AWS Databricks Data Engineer Certification¶
Target audience: data engineers familiar with Apache Spark and AWS Glue who want to prepare for the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate exam on AWS
Platform Mind Map¶
Explore the full Databricks Data Intelligence Platform — all products, capabilities, and 2025–2026 releases in an interactive D3.js mind map.
The mind map covers all nine capability domains:
| Domain | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Data Engineering | Lakeflow Pipelines, Connect, Orchestrator, Auto Loader, Structured Streaming |
| Data Governance | Unity Catalog, Lineage, Delta Sharing, UC Metrics, Foreign Catalogs |
| Mosaic AI | Agent Bricks, Agent Framework, MLflow 3, Model Serving, Vector Search, AI Gateway |
| Analytics & BI | AI/BI Dashboards, Genie (NL analytics), Databricks SQL, Notebooks, Apps |
| Security & Identity | RBAC/ABAC, Network Isolation, Encryption, SSO/SCIM, AI Guardrails |
| Infrastructure & Compute | Delta Lake, Lakebase (OLTP), Serverless, Photon, Databricks Runtimes |
| Cost & Billing | DBU model, Serverless savings, Budget policies, Reserved capacity |
| Migration & Adoption | Migration tools, Hive/Hadoop, DW→Lakehouse, Lakehouse Federation, Partners |
| Monitoring & Ops | System tables, Lakehouse Monitoring, Spark UI, MLflow observability |
Course Sections¶
- Introduction to Databricks Architecture on AWS
- Databricks Compute and Cluster Configuration
- Deep Dive into Delta Lake: ACID, Versioning, and Optimization
- Implementing Medallion Architecture: Bronze, Silver, and Gold Layers
- Efficient Data Ingestion with Auto Loader and COPY INTO
- Data Transformation with Spark SQL and PySpark
- Stream Processing with Structured Streaming
- Building Declarable Pipelines with Delta Live Tables (DLT)
- Data Governance and Security with Unity Catalog
- Monitoring, Logging, and Observability in Databricks
- Cost Management and AWS Resource Optimization
- Migration Strategies: Transitioning from AWS Glue to Databricks
- Orchestration and Automation with Databricks Workflows
- Exam Readiness and Final Review