
Exam Ref DP-300 Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions, 1st edition
Published by Microsoft Press (August 6, 2025) © 2026
- Craig Zacker
Title overview
The official study guide for the new Microsoft DP-300 Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions certification exam.
Exam Ref DP-300 Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions offers professional-level preparation to maximise your exam performance and sharpen your skills on the job. It focuses on helping modern IT professionals demonstrate real-world mastery of implementing and managing cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions with Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure Data Services.
Learn how to:
- Plan and implement data platform resources
- Implement a secure environment
- Monitor, configure, and optimise database resources
- Configure and manage automation of tasks
- Plan and configure a high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environment
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