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This course is designed as an introduction to Power BI for data analysis and reporting. Skills include connecting to data and basic data preparation tasks using Power Query, designing report pages for optimal user experience, and exploring how Copilot in Power BI aids the report development process.

This course covers methods and practices to implement data engineering solutions by using Microsoft Fabric. Students will learn how to design and develop effective data loading patterns, data architectures, and orchestration processes. Objectives for this course include ingesting and transforming data and securing, managing, and monitoring data engineering solutions. This course is designed for data professionals with some data integration and orchestration experience.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and develop AI enabled database solutions across Microsoft SQL platforms, including SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric. It is intended for professionals who build modern data solutions that integrate structured and semi structured data and incorporate AI features into scalable enterprise applications. It will also be valuable for individuals who develop applications that rely on SQL based data services enhanced with vector search, embeddings, and other AI driven capabilities.

In this course, students will gain foundational knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. Students will learn about core data concepts such as relational, non-relational, big data, and analytics, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure. Students will explore fundamental relational data concepts and relational database services in Azure. They will explore Azure storage for non-relational data and the fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn about large-scale data warehousing, real-time analytics, and data visualization.

Today's world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon. With the tremendous amount of available data, the ability to make sense of it continues to be an ongoing challenge. You already know how to use Excel to perform simple calculations and modify worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others. But Excel is capable of doing so much more. To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data, and present it in a visually compelling format that enables decision makers to view key trends and gain insights. And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

In this course, you'll learn the basics of GitHub and gain a better understanding of its fundamental features with a hands-on exercise all within a GitHub repository. You'll learn best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository on GitHub.

Learn how GitHub Actions enables you to automate your software development cycle. You'll learn how to plan automation of your software development life cycle with GitHub Actions workflows, use GitHub Actions to automatically build an application, and use GitHub Script to interact with the GitHub API.

This course explores the use of AI in the context of GitHub Copilot, a generative AI tool for developers. It equips users with the knowledge and skills to use Copilot effectively while mitigating potential ethical and operational risks associated with AI usage.

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) plays a crucial role in enhancing the security posture of software development projects on GitHub. It provides a comprehensive set of tools and features designed to identify and address security vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle. By integrating security directly into the development process with GHAS, your team can build more secure and reliable software. The course will explore how to utilize GHAS to maximize security impact and understand GHAS and its role in the security ecosystem.

GitHub Foundations introduces you to the fundamental concepts, features, and products of GitHub. You'll discover the benefits of using GitHub as a collaborative platform and explore its core features, such as repository management, commits, branches, and merging. Through curated modules and hands-on exercises, you'll gain a solid understanding of GitHub's essential tools and be well-equipped to start contributing to projects and collaborating effectively within GitHub.