Knowledge goes in.
Judgment comes out.
Practiworks turns certification study into a shift on the job. You take the role, the incidents arrive whether you're ready or not, and every decision costs something. By Friday you'll know which calls you can defend.
Most preparation teaches you to recognise.
We teach you to decide.
Question banks are good at one thing: telling you whether you've seen something before. Certification exams stopped asking that a long time ago. They hand you a situation with constraints and four options that are all technically possible, and ask which one a competent practitioner would choose. That's a different skill, and you can't flashcard your way to it.
Options that all look right
Every incident offers options that all look reasonable. Choosing well means weighing cost, risk and blast radius against each other. That's what a scenario question tests, and nobody practises it.
Consequences that compound
Over-permission an account on day one and you'll be restoring a deleted dataflow on day three. Mistakes chain into follow-up incidents, so the second-order cost of a shortcut is something you feel.
Mapped to the objectives
Every scenario maps to a published exam objective. The end-of-week debrief scores you per domain, so you find out where you're thin while there's still time to fix it.
One week. One role. Everything costs something.
A track isn't a course you work through. It's a shift you survive. Half an hour, stop and resume whenever you like, and you're meant to replay it with different choices.
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Clock in
You take a role at a company that doesn't exist, with a budget that does. A week of work ahead of you, and the previous admin left you their mess.
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Decide
Incidents arrive day by day. Each one costs something to resolve and moves your service level up or down. There's a clock on your decision, because there always is.
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Debrief
At the end of the week you get a report: every call you made, why the right answer was right, and your score broken down by exam domain.
Pick a certification. Take the shift.
Each track is built around one certification, with its own company, role and set of incidents drawn from the published exam objectives. We started with the Microsoft data platform because that's the work we know best.
Capacity Command
You're the new Fabric platform admin at Nordwind Logistics. One capacity, three weeks on call, and a queue of incidents that don't wait for you to feel ready.
Semantic Drift
A semantic model everyone depends on and nobody trusts. Find out why the numbers moved, and decide what to do about it.
The Reporting Line
Six stakeholders, one dataset, and a board meeting on Friday. Every shortcut you take is a question you'll be asked.
Blast Radius
A subscription you inherited, a change window that's too short, and a rollback plan you haven't written yet.
Only Capacity Command is built. The other three are candidates, not commitments, and what people ask for is how we decide what goes next. Want a certification that isn't on this list, inside the Microsoft estate or well outside it? Tell us which one.
The platform is yours now.
3 weeks on call, seven simulated days each, and however many follow-ups your own mistakes create. Find out how much of DP-700 you have in your hands.