280 practice questions for the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate, with full explanations.
Every question comes with the correct answer, the reasoning behind it, and a short note on why each wrong option is wrong. Work through it once with the answers, then again with the questions-only copy under exam conditions.
- 280 questions mapped to the current Data Engineer Associate exam guide
- Answers and explanations for every question, including the wrong options
- A questions-only PDF for timed practice runs
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- Pass or your money back
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Last updated September 2026 · 280 questions
What makes the Data Engineer Associate hard
This is the most-taken Databricks exam, and its guide has changed more than any other. The current version has seven domains, up from five: Lakeflow Jobs replaced Workflows, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines replaced Delta Live Tables, and Unity Catalog governance and CI/CD each got a domain of their own. A question bank built on the old five-domain guide is missing about a fifth of the current paper.
Ingestion and transformation together make up 43% of the exam. Data Ingestion and Loading covers Auto Loader and its checkpointing, COPY INTO, reading from cloud storage, and the incremental patterns that avoid rescanning a directory. Data Transformation and Modeling covers Spark SQL and PySpark transformations, the medallion architecture, and Delta Lake operations including MERGE, schema evolution and time travel.
The format is 45 scored questions in 90 minutes, about two minutes each, with no hands-on component. The distractors are usually approaches that work but are not incremental, not governed or not idempotent.
About the exam
The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate validates the ability to build ingestion, transformation and production pipelines on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with Spark SQL, PySpark, Delta Lake, Lakeflow Jobs and Unity Catalog. There are no prerequisites, though Databricks recommends six months of hands-on experience.
Exam domains
- Databricks Intelligence Platform: 6%
- Data Ingestion and Loading: 21%
- Data Transformation and Modeling: 22%
- Working with Lakeflow Jobs: 16%
- Governance and Security: 15%
- Implementing CI/CD: 10%
- Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Optimization: 10%
45 scored multiple-choice questions plus possible unscored items, 90 minutes, passing score not published by Databricks (commonly cited as 70%), US$200 per attempt, online proctored or test centre, valid for two years.
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