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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer (DP-420): Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB Solution

This course prepares you for the DP-420 certification exam, equipping you with skills to build efficient, cloud-native database solutions.

Intermediate
2h 40m
(3)

Created by Smit Shah

Last Updated Aug 05, 2025

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Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer (DP-420): Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB Solution

This course prepares you for the DP-420 certification exam, equipping you with skills to build efficient, cloud-native database solutions.

Intermediate
2h 40m
(3)

Created by Smit Shah

Last Updated Aug 05, 2025

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What you'll learn

Many developers struggle to design, optimize, and maintain scalable, high-performance NoSQL database solutions in the cloud. Traditional relational databases may not meet the demands of modern applications requiring global distribution, low latency, and flexible data models. Additionally, inefficient querying, poor partitioning strategies, and lack of expertise in Azure Cosmos DB can lead to performance bottlenecks, high costs, and unreliable applications. In this course, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer (DP-420): Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB Solution, you’ll gain the ability to overcome these challenges by learning best practices for modeling data, optimizing queries, configuring throughput, and ensuring security in Azure Cosmos DB. First, you’ll explore how to monitor and troubleshoot an Azure Cosmos database for NoSQL. Next, you’ll discover data movement and integration. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage an Azure Cosmos database for a NoSQL solution using DevOps practices. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of maintaining an Azure Cosmos database solution needed to pass the DP-420 examination.

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer (DP-420): Maintain an Azure Cosmos DB Solution
Intermediate
2h 40m
(3)
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Smit Shah is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and delivering training for various multinational companies including Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant, LTIMindTree, etc since the past 7 years. Skilled in Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, GenAI, Analytics, Statistics, Azure, Python, DBMS and much more.

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