Free Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional Practice Exam 1 | Databricks Mock Test

Free Databricks mock test – Exam 1
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional

Free Databricks practice exam for certification prep.

Use this free Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional practice exam to review Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Spark, SQL, machine learning, generative AI, and governance scenarios with instant answer explanations.

10 exam-style questions Detailed explanations No signup required Professional level

Start Practice Exam 1 below. Answer every question first, then review the option-by-option explanation to reinforce the Databricks concept being tested. This page is designed for certification revision, weak-topic discovery, and hands-on Databricks study planning.

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional Practice Exam 1

Free Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional practice exam with PDF-verified scenario questions and detailed answer explanations.

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Question

An upstream system has been configured to pass the date for a given batch of data to the Databricks Jobs API as a parameter. The notebook to be scheduled will use this parameter to load data with the following code: df = spark.read.format("parquet").load(f"/mnt/source/(date)") Which code block should be used to create the date Python variable used in the above code block?

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Question

A distributed team of data analysts share computing resources on an interactive cluster with autoscaling configured. In order to better manage costs and query throughput, the workspace administrator is hoping to evaluate whether cluster upscaling is caused by many concurrent users or resource-intensive queries. In which location can one review the timeline for cluster resizing events?

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What statement is true regarding the retention of job run history?

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The Databricks workspace administrator has configured interactive clusters for each of the data engineering groups. To control costs, clusters are set to terminate after 30 minutes of inactivity. Each user should be able to execute workloads against their assigned clusters at any time of the day. Assuming users have been added to a workspace but not granted any permissions, which of the following describes the minimal permissions a user would need to start and attach to an already configured cluster.

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When scheduling Structured Streaming jobs for production, which configuration automatically recovers from query failures and keeps costs low?

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The data engineering team has configured a Databricks SQL query and alert to monitor the values in a Delta Lake table. The recent_sensor_recordings table contains an identifying sensor_id alongside the timestamp and temperature for the most recent 5 minutes of recordings. The below query is used to create the alert: The query is set to refresh each minute and always completes in less than 10 seconds. The alert is set to trigger when mean (temperature) > 120. Notifications are triggered to be sent at most every 1 minute. If this alert raises notifications for 3 consecutive minutes and then stops, which statement must be true?

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Question

A junior developer complains that the code in their notebook isn't producing the correct results in the development environment. A shared screenshot reveals that while they're using a notebook versioned with Databricks Repos, they're using a personal branch that contains old logic. The desired branch named dev-2.3.9 is not available from the branch selection dropdown. Which approach will allow this developer to review the current logic for this notebook?

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The security team is exploring whether or not the Databricks secrets module can be leveraged for connecting to an external database. After testing the code with all Python variables being defined with strings, they upload the password to the secrets module and configure the correct permissions for the currently active user. They then modify their code to the following (leaving all other variables unchanged). Which statement describes what will happen when the above code is executed?

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Question

The data science team has created and logged a production model using MLflow. The following code correctly imports and applies the production model to output the predictions as a new DataFrame named preds with the schema "customer_id LONG, predictions DOUBLE, date DATE". The data science team would like predictions saved to a Delta Lake table with the ability to compare all predictions across time. Churn predictions will be made at most once per day. Which code block accomplishes this task while minimizing potential compute costs?

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Question

An upstream source writes Parquet data as hourly batches to directories named with the current date. A nightly batch job runs the following code to ingest all data from the previous day as indicated by the date variable: Assume that the fields customer_id and order_id serve as a composite key to uniquely identify each order. If the upstream system is known to occasionally produce duplicate entries for a single order hours apart, which statement is correct?

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What Practice Exam 1 covers

  • Job parameters with dbutils widgets
  • Cluster event logs
  • Job run history retention
  • Cluster restart permissions
  • Structured Streaming job configuration
  • Databricks SQL alerts
  • Databricks Repos branch sync
  • Databricks secrets
  • MLflow model stage permissions
  • Auto Loader schema evolution

How to study with this exam

Use this free mock test alongside hands-on Databricks practice. Revisit missed questions, map each explanation to the product feature, and retake the exam when the tradeoffs feel natural.

  • Take the quiz once without notes.
  • Review every correct and incorrect explanation.
  • Practice weak topics in a Databricks workspace.
  • Retake the exam and compare your score.

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional practice exam FAQ

Is this Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional practice exam free?

Yes. This DevOpsEngine Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional practice exam is free to use and does not require signup.

Does this Databricks mock test include explanations?

Yes. Each question includes answer explanations so you can review why the correct option fits and why the distractors are weaker choices.

How should I use this Databricks practice exam?

Take the quiz once without notes, review every explanation, write down weak topics, then retake the exam after hands-on Databricks practice.

Which topics does this exam focus on?

This practice set focuses on Job parameters with dbutils widgets, Cluster event logs, Job run history retention, Cluster restart permissions, Structured Streaming job configuration, Databricks SQL alerts.

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