DP-100 Exam Study Guide (Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure)

DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure Exam Certification study guide

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Preparing for DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on the Azure Certificate exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the DP-100 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).

I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the DP-100 exam. I hope this article will help you to prepare for the DP-100 Certification exam. Also, please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.

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Manage Azure Resources for Machine Learning (25-30%)

Create an Azure Machine Learning Workspace

Create an Azure Machine Learning workspace

Create & manage Azure Machine Learning workspaces

Configure workspace settings

Azure security workspace setting

Manage a workspace by using Azure Machine Learning Studio

Manage an Azure Machine Learning Studio workspace

Manage Data in an Azure Machine Learning Workspace

Select Azure storage resources

Connect to storage services on Azure

Register and maintain datastores

Create & register datastores

Create and manage datasets

Create datasets

Manage Compute for Experiments in Azure Machine Learning

Determine appropriate compute specifications for a training workload

Configure & submit training runs

Create compute targets for experiments and training

What are compute targets in Azure Machine Learning?

Set up compute targets for model training & deployment

Configure Attached Compute resources including Azure Databricks

Attach Azure Databricks compute resources to AML workspace

Monitor compute utilization

Monitor Azure Machine Learning

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Implement Security and Access Control in Azure Machine Learning

Determine access requirements and map requirements to built-in roles

Default roles in the workspace

Manage workspace access

Create custom roles

Create custom role

Manage role membership

Manage roles in your workspace

Manage credentials by using Azure Key Vault

Use authentication credentials in AML

Set up an Azure Machine Learning Development Environment

Create compute instances

What is an AML compute instance?

Create & manage an AML compute instance

Share compute instances

Share compute instance with other users

Access Azure Machine Learning workspaces from other development environments

Organize and set up Azure Machine Learning environments

Use software environments in AML

Set up an Azure Databricks Workspace

Create an Azure Databricks workspace

Quickstart – Create an Azure Databricks workspace

Create an Azure Databricks cluster

Create a cluster in Azure Databricks

Create and run notebooks in Azure Databricks

Manage notebooks in Azure Databricks

Run a Databricks Notebook

Link an Azure Databricks workspace to an Azure Machine Learning workspace

Develop with AML & Azure Databricks

Run Experiments and Train Models (20-25%)

Create Models by Using the Azure Machine Learning Designer

Create a training pipeline by using Azure Machine Learning designer

Retrain models with Azure Machine Learning designer

Ingest data in a designer pipeline

Data ingestion options for Azure Machine Learning workflows

Use designer modules to define a pipeline data flow

Predict automobile price with the designer

Use custom code modules in designer

Define custom R modules for Machine Learning Studio (classic)

Run Model Training Scripts

Create and run an experiment by using the Azure Machine Learning SDK

Azure Machine Learning in Jupyter Notebooks

Configure run settings for a script

Configure and submit training runs

Script Run Config class

Consume data from a dataset in an experiment by using the Azure Machine Learning SDK

Create and register datastores

Run a training script on Azure Databricks compute

Develop with AutoML & Azure Databricks

Run code to train a model in an Azure Databricks notebook

Example of building ML models on Azure Databricks

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Generate Metrics from an Experiment Run

Log metrics from an experiment run

Enable logging in Azure ML training runs

Retrieve and view experiment outputs

Evaluate machine learning experiment results

Set input & output directories

Use logs to troubleshoot experiment run errors

Collect ML pipeline log files in Application Insights for alerts & debugging

Use MLflow to track experiments

MLflow tracking for Azure Databricks ML experiments

MLflow tracking for ML experiments

Track experiments running in Azure Databricks

Track Databricks experiments in Azure Machine Learning

Use Automated Machine Learning to Create Optimal Models

Use the Automated ML interface in Azure Machine Learning studio

Forecast demand with automated machine learning

Use Automated ML from the Azure Machine Learning SDK

Configure automated ML experiments in Python

Select pre-processing options

Preprocessing Data in Azure Machine Learning Studio

What is automated machine learning (AutoML)?

