Databricks - Machine Learning Associate Study Guide

1: Databricks Machine Learning

This chapter covers the Databricks Machine Learning platform surface that the Associate exam tests first: MLOps practice on the Lakehouse, the Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning, AutoML, Feature Engineering in Unity Catalog, and the MLflow tracking and Unity Catalog model registry workflow. Each section pairs the conceptual decision points with the exact Python API calls that appear in exam code snippets, so you can both recognize correct code and explain when to reach for each tool.