Hi @DatBoi,

Unfortunately, I have not. I still have yet to hear back from the Training Support on any update from the ticket I submitted. I have spammed that team countless times just to even see if I can get a "We're aware of this and working on it" response with no avail. I have kind of given up at this point. You could probably gain a little more traction on this issue by submitting a ticket yourself and referencing my ticket number maybe. The Link to submit a ticket is mentioned above.

My two working theories are they're either too lazy to respond to such a ticket and they are indeed aware about the problem and working on it (slowly). Or they maybe working on an entirely new course that they're keeping hush about.

I have gone through other resources to try to get a response. My company has a partnership with databricks and we've nudged them about this problem but still no update.

At this point, I've moved on and attempted to study for the exam other ways.

They have a PDF practice test out there you can find that I've found very useful and others I've read said it's extremely similar to the exam. I've used that as a template and also used a few Udemy courses that have some practice tests. I've taken them and really just reviewed the spark documentation to learn more about it.

If you want to be more hands on, I'd recommend experimenting with databricks by importing your own dataset (which as you probably know, is what is failing when running their notebook) and just running PySpark functions against it to learn it better. -- hope some of these suggestions help 🙂

Last note, it really kind of shocks me that a big company like databricks has left this course in the dark. It's the defacto course that they promote for this exam and it's been broken for almost two months now and thte fact they took down the repo that hosted the working-ish .dbc file and just said "Look at the academy" shows horrible communication internally from them. I would've imagined they'd have fixed this by now.

Anyway, hope all of this helps! 😁