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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam (Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam) - Databricks Exam Questions

Last updated on June 20, 2026

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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?
Options
A They can add %sql to the first line of the cell
B They can change the default language of the notebook to SQL
C They can simply write SQL syntax in the cell
D They can attach the cell to a SQL endpoint rather than a Databricks cluster
E It is not possible to use SQL in a Python notebook
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In order for Structured Streaming to reliably track the exact progress of the processing so that it can handle any kind of failure by restarting and/or reprocessing, which of the following two approaches is used by Spark to record the offset range of the data being processed in each trigger?
Options
A Write-ahead Logs and Idempotent Sinks
B Checkpointing and Idempotent Sinks
C Structured Streaming cannot record the offset range of the data being processed in each trigger.
D Replayable Sources and Idempotent Sinks
E Checkpointing and Write-ahead Logs
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A Delta Live Table pipeline includes two datasets defined using streaming live table. Three datasets are defined against Delta Lake table sources using live table. The table is configured to run in Production mode using the Continuous Pipeline Mode.

What is the expected outcome after clicking Start to update the pipeline assuming previously unprocessed data exists and all definitions are valid? A.
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A All datasets will be updated once and the pipeline will shut down. The compute resources will be terminated.
All datasets will be updated at set intervals until the pipeline is shut down. The compute resources will persist to allow for additional testing.
All datasets will be updated once and the pipeline will shut down. The compute resources will persist to allow for additional testing.
All datasets will be updated at set intervals until the pipeline is shut down. The compute resources will be deployed for the update and terminated when the pipeline is stopped.
B C.
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A data engineer has configured a Structured Streaming job to read from a table, manipulate the data, and then perform a streaming write into a new table.

The cade block used by the data engineer is below:

Exhibit

If the data engineer only wants the query to execute a micro-batch to process data every 5 seconds,
which of the following lines of code should the data engineer use to fill in the blank?
Options
A trigger(processingTime="5 seconds")
B trigger(continuous="5 seconds")
C trigger()
D trigger(once="5 seconds")
E trigger("5 seconds")
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A data engineer is working with two tables. Each of these tables is displayed below in its entirety.

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The data engineer runs the following query to join these tables together:

Exhibit

Which of the following will be returned by the above query?

Exhibit
Options
A Option D
B Option E
C Option C
D Option B
E Option A
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