Practice Exams: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

If you looking for practice tests for Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification exam, you have come to the right place! Four practice tests with detailed explanations are available to prepare you before appearing for the actual exam

Questions

There are 55 multiple-choice questions on each practice exam. The questions will be distributed by the following high-level topics:

1. Databricks Intelligence Platform

2. Data Ingestion and Loading

3. Data Transformation and Modeling

4. Working with Lakeflow Jobs

5. Implementing CI/CD

6. Troubleshooting, Monitoring, and Optimization

7. Governance and Security

Duration

Testers will have 90 minutes to complete each practice exam.

The practice tests cover the following exam topics with detailed explanations:

• Understand how to use and the benefits of using the Databricks Intelligence Platform and its tools, including:

  • Data Lakehouse (architecture, descriptions, benefits)

  • Data Science and Engineering workspace (clusters, notebooks, data storage)

  • Delta Lake (general concepts, table management and manipulation, optimizations)

• Build ETL pipelines using Apache Spark SQL and Python, including:

  • Relational entities (databases, tables, views)

  • ELT (creating tables, writing data to tables, cleaning data, combining and reshaping tables, SQL UDFs)

  • Python (facilitating Spark SQL with string manipulation and control flow, passing data between PySpark and Spark SQL)

• Incrementally process data, including:

  • Structured Streaming (general concepts, triggers, watermarks)

  • Auto Loader (streaming reads)

  • Multi-hop Architecture (bronze-silver-gold, streaming applications)

  • Delta Live Tables (benefits and features)

• Build production pipelines for data engineering applications and Databricks SQL queries and dashboards, including:

  • Jobs (scheduling, task orchestration, UI)

  • Dashboards (endpoints, scheduling, alerting, refreshing)

• Understand and follow best security practices, including:

  • Entity Permissions (data objects Privileges)

  
  

After passing these practice exams, you will be ready to take the certification exam.

I wish you all the best in your exam!