In the effort of expanding out the breadth of certification offerings, Microsoft has added the Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R (70-773) exam. This exam focuses on using Microsoft R Server and SQL R Services for analyzing Big Data.
This exam is retired June 30, 2019.
Certification Target Audience
The focus on the Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R (70-773) exam is centered around Microsoft R Server and SQL R Services. The exam is designed to target candidates who are Data Scientists or Analysts who are processing and analyzing large data sets using R. This exam will test your familiarity with data structures, as well as basic programming concepts (such as control flow and scope), and your ability to write and debug R code functions.
Skills Measured
Here is a high level list of the skills and objectives measured on this exam:
- Read and Explore Big Data
- Read data with R Server
- Summarize data
- Visualize data
- Process Big Data
- Process data with rxDataStep
- Perform complex transforms that use transform functions
- Manage data sets
- Process text using RML packages
- Build Predictive Models with ScaleR
- Estimate linear models
- Build and use partitioning models
- Generate predictions and residuals
- Evaluate models and tuning parameters
- Create additional models using RML packages
- Use R Server in different environments
- Use different compute contexts to run R Server effectively
- Optimize tasks by using local compute contexts
- Perform in-database analytics by using SQL Server
- Implement analysis workflows in the Hadoop ecosystem and Spark
- Deploy predictive models to SQL Server and Azure Machine Learning
When studying for this exam, you’ll certainly want to look at the official exam page from Microsoft for the full list of exam objectives. You’ll need to be sure to study every one of them that will be measured on the exam.
Training Materials
At the time of writing this summary of the 70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R, the exam is still in Beta as it was just recently published. This means there aren’t any exam guide books, or practice exams available yet. To study for this exam, you’ll need to rely mostly on the Microsoft documentation for the different technologies covered on this exam.
Happy studying!
About the Author
Chris Pietschmann
Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.
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Love this. I am about to start studying for this exam. Do you have any update on study material?
No, I don’t have any update on study materials. This exam is really new still.
Hi , How do you guys study without material ?
Mostly documentation and through trial and error playing with the tools. It can be very time consuming at times. Oh the difficulty we go through to create training material some times. 🙂
I’m actually fond of R and using it since a while for data visualization . Can you tell me which type of documentation you have , I need a starting point and need to make sure I’m preparing for the exam and not for the entire tool
Hi Chris , could you please let me know if there are a good source for these documentation ?
Hi Chris,
Any update on good source for analyzing big data with microsoft R certification exam? Studying materials and going along youtube videos since last 1 month. Not sure whether going right or wrong. Can u please any update if there is any? Would be really helpful.
Any help from the other members is also highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!
There’s not an Exam Ref book for 70-773 from Microsoft Press yet. Microsoft documentation has a lot of resources, and then there’s also the mediums you mention. You could also look into on-demand video services like http://SkillMeUp.com or http://Pluralsight.com as well.
I am about to start studying for this exam. Do you have any update on study material?
I don’t have any specific updates as of now.
Any updates regarding books for certification
There aren’t any exam ref books for the 70-773 certification exam. Also, I don’t anticipate any getting published since this exam is being retired June 2019.