
An overview of what this certification covers
The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional exam validates advanced skills in building, optimizing, and maintaining production-grade data engineering solutions on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The exam assesses expertise across Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Auto Loader, Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines, Databricks Compute including serverless, Lakeflow Jobs, and the Medallion Architecture, with emphasis on designing secure and cost-effective ETL pipelines, processing complex data with Python and SQL, and applying best practices in schema management, observability, governance, and performance optimization. It also tests implementation of streaming workloads, workflow orchestration, DevOps and CI/CD, and deployment with the Databricks CLI, REST API, and Asset Bundles.
What to expect on exam day
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The Databricks - Data Engineer Professional exam contains 60 questions and lasts 120 minutes. Always confirm the latest exam blueprint on the official page before scheduling.
The passing score is 70%.
You get 120 minutes to complete the exam. The MyCertStack exam simulator uses the same time budget so you can build pacing under realistic pressure.
The official exam fee is $200 USD at the time of writing. Pricing can vary by region and is set by Databricks - always confirm on the official page.
The certification is valid for 2 years from the date you pass. After that, you'll need to recertify to keep your credential current.
No. MyCertStack provides original practice questions, sample exam questions, and a realistic exam simulator written by our team to mirror the style and difficulty of the real exam. They are not dumps and are not the actual questions used by Databricks.
Work through the structured study material chapter by chapter, then drill the practice zone for each topic until you consistently score above the passing threshold. Finish with at least two full exam simulations under timed conditions before sitting the real exam.