got 65 mostly long questions and hardly managed to complete exam

[AndriiS]

Hello, I took the Data Engineering Proffesional Exam las Saturday and I've got 65 questions for 120 mins. The major part of them were pretty long to read and taking to account that many questions are tricky and you should read it attentively, I hardly managed to pass all the question within given time. 5 additional question it's almost 10% less time per question. Due to such a rash I had no time to check again questions marked to review later.

As a result I've got 68,5%. I'm sure that having 60 questions or at least a bit balanced length of them I could pass with 70%+. This looks unfair, my coleagues passed it with 60 questions and question were balanced.

[Cert-TeamOPS]

Hello @AndriiS 
As stated on the Exam Webpage:
Exams may include unscored items to gather statistical information for future use. These items are not identified on the form and do not impact your score. Ample time is factored into the exams to account for this content

Thanks & Regards
@Cert_TeamOPS

[Debashisrajib]

No 65 questions were technical questions related to Databricks. There were other 7 statistical question which were not part of exam. But having 65 questions in exam and failing by a extremely small margin is not fair.

Please review and help.

[Debashisrajib]

I have similar result. 68.5% and I got long 65 questions. What did you do after this. Got any help from Databricks?

[AndriiS]

Databricks replied that 5 extra questions are not scored and this possibility is mentioned in agreemnet that you approved before exam.

I've retaken and passed, but noticed that on retakenning the fraction of long question was significantly smaller, kind of 25%.
This means that the do react on concerns, so you should wright to support if something happens.
From my experience everyone makes mistakes, but only selected can admit and fix it. So not so bad done from DB.

[Debashisrajib]

@AndriiS did you get any help from Databricks regarding voucher or anything on your retake? As this exam is quite expensive compared to other cloud platforms.

[AndriiS]

Unfortunately have not received any voucher, but I had another axem booked later and they helped me replace it.