business software and application therefore it has the most potential customers to choose its services to be able to make their business process being migrated transparently and consistently.
• Microsoft Azure is constantly growing these years, market share growth rate is even over Amazon AWS. It is acquiring 1000 customers a day. Moreover, Azure Cloud is used by 95% of Fortune 500 companies.
• Most of the skills are easily transferable to other Cloud Providers such as AWS and Google Cloud