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Azure Data Factory Training: Designing and Implementing Data Integration Solutions

Course 1231

  • Duration: 3 days
  • Labs: Yes
  • Language: English
  • 11 PMI PDUs
  • Level: Intermediate

This Azure Data Factory Training covers all key aspects of the Azure Data Factory v2 platform. Special attention is paid to covering Azure services which are commonly used with ADF v2 solutions. These services are Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, Azure SQL Database, Azure Databricks, Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions, and a few others.

Azure Data Factory Training Delivery Methods

  • In-Person

  • Online

Azure Data Factory Training Information

In this Azure Data Factory course, you will learn how to:

  • Build end-to-end ETL and ELT solutions using Azure Data Factory v2
  • Architect, develop and deploy sophisticated, high-performance, easy-to-maintain and secure pipelines that integrate data from a variety of Azure and non-Azure data sources.
  • Apply the latest DevOps best practices available for the ADF v2 platform.

Prerequisites

Learning Tree course 8566, Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure (AZ-900), or equivalent experience.

Azure Data Factory Training Outline

  • Historical background: SSIS, ADF v1, other ETL/ELT tools
  • Key capabilities and benefits of ADF v2
  • Recent feature updates and enhancements
  • Connectors: Azure services, databases, NoSQL, files, generic protocols, services & apps, custom
  • Pipelines
  • Activities: data movement, data transformation, control flow
  • Datasets: source, sink
  • Integration Runtimes: Azure, Self-Hosted, Azure-SSIS
  • Creating ADF v2 instance
  • Creating a pipeline and associated activities
  • Executing the pipeline
  • Monitoring execution
  • Reviewing results

Copying Tools and SDKS

  • Copy Data Tool/Wizard
  • Copy activity
  • SDKs: Python, .NET
  • Automation: PowerShell, REST API, ARM Templates

Copying Considerations

  • File formats: Avro, binary, delimited, JSON, ORC, Parquet
  • Data store support matrix
  • Write behavior: append, upsert, overwrite, write with custom logic
  • Schema and data type mapping
  • Fault tolerance options

Transformation with Mapping Data Flows

  • Introduction to mapping data flows
  • Data flow canvas
  • Debug mode
  • Dealing with schema drift
  • Expression builder & language
  • Transformation types: Aggregate, Alter row, Conditional split, Derived column, Exists, Filter, Flatten, Join, Lookup, New branch, Pivot, Select, Sink, Sort, Source, Surrogate key, Union, Unpivot, Window

Transformation with External Services

  • Databricks: Notebook, Jar, Python
  • HDInsight: Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Streaming, Spark
  • Azure Machine Learning service
  • SQL Stored procedures
  • Azure Data Lake Analytics U-SQL
  • Custom activities with .NET or R
  • Purpose of activity dependencies: branching and chaining
  • Activity dependency conditions: succeeded, failed, skipped, completed
  • Control flow activities: Append Variable, Azure Function, Execute Pipeline, Filter, ForEach, Get Metadata, If Condition, Lookup, Set Variable, Until, Wait, Web
  • Debugging
  • Monitoring: visual, Azure Monitor, SDKs, runtime-specific best practices
  • Scheduling execution with triggers: event-based, schedule, tumbling window
  • Performance, scalability, tuning
  • Common troubleshooting scenarios in activities, connectors, data flows and integration runtimes
  • Quick introduction to source control with Git
  • Integration with GitHub and Azure DevOps platforms
  • Environment management: Development, QA, Production
  • Iterative development best practices
  • Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines
  • Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines
  • Templates: out-of-the-box and organizational
  • Parameters
  • Naming convention
  • Data movement security
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Self-hosted IR considerations
  • IP address blocks
  • Managed identity
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  • Hands-on labs included

  • One-on-one after-course instructor coaching
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  • 3-day instructor-led training course

  • Hands-on labs included

  • One-on-one after-course instructor coaching
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    Herndon, VA or Virtual
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    Herndon, VA or Virtual
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Azure Data Factory Training FAQs

Azure Data Factory (ADF) v2 is an Azure data integration service which allows creation of data-driven workflows to orchestrate and automate data movement and transformation across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.

While this new course is designed to bring students from zero expertise with ADF v2 to an intermediate or even advanced level of knowledge, Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure (AZ-900) or equivalent is expected.

It is ideal for architects, developers, administrators, IT managers, and anyone else who would like to make the best possible use of this Azure service. Key areas covered include ADF v2 architecture, UI-based and automated data movement mechanisms, 10+ data transformation approaches, control-flow activities, reuse options, operational best practices, and a multi-tiered approach to ADF security.

6 hands-on instructor-led labs are included with the course. These allow students to practice applying ADF v2 concepts and prepare them for real-world Azure data integration projects.

Certification candidates and existing credential holders are responsible for reporting all Continuing Certification Requirements Program (CCR) activities to PMI (Project Management Institute). To report the completion of a Learning Tree course, you can use the Online PDU (Professional Development Units) Resources System.

  • Go to the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements System https://ccrs.pmi.org/
  • Log in with your username and password
  • Locate the claim code associated with your course in the table in this document
  • Click on “Report PDU for this activity”
  • Fill in the date started and date completed
  • Click on the box agreeing that this claim is accurate and then submit

PDU Information for This Course:

  • Total PDUs: 11
  • Ways of Working PDUs: 11
  • Power Skills PDUs: 0
  • Business Acumen PDUs: 0
  • PMI Claim Code: 11541E8YVO

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