Select the algorithms to be searched

How to select algorithms for Azure Machine Learning

Define a primary metric

The primary metric

Get data for an Automated ML run

Explore the results

Retrieve the best model

Retrieve the best model

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Tune Hyperparameters with Azure Machine Learning

Select a sampling method

Sampling the hyperparameter space

Define the search space

Tune hyperparameters for your model with Azure ML

Define the primary metric

Primary metric in Azure Machine Learning

Specify primary metric

Choosing a primary metric to handle imbalanced data

Define early termination options

Specify early termination policy

Find the model that has optimal hyperparameter values

Find the best model

Deploy and Operationalize Machine Learning Solutions (35-40%)

Select Compute for Model Deployment

Consider security for deployed services

Use TLS to secure a web service through Azure ML

Evaluate compute options for the deployment

Deploy models with Azure Machine Learning

Deploy a Model as a Service

Configure deployment settings

Deploy models with Azure Machine Learning

Deploy a registered model

Deploy machine learning models

Deploy a model trained in Azure Databricks to an Azure Machine Learning endpoint

Deploy models from Azure Databricks onto Azure ML

Consume a deployed service

Consume an Azure ML model deployed as a web service

Troubleshoot deployment container issues

Troubleshoot docker deployment of models with AKS & ACI

Manage Models in Azure Machine Learning

Register a trained model

Register your model (optional)

Monitor model usage

Monitor Azure Machine Learning

Monitoring data from Azure Machine Learning

Monitor data drift

Detect data drift on datasets

Monitor data drift with Azure Machine Learning

Create an Azure Machine Learning Pipeline for Batch Inferencing

Configure a ParallelRunStep

ParallelRunStep class

Configure compute for a batch inferencing pipeline

Create & attach the remote compute target

Publish a batch inferencing pipeline

Run batch predictions using Azure ML designer

Run a batch inferencing pipeline and obtain outputs

Build an Azure ML pipeline for batch scoring

Obtain outputs from a ParallelRunStep

ParallelRunStep class

Publish an Azure Machine Learning Designer Pipeline as a Web Service

Create a target compute resource

Deploy models with Azure Machine Learning

Configure an Inference pipeline

Deploy a machine learning model with the designer

Consume a deployed endpoint

Deploy models with Azure Machine Learning

Implement Pipelines By Using the Azure Machine Learning SDK

Create a pipeline

Use automated machine learning to predict taxi fares

Pass data between steps in a pipeline

Pass data between pipeline steps

Run a pipeline

Running automated machine learning experiments

Monitor pipeline runs

Monitoring Azure Machine Learning

Apply ML Ops Practices

Trigger an Azure Machine Learning pipeline from Azure DevOps

Trigger Azure Machine Learning pipelines

AML pipeline using CI/CD with Azure DevOps

Enable CI/CD for ML project with Azure Pipelines

Automate model retraining based on new data additions or data changes

Retrain your model on new data

Retraining & updating AML models

Refactor notebooks into scripts

Convert notebook code into Python scripts

Implement source control for scripts

Git integration for Azure Machine Learning

Using Azure Machine Learning from GitHub Actions

Implement Responsible Machine Learning (5-10%)

Use Model Explainers to Interpret Models

Select a model interpreter

Model interpretability in Azure Machine Learning

Explainability in automated ML

Interpret & explain ML models in Python

Generate feature importance data

Generate feature importance values

Permutation Feature Importance

Describe Fairness Considerations for Models

Evaluate model fairness based on prediction disparity

Machine learning fairness

Assess ML models’ fairness in Python

Mitigate model unfairness

Detect & mitigate unfairness with AML models

Describe Privacy Considerations for Data

Describe principles of differential privacy

Differential privacy in machine learning

Specify acceptable levels of noise in data and the effects on privacy

Use differential privacy in Azure ML

This brings us to the end of the DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure Study Guide.

