Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate - Preparation

<div>If you are interested in becoming a Certified Data Engineer Associate from Databricks, you have come to the right place! This study guide will help you with preparing for this certification exam.</div><div><br></div><div>By the end of this course, you should be able to:</div><div><br></div><div>Understand how to use and the benefits of using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and its tools, including:</div><div><ul><li>Data Lakehouse (architecture, descriptions, benefits)</li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Data Science and Engineering workspace (clusters, notebooks, data storage)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Delta Lake (general concepts, table management and manipulation, optimizations)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Build ETL pipelines using Apache Spark SQL and Python, including:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Relational entities (databases, tables, views)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">ELT (creating tables, writing data to tables, cleaning data, combining and reshaping tables, SQL UDFs)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Python (facilitating Spark SQL with string manipulation and control flow, passing data between PySpark and Spark SQL)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Incrementally process data, including:</div><div><ul><li>Structured Streaming (general concepts, triggers, watermarks)</li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Auto Loader (streaming reads)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Multi-hop Architecture (bronze-silver-gold, streaming applications)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Delta Live Tables (benefits and features)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Build production pipelines for data engineering applications and Databricks SQL queries and dashboards, including:</div><div><ul><li>Jobs (scheduling, task orchestration, UI)</li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Dashboards (endpoints, scheduling, alerting, refreshing)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Understand and follow best security practices, including:</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Unity Catalog (benefits and features)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Entity Permissions (data objects Privileges)</span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>With the knowledge you gain during this course, you will be ready to take the certification exam.</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking forward to meeting you!</div>

What you'll learn:

• Understand how to use Databricks Lakehouse Platform and its tools
• Build ETL pipelines using Apache Spark SQL and Python
• Process data incrementally in batch and streaming mode
• Orchestrate production pipelines
• Understand and follow best security practices in Databricks