Fabric Foundations

Begin your Microsoft Fabric journey with this hands-on foundations course designed to build platform confidence before advancing into deeper architecture topics. You’ll explore how Microsoft Fabric unifies data engineering, analytics, and governance in a single SaaS environment. Through guided exercises, you’ll navigate Fabric workspaces, review capacities and licensing constraints, and create your first Lakehouse and Warehouse. You’ll evaluate when to use Warehouse versus Lakehouse for analytics scenarios, explore Data Factory orchestration options for data movement, configure OneLake shortcuts to virtualize external data without duplication, and run impact analysis to assess downstream dependencies and change risk. By the end of the course, you’ll have hands-on experience with Fabric workspaces, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, and OneLake, along with foundational skills in workspace navigation, data virtualization, capacity planning, and governed change management.