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Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

AL1 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:25:55 GMT

I'd like to ask if there is a tentative date to release Databricks Data Engineering practice exam. Thank you!

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Shalabh007 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:50:19 GMT

@Aleimar Villabrille as of now there is no practice exam released by Databricks for Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional exam.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

SS2 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:01:44 GMT

I am also looking for same

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

SS2 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:02:26 GMT

There is no free proper structured course.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

DK03 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:40:45 GMT

As of now we don't have any practice exams available online. We have an advance data engineering course available on academy.

https://customer-academy.databricks.com/learn/course/874/advanced-data-engineering-with-databricks

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Ajay-Pandey — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:46:04 GMT

As of now, there is no tentative date to release Databricks Data Engineering practice exam.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Senthil1 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:16:01 GMT

No Practice exam as of now

but considering this exam overview course with 5 sample questions (this is sufficient to know what you should concentrate on and what topics you want to learn more)

Databricks Learning (Exam Overview)

Databricks Learning (Advanced Data Engineering Course)

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Cami — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:38:59 GMT

I passed that exam and I would recommend focusing on delta format (understanding how it works), medallion architecture, performance issues ( spill, skew, shuffle, storage issue, memory issue) and following all notebooks from Databricks Academy.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 01:44:24 GMT

No practice exam until now. I also waiting it like you.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

AL1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:08:31 GMT

Thank you so much for this information Cami!

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Wunlung — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:46:14 GMT

According to the official FAQ, the short answer is NO.

They will probably release a practice test when they retire existing current version.

Long answer:

Are there any practice exams available for Databricks certification exams? At this time, there are two certifications with practice exams available. The Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0 exam has a practice exam available for Python and Scala. The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam also has a practice exam available.

Source:Are there any practice exams available for Databricks certification exams? At this time, there are two certifications with practice exams available. The Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 3.0 exam has a practice exam available for Python and Scala. The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam also has a practice exam available.

https://files.training.databricks.com/lms/docebo/databricks-academy-faq.pdf

To prepare the exam:

Understand what will be tested in the Exam - https://www.databricks.com/learn/certification/data-engineer-professional
Complete the online training courses - videos
1. Academy Training - Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks
Complete the lab with the code repo - https://github.com/databricks-academy/advanced-data-engineering-with-databricks
Go through the content (PDF - Assets)
1. https://github.com/databricks-academy/advanced-data-engineering-with-databricks/releases
Practice more on delta format (understanding how it works), medallion architecture, performance issues ( spill, skew, shuffle, storage issue, memory issue)

Enjoy learning!

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Rajeev_Basu — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:15:13 GMT

right now in the data engineering certification journey, practice exam available only for the associate one (https://files.training.databricks.com/assessments/practice-exams/PracticeExam-DataEngineerAssociate.pdf). In one of the databricks sessions, they mentioned there is a possibility of 1 practice exam for the professional certification to be made available by the 1st quarter of 2023.

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Cami — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:19:42 GMT

I will also add cluster consideration

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mcwir — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 09:04:10 GMT

Im learning to one and cant wait to take my attempt!

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Heman2 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:41:27 GMT

It would be better if we have practice exam

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

AL1 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:35:14 GMT

Will choose this as the best answer! Thank you for this, hoping you’ll update this once practice exam is released!

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Harshjot — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:53:14 GMT

Too afraid to attempt the real exam without practice exam

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Harun — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:09:45 GMT

Thanks for the valuable information @Camilla Lok

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

labtech — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 02:11:30 GMT

Actually it realy hard to pass this exam without practice exam. But I think we can try it one and get more experience on next time. Keep moving bro

Re: Data Engineering Professional Practice exam

Devarsh — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:03:48 GMT

No, as of now there is no practice exam available for this certification but a good way to get an idea about the exam would be appearing for it once. There are multiple trainings going on from Databricks, attending which you can get the voucher code and attempt the exam free of cost. So, my suggestion would be to give the exam a couple of times as there is no limit for the times you appear.