DP-600: Explore & Analyze Data (T-SQL, KQL, DAX)

Explore & Analyze Data (T-SQL, KQL, DAX) is one of the skill areas tested on the Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP-600) exam. Below are free DP-600 practice questions with worked answers and a concept diagram — each with a plain-language explanation. Practice the first 10 questions of DP-600 free, no signup.

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Concept flowHow Microsoft Fabric fits together
How Microsoft Fabric fits togetherOneLakeone copy of data for all enginesLakehousefiles + tables, Spark / SQLWarehouseT-SQL relational storeSemantic modelmeasures & relationshipsReport

2 free DP-600 Explore & Analyze Data (T-SQL, KQL, DAX) questions

Sample DP-600 question

In a Fabric notebook, you use Matplotlib to plot a histogram titled 'Tip amount distribution' that shows the frequency (Counts) of tip amounts in dollars. What category of analytics does producing this histogram represent?

  • predictive
  • prescriptive
  • descriptive
  • diagnostic
Explanation

Histograms summarize historical data using descriptive statistics, describing what happened. Building a distribution histogram is therefore an example of descriptive analytics.

Sample DP-600 question

A Fabric tenant stores customer churn data as Parquet files in OneLake, including customer demographics and product usage. In a Fabric notebook you load the data into a Spark DataFrame and build column charts comparing the distribution of retained customers versus churned customers by region, products purchased, age, and tenure. Which analytics category does this work fall under?

  • prescriptive
  • predictive
  • descriptive
  • diagnostic
Explanation

Summarizing past outcomes—here the distribution of retained versus lost customers across attributes—describes what happened, which is descriptive analytics.

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