{"id":328,"date":"2025-08-04T15:48:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:48:39","slug":"databricks-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/databricks-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Databricks Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here is the list of Databricks Certifications offered up to June\u202f2025<\/strong>, based on official Databricks documentation and up\u2011to\u2011date industry sources ():<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\ud83c\udfc5 Core Certifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data Analyst<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate<\/strong>
    Validates skills in Databricks SQL, analytics, dashboards, and data management using Databricks SQL service (, ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Data Engineer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate<\/strong>
      Covers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, Spark SQL\/Python ETL, incremental data processing, pipelines, governance (updated syllabus from July\u202f25,\u202f2025) ().<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional<\/strong>
      For advanced data engineers: tooling, processing, modeling, security & governance, monitoring, testing & deployment ().<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Machine Learning<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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      • Databricks Certified Machine Learning Associate<\/strong>
        Focuses on basic ML with Spark ML, AutoML, Feature Store, MLflow, and ML workflows ().<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional<\/strong>
        Advanced-level: model lifecycle, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection ().<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Developer \/ Specialty<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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        • Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark<\/strong>
          Tests your knowledge of Spark architecture and DataFrame API tasks (Python or Scala) ().<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Databricks Certified Hadoop Migration Architect<\/strong>
          Designed for architects\/migrators: Hadoop-to-Databricks migration design of data\/code and cutover strategies ().<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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          \ud83d\udd39 Additional Specialty Accreditations (Badges)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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          • Platform Administrator<\/strong> (accreditation)
            Focuses on user\/group management, compute resources, governance\/security administration within Databricks (, ).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Cloud Platform Architect badges<\/strong>:\n
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            • Azure Platform Architect<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • AWS Platform Architect<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • GCP Platform Architect<\/strong>
              These certifications validate best\u2011practice deployment, security, and integration for Databricks on each respective cloud (, , ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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              \ud83d\udccb Certification Summary Table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
              Certification \/ Badge<\/th>Level<\/th>Focus Area<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
              Data Analyst Associate<\/td>Associate<\/td>Databricks SQL, dashboards, analytics<\/td><\/tr>
              Data Engineer Associate<\/td>Associate<\/td>Data engineering basics (Spark, ETL, governance)<\/td><\/tr>
              Data Engineer Professional<\/td>Professional<\/td>Advanced data engineering tools, modeling, testing<\/td><\/tr>
              ML Associate<\/td>Associate<\/td>Fundamentals of ML with Spark, MLflow, workflows<\/td><\/tr>
              ML Professional<\/td>Professional<\/td>Production-level ML deployment and monitoring<\/td><\/tr>
              Apache Spark Associate Developer<\/td>Associate<\/td>Spark API proficiency (DataFrame, filtering, joins)<\/td><\/tr>
              Hadoop Migration Architect<\/td>Specialist<\/td>Hadoop-to-Databricks migration design & execution<\/td><\/tr>
              Platform Administrator (accreditation badge)<\/td>Badge<\/td>Admin governance, access, compute & security setups<\/td><\/tr>
              Cloud Platform Architect (Azure\/AWS\/GCP) badges<\/td>Badge<\/td>Cloud deployment, integration and security best practices<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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              \u2139\ufe0f Things to Know<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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              • All certifications (aside from badges) are valid for 2 years<\/strong> and need recertification<\/strong> thereafter (, , ).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Exams are delivered online, proctored<\/strong>, with durations of ~60\u202f\u2013\u202f120\u202fminutes depending on level, and require ~70% passing score<\/strong> or higher (65% for Spark Associate) ().<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • New syllabus for Data Engineer Associate<\/strong> exam takes effect from July 25, 2025<\/strong>, with updated topics like Lakehouse Federation, DLT, Delta Sharing, and Unity Catalog ().<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • Specialty badges are shorter assessments tied to learning paths (e.g., platform admin or cloud-specific deployment), often included as part of the Databricks Academy<\/strong> training programs ().<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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                Here is the list of Databricks Certifications offered up to June\u202f2025, based on official Databricks documentation and up\u2011to\u2011date industry sources (): \ud83c\udfc5 Core Certifications Data Analyst Data… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dataopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}