What do you think? Let me know in the comments section if I have missed out on anything. Also, I love to hear from you about how your preparation is going on!

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34 Comments

  1. What is the best practice exam question is available.

    DP-100 Azure Practice Tests Prep Exam – looks like this is outdated. Could please guide more about exam question.

    1. Sorry, I am not sure which provider has constantly updated his practice test

      1. When you was preparing which practice test was near to actual exam. Please help

  2. Hi Ravi

    Amazing repository of resources required for the exam. So, first of all thank you for that.

    I just wanted to know if the resources provided in this page are enough to clear the DP100 exam, in addition to the ML knowledge beforehand. Will I need to go deeper into each of the topics mentioned in this page?

    Additionally, does the content here reflect the changes that will occur once the new exam starts rolling in.

    1. Hello Shubham, the resources on the page point you in the right direction. I will not say it is enough, it is always better to go deep.
      As the exam objectives change, I will update this page.

  3. Hi,

    Can someone who doesn’t have any knowledge about Azure also clear this test if I follow any learning path? I do have knowledge about Machine Learning in Python but I haven’t used Azure.

  4. Do we need to write any code in the exam? Where do we get the execution environment?

    1. Code generally are not asked in the exam. If any, you may have to select the right option (that has code in the list of options).
      For now, labs aren’t there I guess.

  5. Hello, Ravi: Thanks for the study guide. What is your take on the exam? Is Microsoft going to test you on your data science knowledge or Azure features to support ML?

    Also, I believe that the Udemy course you suggested is kind of outdated (2017).

    And what is the link to the “All Azure Certification Courses for 9$”? Do you suggest to enroll in that?

    Best regards,
    Jason

    1. Hello Jason,
      Of course, I would think data science knowledge as a prerequisite, so someone already working as a data scientist is prime for this certification.
      That $9 Monthly subscription does not include content related to dp-100 certification, so if you are looking to get certified in dp-100, I won’t suggest.

    2. Can you please mention how many case studies and how many lab need be completed in the test? The exam pattern is changing frequently and most of the youtube materials are out-dated. Thanks in advance.

  6. Hi Ravi

    some one said they got questions on scikit-learn, RNN, DNN, ANN, statistics, brainscript, normalization, sentiment analysis, language translation, model optimization, weka, docker, Azure machine learning studio, Azure machine learning service, devops in machine learning, bandit problem, early stop strategies, evaluation metrics, cross-validation, smote, sequence model, hyperparameter tuning, automated machine learning in Azure, tensorflow, keras, data types (do read this to get some questions right), padas data frame melt(), spark, azure data bricks, notebook, zeppelin notebook on spark, feature selection, sampling, algorithm selection (boosted decision tree, regression etc)and others. could this be true as the objectives says nothing about this.

    1. Hello Sean,

      I have observed that their learning paths do not cover all the exam objectives. So go by the official exam objectives. Refer to this guide or Microsoft docs for the objectives left out

  7. Hi Ravi,

    can we give exam using the replay offer of microsoft where we can attempt twice.

  8. i think the sample actual questions circulating online are actually outdated? like the below, i dont see topic like that in the course training i attended lately. please help to verify

    You are developing a hands-on workshop to introduce Docker for Windows to attendees.
    You need to ensure that workshop attendees can install Docker on their devices.
    Which two prerequisite components should attendees install on the devices? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
    Each correct selection is worth one point.
    NOTE:
    A. Microsoft Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
    B. Kitematic
    C. BIOS-enabled virtualization
    D. VirtualBox
    E. Windows 10 64-bit Professional

  9. Hi,
    Is ML Studio (classic) content still be available in the exam since Microsoft encourage user move to Azure Machine Learning designer?

  10. Hi Ravi, I am currently preparing for the DP-100 certification. I wanted to know if the pluralsite course is more than enough for the preperation?

      1. Just to be clear, do you mean its only good to reference or that its good enough to learn exclusively from?

        1. I have not checked out each and every course in the path, but at one glace, they do cover most of it.