The Microsoft Fabric Career Hub lists four job roles associated with the product (Analytics Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist), three major certifications (DP-600, DP-700, and PL-300), and a number of applied skills courses.
Job Roles
Analytics Engineer
Prepare and enrich data for analysis using semantic models, lakehouses, and data warehouses.
• Ingest or access data with shortcuts, pipelines or dataflows.
• Transform data with dataflows, procedures, and notebooks.
• Store and query data in lakehouses and data warehouses.
• Expose data with reusable semantic models.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600).
Data Analyst
Maximize data value through visualization and reporting, building data models, and embedding advanced analytics.
• Expose data with Power BI reports, semantic models, and SQL endpoints.
• Transform data with dataflows and procedures.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300).
Data Engineer
Design, secure, and optimize solutions to ingest and transform batch and streaming data at scale.
• Connect to data with shortcuts and mirroring.
• Ingest and transform data with notebooks, pipelines, dataflows, and event streams.
• Store and query data in lakehouses, data warehouses, and eventhouses.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of Fabric analytics solutions.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700).
Data Scientist
Use AI, machine learning (ML), and statistical analysis to uncover trends in data by building predictive models.
• Access data from lakehouses, data warehouses, and semantic models.
• Explore, clean and prepare data with notebooks.
• Create AI/ML models and experiments and store results in the Lakehouse.
• Expose and consume models from Power BI reports, SQL endpoints, and notebooks.
Appropriate Certification and/or Course
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a data science and machine learning solution with Microsoft Fabric (DP-604)
Other
Microsoft's documents discuss a number of other roles, often without defining them all that well.
Citizen Developer. Defined by the Gartner group as "an employee who creates application capabilities for consumption by themselves or others, using tools that are not actively forbidden by IT or business units." and "They report to a business unit or function other than IT."
Data Warehouse Developer.
Data Architect.
Database Developer.
App Developer.
AI Developer.
AI Engineer.
Database Administrator.
Certifications
Note that while certifications are identified by course code (e.g. DP-700) in internal documents, few of the pages at learn.microsoft.com use the codes.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600)
The four-day instructor-led course covers methods and practices for implementing and managing enterprise-scale data analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
DP-600 at Lumify Work.
The ILT course does not map 100% to the topics in the exam. In particular the course still includes a major section of Real-Time Intelligence, something that was dropped from the exam domain in early 2025.
Some prior Power BI experience would help in course attendance as well. An Analytics Engineer does not need to be a Power BI practitioner but they need more than just basic knoweldge.
Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700)
This four-day instructor-led course covers methods and practices to implement data engineering solutions by using Microsoft Fabric.
DP-700 at Lumify Work.
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
This coursethree-day instructor-led course will discuss the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualising, and analysing data with Power BI.
PL-300 at Lumify Work.
Microsoft Applied Skills
These are online task-based certifications (Microsoft call them "micro credentials") for technical skills using Microsoft's products and platforms. The online exams are free to take (they do not require booking through Vue).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/applied-skills/
Some of them are sold by training organisations as one-day instructor-led offerings.
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric (DP-601)
The self-paced and ILT content of DP-601 is module 2 of DP-700.
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a data warehouse in Microsoft Fabric (DP-602)
The self-paced and ILT content of DP-602 is module 2 of DP-600.
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a Real-Time Intelligence solution with Microsoft Fabric (DP-603)
The self-paced and ILT content of DP-603 is module 3 of DP-700.
Microsoft Applied Skills: Implement a data science and machine learning solution with Microsoft Fabric (DP-604)
DP-604 has no overlap with DP-600 or DP-700.
Taking multiple courses
DP-600 and DP-700 share almost half their content. If you attend both courses then there will be repeated content.
If you have attended DP-700 then you have already covered the modules and labs for the DP-601 and DP-603 applied skills assessments. Similarly, attending DP-600 covers DP-602, and attending PL-300 covers DP-605 (note that DP-605 is not an Applied Skills course, just a subset of topics covered in PL-300).
Lab repository
The labs for several courses, including DP-600 and DP-700, are at https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning/mslearn-fabric.