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Self-Paced Learning Festival: 09 January - 30 January 2026

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Published on ‎12-09-2025 03:56 AM by Databricks Employee | Updated on ‎01-02-2026 02:50 AM

🚀 Grow Your Skills and Earn Rewards! 🚀
📅 Mark your calendar: January 09 – January 30, 2026

🎉 Join us for a three-week event dedicated to learning, upskilling, and advancing your career in data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI. Whether you’re new to the field or aiming to deepen your knowledge, this is a great opportunity to invest in your professional development alongside a global community.

🎟️ Finish all of the modules listed within at least one of the self-paced learning pathways below within Customer Academy during the event window to receive:
50% discount on any Databricks Certification
20% discount on a yearly Databricks Academy Labs subscription

💬 All Incentives will be distributed to the eligible participants on 06 February 2026, after the event has concluded. These incentives will be sent to the email associated with your Customer Academy account.

⚠️ Note: Please ensure every component of the course is marked as completed (including any course introduction sections) during the eligibility window to confirm your learning pathway is properly recorded and to qualify for the incentives.

Start exploring our learning pathways below!

LEARNING PATHWAY

CUSTOMER ACADEMY ENROLLMENT LINKS

LEARNING PATHWAY 1: ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan

  1. Data Ingestion with Lakeflow Connect
  2. Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow Jobs
  3. Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  4. DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering

LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Data Engineer Learning Plan

  1. Databricks Streaming and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
  2. Databricks Data Privacy
  3. Databricks Performance Optimisation
  4. Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles

LEARNING PATHWAY 3: DATA ANALYSTS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete both modules from the Data Analyst Learning Plan

  1. AI/BI for Data Analysts
  2. SQL Analytics on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 4: ASSOCIATE ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan

  1. Data Preparation for Machine Learning
  2. Machine Learning Model Development
  3. Machine Learning Model Deployment
  4. Machine Learning Operations

LEARNING PATHWAY 5: PROFESSIONAL ML PRACTITIONERS

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

Please complete both modules from the Machine Learning Practitioner Learning Plan

  1. Advanced Machine Learning Operations
  2. Machine Learning at Scale

LEARNING PATHWAY 6:  GENERATIVE AI ENGINEERING

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Generative AI Engineering Learning Plan

  1. Generative AI Solution Development
  2. Generative AI Application Development
  3. Generative AI Application Evaluation and Governance 
  4. Generative AI Application Deployment and Monitoring

LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 4 modules from the Apache Spark™ Developer Learning Plan

  1. Introduction to Apache Spark™
  2. Developing Applications with Apache Spark™
  3. Stream Processing and Analytics with Apache Spark™
  4. Monitoring and Optimizing Apache Spark™ Workloads on Databricks

LEARNING PATHWAY 8:  DATA WAREHOUSING PRACTITIONER

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA:

Please complete all 3 modules from the Data Warehousing Practitioner Learning Plan

  1. Data Warehousing with Databricks
  2. SQL Programming and Procedural Logic in Databricks
  3. Data Modelling Strategies

Happy learning! 📚🎓🧑‍💻🧑‍

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Starts:
Fri, Jan 9, 2026 04:00 AM PST
Ends:
Sat, Jan 31, 2026 04:00 AM PST
394 Comments
hdehenrique1
Visitor II

I completed all the courses in the learning path before the event started. Would I still be eligible to receive the discounted voucher in this case?

If so, could you please advise on how I should proceed?

https://customer-academy.databricks.com/legacy/lms/index.php%3Fr%3DmyActivities/index

Otherwise, would I need to create a new account with a different email address and retake the courses during the event period?

spathak
New Contributor

Happy Learning!

AJLim
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson 

 

I have completed the ASSOCIATE DATA ENGINEERING learning path. please see image below

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in earlier instructions to other users you mentioned checking "My Transcript" to check whether the modules are complete but I do not see this anywhere. 

Can you advice where to look and can you confirm if this is sufficient to receive the voucher? 

Divya8
New Contributor

Hey Databricks Fam!🖖🏻
I’m elated to share that I’ve just finished Learning Pathway 1: Associate Data Engineering
Onto the next one🙂
Happy learning, everyone!🌻

rvsuilic
Visitor II

Hi Jim,

1) Please please please get a FAQ going for this conversation. It is tired to see the same questions being asked over and over again by people who could be bothered to go through the conversation. A FAQ would hopefully reduce all this repetition.

2) I have completed viewing  the training material for DE Assoc. One very huge frustration is the multitude of clickable links in the slides and course videos, that are of course not clickable to us. The frustration is that the actual underlying URL could have been provided as text in the slides/videos, but are not. So we cannot even OCR the URL and manyally enter into a browser. I think this is a big issue for this method of training, and I actually have reported this before to an instructor when I was still at a partner.

NagaLakshmi
New Contributor III

Hi Databricks Team,

I've completed the LEARNING PATHWAY 2: PROFESSIONAL DATA ENGINEERING. Waiting for the voucher  to write the exam.

Thank you for the opportunity!!

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janssen136
Visitor II

Regarding the 50% certification exam discount, how many vouchers can a participant receive? Is it limited to a single voucher, or is it possible to earn multiple vouchers by completing additional learning pathways?

Matthew_7
New Contributor II

Just one voucher

slanka11
Visitor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson  - I completed LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER again today (as I completed these module during last year learning festival). When can I expect the coupon ? also is there any advise before taking the exam ?

Databricks exams are not like AWS/Azure/GCP certification exams saying upfront pass % and it's unknown leading to ambiguity.

I would like to know the passing %? Any practice exams ? etc. ?

Last time I got 75% and marked as failed. Wondering what could be the pass % to prepare well to get that %. If any other folks know this or experience in this with recent exam takers, pls help by commenting info - thanks in advance .

Gowtham_1999
Visitor II

Hi,

I completed all the modules from Learning Path1. What would be the next steps to avail the discount coupon?

You'd receive a notification on that from 6th, February.

joejoe
Visitor II

Is the 50% discount on Databricks certification courses applicable to the certification exams?

Riitzme
New Contributor II

Hi @Jim_Anderson 

I have completed the course LEARNING PATHWAY 7:  APACHE SPARK DEVELOPER, kindly help me with coupon for the exam. 

This is my email address: riddhichopdekar22@gmail.com

 

Thanks and Regards

adithyacpatil
New Contributor

I don't have access to customer academy, instead I'm using partner academy to finish the learning path for Data Engineering, will that be considered for discount coupon ?

The discount is only tied to the customer academy account.