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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
Lecture-by-lecture notes for the Data Engineer Associate exam: ingestion, transformation, Lakeflow Jobs and governance, each mapped to the official exam outline.
Lectures
- 01Data Ingestion with Lakeflow ConnectHow Lakeflow Connect ingests data into Databricks, covering connector types, batch vs incremental vs streaming, COPY INTO, Auto Loader, MERGE INTO, JSON handling and managed connectors.
- 02Deploy Workloads with Lakeflow JobsOrchestrating notebooks, SQL and pipelines with Lakeflow Jobs, including task types, control flow, retries and scheduling.
- 03Build Data Pipelines with Lakeflow Spark Declarative PipelinesBuilding bronze, silver and gold pipelines declaratively with streaming tables, materialized views and data quality expectations.
Exam outline coverage
Sections and weights from the official exam guide (version May 4, 2026). The exam has 45 scored multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes.
| Section | Weight | Covered in |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Databricks Intelligence Platform | Lecture 1 | |
| 2. Data Ingestion and Loading | Lecture 1 | |
| 3. Data Transformation and Modeling | Lecture 3 (soon) | |
| 4. Working with Lakeflow Jobs | Lecture 2 (soon) | |
| 5. Implementing CI/CD | Not yet | |
| 6. Troubleshooting, Monitoring, and Optimization | Not yet | |
| 7. Governance and Security | Not yet |
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