Master Your Databricks Certification

Everything you need to prepare, in one place: practice exams, adaptive flashcards, study guides and a prep checklist, built by a Databricks MVP with 4+ years of helping people get certified.

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See where you stand in about 10 minutes

Take a short, domain-by-domain diagnostic — around two questions per domain — for a directional read on which areas to focus on. Create a free account at the end to save your results and get a study plan.

Pick your certification:

Everything You Need, From First Read to Exam Day

One place for every stage of your prep, so you're not stitching together question dumps, docs and notes.

Start

A free diagnostic shows where you stand, domain by domain, and a prep checklist tracks what you've covered.

Learn

Study guides explain every domain with diagrams (8 certifications so far), and adaptive flashcards make it stick.

Practise and test

Exam-realistic questions with explanations and Databricks documentation links on every answer, hands-on PySpark and Spark SQL koans, and timed exams with analytics by domain.

Exam week

Cheat sheets put the rules, defaults and traps on two pages for a final review (8 certifications so far).

Alex Cole

Built by a Databricks MVP

Alex Cole · Databricks MVP and Solutions Architect Champion

I've spent the last 4+ years helping people get Databricks certified, through my day job and on my public blog. CertLake is that experience turned into practice: questions written to match the real exams' difficulty and format, an explanation and documentation link on every answer, and study that follows your weak spots.

A Loop That Targets Your Weak Spots

Practice, flashcards and coding koans feed each other, so your study time keeps moving to the domains where you're losing the most marks.

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Take a practice exam

Answer exam-realistic questions in practice or timed mode. Every answer is scored by domain.

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We pinpoint weak domains

Your accuracy per domain is tracked across attempts, flagging the domains where you score below the pass mark.

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Flashcards drill those domains

“Focus on your weak areas” queues flashcards from exactly those domains, then spaced repetition brings them back until they stick — retest to confirm.

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Koans make it hands-on

Where a topic has code to run, a missed question links to a PySpark and Spark SQL koan on it: fill in the blanks and run it in your browser with instant checks.

Available Certifications

Pick your certification to see everything for it in one place. 1128 practice questions across 8 certifications.

Data Engineer Associate

118 practice questions covering ETL pipelines, Delta Lake, Lakeflow, and data governance

Delta LakeLakeflowUnity CatalogSQL Warehouses
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Data Analyst Associate

171 practice questions covering SQL queries, dashboards, Unity Catalog, and workspace management

SQL QueriesDashboardsUnity CatalogGenie
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Machine Learning Associate

173 practice questions covering MLflow, Feature Store, model development, and deployment

MLflowFeature StoreAutoMLModel Serving
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Generative AI Engineer Associate

120 practice questions covering LLMs, RAG applications, Vector Search, and LangChain

LLMsRAGVector SearchLangChain
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Context Engineer Associate

100 practice questions covering context engineering for AI agents — retrieval, memory, MCP tools, and governance

Vector SearchAgent MemoryMCPGenie
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Spark Developer Associate

122 practice questions covering Spark architecture, DataFrame API, SQL, and Structured Streaming

Spark SQLDataFramesStreamingPerformance Tuning
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Data Engineer Professional

181 practice questions covering Advanced pipelines, performance tuning, security, and monitoring

PerformanceSecurityMonitoringData Modeling
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Machine Learning Professional

143 practice questions covering Advanced ML pipelines, MLOps, and production deployment

MLOpsFeature EngineeringModel MonitoringA/B Testing
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Practice exams, adaptive flashcards, study guides and a prep checklist, all aimed at the domains where you're losing marks. Start with the free diagnostic — no credit card required.

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