Data skills for the NHS
Microsoft is supporting the NHS with free data skills training and discounted certifications.
Meet Nikki who worked at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust at the time of filming. Nikki attended a PL-300 course and shares why being data skilled helps herself and the NHS.
Meet Aravinth from the East London NHS Foundation Trust. Aravinth manages a team of NHS data specialists, and is benefiting hugely from a highly skilled and certified team.
Get free training
Microsoft is offering any NHS employee in England, Wales and Scotland access to free training and exams to help you build skills for a digital career. No matter where you are in your journey, we have courses for you. If you're just beginning your exploration into world of digital data, try our Data Fundamentals course. If you're looking to advance your career or are ready for the next step, focus on these three specialist areas: data engineering, data science or data analysis.
Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
If you are just starting your data learning journey, then Azure Fundamentals (DP-900) is the place to begin.
This training will introduce you to the core fundamentals of database concepts in a cloud environment. When completed, you will understand relational and non-relational data offerings, their capabilities, and how to provision.
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Complement your learning with Microsoft Learn
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Test your skills with a free DP-900 practice test
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Take the discounted DP-900 exam and earn your DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals certification
Additional DP-900 resources
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Other Fundamentals courses
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Azure Data Engineer (DP-203)
Learn about the data engineering as it pertains to working with batch and real-time analytical solutions using Azure data platform technologies. You will begin by understanding the core compute and storage technologies that are used to build an analytical solution. Then, learn how to interactively explore data stored in files in a data lake and the various ingestion techniques that can be used to load and transform data. Understand the importance of implementing security to ensure that the data is protected at rest or in transit and create real-time analytical solutions.
Enhance your learning
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Complement your learning with Microsoft Learn
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Test your skills with a free DP-203 practice test
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Take the discounted DP-203 exam and earn your DP-203 Azure Data Engineer certification
Additional DP-203 resources
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Other Engineering courses
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Azure Data Scientist (DP-100)
As an Azure Data Scientist, you apply your knowledge of data science and machine learning to implementing and running machine learning workloads on Microsoft Azure; in particular, using Azure Machine Learning Service. This entails planning and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads on Azure, running data experiments and training predictive models, managing and optimising models, and deploying machine learning models into production.
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Complement your learning with Microsoft Learn
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Test your skills with a free DP-100 practice test
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Take the discounted DP-100 exam and earn your DP-100 Azure Data Scientist certification
Additional DP-100 resources
Discover resources to help build your skills as an Azure Data Scientist.
Azure Data Analyst (PL-300)
This course covers the various methods and best practices that are in line with business and technical requirements for modelling, visualising, and analysing data with Power BI. Learn how to access and process data from a range of data sources including both relational and non-relational sources. Learn how to manage and deploy reports and dashboards for sharing and content distribution, as well as explore how to implement proper security standards and policies across the Power BI spectrum including datasets and groups. Finally, this course will show how to build paginated reports within the Power BI service and publish them to a workspace for inclusion within Power BI.
Enhance your learning
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Complement your learning with Microsoft Learn
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Test your skills with a free PL-300 practice test
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Take the discounted PL-300 exam and earn your PL-300 Azure Data Analyst certification
Additional PL-300 resources
Discover resources to help build your skills as an Azure Data Analyst.