Certificationsby GlyphDatabricks certifications every exam, price and renewal rule
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Exams
8
current
Renew every
2 years
Certifications are valid for two years; to recertify you take the full current version of the exam (Data Engineer Associate also offers a shorter renewal exam).
Price per attempt
$200
$0$1600
Level mix
2 levels
Associate6Professional2
AI and machine learning 4
Databricks Certified Context Engineer AssociateFor engineers who design, assemble and govern the context that AI agent systems receive on Databricks, including retrieval, memory, MCP tools and governance.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Generative AI Engineer AssociateFor engineers who design and deploy LLM-enabled solutions such as RAG applications on Databricks using AI Search, Model Serving, MLflow and Unity Catalog.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Machine Learning AssociateFor practitioners who perform basic machine learning tasks on Databricks, including AutoML, MLflow, feature engineering, training and deployment.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Machine Learning ProfessionalFor ML engineers who build and run enterprise-scale ML pipelines, MLOps, monitoring and model deployment on Databricks.Professional · 120 min · valid 2 years
Data engineering and analytics 4
Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache SparkFor developers who use the Spark DataFrame API in Python and understand Spark architecture, Structured Streaming and Spark Connect.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Data Analyst AssociateFor analysts who query, manage, visualize and secure data with Databricks SQL, dashboards and AI/BI Genie spaces.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Data Engineer AssociateFor practitioners who use the Databricks Data + AI Platform for foundational data engineering tasks such as ingestion, ETL with PySpark, Lakeflow Jobs and CI/CD.Associate · 90 min · valid 2 yearsDatabricks Certified Data Engineer ProfessionalFor experienced data engineers who build, optimize and maintain production data pipelines on Databricks.Professional · 120 min · valid 2 years
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About Databricks certification
Renewal
Certifications are valid for two years; to recertify you take the full current version of the exam (Data Engineer Associate also offers a shorter renewal exam).
Retakes
You can retake after 14 days, as many times as you like, and each attempt is charged at the full exam price with no free retakes.