DP-3015-A: Getting Started With Cosmos DB NoSQL Development

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in creating Cosmos DB for NoSQL solutions with resource configuration, data modeling, partitioning, SDK operations, queries, consistency, performance, security, and monitoring. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Explain Cosmos DB accounts, regions, databases, containers, items, request units, APIs, global distribution, and service capabilities
• Create resources with suitable capacity, throughput, serverless or provisioned choices, naming, region, and lifecycle settings
• Design JSON documents, denormalization, embedded or referenced data, partition keys, item identifiers, indexes, and access patterns
• Evaluate partition distribution, hot partitions, cross-partition queries, uniqueness, transactional scope, and data growth
• Use the SDK for create, read, update, delete, upsert, query, pagination, parameters, batches, retries, and error handling
• Choose consistency levels, manage optimistic concurrency, understand session behavior, and validate reliability requirements
• Apply identities, keys, roles, network controls, private access, encryption, secrets, auditing, and least privilege
• Monitor request units, latency, throttling, availability, indexing, costs, diagnostics, failures, and optimization opportunities

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.