DP-600, DP-700 or DP-750 on your list? What changes in October

Three study guides changed their headline this week. The DP-600, DP-700 and DP-750 guides now read "Skills measured as of October 19, 2026", and each certification page carries the same notice: the English version of the exam will be updated on 19 October 2026.

This is an announced change, not one already in force. Until 19 October, the exams keep measuring the current objectives:

If you sit the exam in another language, Microsoft notes that localised versions usually follow the English one about eight weeks later.

How big is the change?

Small. Each guide includes a change log, and it rates every skill area as either no change or minor. The weights do not move either: every skill area keeps the same percentage range it has today.

Microsoft's change log only says where something changed, not what. So we compared the new wording with the current guides we keep on file. Here is everything that differs.

DP-750: two changes worth knowing

• Deletion vectors leave the clustering objective. Today the objective reads "Design and implement a clustering strategy, including liquid clustering, Z-ordering, and deletion vectors". From 19 October it lists only liquid clustering and Z-ordering.
• Asset Bundles get a new name. "Configure and package Databricks Asset Bundles" becomes "Configure and package Declarative Automation Bundles", and the deployment objective now refers to the "Databricks CLI" rather than the "Azure Databricks command-line interface (CLI)". The skill is the same (packaging and deploying a bundle) under the name the exam will use.

Nothing else in DP-750 changes.

DP-700: wording only

In Optimize performance, "Optimize Eventstreams and Eventhouses" becomes "Optimize Eventstream and Eventhouse". The change log also flags Configure Microsoft Fabric workspace settings as minor, but its four objectives (Spark, domain, OneLake and Apache Airflow settings) read exactly as they do today.

DP-600: wording only

In Query and analyze data, "Visual Query Editor" is now written "Visual query editor". The four ways of selecting, filtering and aggregating data (visual query editor, SQL, KQL and DAX) are unchanged.

What it means if you are studying now

For DP-600 and DP-700, nothing you are learning goes out of date. For DP-750, expect the new bundle name in questions after 19 October, and treat deletion vectors as background knowledge rather than a named objective.

Every date we track for these exams, including this one, is on the exam calendar.