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Every lesson and question is mapped to a domain and objective below, and every attempt records the exam version it was answered under.
Published weight 6%. Core components of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform (architecture, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) and compute services (characteristics, limitations, cost models, selecting the right option).
Published weight 21%. Ingestion patterns (batch, streaming, incremental), COPY INTO, Auto Loader (schema enforcement/evolution), Lakeflow Connect, and prioritizing ingestion methods into Unity-Catalog-governed tables.
Published weight 22%. Cleaning and transforming with PySpark/SQL (joins, column/row manipulation, deduplication, aggregation), the medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture, Gold objects (materialized views, streaming tables), Spark tuning, and data quality.
Published weight 16%. Orchestrating pipelines with Lakeflow Jobs: control flows (retries, branching, looping), task types and DAG dependencies, schedules and trigger types (scheduled, file arrival, table update), and time-based vs data-driven triggers.
Published weight 10%. Databricks Git Folders (branches, commits, PRs), Automation Bundles / Databricks Asset Bundles (environment-specific config, promotion across dev/test/prod), and the Databricks CLI for automated CI/CD.
Published weight 10%. Identifying job performance trends with Lakeflow Jobs run history, monitoring pipeline health via DAG task graphs and job statuses, and optimizing performance and failure rates.
Approximately 15%. Governing and securing data within the Databricks Platform: Unity Catalog governance, permissions/grants, data lineage, and data-quality/security controls.
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