Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam Questions
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Updated On: 23-Apr-2026

Which data lakehouse feature results in improved data quality over a traditional data lake?

  1. A data lakehouse stores data in open formats.
  2. A data lakehouse allows the use of SQL queries to examine data.
  3. A data lakehouse provides storage solutions for structured and unstructured data.
  4. A data lakehouse supports ACID-compliant transactions.

Answer(s): D



In which scenario will a data team want to utilize cluster pools?

  1. An automated report needs to be version-controlled across multiple collaborators.
  2. An automated report needs to be runnable by all stakeholders.
  3. An automated report needs to be refreshed as quickly as possible.
  4. An automated report needs to be made reproducible.

Answer(s): C


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What is hosted completely in the control plane of the classic Databricks architecture?

  1. Worker node
  2. Databricks web application
  3. Driver node
  4. Databricks Filesystem

Answer(s): B



A data engineer needs to determine whether to use the built-in Databricks Notebooks versioning or version their project using Databricks Repos.

What is an advantage of using Databricks Repos over the Databricks Notebooks versioning?

  1. Databricks Repos allows users to revert to previous versions of a notebook
  2. Databricks Repos is wholly housed within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
  3. Databricks Repos provides the ability to comment on specific changes
  4. Databricks Repos supports the use of multiple branches

Answer(s): D



What is a benefit of the Databricks Lakehouse Architecture embracing open source technologies?

  1. Avoiding vendor lock-in
  2. Simplified governance
  3. Ability to scale workloads
  4. Cloud-specific integrations

Answer(s): A



A data engineer is running code in a Databricks Repo that is cloned from a central Git repository. A colleague of the data engineer informs them that changes have been made and synced to the central Git repository. The data engineer now needs to sync their Databricks Repo to get the changes from the central Git repository.

Which Git operation does the data engineer need to run to accomplish this task?

  1. Clone
  2. Pull
  3. Merge
  4. Push

Answer(s): B



Which file format is used for storing Delta Lake Table?

  1. CSV
  2. Parquet
  3. JSON
  4. Delta

Answer(s): B



Which two components function in the DB platform architecture's control plane? (Choose two.)

  1. Virtual Machines
  2. Compute Orchestration
  3. Serverless Compute
  4. Compute
  5. Unity Catalog

Answer(s): B,E



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