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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate

Earn the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification with hands-on training in Delta Lake, Apache Spark SQL, PySpark, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Unity Catalog, and Databricks Workflows. This course covers all five exam domains — platform architecture, data ingestion, transformations, production pipelines, and governance — aligned to the July 2025 exam update.

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15 hours
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Updated May 2026
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By Marcus Reid

What You'll Learn

Explain the Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake storage layer, and Unity Catalog hierarchy
Ingest data incrementally using Auto Loader, COPY INTO, and Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines
Transform and process data at scale using Spark SQL, PySpark DataFrames, and Delta Lake time travel
Build production pipelines with Databricks Workflows, job clusters, and multi-task job orchestration
Govern data with Unity Catalog: metastores, catalogs, schemas, tables, views, and Delta Sharing
Apply data quality constraints, Change Data Feed, and table optimisation with OPTIMIZE and Z-ORDER

Prerequisites

  • Hands-on experience with SQL (SELECT, JOIN, GROUP BY, window functions)
  • Basic Python programming (functions, list comprehensions, error handling)
  • Familiarity with cloud storage concepts (files, directories, object storage)
  • Understanding of relational database concepts (tables, primary keys, normalisation)

About the Instructor

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Marcus Reid

Expert instructor with hands-on industry experience in Data Science.

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LevelIntermediate
Duration15 hours
Lessons
Students0
Rating4.70 / 5.0
Cert targetDatabricks DE Associate

This course includes

  • Hands-on practice labs
  • AI-powered explanations
  • Progress tracking
  • Certificate of completion
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