Microsoft DP-203 Practice Status: Azure Data Engineering

Track Microsoft DP-203 practice status for Azure Data Engineering, review the route, and request an IT Mastery practice update.

DP-203 was Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate. Microsoft retired DP-203 on March 31, 2025.

This page keeps DP-203 search intent live so candidates can avoid preparing for an unavailable exam and move toward a current data-engineering route.

Current equivalent or adjacent route

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Azure Data Engineer AssociateDP-700 Fabric Data Engineer
Fabric analytics engineeringDP-600 Fabric Analytics Engineer
Azure data fundamentalsDP-900
Azure Databricks data engineeringDP-750

What DP-203 covered

  • integrating, transforming, and consolidating data from structured and unstructured systems
  • building analytics-ready data stores and pipelines
  • operationalizing data pipelines with security, monitoring, reliability, and performance in mind

Practice bank status

  • Current status: retired route
  • Exact IT Mastery simulator for DP-203: not being expanded
  • Best use right now: redirect DP-203 search intent toward DP-700, DP-600, DP-750, or another current data route
  • Recommended next page: DP-700

Official sources

Revised on Sunday, April 26, 2026