Cert Prep: Databricks Data Engineer Professional
How to pass the certification - official courses, hands-on labs, and exam prep for the advanced Professional exam
This is a certification guide for the Databricks Data Engineer Professional - the next step after Associate. It covers performance optimization, streaming pipelines, data privacy, and automated deployments with DABs. The exam is significantly harder and assumes production experience.
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📄 Review the Professional Exam Outline
Read the course outline and the PDF under “Data Engineer Professional Exam Guide” to see exam topics.
📄 How to get 50% off the certification
Register for a “Virtual Learning Festival”, complete the required courses in the timeline provided to automatically receive 50% off.
Take the official Databricks preparation courses
🎓 Databricks Streaming and Delta Live Tables
Covers streaming pipeline design, DLT configuration, and real-time data processing patterns.
🎓 Databricks Data Privacy
Covers data masking, privacy compliance, row/column-level security, and anonymization techniques.
🎓 Databricks Performance Optimization
Covers query tuning, cluster optimization, caching strategies, and resource management.
🎓 Automated Deployment with Databricks Asset Bundles
Covers CI/CD pipelines, multi-environment deployments, and infrastructure automation with DABs.
Practice with free hands-on labs
Get hands-on with the topics that dominate the Professional exam - streaming pipelines, DLT, and Delta Lake optimization.
🛠️ Delta Lake Optimization Project
Hands-on lab for partitioning, Z-Ordering, compaction, Liquid Clustering, and VACUUM - with step-by-step measurements of file scans, bytes read, and query performance.
🛠️ DLT Apparel Streaming Pipeline
Build a streaming data pipeline with Databricks DLT, medallion architecture, and SCD2 - covers streaming, DLT configuration, and data quality expectations.
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🏅 Register for the exam
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Last updated: February 24, 2026