This book is for students preparing to become certified for the recent Microsoft release, 70-463  Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 exam. This exam is the third of a series of three exams required for Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): SQL Server 2012 certification. The Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) lessons correlate and are mapped to The Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Exam 70-463 certification exam.  Students preparing for this exam master skills as they pursue careers as ETL and Data Warehouse Developers.  They are most likely to focus on hands-on work creating business intelligence (BI) solutions including data cleansing, Extract Transform Load (ETL), and Data Warehouse implementation.  This book covers the following skills: Mastering data using Master Data ServicesCleansing data using Data Quality ServicesETL Package development for data loading/transfer/transformationData SynchronizationOne-time data or application migrationAd-hoc data manipulations, transformationsScheduling ETL jobsManaging, configuring and deploying SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages The MOAC IT Professional series is the Official from Microsoft, turn-key Workforce training program that leads to professional certification and was authored for college instructors and college students. MOAC  gets instructors ready to teach and students ready for work by delivering essential resources in 5 key areas:  Instructor readiness, student software, student assessment, instruction resources, and learning validation.   With the Microsoft Official Academic course program, you are getting instructional support from Microsoft; materials that are accurate and make course delivery easy.