Free DP-900 practice test — 851+ Azure Data Fundamentals practice questions with detailed explanations across all 4 official DP-900 exam domains. Every DP-900 exam questions set is scored, timed, and drawn from the live question bank — so you practise exactly what the exam tests, not outdated dumps.
Courseiva includes 851+ Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals DP-900 practice questions across the official exam domains.
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This free DP-900 practice test mirrors the structure and difficulty of the real Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals DP-900 exam. Every question is written against the official 2026 exam blueprint published by Microsoft, ensuring you practise exactly what the exam tests — not last year's objectives.
The DP-900 blueprint is divided into 4weighted domains. Questions on this page are distributed proportionally across each domain, so the mix you see here reflects the same weighting you'll face on exam day. High-weight domains like Describe core data concepts and Describe an analytics workload on Azure contribute the most questions, meaning focused practice on these areas gives you the highest return on study time.
DP-900 Exam Blueprint — 4 Domains
Describe core data concepts
Describe an analytics workload on Azure
Identify considerations for relational data on Azure
Describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure
57 numbered sets, 4 domain question banks, and targeted sessions — every page is a unique set of questions.
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Each chapter page covers one topic in depth — theory, key concepts, and focused practice questions. Use these to close knowledge gaps before returning to full practice tests.
Getting the most from practice questions requires more than just clicking through answers. Here is the study method used by candidates who pass DP-900 on their first attempt:
Answer before revealing
Read each DP-900 question fully, eliminate obviously wrong choices, then commit to an answer before clicking to reveal. This active recall process is what builds lasting knowledge.
Read every explanation
Even when you answer correctly, read the full explanation. Knowing WHY the right answer is correct — and why the distractors are wrong — is what separates a 750 score from a 900 score.
Track weak domains
Note which DP-900 domains you get wrong most often. Then do a targeted 20-30 question session focused only on that domain until your accuracy improves.
Simulate exam pacing
The real DP-900 gives you roughly 1.2 minutes per question. Use the 60 or 120-question sessions to practise hitting that pace comfortably.
Most candidates who pass DP-900 on their first attempt report doing between 400 and 800 practice questions over 4–8 weeks of preparation. With 851+ questions in the Courseiva bank, you have more than enough material to build that repetition without seeing the same question twice.
Answer each question to reveal the full explanation and correct answer. This starter set is drawn from all 4 exam domains in blueprint proportion. Use the session selector to start a longer focused practice run.
A company operates an online store where customers place orders and the system immediately updates inventory and records payments. This workload is best described as:
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A company collects data from multiple sources: IoT sensor streams, social media feeds, and CSV files from legacy systems. They want to store all this data in its original format without any transformation, so that data scientists can later apply machine learning models or run ad-hoc queries. Which data storage pattern best describes this approach?
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A company stores three types of data: 1) Customer orders in a SQL table with fixed columns for OrderID, CustomerID, and OrderDate. 2) Product reviews in XML files where each file contains varying tags such as <rating> and <comment>. 3) Video files of product demonstrations. Which of the following correctly classifies these data types in order from first to third?
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A retail company stores three types of customer data: (1) a table with columns for CustomerID, Name, and Email; (2) product reviews as JSON documents with varying fields such as rating and comment; (3) product demonstration videos stored in MP4 format. Which of the following correctly classifies these data types in order from first to third?
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A manufacturing company collects sensor data from equipment on the factory floor. The data is generated continuously and must be processed immediately to detect anomalies and trigger alerts. Which type of data processing workload best describes this scenario?
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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is configuring aggregations in Power BI Premium to improve performance on a large dataset. The aggregation is defined on the Sales table with SUM(Amount) grouped by ProductCategory, Region, and Date at the monthly level. However, some reports that query daily data are still slow. What is the most likely reason?
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A financial services company is building a real-time fraud detection system. Transactions are streamed from multiple sources into Azure Event Hubs. The system must run a trained machine learning model (scored in near real-time) to flag suspicious transactions. The model is a Python pickle file that needs to be deployed as a web service with low latency (under 100 ms per prediction). The data engineering team wants to use a serverless compute option to run the scoring logic, and the solution must integrate with Azure Stream Analytics for alerting. Which Azure service should you use to deploy the model?
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Your company is migrating an on-premises SQL Server data warehouse to Azure. The solution must support both historical analytics and real-time reporting. Which Azure service should you recommend as the primary data store?
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A data analyst needs to run ad-hoc SQL queries on petabytes of data stored as Parquet files in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. The queries are infrequent but must return results within seconds. The analyst wants to pay only for the amount of data processed and does not want to manage any compute infrastructure. Additionally, they need to create views to simplify future reporting in Power BI. Which Azure service should they use?
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A data engineer needs to query data stored in CSV files in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics, without loading the data into the database. Which feature should they use?
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A company plans to migrate a 500 GB SQL Server database from on-premises to Azure SQL Database. They require minimal downtime during the migration. Which approach should they use?
