This post is the last in the series specifically about the modules in this Cloud Skills challenge. Yay! The deadline to complete the challenge is February 22, 2024, so I got there with 2 days to spare! This topic is also not covered on the exam, hence it is not being included in the Learn Together series of video topics.
In a few weeks, I will prepare and take the DP-600 exam, using the 50% off voucher I get from completing the skills challenge. I will document what else I did to prep for the exam and hopefully have what the outcome is, as I expect I will be taking the exam after it is out of beta. That will be the final post in this overall series on the challenge! Stay tuned, I expect that to be near the end of March 2024.
Previous posts in this series:
- Part 1 (Introduction, Lakehouses)
- Part 2 (Apache Spark)
- Part 3 (Delta Lake tables)
- Part 4 (Using Data Factory pipelines)
- Part 5 (Ingesting data with Dataflows Gen2)
- Part 6 (Getting started with data warehouses)
- Part 7 (Administration of Microsoft Fabric)
- Part 8 (Medallion architecture design)
- Part 9 (Spark & notebooks)
- Part 10 (Getting started with real-time analytics)
- Part 11 (Getting started with data science)
Microsoft Learn Module
Get started with Data Activator in Microsoft Fabric
This module reviews the Data Activator product - what it is for, understanding triggers, conditions and actions, reporting against its data etc.
The exercise has you walking through creating a Reflex based on sample data, for shipped items where the temperature is out of range (medicine in this example).
Key Takeaways
Data Activator is designed for real-time response, such as managing inventory on a real-time basis (identifying low stock and reordering it), or real-time customer engagement (a customer visits your website and you want to initiate a chat). Other examples are sending notifications when the temperature in a storage facility puts a product at risk (such as food storage temperature for perishable items). The examples themselves provide lots of interesting use cases.
Data Activator items are referred to as Reflexes. A Reflex item connects to your data sources, monitors the conditions you specify and initiates actions you prescribed.
- Triggers ("if-then" type statements)
- Conditions (circumstances under which the trigger becomes active)
- Actions (the result of a condition met by a trigger)
Since this is not part of the DP-600 exam, I opted not to complete the exercise at this time as I can always go back to it. I completed the Knowledge Check, and with that, I have completed all 13 modules! Woohoo!
