Microsoft Courses

Operating and Governing Data Platforms in Microsoft Fabric

Keep production data systems running in Microsoft Fabric: optimize pipeline performance, manage platform capacity, apply role-based access and data classification, and enforce data lifecycle policies.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Orchestrating Data Pipelines in Microsoft Fabric

Orchestrate multi-step data workflows in Microsoft Fabric: schedule pipelines with event triggers, design streaming architectures for telemetry, and monitor run histories to troubleshoot failures.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Preparing Data for Analytics in Microsoft Fabric

Prepare analytics-ready datasets in Microsoft Fabric: model fact and dimension tables, query Lakehouse and Warehouse data with SQL, and use AI assistants for transformation logic.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Test Planning, Execution and Analytics

Design risk-based test strategies: author test cases in Jira with Zephyr, generate synthetic data with AI, calculate defect density, and build Excel metric dashboards.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advanced DAX and Performance Optimization

Write complex DAX measures with CALCULATE, iterators, variables and time intelligence, then diagnose and fix Power BI performance bottlenecks using Performance Analyzer, DAX Studio and Copilot.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 13 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Azure AI and Healthcare Cloud Fundamentals

Learn Azure services for healthcare: deploy compute, storage and AI resources, apply Microsoft's Responsible AI framework, and support patient engagement with portals, chatbots and Teams.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Machine Learning and AI Applications in Healthcare

Build healthcare AI on Azure: train medical imaging and patient-risk models, detect dataset bias, evaluate with sensitivity and AUC, and dashboard results in Power BI.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Power BI Fundamentals and Data Modeling

Build Power BI data models: star and snowflake schemas, Import versus DirectQuery, Power Query cleansing and pivoting, table relationships, hierarchies, and workspace collaboration.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 11 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI Evaluation and Investment Decisions

Appraise generative AI investments in the Microsoft ecosystem: rank Copilot use cases, model TCO and the Verification Tax, and build vendor scorecards and board-ready business cases.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI Governance and Organizational Architecture

Architect enterprise AI governance: read risk posture in Microsoft Purview AI Hub, mandate auto-labeling and PIM, redesign an AI Center of Excellence, and track adoption signals.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI Strategy and Transformation Planning

Build a board-ready Strategic AI Investment Case: assess organizational readiness, sequence AI initiatives by impact and feasibility, model total cost of ownership, and design change communication strategies.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Advancing Your Purpose-Driven Leadership Career

Turn program artifacts into career evidence: write metric-driven resume bullets, optimize a LinkedIn headline and summary, and practice STAR responses for director-level interviews.

• Coursera
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Content Creation and Collaboration

Use Microsoft 365 Copilot to draft and audit proposals, emails and reports, run the full meeting lifecycle, build weekly status updates, and create stakeholder visuals with DALL-E 3.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Copilot Chat, Prompts and Agents

Orchestrate Microsoft 365 Copilot: choose between Web and Work grounding, structure prompts with clarity, context and constraints, and direct Researcher, Analyst and custom Copilot Studio agents.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Culture, Inclusion and Engagement

Make culture visible and measurable: design Barrett-based surveys, build Power BI heat maps and inclusion dashboards, and analyze Teams sentiment with Copilot to brief leadership.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course