Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
This exam validates entry-level data engineering on Databricks: the Lakehouse platform and Delta Lake, ELT with Spark SQL and PySpark, incremental processing with Structured Streaming and Auto Loader, building and scheduling production pipelines with Delta Live Tables and Jobs, and data governance with Unity Catalog.
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Start Databricks DE Associate examSkills measured
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
24%Lakehouse architecture, the workspace and clusters, Delta Lake features, and time travel and optimization.
ELT with Spark SQL and Python
29%Creating and querying tables and views, joins and aggregations, UDFs, and manipulating nested and complex data.
Incremental Data Processing
22%Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, MERGE and CDC, and the medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture.
Production Pipelines
16%Delta Live Tables, Databricks Jobs, task orchestration and dependencies, and alerting on failures.
Data Governance
9%Unity Catalog, the three-level namespace, and managing grants and data access.