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A company uses Azure SQL Database and needs to audit all data modifications (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) for compliance purposes. The audit logs must be stored for 7 years. Which feature should they enable?
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Refer to the exhibit. You create an external table in Azure SQL Database. Which data source is being used?
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A global e-commerce company uses Azure SQL Database for its product catalog. The database is hosted in the West US region. To ensure the catalog remains available if West US experiences an outage, the company wants to configure a secondary database in East US that can be used for reads and can be automatically promoted to primary during a disaster. They require a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of less than 5 seconds and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 30 minutes. Which feature should they implement?
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A company stores user session data for a web application. Each session has a unique SessionID, UserID, start time, end time, and a variable set of attributes (e.g., pages visited, clicks, device type). The workload requires low-latency reads by SessionID and occasional queries by UserID and time range. Schema flexibility is critical because the attributes evolve over time. The team wants a fully managed NoSQL database that supports secondary indexing. Which Azure data store should they choose?
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A social media application stores user posts in Azure Cosmos DB. Each post has fields: PostID (unique), UserID, Timestamp, Content, LikesCount. The application frequently queries for all posts by a specific UserID ordered by Timestamp descending. To minimize Request Unit (RU) consumption, which partition key and indexing strategy should be used?
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A company stores terabytes of customer support chat transcripts in JSON format. The data is rarely modified and needs to be accessed by analysts using SQL queries. The analysts do not want to manage servers or provision throughput. Which Azure service should be used to store and query this data?
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A company is migrating an on-premises SQL Server database to Azure. They want to ensure that database administrators (DBAs) can perform administrative tasks but cannot view sensitive customer data in query results. Which Azure SQL feature should they implement?
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A company runs a customer-facing web application that uses an Azure SQL Database. The database experiences highly variable workloads: high traffic during business hours and low traffic at night and on weekends. The company wants to pay only for the compute resources consumed and automatically scale compute capacity based on demand, while maintaining the ability to pause during inactivity. Which Azure SQL Database service tier should they choose?
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A company runs an e-commerce application on Azure SQL Database. The Orders table has millions of rows. Queries that filter on CustomerID and order by OrderDate DESC are slow. The table currently has a clustered index on OrderID (the primary key). Which indexing strategy will most improve performance for these queries?
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Answer all 20 questions to see your domain score breakdown
A structured study plan dramatically increases your chances of passing DP-900 on the first attempt. The most effective approach combines reading the official Microsoft documentation or a study guide, watching video explanations for difficult concepts, and then reinforcing everything with daily practice questions.
We recommend the following weekly structure for DP-900 preparation:
Cover each DP-900 domain systematically. Read the exam objectives, watch explanatory content, and do 10–20 practice questions per domain to test understanding as you go.
Run full 50–60 question mixed sessions daily. Review every wrong answer in detail. Identify which domains are consistently scoring below 70% and revisit those study materials.
Do 100–120 question timed sessions to simulate real exam conditions. Aim for consistent scores above 80% before booking your exam date. A score above 80% in practice typically translates to a passing DP-900 score.
On exam day, the DP-900 tests your ability to apply knowledge to realistic scenarios — not just recall definitions. This is why reading explanations and understanding the reasoning behind every answer matters more than simply grinding question volume. Use the high-count sessions (100, 120) in the final weeks as your confidence benchmark.
Questions
50
On the real exam
Time limit
60 min
1.2 min per question
Passing score
700/1000
Scaled scoring
The DP-900 exam uses a scaled scoring system — your raw score of correct answers is converted to a score out of 1000. A passing score of 700/1000 does not mean you need 70% of questions correct; the conversion accounts for question difficulty. Consistently scoring above 75–80% on practice tests puts you in a strong position to achieve 700/1000 on the real exam.
Conceptual questions on data fundamentals, relational and non-relational data, analytics workloads, and Azure data services.
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Every question is written against the official DP-900 exam blueprint published by Microsoft. Our questions follow the same wording style, scenario complexity, and answer structure as the actual exam. They are original questions — not brain dumps — so you learn the underlying concepts and reasoning, not just memorised answers. Candidates who study with brain dumps often pass but have no transferable knowledge; Courseiva questions make you genuinely competent.
Most candidates who pass DP-900 on their first attempt do 30–60 questions per day. Use the Quick 10 session for daily warm-ups when you are short on time. On study days, run a 50 or 60-question session to build stamina. Reserve 100 and 120-question sessions for the final two weeks when you want to simulate real exam conditions and benchmark your readiness.
The DP-900 covers 4 domains: Describe core data concepts (29%), Describe an analytics workload on Azure (29%), Identify considerations for relational data on Azure (24%), Describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure (18%). Each domain carries a different weight, so allocate your study time accordingly. The highest-weighted domains — Describe core data concepts and Describe an analytics workload on Azure — should receive the most attention.
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