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Exam70-767-Implementing A Data Warehouse Using SQL

This document summarizes the skills measured on a Microsoft certification exam, including: - Designing, implementing, and maintaining a data warehouse, including dimension tables, fact tables, and indexes. - Extracting, transforming, and loading data using SQL Server Integration Services packages to design ETL control flows and data flows. - Building data quality solutions using Data Quality Services and Master Data Services. - The percentages of the exam focused on each of these skill areas are provided.

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Exam70-767-Implementing A Data Warehouse Using SQL

This document summarizes the skills measured on a Microsoft certification exam, including: - Designing, implementing, and maintaining a data warehouse, including dimension tables, fact tables, and indexes. - Extracting, transforming, and loading data using SQL Server Integration Services packages to design ETL control flows and data flows. - Building data quality solutions using Data Quality Services and Master Data Services. - The percentages of the exam focused on each of these skill areas are provided.

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Skills measured

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Design, implement, and maintain a data warehouse (35–40%)


Design and implement dimension tables
Design shared and conformed dimensions, determine support requirements for slowly changing
dimensions, determine attributes, design hierarchies, determine star or snowflake schema
requirements, determine the granularity of relationship by using fact tables, determine auditing or
lineage requirements, determine keys and key relationships for a data warehouse, implement
dimensions, implement data lineage of a dimension table
Design and implement fact tables
Identify measures, identify dimension table relationships, create composite keys, design a data
warehouse that supports many-to-many relationships, implement semi-additive measures,
implement non-additive measures
Design and implement indexes for a data warehouse workload
Design an indexing solution; select appropriate indexes; implement clustered, non-clustered,
filtered, and columnstore indexes
Design storage for a data warehouse
Design an appropriate storage solution, including hardware, disk, and file layout
Design and implement partitioned tables and views
Design a partition structure to support a data warehouse, implement sliding windows, implement
partition elimination, design a partition structure that supports the quick loading and scale-out of
data

Extract, transform, and load data (40–45%)


Design and implement an extract, transform, and load (ETL) control flow by using a SQL Server
Integration Services (SSIS) package
Design and implement ETL control flow elements, including containers, tasks, and precedence
constraints; create variables and parameters; create checkpoints, sequence and loop containers,
and variables in SSIS; implement data profiling, parallelism, transactions, logging, and security
Design and implement an ETL data flow by using an SSIS package
Implement slowly changing dimension, fuzzy grouping, fuzzy lookup, audit, blocking, non-
blocking, and term lookup transformations; map columns; determine the appropriate transform
object for a given task; determine appropriate scenarios for Transact-SQL joins versus SSIS
lookup; design table loading by using bulk loading or standard loading; remove extra rows or bad
rows by using deduplication
Implement an ETL solution that supports incremental data extraction
Design fact table patterns, enable Change Data Capture, create a SQL MERGE statement
Implement an ETL solution that supports incremental data loading
Design a control flow to load change data, load data by using Transact-SQL Change Data
Capture functions, load data by using Change Data Capture in SSIS
Debug SSIS packages
Fix performance, connectivity, execution, and failed logic issues by using the debugger; enable
logging for package execution; implement error handling for data types; implement breakpoints;
add data viewers; profile data with different tools; perform batch clean-up
Deploy and configure SSIS packages and projects
Create an SSIS catalog; deploy packages by using the deployment utility, SQL Server, and file
systems; run and customize packages by using DTUTIL

Build data quality solutions (15–20%)


Create a knowledge base
Create a Data Quality Services (DQS) knowledge base, determine appropriate use cases for a
DQS knowledge base, perform knowledge discovery, perform domain management
Maintain data quality by using DQS
Add matching knowledge to a knowledge base, prepare a DQS for data deduplication, create a
matching policy, clean data by using DQS knowledge clean data by using the SSIS DQS task,
install DQS
Implement a Master Data Services (MDS) model
Install MDS; implement MDS; create models, entities, hierarchies, collections, and attributes;
define security roles; import and export data; create and edit a subscription; implement entities,
attributes, hierarchies, and business rules
Manage data by using MDS
Use MDS tools, use the Master Data Services Configuration Manager, create a Master Data
Manager database and web application, deploy a sample model using MDSModelDeploy.exe,
use the Master Data Services web application, use the Master Data Services Add-in for Excel,
create a Master Data Management hub, stage and load data, create subscription views

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