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Databricks Certification and Badging

The new standard for lakehouse training and certifications

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Validate your data and AI skills in the Databricks Lakehouse Platform by getting Databricks certified. Whether you are new to business intelligence or looking to confirm your skills as a machine learning or data engineering professional, Databricks can help you achieve your goals.

Role Progression and Certifications

Data Analyst

Data analysts transform data into insights by creating queries, data visualizations and dashboards using Databricks SQL and its capabilities.


Data Analyst Associate
Associate

The Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to use the Databricks SQL service to complete introductory data analysis tasks.

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Data Engineer

Data engineers design, develop, test and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and its capabilities.


Data Engineer Associate
Associate

The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to use the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to complete introductory data engineering tasks.

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Data Engineer Professional
Professional

The Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to use Databricks to perform advanced data engineering tasks.

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ML Data Scientist

Machine learning practitioners develop, deploy, test and maintain machine learning models and pipelines using Databricks Machine Learning and its capabilities.


Machine Learning Associate
Associate

The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to use Databricks to perform basic machine learning tasks.

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Machine Learning Professional
Professional

The Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to use Databricks Machine Learning and its capabilities to perform advanced machine learning in production tasks.

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Next Steps

1

Select the certification that aligns to your role

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Register for the exam or sign up for the class to prepare for the exam

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Take the exam and celebrate your success by posting on social media

Specialty Badges

As you progress through your Lakehouse learning paths, you can earn specialty badges. Specialty badges represent an achievement in a focus area, such as a specific professional services offering or deployment on one of Databricks’ cloud vendors.


Spark Developer Associate
Apache Spark Developer Associate

The Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark certification exam assesses the understanding of the Spark DataFrame API and the ability to apply the Spark DataFrame API to complete basic data manipulation tasks within a Spark session.

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Platform Administrator
Platform Administrator

This accreditation is the final assessment in the Databricks Platform Administrator specialty learning pathway.

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Hadoop Migration Architect
Hadoop Migration Architect

The Databricks Certified Hadoop Migration Architect certification exam assesses an individual’s ability to architect migrations from Hadoop to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

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Azure Platform Architect

Put your knowledge of best practices for configuring Azure Databricks to the test. This assessment will test your understanding of deployment, security and cloud integrations for Azure Databricks.

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AWS Platform Architect

Put your knowledge of best practices for configuring Databricks on AWS to the test. This assessment will test your understanding of deployment, security and cloud integrations for Databricks on AWS.

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GCP Platform Architect

Put your knowledge of best practices for configuring Databricks on GCP to the test. This assessment will test your understanding of deployment, security and cloud integrations for Databricks on GCP.

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Next Steps

1

Select the specialty badge you are interested in

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Learn how the programs work and how to earn the specialty badge