Databricks Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
- Exam Name: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam
- Certification Provider: Databricks
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
A data engineer needs access to a table new_uable, but they do not have the correct permissions.
They can ask the table owner for permission, but they do not know who the table owner is.
Which approach can be used to identify the owner of new_table?
- A . There is no way to identify the owner of the table
- B . Review the Owner field in the table’s page in the cloud storage solution
- C . Review the Permissions tab in the table’s page in Data Explorer
- D . Review the Owner field in the table’s page in Data Explorer
A single Job runs two notebooks as two separate tasks. A data engineer has noticed that one of the notebooks is running slowly in the Job’s current run. The data engineer asks a tech lead for help in identifying why this might be the case.
Which of the following approaches can the tech lead use to identify why the notebook is running slowly as part of the Job?
- A . They can navigate to the Runs tab in the Jobs UI to immediately review the processing notebook.
- B . They can navigate to the Tasks tab in the Jobs UI and click on the active run to review the processing notebook.
- C . They can navigate to the Runs tab in the Jobs UI and click on the active run to review the processing notebook.
- D . There is no way to determine why a Job task is running slowly.
- E . They can navigate to the Tasks tab in the Jobs UI to immediately review the processing notebook.
Which of the following data lakehouse features results in improved data quality over a traditional data lake?
- A . A data lakehouse provides storage solutions for structured and unstructured data.
- B . A data lakehouse supports ACID-compliant transactions.
- C . A data lakehouse allows the use of SQL queries to examine data.
- D . A data lakehouse stores data in open formats.
- E . A data lakehouse enables machine learning and artificial Intelligence workloads.
A data engineer needs to determine whether to use the built-in Databricks Notebooks versioning or version their project using Databricks Repos.
Which of the following is an advantage of using Databricks Repos over the Databricks Notebooks versioning?
- A . Databricks Repos automatically saves development progress
- B . Databricks Repos supports the use of multiple branches
- C . Databricks Repos allows users to revert to previous versions of a notebook
- D . Databricks Repos provides the ability to comment on specific changes
- E . Databricks Repos is wholly housed within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform
A data engineer has a Python notebook in Databricks, but they need to use SQL to accomplish a specific task within a cell. They still want all of the other cells to use Python without making any changes to those cells.
Which of the following describes how the data engineer can use SQL within a cell of their Python notebook?
- A . It is not possible to use SQL in a Python notebook
- B . They can attach the cell to a SQL endpoint rather than a Databricks cluster
- C . They can simply write SQL syntax in the cell
- D . They can add %sql to the first line of the cell
- E . They can change the default language of the notebook to SQL
Which tool is used by Auto Loader to process data incrementally?
- A . Spark Structured Streaming
- B . Unity Catalog
- C . Checkpointing
- D . Databricks SQL
Which of the following approaches should be used to send the Databricks Job owner an email in the case that the Job fails?
- A . Manually programming in an alert system in each cell of the Notebook
- B . Setting up an Alert in the Job page
- C . Setting up an Alert in the Notebook
- D . There is no way to notify the Job owner in the case of Job failure
- E . MLflow Model Registry Webhooks
Which of the following commands will return the location of database customer360?
- A . DESCRIBE LOCATION customer360;
- B . DROP DATABASE customer360;
- C . DESCRIBE DATABASE customer360;
- D . ALTER DATABASE customer360 SET DBPROPERTIES (‘location’ = ‘/user’};
- E . USE DATABASE customer360;