Microsoft Fabric Resources
Page updated November 2026.
Microsoft changes these pages often, so the Microsoft items show their dates.
Exams and certifications
The Microsoft exams I have passed, linked to their official pages. Dates shown are for the English version.
Fundamentals
Entry-level exams that build a strong foundation.
See all Microsoft Fundamentals certifications (opens in a new tab)
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Exam AZ-900
Azure Fundamentals
Foundational knowledge of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure.
- Microsoft updated
- 20 Jul 2026
- We checked
- 11 Oct 2026
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Exam AI-901
Azure AI Fundamentals
Exam updated 15 Apr 2026
Conceptual knowledge of AI solutions in Azure, plus foundational technical skills.
- Microsoft updated
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Exam SC-900
Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
The fundamentals of security, compliance and identity across cloud-based Microsoft services.
- Microsoft updated
- 21 Oct 2026
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- 1 Nov 2026
Associate
The core exams for Power BI and Fabric.
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Exam PL-300
Power BI Data Analyst Associate
Modelling, visualising and analysing data with Microsoft Power BI.
- Microsoft updated
- 20 Apr 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Exam DP-600
Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Designing, creating and managing analytical assets, such as semantic models, warehouses and lakehouses.
- Microsoft updated
- 19 Oct 2026
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- 1 Nov 2026
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Exam DP-700
Fabric Data Engineer Associate
Ingesting and transforming data, securing and managing an analytics solution, and monitoring and optimising it.
- Microsoft updated
- 19 Oct 2026
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- 1 Nov 2026
Understand Fabric
Microsoft’s own introduction to Fabric, and its guidance on planning a data platform.
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Overview
What is Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft’s introduction to Fabric: the unified, cloud-based data platform that covers the full data lifecycle, from ingestion through to visualisation and AI-powered analytics.
- Microsoft updated
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- 1 Nov 2026
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Planning
Planning for a unified data platform
Cloud Adoption Framework guidance for decision makers on the organisational model for a unified data platform on Fabric: data domain ownership, data product priorities, staffing, skilling and FinOps.
- Microsoft updated
- 27 Oct 2026
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- 1 Nov 2026
AI tools for Fabric
The MCP servers and tools to know about. I’m still learning these myself, so these link to Microsoft’s own pages.
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Overview
Fabric MCP servers
An overview of the remote and local MCP servers that let AI agents connect to Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft updated
- 23 Sep 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Remote server
Fabric Core MCP server
A remote server that lets AI agents manage Fabric resources.
- Microsoft updated
- 23 Sep 2026
- We checked
- 11 Oct 2026
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Remote server
Fabric IQ MCP server
Generally available
A remote, read-only MCP server that lets AI agents find Power BI reports and semantic models and run DAX queries against them.
- Microsoft updated
- 15 Sep 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Power BI
Power BI Authoring MCP server
Local: generally availableHosted: preview
Lets AI agents create and change Power BI semantic models. For querying, Microsoft points to Fabric IQ.
- Microsoft updated
- 17 Sep 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Local server
Fabric MCP server (local)
Open source
Runs on your development machine and gives AI agents Fabric API documentation, OneLake data operations and item creation tools.
- Microsoft updated
- 11 May 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
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Skills
Skills for Fabric
Open source (MIT)
Reusable instructions that teach AI coding tools how to work with Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft updated
- 11 Sep 2026
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- 11 Oct 2026
More Fabric MCP servers
The rest of the family. Checked 11 Oct 2026.
- Power BI MCP servers overview (opens in a new tab) Microsoft updated 24 Sep 2026
- Fabric Data Warehouse MCP server (opens in a new tab) Preview Microsoft updated 23 Jun 2026
- Eventhouse MCP server (opens in a new tab) Preview Microsoft updated 8 Jul 2026
- Fabric data agent as an MCP server (opens in a new tab) Microsoft updated 4 Sep 2026
- Ontology MCP server (opens in a new tab) Preview Microsoft updated 5 May 2026
- Microsoft's full list of Fabric MCP servers (opens in a new tab) Microsoft updated 23 Sep 2026
Tools to build with
The AI and developer tools used alongside Fabric. Checked 1 Nov 2026.
- Claude Code (opens in a new tab) AI coding tool
- GitHub (opens in a new tab) Code hosting
- GitHub Copilot (opens in a new tab) AI coding assistant
- Azure (opens in a new tab) Cloud platform
- Azure DevOps (opens in a new tab) Boards, repos, pipelines
- Visual Studio Code (opens in a new tab) Code editor